Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corinthian columns and paved with miles of linoleum, has been completed for the most part within the past four years, citizens are apt to think that New Washington is largely a New Deal development. It is nothing of the sort. New Washington was the pet scheme of Andrew W. Mellon. The new Department of the Interior building, into which Secretary Ickes moved last week, is the only one of the new Federal buildings designed under the New Deal. The favorite architect of Mr. Mellon's city planners was the late Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building), who died...
...powerful contender for succeeding contracts appeared at once in the person of suave, socialite John Russell Pope of Manhattan and Newport. From the drawing boards of conservative Architect Pope have already come the Scottish Rite Temple on 16th Street and the new Archives Building. Easily he persuaded elderly Mr. Mellon that he would be the ideal architect for the proposed Mellon Gallery (TIME...
Just as easily he persuaded Congressman Boylan and the other gentlemen of the Jefferson Memorial Commission that he would be an ideal architect for this too. Architect Pope's design for the $9,000,000 Mellon Gallery appeared in the newspapers last January. It showed a strong resemblance to the Pantheon at Rome, plus two long, windowless wings ending in Ionic porticos. Modernists winced, but most citizens felt that with his own money Mr. Mellon had the right to build any kind of building he chose. Few weeks later, plans for the Jefferson Memorial were disclosed, and the storm...
...honor the First Democrat, Architect Pope has designed, the Commission and President Roosevelt have approved, a building bigger, taller and very much rounder than the Lincoln Memorial. For this building Architect Pope has simply cut the wings off his Mellon Museum and presented the Pantheon at Rome complete except that the original Corinthian capitals are changed to Ionic...
Possibly the most decisive answer ever attained in the long history of Squire v. Farmer bickering was the result of their trip: a Mellon decision to close $2,500,000 Rolling Rock entirely, ship its horses elsewhere, sell its machinery, deprive Ligonier Valley of its $120,000 annual revenue. Said M. F. H. Mellon: "We have done everything we possibly could do. . . . Why, once we were selling eggs. The natives complained and we stopped. I have even gone so far as to ask my friends to purchase their toothbrushes and shotgun shells locally. There has been an unfriendly feeling...