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| The two most beautiful buildings in Hamilton are the Cathedral, |
| designed by an eminent Scottish architect and the Opera House, |
| built by Bermudian Negroes, with labour and material they gave |
| without cost, and fashioned after the plans of a colonial car- |
| pentar and mason. The Cathedral is very good modern Gothic; |
| but the Opera House is like a bit of 16th century Rome, the |
| unpolished coral rock shining like travertine, grayish yellow and |
| endearingly soft to the eye. The contractor and mason had read |
| some books about Greek and Roman architecture, but he had |
| never been off his island, and he had felt that beauty tenderly and |
| delicately out with his head, and his heart, so that it is a pleasure |
| to look at it. |
| Rider (ed.), Rider's Bermuda, p.64. |
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