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16 of the world Certainly Melgsaira can show nothing like it There is no stucco Nor are the houses built as is the cate in our streets in town of monotonous uniformity , but in some places each separate house differs in design from its neighbors , sometimes you may find three or four that are like , but seldom more than half a dozen. And probably those that are alike in general design will vary in the ornamentation of the doors + windows; thus indicating that they [?] are not run up to order as in Paris; or on speculation as in London but that they were built by the people who inhabit them This variety of facade where nothing is mean of course contributes very much to the effect of street architecture/ The mate rials too used for building in New York are better + a more varied than those used by ourselves In the best quarters a chocolate coloured stone is the most common. Brick which is always painted