Word: hochschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum of the City of New York, one of the few civic museums in the country comparable to similar institutions in London and Vienna, last week opened a most important department: the Berthold Hochschild Gallery of New York Architecture. Dedicated to preserving every aspect of the history of New York City, the museum has acquired in the 13 years since its founding a vast collection of drawings, plans, models of important New York buildings, both extant and vanished. Through the children of the late Berthold Hochschild, one of the founders of American Metal Co., a room soon to be doubled...
...first temporary exhibition, the Hochschild gallery showed a full size cement model of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge...
...Lake Titicaca and using the water thus obtained to drive turbines which will whirl dynamos to supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head of South America's active Hochschild Engineering Co. Last week the company's Wall Street lawyers said that until Mr. Hochschild arrives in Manhattan it will not be known who is to buy Bolivia's bonds...