Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 154
it is not architecture at all. The Owings Building is another conspicuous com-mercial structure that invites the same criticism of notbeing strictly commercial, but in a very different way.There is here no prodigality of ornament, and no irrel-evant preciousness of material. A superstructure… … ouseven in worksof the barestutility. This isattained here bythe lofty gable,crocketed andcovered withcarving, that risesabove the plainarchway whichforms the en-trance itself. Thelintelled open-ings of the base-ment elsewhereare of a Puritan-ical severity, andso are the arched openings ofthe brick…
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