Chapter 13: Notes

Footnote 277:

See Webster, J. C., ‘Richardson’s American Express Building’, _Journal
of the Society of Architectural Historians_, IX (1950), 21-4, and my
article cited in Note 7 to Chapter 11.

Footnote 278:

See Richardson, H. H., _Trinity Church, Boston_, Boston, 1888.

Footnote 279:

3 vols, Paris, 1868-73. It will be noted that the last volume of this
appeared after the original competition drawings for Trinity Church
were prepared.

Footnote 280:

The source was probably the book by Vogüé of which the second volume
appeared only in 1877 (see Note [196], Chapter 8). The motif first
appeared in the North Easton Library, designed and begun in that year.

Footnote 281:

See Richardson, H. H., _The Ames Memorial Building_[197], Boston,
1886.

Footnote 282:

See Olmsted, F. L., and Kimball, T., _Frederick Law Olmsted_, 2 vols,
New York, 1922-8.

Footnote 283:

See Richardson, H. H., _Austin Hall, Harvard Law School_, Boston,
1885.

Footnote 284:

See Richardson, H. H., _Description of Drawings for the Proposed New
County Building for Allegheny County, Penn._, Boston, 1884.

Footnote 285:

See Schuyler, M., ‘The Romanesque Revival in New York’, _Architectural
Record_, I (1891), 7-38, 151-98.

Footnote 286:

See Bragdon, C., ‘Harvey Ellis’, _Architectural Record_, XXV (1908),
173-83.

Footnote 287:

Hunt, of the older generation, was generally recognized as a leader in
this camp also, although his energies in these years were principally
engaged in designing and building a series of _François I_ châteaux
for the Vanderbilts and other millionaires that are anything but
academic in their involved picturesqueness.

This curious episode, which has been given exaggerated importance by
some historians of American architecture, began with the designing of
the W. K. Vanderbilt house in New York in 1879-80 (see Andrews, W.,
_The Vanderbilt Legend_, New York, 1941). Other architects were also
briefly affected by what was hardly more than a recrudescence of a
mode popular in France under Louis Philippe in Hunt’s youth (see