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...Modernized, the fortress is still a good example of the defense-in-depth theories of the famed military architect, Marquis Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban, who built...
...Plans for memorial buildings to house veterans' organizations blossomed everywhere. Georgia ex-servicemen hoped for $2,000,000 in state funds for an air-conditioned pink and white marble building. Cleveland veterans had ambitiously ordered architect's plans for a $7,000,000 structure; Detroit Legionnaires had raised $250,000. Many Legion posts dreamed hopefully of buildings with bowling alleys, cafeterias, auditoriums...
Washington's Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department...
When he built his home, he made a specific request-that the architect install, in a hidden recess in the fireplace (visible by removing a brass plate and turning on a hidden light), the five-cent boy's top he played with as a schoolboy in Rhode Island...
About four years ago, the late William H. Vaughan, a well known architect of Saratoga Springs, showed me the original plans of the United States Hotel. These were drawn by the firm of Vaughan & Stevens, the Vaughan of Vaughan & Stevens being William H. Vaughan's grandfather...