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 383
ers (owners) to flingaway ambition; to contrive their houses with a viewto comfort, rather than show; and to take special carethat the proportions be not so great, and the cost soextravagant, as to gain for their edifices the unenviablename of Follies. Art thrives mostWhere commerce has enriched… … Fig. 52, an English school-house of the Elizabe-than style. It is one of the famous Brompton school-houses, described at page 200. It is admirably adaptedfor the purpose designed, having separate entrancesand apartments for girls and boys, and above themconvenient recitation rooms. Surrounded by…
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