Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 74
een adopted of dropping the cor-nice on the street side below the eaves. New Yorkreaders who are familiar with the aspect of the DryDock Savings-Bank in the Bowery will know what ismeant by this pyramidization, and will remember howit is there attained. Now it happens that it is pre-cisely this… … HOUSE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.George Ii. Post, Architect. THE VANDERBILT HOUSES 5X vant turret. It is a good lesson in architecture to findthat the effect of a whole may be so much impaired byone of the most successful of the parts, and that evenwhen the thing is really rich and rare, we may…
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