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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nthe scene ; to him as citizen prosperity meant a better home, to the congre-gation a larger church, to the community a new city hall or court house, tothe State a more expensive capitol. While these buildings were being everywhere erected, in accordance withthe time honored fashions of construction and with elaborate finish, the disas-trous conflagrations of 1871 in Chicago, and of 1872 in Boston, called generalattention to the necessity for more permanent building; and the precautionsnow taken against similar occurrences were the beginning of efforts towardmethods of fireproof construction. Granite, marble, and limestone were dis-carded in favor of sandstone, brick, and terra cotta ; iron beams carryingbrick or concrete (subsequently hollow terra cotta) arches were introduced,and metal laths were substituted for the wooden strips to a certain degree;but as these fires were mainly in the business districts, such reforms havebeen confined almost exclusively to commercial architecture.
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T1UNITY CHURCH, NEW YOKK. 184 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY In 1873 the financial panic gave a check to many building operations, butit was of comparatively short duration, for in 1876 all the other nations of theearth were invited to unite with us at Philadelphia in celebrating the centen-nial anniversary of our independence. This was our first international Exposition, and it was not remarkable thatin our eagerness to learn, and in the enthusiasm of prosperity, we soughtinspiration from all those peoples who had brought their goods for ourinspection. At once we began to build Queen Anne cottages or to remodelexisting houses with many bays and towers, rooms set at all angles, floors atdifferent levels, walls of many materials, and roofs of varying slopes, as wellas to apply many tints and shades of color within and without. The summer hotel and summer cottage began to appear at the seashore,in the mountains, and along the shores of the great lakes, and the winterresorts

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