Word: draftboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1859, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cass Gilbert designed the Capitols of Minnesota, West Virginia, Arkansas, the customs house in Manhattan, the public libraries in St. Louis and Detroit, the state universities of Minnesota and Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him near-sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must...
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