Monday, January 09, 2012

Designs for a New New York Capitol
























At what stage did the fifth-story windows in the corner towers get built with the three pairs of small square windows in each face along with that fat band of masonry that looks almost like a balcony?



As built, it differs from the symmetrical treatment of five windows as seen on the plan below. All the work was ripped out subsequently









The American Architect and Building News, March 11, 1876

SERIAL ARCHIVE LISTINGS for The American Architect

American Architect and Building News. (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.) Various issues- 1876-1878.
Library of Congress Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room.

American Architect and Building News. NA1.A322 Microfilm 05422 (1876-1908) MicRR














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