Word: gothicisms
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...Pittsburgh, newshawks took him on a tour of the city. Passing over slums, mills, grimy houses, he fixed on the new Mellon Institute, which looks like the Parthenon, snorted: "That's what happens when men get rich and bring Greece to Pittsburgh." Of University of Pittsburgh's Gothic, skyscraping Cathedral of Learning: "The most stupendous 'Keep off the Grass' sign I've even seen...
Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter & cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's. A contractor friend one day passed his shop with a roll of drawings for a New England courthouse. Each one was labeled, "Alexander Harris, architect...
...Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...beard and the talent of Richard Michell Upjohn were both shorter than those of his illustrious father, but he had a burning pride in his firm, inherited his father's deep devotion to the Episcopal Church and the Gothic style. Buildings by Upjohn II include the Connecticut Capitol at Hartford, Boston's Central Congregational Church, St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn, Manhattan's Trinity School...
Leonardo's writing slowly changed from a spidery Gothic script in youth to a quick, blunt hand in middle...