The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-30
ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE.
something About the Methods of Con-
ssructing Buildings in the Long Ago.

5omething About the Methods of Con-
ssructing Buildings in the Long Ago.
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Soiomon's Temple was begnn B. G. 1904.
The Parthenon at Athens was finished
3. G. 43s.
The corinthian order began to appear
3. c. 355.
The Corinthian column was ten diam
eters high.
obelisizs were probably the first monu-
naents.
The church spire originated in the
twelfth century
The pyramids OF Egypt were begun
about 3. G. 1900.
The cathedral OF York, England, was
founded A. d. HI.
The mosque of Omar, at Jerusalem,
was begun a. D. 637.
The Birs Nimroud, in Assyria, was
built about b. 9. 800.
The Doric order Of architecture was be-
gun about B. c. $50.
ST. Paul's London, was begun in 1915
md finished in 1710.
st. Peters at Rome was begun in 1450
and finished in 1926.
Rose windows in churches began in the
twelfth century.
The Romans had no hinges; all their
doors turned on pivots.
The so-called Greek revival began in
England about 1872.
Canterbury cathedral, in England, was
founded A. d. co.,
The Ionic order came into fashion
among the Greeks B. G. 800.
The great rock-hewn temples at Ellora,
In India, were finished A. D. 500.
l.
the Assyrians were sun-dried bricks.
HThe only illustration of domed Roman
building is the Pantheon at Rome.
In domestic architecture the proper
tons of a room are as one TO one and
half.
Many of the leading government build
ings at Washington are in the Greek
style.
The church, now the mosque, of st.
Sophia. at Constantinople, was begun
A. d. $50.
Over :, 900 obelisks, in position or fallen
are known TO exist N various parts OF
Egypt.
Over 400 triumphal arches were built by
the Romans, twenty-one in the city OF
Rome.
PIiny SAYS that 400 years were spent in
building the Temple of Dian, at Ephesus.
Sessostris brought from the mountains
OF Arabia a stone 80 feet broad and 240
long.
The earliest Egyptian column was sim
ply the stock of the lotus, crowned by its
calix.
Canterbury Cathedral is 5l4 feet long,
so high and 154 broad; the choir is $50 feet
by 40
The Greeks are believed to have Dor
rowed the idea of the foliated capital from
the Egyptians.
The Chinese wall is more than 1 200
miles long, generally over 30 feet high
and "a thick.
Roman architecture differed from that
Of Greece in its luXuriousness rather than
elegance.
Pompey's pillar, at Alexandra, is ia
feet high. the shaft being single stone
ninety feet in length.
Greek temples erected in honor of the
superior deities were always uncovered or
open to the sky.
The roofs of Egyptian temples are COM
posed of huge blocks of stone laid from
column to column.
The largest Greek temple was that of
Jupiter Olympus. It was $40 feet long,
90 broad and 220 high
Greek architecture was based on the
bower of trees which formed the original
shelter of that people.
Egypt temples were usually approached
by an avenue, guarded by q row of
sphinxes on each side.
The Chinese pagoda is q development of
the pointed tent; the Egyptian temple of
the cave-dweliing.
Herodotus and Strabo say that Phoe-
nicians and Egyptians were the first who
erected temples.
The Egyptians employed csryatic fig
ures, afterwards called carayatides, at
least $500 years before Christ.
Nineveh was fifteen miles by nine. the
walls 100 feet high and thick enough for
three chariots to drive abreast.
The Santa Catino of the cathedral of
Genoa is an imitation emerald disk, Ia
inches wide and deep. 1t was, accord
ing TO tradition, given by the Queen of
Sheba to Solomon. It was captured at
Cesarea by the crusaders and given TO
Genoa in 1101.