Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Architect New York City...
...TIME bows to Architect Stevenson, who designed Gary Cooper's house...
...Government got a present: the largest marble building in the world. The building was the National Gallery of Art. The two creators of the building were not present at its formal opening : they were both dead - Donor Andrew W. Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, and Architect John Russell Pope. The building alone cost $15,000,000; the art masterpieces that went with it were valued at $50,000,000. The Gallery, which spread its great, windowless length 782 ft. along Constitution Avenue, diagonally opposite the Smithsonian Institution, had a massive rotunda patterned after the Pantheon in Rome...
...excluding the work of all artists who had not been dead for 20 years tabooed all moderns. As Luxembourg to its Louvre, Washington has plans for another museum, the Smithsonian Gallery of Art. The competition for the Gallery's design was won two years ago by famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen and associates. But, so far, the Smithsonian Gallery is still in the planning stage...
...When architect James W. McLaughlin in the afternoon session involved the court in a maze of contradictory figures and dates, Judge Williams was forced to recess the case until this morning...