. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . nodoubt, to the poverty of the colonies, to the difficultyof obtaining sufficient grants from the Crown, andto the speed with which they necessarily had to bebuilt to fulfil their especial requirements. In the post-revolutionary structures the classicalspirit predominates, and a reflection of the morerefined qualities of the Louis XVI. are to be is perhaps illustrated in the New York CityHall as well as m any other structure. John McComb, mentioned above in connectionwith St. Johns Chap
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . nodoubt, to the poverty of the colonies, to the difficultyof obtaining sufficient grants from the Crown, andto the speed with which they necessarily had to bebuilt to fulfil their especial requirements. In the post-revolutionary structures the classicalspirit predominates, and a reflection of the morerefined qualities of the Louis XVI. are to be is perhaps illustrated in the New York CityHall as well as m any other structure. John McComb, mentioned above in connectionwith St. Johns Chapel, and the architect creditedwith the design of the Citv Hall—1803-12—wasan ardent admirer of Sir William Chambers and , the influence of whom is to be seen in thisgreat work: the former in its monumental design andthe mechanical perfection of the \\ork, and the htterin the delicacy of its ornament and the lack of denthand breadth of the reveal. In plan the buildingconsists of a central pavilion, two wings, and apavilion at each end. It is two stories high, raised CONSTRUCTION 67. BALCDNV IN ROTUNDA, llTV HALL. NKW VdRK CITY, on a rusticated basement and is marble on threesides. It was building from 1803-12. The first educated American to devote himself tothe profession of architecture was Charles Bulfinch,born in Boston in 1 763. After his graduation fromHarvard in 1781 he spent three years studying inEurope, and on his return entered seriously upon hiscareer. In 1 795 he was appointed architect to thenew Massachusetts State House, which, with theexception of the Federal Capital at Washington, wasthe most monumental building then projected in theStates. In general composition it is very successfuland consists of two stories above a rusticated base-ment. The flatness of the wings, the slight reveal inthe openings and the treatment of the details arepurely colonial, while the arrangement of the centre,where a colonnade is superimposed above an arcadefor the first t
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