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A history of architecture (1906)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909, Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln, 1859-1923 · New York, The Baker & Taylor Company · leaf 281

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SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA Chap. IV] 227 There are few remains of Moorish architecture left in the Penin- sula in any condition which allows them to be the subjects of study. The churches which were once mosques have been so completely re- modelled that little of the original character is left. The… … been built in different designs, many 209 — Tower of Mansourah near Tlemcen. of them extremely quaint and un- (From photo.) usual, as if the builder had been try- ing experiments in various unexampled ways of closing in a small com- partment. They are not attractive, nor has their example been fol-…

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