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...erected no important buildings until the late 19th century, a time of professional architects and gaudy edifices. Among the most prominent extravaganzas of this time were Matthews, Weld, and Grays in the Yard and Claverly and Randolph on the Gold Coast. The excesses of these combinations of Gothic and Jacobean design, if unpleasant to see, are reminiscent...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: The Architectural Harvard | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...Mysterious Book Bag" CRIMSON begins its presentation of Swiss's chilling serial The Circle of Seven. H. Lewiss is the pseudonym assistant professor of English Harvard who began this venture into fiction as a diversion from his studies of the Jacobean theater. Further episodes of The Circle of Seven will appear regularly in issues of the REVIEW and in inserts in the daily paper...

Author: By H. Lewiss, | Title: BIFF BUNDIE, UNIVERSITY COP in THE CIRCLE OF 7 | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: End of an Avenue | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

John Tucker Murray '99, professor of English emeritus, and noted authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, died last Friday in California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elizabethan Expert John Murray Dies | 10/17/1956 | See Source »

...Richard Daunton-Fear, arrived and began an energetic campaign to restore the parish churches. Last week, after four years of fundraising, St. George's Church, newly named a "Chapel of Unity," was rededicated. It is now a spruce Georgian structure with arched windows and a fine Jacobean altar rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pocahontas' Chapel | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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