Excerpt from The Architectural Record, Vol. 15: January, 1904 The building, Nos. 173 and 175 Duane street (fig. I) is of simple character and has only one street front to show us. It cannot be compared to its rivals, the buildings of the same class which are to be mentioned with it. The combined windows, two, two and a lunette, under one arch are a poor and cheap device, and the filling with brick walling and arches of the space within the larger open ing tends to prevent the use of deep reveals. The pair of simple round-arched openings below each of those great recesses cannot be thought more original or more significant. The double superstructure - the two arcades of seven and thirteen Openings, some filled with glass, some open to the sky, that is a brave thought, if you please! It is so that designs are made, if they are to be really designs! The invention of such a pierced parapet as this might almost be thought to date from this facade, it is so obviously called for here. And there are some well-placed and admirably de signed bands and archivolts of terra-cotta; the ornamentation kept down to the severe, conventional patterns, the platted and twisted band, strap-work and knot-work, such as befits. A work building. It is, however, the De Vinne building which shows what this style is capable of; and for this we have the fixed date, 1885. 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.