Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson copped the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England, with a three and two-third lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years...
...Louis' grand old railroad station is spectacularly reborn, thanks to a successful federal tax-credit...
Lately, however, the core of St. Louis is being redeemed for real. The Old Post Office, a grand Second Empire concoction, has been converted to shops and offices. Louis Sullivan's 1891 Wainwright Building, a prototypical skyscraper, was saved and refurbished. Laclede's Landing, nine cobblestoned blocks of 19th century brick commercial buildings, is suddenly thick with stores and boites...
...lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...restoration is sensitive and, for the most part, scrupulous. Always there are quibbles: Why have the hoteliers covered the tile walls of a main hallway with cheesy green felt? In the 65-ft.-high barrel-vaulted Grand Hall, however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold leaf. Artisans worked 3,000 hours fixing up the large pictorial stained-glass window. The marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main...