Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 102
to demolish rather than to restore its most monu-mental feature, and should have been hopelessly vul-garizing it by substituting for its stone-work a systemof iron posts veneered with wood, and of beams en-closing panels of papier-mache, without eliciting anygeneral or effective protest. The very… … AN AMERICAN CATHEDRAL 3q duced any manifestations that can be called monumen-tal. Our monuments, like those of the Romans, arethe works of engineers, and not of architects. In fact,the disproportion in magnitude and in interest betweenthe Roman baths and aqueducts and the Roman tem-ples is…
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