Image: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century (1898) (14587166180)

Description: Mills Building, New York City (1882). Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches) Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture Publisher: New York : Record and guide Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: so great as the (lothic revival.The force that reallv was at first effective in Aiuerica, more so inthis country than in England, was not architectural l)Ut literary.There were no Gothic monuments in the United Statesto inspire study or provoke imitation. The architecturalassociations of even the Episcopal Church in the New\\orl(l were not with Gothic, but with the classical formsthat Wren made popular. The mediaeval spirit, so far asarchitecture is concerned, never touched our soil. We possessednone of the picturesque remains and gray solemnities which sur-vived fhroughout England to authorize, as with the force of an an-cient decree, the acts and doctrines of the Gothicists. At first it wasthrough letters, especially through the writings of Ruskin, that theGothic revival reached these shores. Later on, indeed, our archi-tects felt the direct influence of English architectural example; butthen a reaction was commencing abroad, and other ideas were turn- 566 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE, Text Appearing After Image: Broad Street, New York City. MILLS BUILDING.(1882.) George B. Post, Architect. BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 567 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century (1898) (14587166180)
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