Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida, and by Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Bok of Philadelphia. Blue-coated Marines stood at attention. The President and his party motored three miles to Mountain Lake and then they walked slowly, almost reverently, into a "Sanctuary for Humans and Birds" that Edward Bok had conceived, that Architect Milton B. Medary had built, that Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead had set in an aurora of tropical colors...
...strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department has expanded from an obscure to almost the central department of U. S. government...
...most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young architect...
...most famed case: prosecution of Bon Vivant Harry K. Thaw for murdering Bon Vivant Architect Stanford White...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...