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...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
Elected. Charles Adams Platt, famed Manhattan architect; to be President of the American Academy at Rome, succeeding the late William Rutherford Mead, last survivor of the original McKim, Mead & White...
...Anthony Biddle's sister married the brother of Mary L. Duke; after a divorce she remarried Thomas Markoe Robertson, famed architect who has a snake tattooed...
...Stevens had previously designed E. H. Button's Hussar, Mortimer L. Schiffs Dolphin, W. L. Mellon's Vaga-bondia, and Vincent Astor's Nourmahal (with Architect Ferris...
John H. Wells, Inc., designed yachts and commuting cruisers for F. Trubee Davison, L. Gordon Hammersley, Nelson Doubleday, Walter P. Chrysler, and a total of ten for the brothers Fisher of General Motors. Architect Wells designed his first yacht before he was graduated from Cornell...