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    QUIZ

    Quizzical Pursuit
    —The Architecture Puzzler

    Created by Dave Guadagni

     

    Architecture Puzzler #487

    What is the fundamental difference between a Cretin column and a Doric column?


     

    Question from Last Week:
    Architecture Puzzler #486

    Born in 1815, this great American landscape gardener published Cottage Residences in 1842. This widely read book was instrumental in helping to create American suburbs. He drowned in 1852 in an attempt to save fellow passengers after a shipwreck. Who was this man?  

    Answer to Puzzler #486


     

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    Corinthian columns at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
    Photo: Flickr user Cliff

     
     
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