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Description: A comparison by Augustus Pugin of the new 1834 Workhouse plan, with his romanticised ideal of "ye olde workhouse"
Title: Contrasted Residences for the Poor
Credit: Contrasts: or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day. Shewing the present decay of taste. Accompanied by appropriate text
Author: Augustus Pugin
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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