Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier and grill construction. The ateliers of Europe long ago paid respect to Architect Wright. Progressive U. S. architects long ago fell in with his rectilinear mode because it is easy to build. Hand-carved traditional ornament, always eschewed by Wright, is almost universally regarded now as an artificial extravagance in a machine age. Steel skeletons and stone sheathing are, as Wright predicted, expressed rather than concealed. Architects are proud to design power stations which look like power stations, skyscrapers which do not resemble distorted Classic Temples. Last...
...perhaps, although this by no means a comfortable thought, the Golden Ball was meant as an ornament...
...greystone tower with a suggestion of Gothic ornament, it is named for Forty-Niner William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became either rich or famous, many returned East. William Taylor took a cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco...
...first traces of lost Explorer Fawcett they found among the Anauqua Indians. One of the chief's children was wearing a small brass ornament, the nameplate of Fawcett's London outfitters. In the chief's house was an English metal trunk. Chief Aloique admitted having seen Fawcett and guided him; said he had been killed by the neighboring Suya Indians. When Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began...