Word: architects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs - In a recent issue of TIME (March 28) you mention a number of American presidents who had "smart sons" .... I think you overlooked President Garfield, father of a college president, a noted architect and a prominent attorney of Cleveland. JEAN PATON...
Able sons of the late onetime U. S. President James Abram Garfield are: 1) President Harry Augustus, 63, of Williams College; 2) Attorney James Rudolph, 61, of Cleveland, onetime (1907-09) U. S. Secretary of the Interior; 3) Attorney Irvin McDowell, 56, of Boston; 4) Architect Abram, 54, of Cleveland...
Prizes of $8,500, $3,600 and $2,400 were offered for a city plan which should make Canberra the world's finest seat of Government; and he who won $8,500 was a young scion of Maywood, Illinois, U. S. A., now famed Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin...
Sakkara near where ancient Memphis stood, and said they thought they had found the tomb of Architect Im-Hotep, the Christopher Wren of 5,000 years ago. Besides building King Zoser's famed Step Pyramid at Memphis and other monuments, Im-Hotep founded the sciences of law and medicine along the Nile. By the time of Publicist Tutankhamen (enthroned about 1358 B. C.) his legend was almost as old as Christianity now is to the modern world. In Ptolemaic times (Fourth to First Centuries, B. C.) he was deified...
Holden was given by an Englishwoman, and the plans were probably drawn in England, since the design antedates anything similar in America, and it is believed that no American architect could have conceived it at that early time. Unfortunately the building has been somewhat altered throughout its long and varied history, the windows have been lengthened, the entablature is missing on the sides, and the door at the west has been reduced from its original size. It remains, however, an unusually rare and beautiful example of the English Georgian...