the kind of moment that played out a thousand times a day at the foot of Manhattan when the harbor still smelled of coal smoke and the promise of a new name
South Carolina Columbia arrives by way of the Congaree
The Gilded Arena: Stanford White's Tower of Spectacle and Scandal renders Madison Square Garden's Moorish campanile in all its operatic ambition — the very rooftop where the architect was shot dead in 1906
These are the postcards of Santa Fe Railway depots
and linen views of a prairie capital pretending
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