Otis, Calvin, N.:

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SACRED AND CONSTRUCTIVE ART: ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS. A SERIES OF ESSAYS. Only edition of what was apparently the only work of Calvin N. Otis, a Buffalo-area architect. The final chapter of the work considers the state of the arts in the United States: "Why should not America produce a style of art as purely her own as are her social institutions?" (p.305).

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