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On Buildings and “The Last Days of Night”
Electrical Building for the 1893 Columbian Exposition or the Chicago worlds fair It is 1888 and the engaging book, The Last Days of...


The Mistake House
Palisades of the Mississippi (c. 1909) by Frederick Oakes Sylvester Sitting on a bucolic limestone bluff in Elsa, Illinois, overlooking...


Living in a Landscape Without a Care
Potsdam Landscape “At Potsdam, there is the wherewithal to make us happy.” Fredrick the Great from the memoirs of his reader, Henri de...
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