Excerpt from Historic Buildings of America: As Seen and Described by Famous Writers; With Numerous Illustrations To our list of fine architecture should be added Christ Church in Alexandria, Independence Hall, and the old Bos ton State House. It is sometimes said there are no prevailing styles of American architecture; but even with the few examples gathered here, we are able to note a general taste. The style favoured by the Dutch William and Mary of England (who shared her husband's tastes), is revealed in many buildings from Boston to Charleston and the Classic style of the Eighteenth Century, with its colonnades, porticos. 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.