Hints on Public Architecture

Author Robert Dale Owen American, born Scotland
Designs by James Renwick Jr. American
Publisher G. P. Putnam, New York American

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This American architectural work was written to introduce the members of the Building Committee of the Smithsonian Institute to concepts of good taste in architecture, as demonstrated by current British examples by A. W. Pugin and discussed in the writings of John Ruskin.

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