Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 78
e treatment of the spiral shaftupon which rests the corbelled turret at the outerangle. But these defects of design seem to be quitedeliberate, and it seems, upon the whole, that the build-ing looks as the architect intended it to look, in amore accurate sense than can be said of its competitor.The… … THE VANDERBILT HOUSES 65 nated to these—so far subordinated, indeed, that theaxial lines of the openings in the lower stories are dis-regarded in the upper—and the horizontal lines arewrought by modelling and decoration into emphaticbelts, graduated in richness from the simple basementcourse to the…
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