The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 421
at Wash-ington, but so judiciously has it been placed that a full view may be ob-tained from all sides without obstruction. In the open, or upon the crestof a hill, the Chicago postoffice, even though inefficient in design, would bearchitecturally beautiful. There is an old maxim to the effect that… … Fig. I.—CHICAGO POSTOFFICE. IfEST FRONT saying, but should be subordinated to another rule, that he should ornamenthis structure only if he lacked the skill to make it beautiful in itself. Astructure of any kind that is intended to serve a useful end, should havethe beauty of appropriateness for…
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