Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit has become a perennial shrine for bored and procrastinating First Level habitues who may refresh their tired imaginations by pondering the relative merits of the wood-engravings and relief-printing processes, or by reflecting on the mysteries of a print entitled Reincarnation du Pere...
...this atmosphere of delusion, there has been so much dead space and dead wood placed between those really capable of ideas that even they are forced to work less effectively than ever before. The scientist is valued in accordance with the amount of money that he spends, and his secrecy often protects him from the inspection which would force upon him the need to spend this money and develop his ideas to good advantage...
What makes Bridgeport's Walnut Wood one of the nation's treasures is that it remains the best example of the work of Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the most versatile of architects, who designed state capitols (Indiana, North Carolina) and institutions (the first New York University), but preferred to build houses for people who felt, as one contemporary critic put it, that "there is something wonderfully captivating in the idea of a battlemented castle." Destruction of his Walnut Wood would leave only one other of Davis' major Gothic mansions still standing and unaltered: Lyndhurst, the marble...
...Walnut Wood, a 17-room mansion built for Saddle Maker Henry K. Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates...
...Democratic candidates for mayor in the Nov. 5 election came out in favor of saving the manse. Socialist Mc Levy, who is running for a 13th term, sent his men out to tear down the greenhouse, but held off advertising for bids on demolition of the house. Walnut Wood seemed to have won a stay of execution-until after the election...