Word: hobson
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...Sullivan added St. Louis' 1890 Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since-destroyed Marshall Field store (17th). The University of Virginia (eleventh) and Monticello (twelfth) scored for the 18th century's Architect Thomas Jefferson...
...Winner Tedesco when backers failed to raise the $75,000-$100,000 required for its preservation. Status: in doubt, with demolition temporarily staved off by a Superior Court injunction. ¶ Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Jail, part of the massive Romanesque courthouse complex that famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson thought would be judged his finest building. ("If they honor me for the pygmy buildings I have already done, what will they say when Pittsburgh is finished?'') Its heavy, grey-pink granite masonry now soot-blackened, the jail is under attack by builders who would like...
...Gauge. In St. John, Kans., Cindy Hobson, 9, asked to name the year's four seasons on a test paper, wrote: "Duck, deer, quail and pheasant...
...newspaper this week politely allowed that it had erred. Just to make sure that its author will not be thus dematerialized again, Morrow has posted a $100,000 reward to anyone proving that Gardner's output is not all his own. Said Morrow's President Thayer Hobson: "It would be worth $100,000 and a lot more just to find someone who can write like Gardner...
...HOBSON JR. Franklin, Mass...