early-gingerbread

Updated: May 24, 2025

It carries the classic name of Athenæum; but the first view of it occasioned in my sensitive constitution a sinking of the heart. The edifice dates from the early-gingerbread period of architecture. It culminates in a horrifying cupola, and is colored a discountenancing brown.

Various - The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3