Word: propylseum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Architectural Exhibition League. Many famed architects displayed designs: James Gamble Rogers, builder of the Harkness Memorial at Yale, showed a group for the AEtna Life Insurance Co., Hartford-an interesting study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects -Bertram G. Goodhue. He was represented by his design of St. Thomas's Church, Manhattan...
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