AKGZENT ARCHITECTURE I oeLhig About the 3Iethods of Con I ctructiug JJalldmus in the Long Ago I From the St Louis Globe Democrat iSo i-So Temple was begnnB 01034 The Parthenon Athens was finished S C 43S I The Corinthian order began to appear i 130355 I The Corinthian column was ten diameters diam-eters high Obelisks were probably the first monu i meats I The church spire originated in the twelfth centnry The pyramids of Egypt were begun i sibout B C 1500 The cathedral ol York England was I founded A D 1171 The mosque of Omar at Jersusalem Was begun A D 637 I The Birs Nimroud inAssyria was I built about C 900 The Doric order of architecture was be jun about B C 650 St Pauls London was begun in 1675 Mid finished in 1710 St Peters at Rome was begun in 1450 nd finished in 1626 Ross windows in churches began in the Jwelfth century The Romans had no hinges all their floors turned on pivots The socalled Greek revival began in r England about 1812 Canterbury cathedral in England was founded A D 602 The Ionic older came into fashion among the Greeks B C 503 t The great rockhewn temples at Ellora in India wens finished A D 500 The favorite building materials among I the Assyrians were sundried bricks KThe only illustration of a domed Roman 7 building is the Pantheon at Rome In domestic architecture the proportions propor-tions of a room arc as one to one and a t half t halfMany tho leading government buildings f build-ings at Washington are in the Greek r i style The church now the mosque of St Sophia at Constantinople was begun AD532 Over 2000 obelisks in position or fallen R are known to exist in various parts of Egypt Over 400 triumphal arches were built by k the Romans twentyone in the city of Home Pliny says that 400 years were spent in L building the Temple of Dian atEphesus Sessostris brought from the mountains p of Arabia a stone 32 feet broad and 240 long The earliest Egyptian column was simi sim-i ply the stock of the lotus crowned by its calix Canterbury Cathedral is 514 feet long i SO high and 154 broad the choir is 180 fet r by 40 2 The Greeks are believed to have borrow f z bor-row ed the idea of the foliated capital from the Egyptians r The Chinese wall is more than 1200 miles long generally over 30 feet high ii and 24 thick Roman architecture differed from that of Greece in its luxurionsness rather than elegance Pompeys pillar at Alexandria is 114 feet high the shaft being a single stone ninety feet in length Greek temples erected in honor of the superior deities were always uncovered or open to the sky The roofs of Egyptian temples are composed com-posed of huge blocks of stone laid from column to column The largest Greek temple was that of Jupiter Olympus It was 370 feet long 60 broad and 220 high Greek architecture was based on the bower of trees which formed the original shelter of that people Egypt temples were usually approached by an avenue guarded by a row of S sphinxes on each side The Chinese pagoda is a development of the pointed tent the Egyptian temple of the cavedwelling Herodotus and Strabo say that Phoenicians Phoe-nicians and Egyptians were the first who erected temples The Egyptians employed caryatio figures fig-ures afterwards called carayatides at least 2500 years before Christ Nineveh was fifteen miles by nine the walls 100 feet high and thick enough for three chariots to drive abreast The Santa Catino of the cathedral of Genoa is an imitation emerald disk 14 inches wide and5 deep It was according accord-ing to tradition given by the Queen of Sheba to Solomon It was captured atC at-C sarca by the crusaders and given to Genoa 1101