Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of paintings eventually will be made available to the public. It is entirely unfounded that I have arranged to build an art gallery at Washington. I have engaged no architect, have caused no plans to be drawn and have made no commitments to build or endow a gallery at Washington, Pittsburgh or elsewhere...
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., treats of the work of H. H. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls here, and considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...
...tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once "in Wall Street," now lives in Tucson, Ariz. (because of a sinus infection). Grant. 25, Princeton...
...Some Georgian Churches of the Connecticut Countryside" is the subject of an illustrated public lecture to be given under the auspices of The Georgian Society of America by Frederic C. Palmer '25, of New London, Conn., architect and authority on Colonial buildings, at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Robinson Hall. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides from recent photographs by the speaker...
...longtime Chief Medical Examiner, lifted a sheet, quickly put it down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Staten Island. Notable survivors included...