The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 464
that were reproduced,until every cupola became a choragic monument ofLysicrates or Temple of the Winds, and everyMethodist meeting-house a replica of the Parthenonin whitewashed wood. This was especially unfor-tunate in its effect on the Southwest, where the adobeor rubble mission houses of the… … Fig. 170.—Spire of St. Pauls Church, New York. 442 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. A similar future might have been predicted of theold Creole houses on the lower Mississippi, but fash-ion was too strong; and here, as elsewhere, servilecopies of misapprehended Greek models cut off allhope of the natural…
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