Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
...Anthony Biddle's sister married the brother of Mary L. Duke; after a divorce she remarried Thomas Markoe Robertson, famed architect who has a snake tattooed...
...sailed on his yacht Ara, a fortnight ago, on his first cruise around the world, he left behind a yacht-building orgy. More and bigger yachts are now being designed and built for U. S. tycoons than ever before. Herewith, the list with name of tycoon, cost of yacht, architect, builder...
...Stevens had previously designed E. H. Button's Hussar, Mortimer L. Schiffs Dolphin, W. L. Mellon's Vaga-bondia, and Vincent Astor's Nourmahal (with Architect Ferris...
John H. Wells, Inc., designed yachts and commuting cruisers for F. Trubee Davison, L. Gordon Hammersley, Nelson Doubleday, Walter P. Chrysler, and a total of ten for the brothers Fisher of General Motors. Architect Wells designed his first yacht before he was graduated from Cornell...