. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . ollege building is the Museum and Park Gallery ofArt ; and adjoining this building on the north is the beautifulBillings Library, a red .structure in the Romanesquestyle of architecture, designed by the great architect, Richardson,and universally admitted to be the finest college library buildingin America. This magnificent building is the gift to the Universityof her honored and beloved alumnus, Hon. Frederick Billings ofWoodstock. ]^Ir. Richardson himself said of it, a short timebefore his death, It
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . ollege building is the Museum and Park Gallery ofArt ; and adjoining this building on the north is the beautifulBillings Library, a red .structure in the Romanesquestyle of architecture, designed by the great architect, Richardson,and universally admitted to be the finest college library buildingin America. This magnificent building is the gift to the Universityof her honored and beloved alumnus, Hon. Frederick Billings ofWoodstock. ]^Ir. Richardson himself said of it, a short timebefore his death, It is the best thing I have yet done. Theharmony and appropriateness of the design for the purpose intendedat once win the enthusiastic approbation of the most criticalbeholder, while the chaste beauty of outline, the perfect symmetryof parts, the exquisite management of details, and the rare com-bination of massiveness and grace, richness and simplicity, giveto this building a recognized pre-eminence as a t\pe of modernscholastic architecture. Surrounded as it is bv natures most. /AS^S: t I ^-i^n ram.
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