A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 394
. CONSERVATORY. .1. A public buildingdevoted to the cultivation of, and instruction in,any branch of art or science, es])ecially the finearts ; as a conservatory of niusii. B. A Iniilding devoted to the preservationand cultivation of delicate plants; a grei>nliouse.Common u.sage .seems to… … Console: Cathedral of Como, Lombardy,Italy. corbel or bracket; but having always parallel,nearly plane sides. It is commonly altogetherdecorative in its purjiose, as a scroll-shaped figureused to support a window head, a table top, orthe like. The definition is generally taken as abracket which has…
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