Word: architect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar spa, with its wares of fruit and candy, exists to the number of 10. Of hotels, opticians, telegraph offices, undertakers, and plumbers there are two each. There are five banks, a like number of garages and painters, a theatre, an architect, and 10 printers and engravers...
...Architect Hastings was born in Manhattan in 1860 of an old Dutch-English family, in America since 1634. He studied for a while at Columbia University and went to Paris in 1880, entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied architecture in the atelier of Jules André. In Paris he became imbued with the great French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with...
...Carrère & Hastings won the prize in the countrywide competition for the New York Public Library. In 1911 when the building was opened to the public John Carrère was killed in a street accident. In his will, Architect Hastings has left $250,000 to remodel the library's facade, with which he was never quite satisfied...
...packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors. He was al ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before but at the same...
Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrère & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis...