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Source Collection
Alan Karchmer collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
5_28.D2
Description
The Fontaine House, 680 Adams Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. Built in 1870. Photographer: Alan Karchmer. © Alan Karchmer.
The engaged central tower, in combination with exaggerated quoins and tall slender windows accentuate the building's elegant verticality.
Buildings of the French-inspired Second Empire Style are boldly modeled and three-dimensional, nearly always involving a mansard roof with dormers, round or arched. Reserved for monumental public buildings and affluent residences, the ornamentation is extravagant as it is involved.
Date Created
2021
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Fontaine House, Memphis" (2021). Images. 140.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-karchmera2/140
Keywords
Architecture--Tennessee--Memphis.
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