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...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location -wealthy, hoity-toity Park Avenue...
...interesting figure in that revolution is a dour-visaged man who watches it with gloomy satisfaction from a waterfront office in Manhattan. His name is William Francis Gibbs-known solemnly to his friends as William Francis. Lawyer, engineer and head of Gibbs & Cox, he is the top U.S. naval architect and marine engineer. His firm designed Paddy O'Laughlin's landing ships. It designed the Liberty ships. It has designed merchant ships, destroyers, tankers, cruisers. It designs means of building them swiftly and efficiently. It lays down their specifications and in many cases orders the materials...
This summer the Governor noticed that the visitors were taking over all the best rooms and trying to remodel the upstairs. In fact Senator Shipstead, no amateur architect himself, was planning to tear down the whole house and put up a new one, in which he had the master bedroom and Messrs. Stassen, Ball and friends had no rooms...