Word: doric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were 47 participants, seven finalists after preliminary competitions. The final project called for a giant art centre with galleries, auditorium, offices, library, studios. Architect Johnson rendered a rectangular two-story building with a Doric portico, a serene, traditional design with much unadorned wall space. He wins a prize valued at $8,000-including residence and studio for three years at the American Academy in Rome, transportation funds, a yearly stipend...
...Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...
...Doric columns of the New York Times, in the tabloid New York Daily News and in many another U. S. daily, during the last fortnight of the campaign, was spread an eye-arresting advertisement. Half of it was an olla-podrida of press clippings, some of them from The Fellowship Forum. Specimens...
Died. Capt. Samuel Bolton, 56, of the White Star Steamship Doric; in Liverpool, England...
...Later Greek Doric Temples," Professor Conant Robinson Hall...