Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 198
ia. At the beginning of the nineteenth century we possessed a national style ofarchitecture, which, although it had come to us from Italy, through Franceand England, was yet distinctly American. It was. however, almost exclu-sively confined to residences, and there were very few public buildings of… … 180 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY The Colonial style, as we now term it, was sufficiently elastic in its adapta-bility to conform to the requirements of the merchant, manufacturer, or mari-ner living at Salem, Boston, or Newport, as well as to those of the planterliving at Charleston or…
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