How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 287
in the beginning of the nine-teenth century, had a certain effect on the style of the 263 HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE English, it did not become part and parcel of the nationalarchitecture. It did, however, carry through with itspeculiar aloofness into our own country, where it colorstowns and cities… … FIG. IO3—DOORWAY IN NEW YORK CITY (GREEK) essentially Greek to-day. The houses of WashingtonSquare, of Gramercy Park, in the neighborhood of theBattery, in the quarter where St. Johns Park formerly 264 THE GEORGIAN PERIOD OF ENGLAND stood, and indeed most of the work which remains to usfrom the…
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