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It is a monochromatic world of gable roofs, porticos, door knockers, and balustrades; of stairways, barn board, and cedar shingles; of the dense ornament of the early high-rise and the Spartan parlor of a frontier president. And for all the grandeur, for all the quaintness, there is something lonely, something somber and elegiac.