Word: reredoses
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But the growing magnificence of the money-changers has by no means smothered religion in the Wall Street district. Only last week a new orthodox Jewish synagog opened its doors there for the first time. The synagog is merely an office building room given by Benjamin E. Greenspan, a lawyer...
They have carved a reredos for a chapel in Long Island, screens for a Manhattan church; are in demand before their years of apprenticeship are over by sculptors, cabinet makers, architects in New York.
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere. And now the prelates laid on him their hands, the "Primus" hung upon his neck the pectoral cross, placed upon his finger a ring...
In Chicago was held last week the 38th annual exhibition of the Chicago 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...
The chapel is a curious old place; the organ, about 300 years old, was taken from the Spanish Armada. It has beautifully carved panels worthy a careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here...