Word: gothically
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...that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
Architect Goodhue, with his partner, Ralph Adams Cram, revolutionized ecclesiastical architecture in the U. S. He gave his life to Gothic. The austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered...
That part of the Southwark Cathedral which is now the Harvard Memorial Chapel, was formerly known as St. John's Chapel, and was used as a vestry room. The chapel as portrayed by the photo forms an alcove flanked on either side by two huge gothic pillars. Between the pillars, and occupying the center of the background, is a large altar, backed by a beautifully decorated stained window. The altar is the gift of Mr. R. W. Hickox '72, who presented it in 1907 when the chapel was repaired and dedicated anew to the memory of John Harvard. The altar...
...express contempt for any knowledge which can possibly be of any social utility. Among this class (still a small one) the older kind of "Oxford culture" is therefore the fashion, and, in spite of the fact that America has the finest indigenous architecture in the world and that Gothic is the least suitable style of building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England's more famous colleges in American Universities. The assumption appears to be that culture is a kind of moss which grows spontaneously where a suitably medieval building offers...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...