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Architecture for general students (1874)

Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 152

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sisting of severalrows of stones alternately ele-vated and depressed, or a rowof rectangular blocks placeddiagonally, are the favorite formsfor this frieze, although roundmouldings are not unfrequentlyemployed. When consoles areadded, they are not of the antique forms, but arerather square and… … Consoles. 136 A rch itectitre, overshadowed by the atrium, is one of the peculiarfeatures of this edifice. Built out from the fagade,its walls form deep angles, and these side walls arecovered by slender columns sometimes forming twostories, and sometimes continued to the arch above,but divided by…

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