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Gothic Architecture

The gothic came over from England in three waves: Episcopalians, usually from the wealthiest sections of the community, used it first to express their defiant allegiance to the Church of England; then civic leaders employed it for public buildings around the time of the Civil War; and finally, in the early twentieth century, its last wave took the form of collegiate gothic, college buildings for upper-class Christian gentlemen, such as at Yale and Princeton. This image is of Branford College, Yale's most successful reproduction of the architecture of an Oxford college.

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