Word: architect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said Mr. Cummings, and spread during the Dark Ages, and afterwards, over Europe, is neither the Asiatic, Byzantine, nor Roman; but combines features of them all. It is a style which lies between the Roman and the Gothic. Until 1820 it was variously termed; but that year a French architect named it Romanesque...
...Cummings, who will lecture this evening, is President of the Boston Society of Architects, as well as an architect and scholar. Mr. Edward Robinson is the Curator of Classical Antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. R. S. Peabody is a member of the well-known firm of Peabody and Stearns, architects of Boston, and is also a member of the Board of Overseers. Professor Warren is at the head of the new Department of Architecture in this University. Thus it may be seen that all of the gentlemen who are to give these lectures are experts...
...committees of the Harvard Memorial Society, which have been at work since the beginning of the year, have accomplished a great deal and the society is now ready to place several memorials in the Yard. Mr. W. G. Brown, the architect of the society, has been engaged for some time in tracing the occupants of Massachusetts Hall since its erection, and he has prepared a long list of names. From these names, a number of the more distinguished will be selected and these will be inscribed upon tablets which it is proposed to place upon the side of the Hall...
...dimensions, 100 by 30 feet. The material will be of brick, and the coping of the entrance doors and the sills of windows will be of white marble. Above each window will be an ornamental flat brick arch, the keystone of white marble. The exterior plans were furnished by Architect Petitt of Brooklyn, N. Y.; those for the interior, which is closely patterned after Holworthy Hall at Harvard, were drawn in the office of Trustee Morison...
Architecture 2a Architect. Bldg...