No Lathwork was found on the side walls, and in the reconstruction fresh plaster was applied directly to the bricks.
"The Fairfax County Courthouse"
Ross D. Netherton Ruby Waldeck
Falling away to a point of yellow, the lamp allowed the hall to assume a certain indefinite dignity of height and breadth and calm proportions; but when the flame rose Donnegan could see the broken balusters of the balustrade, the carpet, faded past any design and worn to rattiness, wall paper which had rotted or dried away and hung in crisp tatters here and there, and on the ceiling an irregular patch from which the plaster had fallen and exposed the Lathwork.
"Gunman's Reckoning"
Max Brand