My personal note:

My wife has recovered from having viral pneumonia after a successful long stent operation to fix the DVT clot in her whole left leg. She sits up and uses all the fancy brands of colored pencils, plus uses rubber brushes and other oddities like glass pen things to scratch veins when you are drawing leaves and using watercolors.

In other news, please remember that steam powered stone moulding machines were very popular in the 1800s. They used diamond wheels of various diameters very close together to make the fancy molded tops of the stone columns. Company names like Western & Co had stone you could order. They had steam powered stone polishing machines. There was even an underground stone lathe machine made to round out a rectangle block, which should remind you of the various diameter pillars in the Indian temples. They used to make terra cotta sculptures in a mold and coat them with stone like material, which I think is cheating. There was coade stone. Have you all forgotten about coquina stone in Saint Augustine Florida? Did you wonder why everyone likes to hide in the coquina stone hotels and similar places during a hurricane there? Because the buildings will STILL be standing afterwards! They used to have women make bricks by the millions in the 1800s, and pay them slave wages basically. All of the expositions in the 1800s were not visited by the very women who made stone bricks. They used to have "clinker bricks" that were burnt like marshmallows which they found cute enough to use in buildings.

After a couple of world wars, we ended up with "plop" architecture where people insisted on "stupid" instead of finials, ogees, boultines, architraves, and dentils. Do you know what a borcer was? It was a tool to bore holes in stone. But Google has no idea what a "borcer" is.

The reason it was easier to erect buildings in the 1800s was because of the fever pitch of companies making stone and bricks. We simply cannot fathom rapid-response ordering of stone and bricks when Seattle got rebuilt in 1889. Remember child labor and women brick-making slaves were KING back then. That's how they got the ornate buildings. However, other areas obviously must have done clean-up when you look at the old buildings in Saint Petersburg Russia. There was a lot of SHUT UP YOU DIDN'T SEE this arch we dug up.

Check out the channel AEWAR on Youtube which will probably repeat this same stuff.