A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 381
nsarcophagi, and be-come very frequentin mediaval art. COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE.That of a colony, orcolonies ; especially,in American use, thatwliicli prevailed inthe British settle-ments in Americaprevioiis to 1776,and by extension, anbecause the stylecannot be dis-tinctly se])aratedinto… … COLONNADE results of transferring the classic designs of theeighteenth century to a new country wherewood was largely used and where the work-men were far less restrained by an educated]nibUc opinion. The greater part of the build-ings of the style are jnirely classic in theirintent; but there…
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