...1835, was found in Washington Square, where the doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide -fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room...with white marble. This structure, and many of its neighbours, which it exactly resembled, were supposed, forty years ago, to embody the last results...

...retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modem, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of white-marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. This structure, and...

...last results of architectural science. It was then and is to-day a modern house, wide-fronted with a balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of white marble steps ascending to a portal also faced with white marble. In the twenties Mrs. Sloper was " one of the pretty girls of the small...

...genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. This structure, and many...

...last results of architectural science. It was then and is to-day a modern house, wide-fronted with a balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of white marble steps ascending to a portal also faced with white marble. In the twenties Mrs. Sloper was "one of the pretty girls of the small...

...genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before...drawing-room windows, and a flight of white marble ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. This structure, and many of its neighbors,...

...core of old New York for Henry James. At the spot where Fifth Avenue begins, they chose "a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before...ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble."64 This far north Dr. Sloper would go, but no farther. New York would continue its inexorable...

...edifice of red brick, with granite copings and an enormous fanlight over the door' to 'a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble' (p. 12) is one which creates...

...handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble." The house is real, but James's doctor is all fiction: there are no physicians listed as residents in...

...genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before...with white marble. This structure, and many of its neighbours, which it exactly resembled, were supposed, forty years ago, to embody the last results...