American churches ... A series of authoritative articles on designing, planning, heating, ventilating, lighting and general equipment of churches as demonstrated by the best practice in the United States (1915)
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Baker, James McFarlan · New York, The American architect · leaf 29
c spires from theprototypes of our more lively New Eng-land spires executed a century or morelater. The English spires were stone and theirsuperpositions and orders had to betranslated here in wood, for we hadneither the money nor facilities to workin stone. Out of this fact grew the atten-uation… … UNITARIAN MEETING HOUSE, SUMMIT, N. J. MR. JOY WHEELER DOW, ARCHITECT. one of these steeples arising from ourelms and sparkling against our sky. In the early days it was customary forthe Colonists to build within half a mileof the meeting-house; around it stoodgrouped the stock, the jail and the…
Church architecture · Church decoration and ornament
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