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The Architects' and Builders' Guide; An Elaborate Description of All the Public, Commercial, Philanthropic, Literary, & Ecclesiastical Buildings Already Constructed, and about to Be Erected Next Spring in New York and Its Environs, with Their Cost

The Architects' and Builders' Guide; An Elaborate Description of All the Public, Commercial, Philanthropic, Literary, & Ecclesiastical Buildings Already Constructed, and about to Be Erected Next Spring in New York and Its Environs, with Their Cost


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...Every inch exposed to view in the walls of this building is a natural face. The ledge is found split by natural cleavages. From these cleavages the face stones are taken with the fixed color of ages upon them. The general effect is that rhen laid in the building, especially when pointed as here in a color harmonizing and not separating the stones, the edifice has the appearance of antiquity in its infancy. The plan of the building consists of nave, aisles and transepts, with a tower on the southeast corner. This, with three porches, makes the body of the church, which in the interior is 121 feet from rear of the chancel to the front entrance, by 68 feet in width. The arches which carry the clerestory walls are supported by brown stone columns with Ohio stone capitals carved. Above these capitals are richly foliaged corbels, on which rest the bases of shafts, which rise to the capitals of stone which carry the arch principals of the open timbered roof. These support a system of longitudinal arches which carry the purlins and smaller timbers. At the crossing of the transept and nave the main principals intersect each other diagonally. The roof and walls are treated in polychrome. The planes of the roof are colored in ultramarine blue, bordered by gold.color and vermilion. The timbers are colored dark oak, with the details picked out in color, and their larger surfaces are ornamented. The cornice is elaborate in its construction and ornamented with arabesque work also picked out in color. The clerestory walls to the sills of the windows have a ground color of red, with a lighter red figure. The shafts of columns are maroon, the caps and bases picked oat in color, as also the details of the arches and cusps. Over the chancel recess is an illuminated cross, in ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231069622
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231069627
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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