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Planning a world metropolis (1909)

Hyde, Henry M. (Henry Morrow), b. 1866, Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU · [Chicago : Technical World Co.] · leaf 46

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oherent, foolish assome of the billboards that disfigure thelandscape. Happily this era of pretentious shamshas given place to bettei styles. Archi-tects now strive for individuality, char-acter, meaning, in any house they maybe called on to erect. Sometimes thestriving for variety is carried too… … VARIETY AND UNITY IX A HOW OF C]l\ IIOISESBoth as a grmip and as a unit these residences must be pronounced a successful novelty big, gaudy houses with round towers andgothic windows and Romanesque archesand all manner of claptrap. There arewhole rows of these things standing to-day, with millions…

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