. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . r popular-ity of the style was due to the brilliant success of H. H. Richardsonwith certain Provengal ornamental details which he adopted, modi-fied and used with remarkable efTect. It was natural enough that hisfamous Trinity Church at Boston (1877) shcjuld influence ecclesias-tical work, but the adoption of the authors Romanesque manner ina wholesale degree for residences, office buildings, stores and ware-houses, is a very pointed example and proof of what has been said inthese page
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . r popular-ity of the style was due to the brilliant success of H. H. Richardsonwith certain Provengal ornamental details which he adopted, modi-fied and used with remarkable efTect. It was natural enough that hisfamous Trinity Church at Boston (1877) shcjuld influence ecclesias-tical work, but the adoption of the authors Romanesque manner ina wholesale degree for residences, office buildings, stores and ware-houses, is a very pointed example and proof of what has been said inthese pages about fads and styles, and the modish nature of mod-ern architectural i^ractice. The best examples of the style in NewYork are the Times lUiilding. the United States Trust liuilding, theUnion Trust Building (1889), Market and Fulton Bank (1888), theTelephone Building, Cortlandt street (1887): St. Agnes Church(1889). To these must be added the later works of Cyrus L. W. Eid-litz, such, for instance, as the Raquet Club (1891), on West 44thstreet; the Telephone Building, Broad street; the Bank for Savings. BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 609
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