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Artist Wright, pale, stoop-shouldered, with greying hair and a clipped black mustache, is a nephew of the late great Art Collector & Railroad Tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington. His father, Archibald Davenport Wright, was an amateur painter, architect, and builder of the Southern Railroad. His brother is Willard Huntington Wright, better known as "S. S. Van Dine," author of the Philo Vance detective stories. Artist Wright loathes Writer Wright's stories. Maintaining the family independence, Father Wright never looked at anything that his sons produced...
Last week 25 Reynolds-system houses were being built in New York and New Jersey. Under the Reynolds system a prospective home builder outlines his ideas to an architect who sketches the plans. These are forwarded to Reynolds Corp. which draws up specifications for Reynolds fireproof framing, structural flooring, lathing, metal foil insulation, heating, airconditioning, plumbing-approximately 80%, of the mechanical and structural parts that go into a house. The rest -hardware, lighting fixtures, floor covering, wall covering, etc.-the builder buys for himself. All Reynolds equipment is sold through local dealers. The company claims that a Reynolds house, complete...
...great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President...
Last week when Architect Wright turned up in Pittsburgh, newshawks took him on a tour of the city. Passing over slums, mills, grimy houses, he fixed on the new Mellon Institute, which looks like the Parthenon, snorted: "That's what happens when men get rich and bring Greece to Pittsburgh." Of University of Pittsburgh's Gothic, skyscraping Cathedral of Learning: "The most stupendous 'Keep off the Grass' sign I've even seen...
...Judged Architect Wright: "It would be cheaper to abandon...