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American architecture (1892)

Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 197

An illustration from American architecture, 1892, leaf 197
eresting work of Mr. Richardsons, a churchin Springfield, Massachusetts, upon which it improves atsome points, notably in the emphatic exposition of themasonic structure. At other points the variation isnot so successful. The tower at Springfield, with itsattached turret, the entrance arch at its… … PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ST. PAUL.Gilbert & Taylor, Architects. superposed open stages is not rhythmic or felicitous,though each in itself is well modelled, and the transi-tion from the tower to the shingled spire, marked byshingled pinnacles without a parapet, is distinctly un-fortunate. For all…

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