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Craftsmen under-
cutting the egg-
and-dart molding
on an ornate plaster
crown, that include
intricate brackets,
and rosettes set with
the coffers
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Associates
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Richard Cameron's Ravenwood at Newtown Square, Penn-
sylvania, in which an original 15,000 square foot main house,
in1930s neo-Georgian style, was executed by Cameron with
the spare detail worthy of a Methodist chapel. Additions to
the existing house were designed in a way that made them
appear older than the first house; utilizing the concept of
vernacular progression, Cameron studied 'old additions' to
buildings such as Folly Farm in Berkshire—"where Lutyens
added a vernacular Arts and Crafts wing to a more formal
William and Mary style house, that he had designed some
six years earlier."
The lesson of a house such as Ravenwood is that ornament
need never overwhelm structure, but, on the contrary, un-
derscore and emphasize it. Other surprisingly, gracefully
