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F/^. 7; Frederick Christian Sore?isen house, Ephraim, ca. 1850, reveals attractiveness of red plaster veneer scored in Flemish bond pattern. Courtesy of Wanda Bachman.
Cultural Veneer: Decorative Plastering in Utah's Sanpete Valley BY THOMAS CARTER
Architecture, having no pattern in nature is the most difficult and least regulated of all the fine arts. . . . Architecture is not the imitation of anything in nature or science, it is wholly artificial, hence improvements in it are more difficult, being new intellectual creations. William H. Ranlett The Architect (1847) B E F I T T I N G ITS SAINTLY PROVENANCE, Mormon nineteenth-century domestic architecture in the West has often been characterized as austere
