Word: stonework
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...great day of Portland cement did not set in until cheap structural steel became a commonplace. The reinforced concrete building then came in, as well as concrete roads, concrete canal locks and railroad abutments and many other forms of substitution for solid stonework. Without concrete no less than fabricated steel, the modern skyscraper could never have been built...
Emperor William of Germany, is having a unique collection of plaster casts prepared for the Germanic Museum, at Harvard. The casts will duplicate some of the finest German mediaeval stonework, such as the tracery in the choir of the Halberstadt Cathedral...
...some of the panels. Twenty-four memorial panels have already been set up, and the others will be put in as soon as they are decided upon. At each end of the room is a large fireplace. Over the eastern fireplace three national emblems have been carved in the stonework, and a bust of Washington has been placed on the mantel. Under the bust is the following motto...
Work on the lodge at the Massachusetts avenue entrance to the Yard is progressing rapidly. The stonework of the foundation is nearly completed and in a few days the framework of the lodge will be started. It is expected that the lodge and the entire fence, except the four unassigned sections, will be finished by Commencement...
...part of Gothic architecture or at least of the general type of architecture that goes under the general term, line the High street on both sides. In each instance, I believe, the college quadrangle is entered by an archway. Most of these archways are high and wide and the stonework is most elaborately carved. Facing the uniform quadrangle are the chapel, the hall, the library, and the students' rooms. There is usually a back quadrangle or garden. Some of these are very large and are very beautifully kept. The buildings themselves are of great size and of the most substantial...