A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 543
onging toarchitecture; but their massive constructionand the very absence of pretension make theminoffensive and respectable, and negativelyattractive. On the other hand, the shop-ping streets of these towns c<ime to be linedwith buildings which were meant to be attrac-tive, and which, being… … United States: Pulpit in S. Pauls Chapel,New York; Church built 17(>4-1766. States at the middle of this century. The commercial Renaissance of the show streetsof the principal cities was a series of stories ofstone, or brick, or cast iron, apparently stand-ing upon a wall of plate glass at the…
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