From Project Gutenberg: American Architecture, 1892 ~ Monday, January 14, 2019

PG has just released the 1892 book, American Architecture, full of interesting illustrations of Mansions and public buildings.

The chapter "Glimpses of Western Architecture" does not get any farther west than Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. I'm not sure if this simply reflects an east-coast bias, or an aesthetic judgment--that the over-the-top homes of mining barons, such as were up on pre-1906 Nob Hill, were too tacky for a book about serious architecture...

This gripe aside--there's lots of interesting details in here.