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The German Parliament House, apart from slight defects, as a great architectural creation is in a style worthy of its purpose a style which is preserved in all its parts; while that at Albany is, perhaps, the most curious jumble in the whole history of architecture, the lower stories being Palladian; the stories above these being, if anything, Florentine; the summit being, if anything, French Renaissance; while, as regards the interior, the great west staircase, which is said to have cost half a million of dollars, is in the Richardsonesque style; the eastern staircase is in classic style; and a circular staircase in the interior is in the most flamboyant Gothic which could be got for money.
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