Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 422
l they represent merely a crude phase of the Chur-rigueresque style. ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 389 EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIOD. Between the Revolution andthe War of 1812, under the new conditions of independenceand self-government, architecture took on a more monu-mental character. Buildings… … FIG. 220.—NATIONAL CAPITOL, WASHINGTON. as indispensable features of civic architecture. In church-building the Wren-Gibbs type continued to prevail, but withgreater correctness of classic forms. The gambrel rooftended to disappear from the houses of this period, andthere was some decline in the…
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