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From Britanica, "English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change."  Mentioned in a letter from Laura Watrous to Frances Seward, Nov. 17, 1855, "We have an octagonal tower of 3 high stories, beside the observatory on the top, with the buttresses at the base, which

might satisfy even Ruskin."

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From Britanica, "English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change."  Mentioned in a letter from Laura Watrous to Frances Seward, Nov. 17, 1855, "We have an octagonal tower of 3 high stories, beside the observatory on the top, with the buttresses at the base, which

might satisfy even Ruskin."

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