Excerpt from City Architecture: Or Designs for Dwelling Houses, Stores, Hotels, Etc To assist the development of the taste for ornamental building, now prevalent in this large and increasing metropolis, as well as in the other important cities of the Union, by offering to the Architect, Builder, and Capitalist, a variety of novel designs and adaptations of the street-archi tecture of Rome, Florence, and Venice - is the object of the present work. The Italian, now the fashionable style for city edifices, was the peculiar taste of the author, derived from a professional tour on the continent of Europe, long before it had superseded the pure Greek style; which, how ever beautiful in itself, has been proved by experience to be unproductive of any original combinations, and ill adapted to modern uses and require ments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.