Word: gugler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea for the "Hall of Our History" came to Milwaukee-born Eric Gugler, an architect who has already built a dozen memorials, but says he has "never been able to find a history of the U.S. in chronological order and in visual form in any one place." The granite history he plans will cost a monumental $25 million, to be raised by public subscription. Gugler's blueprints for the monument, which will take ten years to build, call for a roofless, granite structure (247 feet wide, 418 feet long and 90 feet high), fitted inside with high relief sculptures...
...project's pressagents: "Comparable to the pyramids of Egypt in immensity and transcending other wonders-of-the-world in its intent. The 'Hall of Our History' will be . . . longer than two city blocks, wider than a football field and taller than a nine-story building." Added Gugler: "No one would look at the pyramids if they were 20 or 30 feet high . . . This shrine will endure for a millennium...