A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 539
tes, espe-cially as the men who did it followed anotherjuecept of Ruskin, and betook themselves forornament to the careful conventionalization ofnatural forms. The inexhaustible source ofdecoration thus opened, in comparison with therepetition of the very limited reijcrtoiy of au-thorized classic… … United States: Morris House, New York, N. Y., 1762. given an impulse to the use of Gothic in sec-ular buihhngs. But it is a very long stridefrom the House of Parliament to the OxfordMu.seum (185.5), which was the first fruit ofMr. Ruskins teachings. The young architectsof England took to studying…
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