Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly it must be in Gothic) while Yale is at the same time officially recommending this Quad plan...
...constantly in fear that the fad for Gothic, for which credit or crime is at least partially due to Messrs. Cram and Ferguson will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
Editor's Note: The "unmixed blessing of a single native tradition in architecture" is just as surprising information as is the proposed Gothic invasion. A cursory glance at the Grays quadrangle corrects the first statement; the second must give way to the indisputable Georgian triumphs that are soon to border the Charles...
...columns, that clever repairs are common, not criminal. He stressed the Goodhue integrity, moral and esthetic, which attended the project. Weighty also was other defense evidence. It seemed altogether likely that the report to the legislature would strongly favor the defendants. Architect Goodhue studied all styles. He mastered traditional Gothic only to depart from it in a magical Goodhue Gothic. Finally, so strongly did he feel the Gothic spirit of perpetual growth, he grew out of the Gothic style, out of all archaism and raised on the Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored...
...Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect Goodhue soon returned to Manhattan to superintend the firm's office there. A rift developed between the partners. The inventive Goodhue Gothic and the Cram Gothic - orthodox archaeological - could not go hand in hand. In 1914 Architect Goodhue began practice for himself. He then did his most noted work, including transitory palaces of Arabian Nights grandeur for the San Diego Exhibition, the Baltimore Cathedral, three of Manhattan's chief churches.* Over...