tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post1214178928775894625..comments2024-03-28T14:29:32.353-05:00Comments on The Devoted Classicist: The Temple House at HortonJohn J. Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-55736023577830740462013-03-11T23:13:44.169-05:002013-03-11T23:13:44.169-05:00Rosie, perhaps the real estate agents just moved i...Rosie, perhaps the real estate agents just moved in some furniture to give an idea of scale for the photos; I don't know the situation. Hopefully the new owners' furnishings will better compliment the spaces. Thanks for commenting.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-6926661939017728842013-03-11T19:08:34.876-05:002013-03-11T19:08:34.876-05:00I was just about to say that I have rarely seen su...I was just about to say that I have rarely seen such curiously wayward and incompetent design treatment on a historic building but I think I prefer what Mr Worthington has written. <br />Rose C'est La Viehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193872186283731567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-253105497648865532013-02-15T15:27:22.591-06:002013-02-15T15:27:22.591-06:00Toby, one of the wonderful features of The Menager...Toby, one of the wonderful features of The Menagerie nearby is the wonderful Saloon, a beautifully detailed main room for banqueting. As you know, a folly's function might be principally focused on the exterior, and that appears to originally have been the case with this building. Thanks for commenting.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-44988925129967480102013-02-15T14:54:26.075-06:002013-02-15T14:54:26.075-06:00Blue, a good classical portico is always appreciat...Blue, a good classical portico is always appreciated, isn't it? You and the Celt would be great assets for this house, I'm sure; I do not know the current status, however.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-45760012351357962192013-02-15T09:26:11.727-06:002013-02-15T09:26:11.727-06:00The temple front is a delight. It's a house, i...The temple front is a delight. It's a house, if we intended to move back across the pond, I'd like to live in. On two levels, moving back and being able to afford it, it's hypothetical. It is a lovely house. <br /><br />Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-48148773152090407262013-02-15T09:23:49.945-06:002013-02-15T09:23:49.945-06:00Should we judge a book by it's cover?
Evident...Should we judge a book by it's cover? <br />Evidently, we cannot, if based on the house agents' photographs<br />of ill proportioned rooms with décors of breathtaking banality.<br />The fine portico leads us to expect interior spaces of classical<br />directness with perhaps a veneer of sophistication but oh my,<br />what a poky lot of rooms they turned out to be! Surely the interior<br />spaces were gutted and 'modernised' at some point in time?<br />Toby Worthingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887066048372484464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-83344258277951134512013-02-14T11:15:17.781-06:002013-02-14T11:15:17.781-06:00Columnist, Horton House was demolished in 1936. T...Columnist, Horton House was demolished in 1936. Two views may be seen in my first essay on The Menagerie, the first link in the leading sentence in this post. I think you are correct about the wide-angle lense. Thank you for commenting.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-91418507416141045432013-02-14T03:44:18.885-06:002013-02-14T03:44:18.885-06:00Looks ideal, although the wide-angle photos give t...Looks ideal, although the wide-angle photos give the impression of low ceilings, which probably isn't the case, given the items hung above the chimneypiece in the drawing room. What happened to Horton, (Hall? House? or whatever it was/is called), do we know?columnisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764365428633038329noreply@blogger.com