Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 196
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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