Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once an architect, the author has worked on the piece intermittently, since 1916. Two chairs in the play once belonged to Robert Louis Stevenson, who was the husband of Mr. Strong's grandmother...
...Chicagoans, most excursionists to their World's Fair, recall with mingled emotions the turreted and crenellated brownstone "castle" abutting on lower Lake Shore Drive. The two acres of pleasaunce surrounding it confirm the impression of burlesque medievalism, of an architect strong in his delusion that a parapet here, a battlement there, comprise the ancient dignity of Kenilworth, Warwick, Elsinore, Tintagel...
Actually, there is no way in which an architect who designs country houses can sign his work with his style. Every patron has some notion of his own, every site is different. Yet Delano and Aldrich, now that they are to their branch of the profession what Cram and Ferguson or McKim, Mead and White are to theirs, are generally allowed a fairly free hand in their designs. They prefer to arrange, not the house alone, but the grounds and gardens which go with...
Christened. Paul Joseph William Ziluca, great grandson of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, famed liberator of Italy. His father: Captain Joseph N. Ziluca, war veteran, engineer & architect of Greenwich, Conn. His mother: Donna Josephine Ziluca, sister of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford. His godfather: Sir Thomas Lipton...
...made by the Calvert Associates from the sale of their books, etc., are applied to the promotion of religious liberty, more specifically to the dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there is Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, smart Catholic chaplain of New Haven, Conn.** The name of the organization is in loving memory of George Calvert, founder of Maryland Free State. Better than...