Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
Another modernizing job was near completion. Architect Winslow had found the two big sandstone pillars of the northwest Pennsylvania entrance to the White House grounds out of plumb. One had slipped two inches off the vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about three-quarters of an inch. The pillars dated back to the restoration of the White House after the British burned it in 1814, but they would not become relics; Winslow's workmen got them back in plumb after weeks of work...
...from Cleveland) with $11,500 borrowed from the Cleveland Trust Co. On it, Payne's company is building the houses on a cost-plus-10% basis. Estimated profit: $100 to $150 per house. Ludwig will get only $50 for selling the house and handling the paper work. The architect will get $10 a house. The Cleveland Trust Co. will give mortgages, at 4% interest, up to the full price of the house. Templeton is betting that the houses will cost less than $6,000 each. Buyers will pay $6,000. But they will get a refund if the houses...
...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...
...money-wise, 52-year-old bachelor, Loeb recently toured the Midwest to see Wright's houses for himself. He admits that the temperamental old architect's notions are sometimes impractical in small ways, but thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience. Says Loeb happily: "Wright is good and he knows he's good...