Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 32
general charac-ter. It is a collection of specimens of different ages, and thefinest have disappeared. The capital increases only in houses —and what houses ! At this rate there will be a new Paris everyfifty years. And then the historical significance of its archi-tecture is effaced daily.… … THE HOTEL DE CLUNY. Introduction. 13 This city of plaster might have filled the whole spacewithin the fortifications to-day if the railways had notbrought stone so easily from a distance; but by a happycoincidence the colossal building enterprises of NapoleonIII. were not undertaken before the…
Architecture
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
