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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE recurring classical style. Empire style, with its harmonious correspondence of windows and pilasters to the triglyphs and metopes of the ornamental frieze, is exhibited in the palace, No. 11, John Street.

A great fire in 1850 destroyed whole quarters of the town, and almost entirely effaced its medieval character. The work of rebuilding was begun, but money was wanting for the erection of

monumental structures. All that could be done was to save the most precious relics of medieval architecture from disappearing. At the head of the intelligent and industrious group of rebuilders there stood an architect named Charles Kremer (d. 1860); the task of restoring the Collegium Maius (now University Library, illustration 31), having fallen to his share, he carried it out most systematically. From the houses changed into ruins by the fire, he zealously collected such relics as had been preserved