Day 1,244: conflagration

No one knows who set the blaze but the conflagration destroyed the building.

Artwork of the day 
Great Conflagration at Pittsburgh
Currier and Ives
Date: 1845
Style: Romanticism
Genre: marina

Word of the day 
conflagration: a raging fire

Quote of the day
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
― Andre Breton, The Magnetic Fields