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 204
housesabout the suburbs of Boston, to be what they are, could not have been otherthan of wood. His influence upon the architecture of the day was therefore not surprising,but there was a subtleness in the character of his designs that his imitatorscould never acquire and even his immediate… … ST. GEORGES HALL, PHILADELPHIA. As E. M. Hunt had the last word on the cast-iron front, so he had thefirst on the modern sky-scraper, a peculiarly American production; the wallsof the Tribune Building, however, carry both their own weight and that ofthe floors, being built before the days of the…
Progress · Inventions
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