American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 450
et forth with letters which cannot perish, the stranger can only wonder, as he approachesit, why so vast a pile makes no sign and utters no oracle. We have now to consider various of the suggestions which were volunteered from time to time,with a view to develop, for architectural expression, the… … R. H. R. SEARLES design for the completion of the WashingtonMonument1 is published with a descriptive pamphlet by the author.Its principal claim to notice resided in the treatment of the lowerstage, which was composed of three terraces with battering walls,from the uppermost of which the main shaft…
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