Artist Birthday: William Thornton (1759-1828 US)
William Thornton was once called “First Architect” because his design for the US Capitol building was accepted by America’s first president. He is one of the architects responsible f ...
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This Day in History 11 March, 1895: Boston Public Library
On this date, the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library was opened to the public. Called by the city the “palace of the people”, the library was the first public building in the Beau ...
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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl
Stephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...
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Artist Birthday: Michael Graves
Michael Graves was a leading proponent of revival of ornament and classical forms in architecture that was a key to the Postmodernism movement in architecture and design. Out the window was the Intern ...
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It's All in the Details: Lemon Hill
I’m not sure if the Benjamin Latrobe-like klismos side chair in the foreground of the photograph below is original to Lemon Hill, but the curving door is. This interesting detail is on the secon ...
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Cure for Modernization Regret: Richard Upjohn
I get the sads whenever I walk a certain way to work, because I pass an old, late 1800s house now stuck between a sidewalk and entrance to a parking garage. It is all boarded up and covered over with ...
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Another American Original: Orson Fowler
I’m always eager to show you examples of true American artistic originality! One such form in architecture is the octagonal house. During a period in architecture that was completely dominated b ...
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A Texas Original: Nicholas Clayton
I absolutely love walking around any city I visit and trying to guess the dates of the buildings I encounter (can’t fight the art historian in me!). The revival of past styles was the hallmark o ...
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