Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notable additions to the various committees include Guy Lowell '92, Boston architect Walter S. Gifford '05, of New York, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Arthur W. Page and Company, John Hays Hammond, of Gloucester, Dwight F. Davis '00 assistant secretary of War. Dr. Morton Prince '75, of Boston, Henry S. Dennison '99, of Framingham, James J. Storrow '85, of Boston, George F. Baker Jr. '17, of New York, presidents K. C. M. Sills of Bowdoin, W. W. Comfort of Haverford, Lemuel H. Murlin of Boston University, William Allan Neilson of Smith, Nathan Matthews '75, former mayer...
...were situated on the shore of Lake Mahkeenac, Lenox. One of these, owned by Mrs. Carlos de Heredie, is of the Italian Renaissance style, constructed with colored brick and rarified ironwork. Another, that of Mrs. Albert R. Shattuck, was planned by Mrs. Edith Wharton, a well-known amateur landscape architect, Mr. Harris Fahnestock's estate in Lenox, the last to be observed, was studied chiefly because of its many gardens and fountains...
...Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly graceful and dignified structure. The city of San Francisco donated the site in Golden Gate Park. The building will...
...Brown, J. Q. A. Ward, Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Frank Duveneck have already been placed in the Library rotunda. The Whistler bust will be by Frederick MacMonnies, who knew Whistler intimately in student days at the Academic Cormon, Paris. Joseph Pennell, Whistler authority, and W. Francklyn Paris, architect, comprise the memorial committee...
...together. First of all, by the exercise of almost arbitrary power, but supported by popular sentiment, he taxed everybody and everything. By this means he built up an educational fund of almost $2,000,000. With this fund he gathered together efficient teachers and employed an American architect to design school buildings, putting an American in full charge of the construction program. This American is to spend up to $1,000,000 for the building of six modern schools to hold 4,500 pupils. When he finishes, Governor Cesar Lopez de Lara will have a modern school system...