The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1873)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 116
plays of ornament. They transformed inmany instances, the true elegance of the Grecian art into agaudy splendour, better suited to their less refined taste. TheRomans remodelled each of the orders: the Doric, (Fig. 126,)was modified by increasing the heignt of the column to 8 dia-meters ; by…
Carpentry · Architecture
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