Note 208 — CHAPTER 9 SECOND EMPIRE AND COGNATE MODES ELSEWHERE

For that matter the London Ritz Hotel, built in 1905-6 by Mewès & Davis, is capped with a high mansard, although the vocabulary of their façades is a discreet and academic, if overscaled, style Louis XVI and the construction—reputedly—the first example of the use of a steel skeleton of the American skyscraper type in England.