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American architecture (1892)

Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 96

An illustration from American architecture, 1892, leaf 96
d havebeen if the labors of theconstructor had been sup-plemented by the labors ofan artist; if the shallowstrips of pier had becomereal buttresses, and thejamb and arch had beennarrowed by emphatic suc-cessions of withdrawal, in-stead of being merely tun-nelled through the mass;if the intrados of… … SECTION OF TOP AND BACK OF ANCHORAGE.(SIDE VIEW.) 45C.3 32 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE indeed the towers are also, by magnitude and massive-ness. The street bridges are uniformly imposing bysize and span, and especially attractive also by reasonof the fact that through them we get what is to be…

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