Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge fire station, to be erected on the plot of land between Memorial Hall and the Yard, will be of Colonial Georgian architecture, to conform with the Harvard buildings, according to information received yesterday. A preliminary appropriation has been made by the city council, and an architect will be appointed shortly, Mayor R. M. Russell '14 also stated. Work on the demolition of the Rogers Building, which now occupies this land, will begin as soon as plans are completed and construction of the station will be started during the present academic year...
...Federal Reserve Bank Building in Manhattan is particular about its tenants. Brokerage firms or other private financial companies are unwelcome. Two weeks ago the tenants, all on the fifth floor, consisted of two insurance agencies, an architect, a management company, and the offices of the national bank examiners and the New York State Bankers Association. To these was added last week National Credit Corp. which took space on the sixth floor occupied in part last year by New York Telephone Co. Driven rapidly forward by the Corporation's president, Mortimer Norton Buckner, things soon hummed on the Reserve building...
...Author. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge's ancestry is a rich mixture. Some of his forbears: Benjamin Franklin. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Artist John La Farge (grandfather), Architect Christopher Grant La Farge (father). Manhattan-born (1901), Author La Farge is called "Ink" by his intimates, has spent most of his life at Saunderstown, R. I. For schooling he naturally went to Groton, inevitably to Harvard. There he became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...present on Oak Ridge, an artesian well is to be drilled in the near future, a detailed survey of the site is being made under the direction of Mr. Weld Arnold, of the new School of Geographical Exploration at Harvard, and the designs of the buildings are in the architect's hands...