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American architecture (1892)

Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 192

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s perhaps not so directly in point, seeing that theeffectiveness of an arcade increases with its length, andin a much greater ratio, and that the arcade here is notonly much shorter than in the projected building, but isstill further shortened to the eye by being heightenedand carried through two… … ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC LIBRARY, MINNEAPOLIS. 178 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE feature, the gabled centre that includes the entrance, isone which illustrates the inventiveness of the designers,as well as their power of judicious selection and modifi-cation. As was remarked in the paper on Chicago, the…

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