. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . About : Romanesque, 538 A HISTORY 01- REAL liSTATE, It was marked Iand (if niamiia. increasiiiL; sucocss ilowii nicaiiw liiK- a nuR-h iimrciiKnt had l)ern 1)l-jj,uii, and itliajiiMt-T aiis])ices. I hat is totlie co-operation of artistic (ks tiirers who were wilHng to take tr. )nl>k- and s])cn(Imoney in securing artistic results. It was alxmt i SX^that the Romanesque revival, stiiuulated hy the suc-cess and vogue of the works of Richardson had begunto make


. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . About : Romanesque, 538 A HISTORY 01- REAL liSTATE, It was marked Iand (if niamiia. increasiiiL; sucocss ilowii nicaiiw liiK- a nuR-h iimrciiKnt had l)ern 1)l-jj,uii, and itliajiiMt-T aiis])ices. I hat is totlie co-operation of artistic (ks tiirers who were wilHng to take tr. )nl>k- and s])cn(Imoney in securing artistic results. It was alxmt i SX^that the Romanesque revival, stiiuulated hy the suc-cess and vogue of the works of Richardson had begunto make its wa\ over the country and had enlisted theactive-minded and progressive young architects, thesuccessors of those who,in the previous decade, had gi\ en themselvesto the advancement of Aictorian (lothic, and in some cases the samepersons. The Romanes(|ue had taken almost undisputed possessionof the West, and along with those of its practitioners who followed itsim])ly because it was the fashion, there were others who believed init, and who were earnest in following out its possibilities. Chicagowas the centre of this cult in the West, and several of the most capa-ble ot the designers of Chicago be


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