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 .. . is libraries leave no-doubt as to their having been built for the storing and reading of books -fhis stone buildings, whether the Court House and jail in Pittsburg, theChamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, or private houses in Buffalo or Chicago, PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY IN ARCHITECTURE 185 show thei
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 .. . is libraries leave no-doubt as to their having been built for the storing and reading of books -fhis stone buildings, whether the Court House and jail in Pittsburg, theChamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, or private houses in Buffalo or Chicago, PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY IN ARCHITECTURE 185 show their purpose and emphasize their material; his brick buildingswhether a college building at Cambridge, railway station at New London,or residence at Washington, tell their story in brick; and his country housesabout the suburbs of Boston, to be what they arc, 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 successors could not long retainafter his personality was lost to them ; and from the lack partly, perhaps, oftrue sympathy, partly from the modification of conditions, his art may besaid to have died with ST. GEORGES HALL, PHILADELPHIA. As R. 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 methods of steel skeleton con-struction. Hunt was trained in Paris, as was Richardson, and had assistedin the design of the Pavilion de Flore under Lefuel, and he showed hisappreciation of the Xeo-Grec movement in his design for the Lenox is somewhat unusual for an artist to do his best work in his latest years,but surely no better work of its kind has been done in modem times thanthe
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