Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

The best term would be indigenous architecture. You want to find local architecture; emulate what's already there.

It's almost a lost masterpiece of American architecture.

Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.