Ocupation: Critic
Life: August 19, 1843 - July 7, 1914
Birthday: August 19
Death: July 7
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.
source: Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”
topic: Bridges, Engineering, Shrines