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...House, Two years ago, Chairman Otto Kahn of the Opera Board, bought a plot on 57th Street, paid, it is said, $3,000,000 for it offered it to the Metropolitan for just what he paid. Last spring the site was seemingly approved: Architects Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban were appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John...
...Zimmermann recalled that the Germanic Museum here was designed by the same architect, Dr., German Bestelmeyer, who has built new wings at the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, which he described as a medieval church made over into a museum. Originally a church of Carthusian friars in the late fourteenth century, the museum has been enlarged until it comprises five large buildings, and has roughly 200 rooms, Dr. Zimmermann explained...
...which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others. Episcopalians want Washington Cathedral to be the Westminster Abbey of the United States...
Around littered newspaper offices the news was interesting trade talk, but not startling. Journalists gossiped vividly over the report that Mr. Watson is having his Mirror office painted a gentle grey; has commissioned Joseph Urban, artist, architect, designer of scenery for the Follies, to paint three murals there...
These plans, however, are not final. Mr. Urban has been variously designated "architect," "associate architect," "assistant architect." His name and work are coupled with Architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. Mr. Morris' plans are likely to differ from Mr. Urban's, since they were drawn up separately, are based on a different school of architecture, are said to preserve the old traditions of opera houses, including the old number of boxes in the horseshoe...