[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from March 11 (reply #45). ]

March 13. Anderson took me yesterday to see the designs for the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Very ambitious; scale very grand indeed – likely to be effective. Cheap ornamentation in iron; the mullions, mouldings, pillars open work spires all iron. . . . Will surely rack itself to pieces by expansion and contraction of its incongruous materials within five years after it’s finished.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from March 13 (reply #53).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas