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Customs House in London for which they used a composition material of their own design, a form of terracotta, but within six years the badly-constructed building had been demolished.
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noted "Mr Rossi has bequeathed to his family nothing but his fame." He married twice and had eight children by each wife. He was interred in the burial ground of
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942:Graves, Algernon (1905).
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