Arizona republican., 1904-01-21
BORROWED BUILDINGS.
Reflections of Europe in Manhattan
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Architecturaily New York has many aspects Of a historical museum says the Mail and Express. In no other city can one find so many buildings that are faithful copies of structures of other times.
 The tower of Madison Square Gar den is so close a copy of the famous Giralda tower of Seville that the photo- graph of the one might be mistaken for the other. if it was not for the Diana of Madison Square, which takes the place of the weather Yane that gives the name to the original Giralda. The architects of the new tower made many Carful studies of the old one be- fore completing their plans. and they followed their model so closely in every thing except minor details and minor proportions that one could. if he might forget the trolleys and noise. almost imag zine himself in Seville instead of Madison Square.
 The Judson Memorial Church. ia Washington Square. is a copy of San Giorgio in Velabro. Rome. q building of the Italian Renaissance. The church itself is not so careful reproduction. the changes of site and the differences of climate making it impossible to re- produce the design entirely, <but the tower is so like the one in Rome that a careful comparison would be neces- sary to detect the slight differences, especially in the upper parts. which are, one might say, word for word tho same
 But, in spite of the close copying of SanGiorgio. this example is not so striking as that of the Herald building which is no more nor less than the Palazzo del Consiglio or City Hall of Verona, designed by Fra Giacondo. who no doubt would be surprised to find the motives he used for the council chamber of the grave Veronese Alder men appropriated as a shelter for whirling presses and clicking hno- types. The PalazZO, it is true, has but one side, being hemmed in by other buildings, but it's beautiful front has simply been duplicated for the side of the Herald building, blinking owls be- ing substituted for the statues of saints and philosophers that stand on the caves of the Palazzo. while terra cotta is used instead of Italian marble of the original.
 One must conclude that it is no sin to crib from the old masters. for the
 
 Fine Arts Society is taken bodily from a little hunting lodge of Francis I. that stands to day on the Cour Ia Reine. .n Paris. This was one of the favorite villas of Francis, and is one of the best examples of the French Renais- sance; so good an example that in or der to preserve it, it was removed from it's original site and rebuilt where it Gt hrna surrounded by green trees.
 The architects of the Fine Arts Build ing put a basement below and an attic above. but as far as it would go used the original design unchanged, and re- gretted no doubt that it had not gone further for it has not been improved by these additions. Nor has its effect been heightened by the transportation to the bare, narrow streets of New York
 There are other instances less mark ed but easily recognizable of such de sign One of the big hotels on Broad way has two lower stories and two up- per stories reproducing the Doges Palace in Venice. The sixteen odd stories between are only in plan office building style. so one is not apt to no- tice that the rest is familiar,
 
 Along upper Fifth avenue one can check off one by one the French chateau and Irish palaces that have furnished the designs for the modern dwellings. Here is the Pitt Palace to a hair. in miniature; there a of Blois, the chateau of Louis XII, Henry ILL and Francis l., and where it is not a whole building is is a window a porch or a balcony that has been taken entire and more or less appropriately used in an entirely diff ferent manner from that which it was designed for
 This method Of design is not en- tirely new, nor is New York the only place where it is used. The old sub treasury in Wall street is a model of the Parthenon in the Acropolis of Ath- ens called the central building of the world. The sub-treasury is sadly re- duced in grandeur for the rows of col lmns that run down the sides of the 2arthenon have been replaced by that pilasters, and all the sculpture, the