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Show Grecian Architecture During most of the last century, from -Maine to California, templelike temple-like structures sprang up in which our first American-born professional architects strove to incorporate the grandeur, strength, and symmetry of ancient Greek buildings. The very names of new towns echo the pervading per-vading enthusiasm for things Greek Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Syracuse. Syra-cuse. The first evidence of this return re-turn to Greece for inspiration was Latrobe's Bank of Pennsylvania, built in Philadelphia in 1800; the last may well have been the Crystal Pal-aee Pal-aee Saloon, built at Tombstone, Ariz., in 1878. |