Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 127
oes not intimate its interior function. Itwas a true feeling: that led the architects of the ItalianRenaissance to embrace the aisles as well as the naveunder the central dome, though they clothed their con- AN AMERICAN CATHEDRAL IIZ struction in untrue forms. To develop true forms forit is the one… … I.—CHICAGO O begin with a paradox, the featureof Chicago is its featurelessness.There is scarcely any capital, ancientor modern, to which the site suppliesso little of a visible reason of being.The prairie and the lake meet ata level, a liquid plain and a plain ofmud that cannot properly be…
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