Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your advertising announcement states: "The now isolated elements of the building world . . . are being brought together. The leader . . . will be the Architect." As it appears from within the profession, feeble indeed seem to be our own efforts toward an integration of our work with that of contractors, manufacturers, investors, etc., though very great the necessity. In spite of the fact that, as a professional body we are ultraconservative, self-effacing and individualistic at heart, I trust we shall emerge as the leaders...
...Architect Dwight James Baum of New York President Hoover presented the Better Homes gold medal for designing the best small house in 1931. At Fieldston, N. Y., one Francis Collins lives in the prize Baum house...
...three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow had him interred in the Episcopal pile. George Dewey, Henry Vaughan (Cathedral architect), Bishop Satterlee and his successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press. The delicate matter of arranging interments is in the hands of the Cathedral Executive Committee, who are empowered...
Dean Bratenahl lives near the Cathedral, spends most of his time there. His wife is the Cathedral's landscape architect. On the slope of Mount Saint Alban to the south of the Cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, open to the public. Here are Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, collected with the aid of George Grey Barnard. Nearby are box bushes, ancient and costly, brought from Virginia. Mrs. Bratenahl plans the planting, often gets donations from ladies who are pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross...
...teach school, she finds the velvet worn thin. She marries a farmer. When he dies, she struggles to give her son advantages that eventually make him ashamed of her. Become almost a clod herself, she is finally powerless to show him why he should be working in an architect's office for $35 a week instead of grubbing greedily in the stock market. Selina's only triumph comes, not from her son, but from an artist who, long before, had understood her assertion that cabbage-fields were beautiful. At the end of the picture she confides...