The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 347
er the beginning, by some fortunate chance a group of men trained in theEuropean schools, who had given to our earliest buildings a characterstrictly architectural. We possessed, perhaps, at that early period, betterarchitectural examples than any city in America. Surely the names ofthese early… … nflc rf /.-il ,u,.l Ink I time. It was a kind of epidemic of architectural had taste, ending in theTitanic inebriation of the Romanes(|uc. A return to sanity was the only way out of tliis excess. Howeversuccessfully Richardson had adapted a semi-barbaric style to his uses, inthe hands of his…
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