[289]. One of the earliest examples of the serious study of Colonial precedent is Arthur Little’s Early New England Interiors, Boston, 1878. However, his own work remained relatively free for some years.
[290]. See Building News, 28 April 1882.
[291]. These tiles wore out some years ago and have now been replaced. The smooth black roof seen on Plate 111 lacks the fine scale and rich texture the pantiles provide.
[292]. The conceptual organization of the exterior has seemed to most critics to have been borrowed from a much later monument, Henri Labrouste’s Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris of the 1840s, even though McKim would not admit it. There is certainly none of Labrouste’s exposed metalwork in the interior; but the extensive use of Guastavino tile vaults, at this time a real technical innovation, is worth noting.
[293]. See Burnham, D. H., World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1894, and Ives, H., The Dream City, St Louis, 1893.
[294]. The area round the ‘Wooded Isle’ was much less regular than that round the Lagoon in continuance of Olmsted’s earlier and more naturalistic sort of landscaping. Into this area were shunted most of the buildings by local architects, doubtless because McKim distrusted their capacity to conform to the academic standards he was setting.
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[295]. See Note [[97]], Chapter [5].
[296]. Somewhat fuller accounts of English commercial architecture in this period will be found in Hitchcock, ‘Victorian Monuments of Commerce’, Architectural Review, CV (1949), 61-74, and in Hitchcock, Early Victorian Architecture, Chapters XI and XII. Most of the English buildings mentioned in this chapter are illustrated either in the book or the article.