Text Appearing Before Image: UlLDING AND ARCHITECTrRE IN NEW YORK. Text Appearing After Image: 558 A HISTOKY OF REAL ESTATE, ing increase of commercial cncr^)-. the rapid increment of wealtli,the marvelons (levelo;)ment ot mechanical a))ility. Xo a<le(;nate ac-coinit of our Architecture can be given if a consideration of thesefacts h(t omitted. From tliis ))oint of view it is interesting to look backward and see-the sort of conditions in which the professional practice of archi-tecture, as we understand it to-day, began in Xew York. It is not necessary to fix upon a precise date. Certainly, if weplace the begiiming of the modern era in matters architectural some-where abijut the miildle of the century, we date it accurately enough.A year or two is of small account, for in 1850, and for some timebefore and after, architecture in the United States was at its lowestebb. It was virtually extinct. The early forces that had producedthe Colonial work and the Greek revival had quite spent them-selves. The Gothic revival had hardly set in. It isusual, we know, to date the beginning o
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