Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date set of completition of the two-story Georgian structure with a garden in back and a bar on the second floor. The lease for the old offices above the Cafe Capriccio expires in February...
Benefactor Shriver's idea of how his early 19th century Georgian brick memorial should be decorated turned out to require the services of half a dozen artists and sculptors. On view last week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height...
...even in the shack in the background. An}' Southern country boy will easily recognize that the pole arising behind the house is for gourd martins. Enlightened Yankees, how ever, will call it a TV antenna, and will assume that the artist intended to imply that the typical Georgian lives in a shack, plants cotton, surrounds himself with barbed wire, votes for Talmadge, and buys a TV set before house paint...
...dedication ceremonies will begin at three p.m., with an academic procession from the Radcliffe yard across Brattle St. to the terrace entrance of the red brick Georgian graduate building...
...many respects these limitations will be great. It is no longer possible, according to the Overseers, to build Houses with vertical entries, private baths, or the luxuries of Georgian architecture. Instead the new structures must by modern with modified corridors and communal bathrooms...