History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 323
de, one hundred and twenty-five feet long, and fourstories high. Thomas U. Walter, architect. The Athenaeum (Plate XXVI.) has a front of free-stone, with a fine balustrade of stone. The windowsare richly ornamented. This building is a beautifulspecimen of street architecture. Where the space foran… … IN THE UNITED STATES. 267 WASHINGTON. The Presidents House, is of Potomac freestone. Ithas two fronts with porticoes, and is one hundred andeighty feet in length by eighty-five in width. The Patent Office is still unfinished; it is designedwhen completed, to surround the square on which itstands.…
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