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The Chicago Style of Architecture
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A National Style.
In H. H. Richardson (1838-1886) America recognized indisputable genius. But could any one architect, or any one architectural style, be singled out as quintessentially American? Throughout the 1880s a debate raged between those architects eager to identify a representative
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American
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style and those who believed that no single style could hope to represent the vitality
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and diversity
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of the nation. One critic suggested that his countrymen
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aim to unite the quiet serenity shown in the Greek with the heaven-aspiring tendency of the Gothic. Aim to have the proportions as agreeable and the whole ...