. American architecture . directly imitative. In design it is forits purpose equally well studied; in scale, indeed, ismuch better studied, so that the detail, which is oftenlost in the ineffectual minuteness of the carving in theformer case, here takes its place with emphasis. Per-haps in some instances it takes its place with too muchemphasis, as in the modelling of the arches of the firstfloor; while, on the other hand, there is a clear lackof vigor in the brackets which carry the balcony of thethird story, and in the treatment of the spiral shaftupon which rests the corbelled turret at the
. American architecture . directly imitative. In design it is forits purpose equally well studied; in scale, indeed, ismuch better studied, so that the detail, which is oftenlost in the ineffectual minuteness of the carving in theformer case, here takes its place with emphasis. Per-haps in some instances it takes its place with too muchemphasis, as in the modelling of the arches of the firstfloor; while, on the other hand, there is a clear lackof vigor in the brackets which carry the balcony of thethird story, and in the treatment of the spiral shaftupon which rests the corbelled turret at the outerangle. But these defects of design seem to be quitedeliberate, and it seems, upon the whole, that the build-ing looks as the architect intended it to look, in amore accurate sense than can be said of its leading motive of composition in that was the pyramidization at the angle. The leading motive ofthis may be assigned to the development of the floorlines. The perpendicular lines are entirely subordi-.
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