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Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

机译：罗伯特·莫里斯的愚蠢：一位美国创始人的建筑和财务失败

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Late in 1798, George Washington was on his way to Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail. He went voluntarily, not to atone for any misdeed of his own but to visit an inmate, Robert Morris. The disgraced merchant, once lauded as the financier of the American Revolution, was nine months into a three-and-a-half-year sentence in the capital city's debtors' prison. After years of sidestepping creditors with ever more elaborate schemes involving finance and self-imposed house arrest, Morris found himself imprisoned mere blocks from the most visible evidence of the misplaced attention, trust, and risk that had ruined him: "Morris's Folly," an architectural behemoth widely seen as both source and symbol of Morris's inability, or unwillingness, to limit his outsized financial and aesthetic excess.
机译：1798年末，乔治·华盛顿（George Washington）前往费城核桃街监狱（Walnut Street Jail）。他自愿去，不是为了弥补自己的不当行为，而是去探望犯人罗伯特·莫里斯（Robert Morris）。这位名不虚传的商人曾被誉为美国革命的金融家，但在首都债务人的监狱中被判处三年半徒刑九个月。多年以来，莫里斯通过涉及金融和自我软禁的更加精细的计划回避债权人，莫里斯发现自己被监禁的只是最明显的证据，证明了错位的注意力，信任和风险毁了他：“莫里斯的愚蠢”，建筑巨兽被广泛视为莫里斯无法或不愿限制其过大的财务和美学过剩的来源和标志。

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