The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 841
finally adopted. It was essential that the memorial be simple anddignified in character; n<it overornamented, and yet worthy of its high pur-pose ; strong, and yet expressing in its detail fennnine rather than masculinestrength; and above all, it should not bo in any sense a copy of any… … nnicli investigation it was decided to abandon marble as not sufficientlydurable and lasting, and wbite granite from the Bethel quarries was finall\selected. It then occurred to me that it might be advisable to use bronzefor the more delicate ornament that could not be carved in granite, and…
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