The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 470
only fault in the whole building from ahypercritical point of view is the deficiencv of baseand the use of an ungroupable corner tower. In-ternally here, as well as elsewhere, it was Richard-sons ambition (according to Prof. Kerr) to put thework into strong naked health and honesty ratherthan into… … Fig. 171.—Jail at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. grandeur (Fig. 171); Mr. Glessners picturesque pal-ace at Chicago; the Law School at Harvard ; HubertHerkomers house in England ; and a large number 448 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. of small libraries, having windows set jewellike in amatrix of rock or rock-cut…
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