. American architecture . ecompletely answered in that architecture; for there isno innovation in Mr. Haights work, unless we includethe iron roof, which is partly visible from the floor ofthe hall. There are one or two survivals of formswhich have lost their functions, as the unpierced pin-nacled turrets at the angles of the library building andthe crenellated parapet of the porch in the , upon the whole, the result upon which the collegeand its architect are to be congratulated has been at-tained by following the advice of the sculptor who in-formed his pupil that the art was n
. American architecture . ecompletely answered in that architecture; for there isno innovation in Mr. Haights work, unless we includethe iron roof, which is partly visible from the floor ofthe hall. There are one or two survivals of formswhich have lost their functions, as the unpierced pin-nacled turrets at the angles of the library building andthe crenellated parapet of the porch in the , upon the whole, the result upon which the collegeand its architect are to be congratulated has been at-tained by following the advice of the sculptor who in-formed his pupil that the art was not difficult: Yousimply take a piece of marble and leave out what youdont want. Mr. Haight has taken what he wantedin Gothic architecture for the uses of Columbia Col-lege, and with the trivial exceptions we have noted hasleft out the rest. And what is true of this work isequally true of an unpretending and picturesque pieceof late Gothic, erected from Mr. Haights designs forSt. Thomass School, in East Fiftv-ninth ORIEL IN W. K. VANDERBILT S HOUSE, FIFTY-SECOND M. Hunt, Architect. CONCERNING QUEEN ANNE a^ Another interesting piece of Gothic work, thoughthis time of distinctly Victorian Gothic, is the housedesigned by Mr. Vaux for Governor Tilden. The in-terest of this, however, is rather in the detail of formand color than in general composition, since the build-ing is architecturally only a street front, and since theslightness of the projections and the lack of visible andemphasized depth in the wall itself give it the appear-ance rather of a screen than of one face of a building,and the small gables which surmount it too evidentlyexist for the sole purpose of animating the the color treatment of this front is admirable, andrecalls the best work of the most successful colorist inarchitecture whom we have ever had in New York—Mr. Wrey Mould. It is characteristic that interestingtreatment of color, like every other properly architect-ural devel
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