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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 527

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LTnited States. Perhaps the only relic of theoriginal French occupation is the Ursuline con-vent, now known as the Arciibisliops Palace,which was erected under Bienvilles administra-tion, in 1727. It is a jilain b\iilding of twostories, in stuccoed brick, with a central pa-vilion crowned with a low… … United States: House at Poktsmouth, N. H. dral, built in 1794, but named after the patronsaint of France. Fronting an open square, andwith the flanking municipal buildings of stuc-coed brick, it makes a somewhat pretentiousarchitectural composition for a colonial capital,of no more importance than…

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