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Page 447
... buildings . The most extravagant and sensation- al of all Gothic Revival buildings was Fonthill Abbey ( 1796-1806 ) , Wiltshire , designed by James Wyatt pri- marily as a landscape feature for the arch - Romantic Wil- liam Beckford ...
... buildings . The most extravagant and sensation- al of all Gothic Revival buildings was Fonthill Abbey ( 1796-1806 ) , Wiltshire , designed by James Wyatt pri- marily as a landscape feature for the arch - Romantic Wil- liam Beckford ...
Page 470
... building ( 1926 ) . Paradoxically , one archaeological find led to simpler buildings when , about 1930 , Mayan pyr- amids inspired Timothy Pflueger in his work on the 450 Sutter building in San Francisco . Clifflike blocks arose in ...
... building ( 1926 ) . Paradoxically , one archaeological find led to simpler buildings when , about 1930 , Mayan pyr- amids inspired Timothy Pflueger in his work on the 450 Sutter building in San Francisco . Clifflike blocks arose in ...
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... buildings on the Mall . Whatever the impact of later alterations , however , only a few ef- forts have been made since L'Enfant to redesign the capi- tal totally . Continuing affective elements of the capital . To the visitor , nothing ...
... buildings on the Mall . Whatever the impact of later alterations , however , only a few ef- forts have been made since L'Enfant to redesign the capi- tal totally . Continuing affective elements of the capital . To the visitor , nothing ...
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