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By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:24am June 14 2021
Where on campus can you find this fancy porch pillar?
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George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 10:31am June 14 2021 | 
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The comment period has expired.1849 James Dwight Dana House 1849 Henry Austin. HLH24. Statistics Dept. Hillhouse Avenue 24. <> East facade on Hillhouse Ave. Italianate Villa for Professor of Geology James Dwight Dana, BA 1833. <> "Henry Austin was particularly enamored of the so-called candelabra columns and introduced them into the American architectural vocabulary." O'Gorman Henry Austin: In every variety of architectural style (Middletown, 2008) Similar columns support the porch at the Willis Bristol House 1845 Henry Austin. Wooster Square. Chapel St. 584. <> In my opinion it resembles an Indian lotus capital, here used upside down.