| Charles Melville Pepper - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 480 pages
...officers of the Army and Navy, and many distinguished persons prominent in literary and social life. The style of architecture is neo-Grecian ; the material...row of open-work marble panels along the upper edge. Between these panels and the cornice — which is rich in ornamental carving — extends a narrow frieze,... | |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art - Art - 1901 - 188 pages
...GALT. WALTER S. Cox. WILLIAM CORCORAN EUSTIS. THOMAS HYDE. •Bmmj' r • • • • I ; IB. , o ty DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. The building stands with...row of openwork marble panels along the upper edge, used as ventilators to the Galleries. Between these panels and the cornice, which is rich in ornamental... | |
| Helen Weston Henderson - Art - 1912 - 554 pages
...the lot. The style of architecture is the so-called Neo-Grecian, the material being white Georgian marble, on a basement of Milford pink granite. The first story is pierced with windows; the second story rises in a solid white wall broken only by a row of open-work marble... | |
| 1903 - 700 pages
...architecture of the pres~"f eallery is Neo-Grecian, the material being white Georgia marble on a base of Milford pink granite. The first story is pierced by windows, the second rises in a solid white wall broken only by a row of open-work marble panels along the upper edge, used... | |
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