Word: warren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately after the library was destroyed, Mr. Whitney Warren joined with several other leaders of the world's culture in Europe in asserting that the building should eventually be restored to the Belgian people and should serve as a memorial to the Belgian and American war dead...
...Belgian people through Cardinal Mercier entrusted the design for the restoration of the library of Louvain to Messers Warren and Wetmore, Architects...
...Whitney Warren, who was awarded an honorary degree by the University in 1913, volunteered his services and personally undertook the task. He has reproduced in the new plans the type of Flemish art so well, that he has won the grateful commendation of the administrators and friends of the institution. Cardinal Mercier, on first seeing the proposed plans for the building, wrote a strong letter of congratulation to Mr. Warren, and the Faculty delightedly accepted the proposal...
...Here is a real opportunity for the scholastic world of this country to combine and offer this monument to their elder sister in distress. Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Amherst have come through splendidly. Let not Harvard fall down with her share". Thus Mr. Whitney Warren, architect of the new Memorial and speaker at the Union last night, characterized the importance of the University's Louvain Library fund drive which starts today...
...Warren is head of the architectural firm of Warren and Wetmore which designed the new memorial. He has been actively interested in the restoration of the Library since its old home, the historic Cloth Hall, was destroyed by the Germans on August 25, 1914. At that time he joined with several other leaders in Europe in asserting that the building should eventually be restored by the civilized nations of the world as a gesture of protest against such barbarism. He was present at the first meeting in France at which this sentiment was expressed, and volunteered his services at that...