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  EDWARD SOLON GOODHUE
Goodhue was a delegate to the International Congress on Inebriety at London in 1909.
Goodhue was known throughout America, Canada and England for his numerous articles upon scientific and medical subjects as well as for his poetry.
Goodhue was an intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and in 1921 and 1922 he compiled a book of tributes to Roosevelt written by many distinguished contributors in America, France and England.
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 Lee Lawrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was Lawrie's collaborations with Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Goodhue that brought him to the forefront of architectural sculptors in America.
After the breakup of the Cram, Goodhue firm in 1914, Lawrie continued to work with Goodhue until his premature death in 1924, then with his successors.
Lawrie's collaborations with Goodhue are arguably the most highly developed example of architectural sculpture in American architectural history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Lawrie   (924 words)

  
 goodhue team bertram grosvenor goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut on April 24, 1869.
Goodhue's architectural career began in 1884 with his apprenticeship at Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell of New York City.
Goodhue's artistic genius was allowed full creative freedom in the competition for the design of the third Nebraska State Capitol, his finest architectural achievement.
www.capitol.org /goodteam/goodhue.html   (190 words)

  
 NARA - NHPRC - Annotation
Designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York City and constructed on a pay-as-you-build basis between the years 1922 and 1932, the capitol building in Lincoln serves as an example of efforts to bring the innovative building technology of the early 20th century to the design of public buildings.
Bertram Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut in 1869 and began his architectural career at the age of 15, working in the New York office of Renwick, Aspinwall, and Russell.
By 1898 he was a partner in the firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson and became known for his designs of churches, houses, and public buildings.
www.archives.gov /nhprc/annotation/september-98/nebraska-capitol.html?template=print   (821 words)

  
 El Fureidis History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His most extra ordinary act was to hire Bertram Goodhue, who was noted primarily for his designs of medieval gothic churches.
Goodhue designed during his career (three in Santa Barbara are all still standing and occupied).
Goodhue, who is also believed to be responsible for certain inside detailing and the major part of the garden design.
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 Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Goodhue revitalized Spanish Colonial architecture by using the Spanish Churrigueresque style when creating plans in Balboa Park for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego.
In his later years, Bertram Goodhue gravitated toward simple classical design and is regarded as an American modernist.
Goodhue's architectural plans for the National Academy of Sciences Building (1921-1924) and his awardwinning design for the Nebraska State Capitol (1920-1922) are testimonials to his innovative design which incorporated a variety of elements.
www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/goodhue/goodhue.htm   (240 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bertram Mackennal
Bertram, Master (14th century), German painter, whose principal work is the altarpiece for the Petrikirche, Hamburg (1383, now in the Kunsthalle,...
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (1869-1924), American architect, born in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Goodhue joined the architectural firm of Cram and...
encarta.msn.com /Bertram_Mackennal.html   (97 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since Goodhue used cast concrete as a substitute for stone and the Piccirilli brothers used clay modeling and plaster casts instead of direct carving, the use of plastic, epoxy-resin, and fiberglass is in keeping with past practice.
Still Goodhue's facade is not in the same class with the west front of Chartres, or the southeast front of the Parthenon.
As many of the artifacts that architect Bertram Goodhue gave to the St. Francis Chapel have disappeared, it appearance in 1997 is leaner and less reverential than in 1915.
members.cox.net /ramero/CaliforniaBuilding.htm   (8017 words)

  
 Goodhue, Bertram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York, N.Y. Bertram Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut in 1869.
Over the course of his career, Goodhue designed numerous churches, houses and public buildings, gradually moving away from the dense Gothic style he adapted earlier in his career towards a lighter Romanesque idiom.
Towards the end of his career, Goodhue developed an personal contemporary style, but his search for an innovative style for his time was more successful in terms of generated ideas rather than through his buildings.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/G/Goodhue/Goodhue.htm   (130 words)

  
 Balboa Park, Administration Bldg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Goodhue declared he had "no intention of overlooking Gill's part of the work."(Letter Goodhue to Olmsted, June 9) He reiterated that he would be able "with Mr.
While Goodhue could have drawn the ornament, it is likely Winslow did the drawings as he did most of the drawings for relief inside the Exposition grounds.
Goodhue was upset by the profusion of windows and by the building's "restless" and "impertinent" overall appearance.
www.sandiegohistory.org /bpbuildings/admin.htm   (3041 words)

  
 Ted Marcus' Virtual Light Table: Balboa Park - Pictures and Travelogue
Goodhue's concept was to exploit San Diego's Spanish heritage with an idealized 17th century Spanish Colonial promenade.
Goodhue laid out the Exposition grounds along an east-west walk called El Prado, after Madrid's Paseo del Prado with its famous museum.
Goodhue had planned a building inspired by a Spanish Renaissance palace, but for reasons now lost he ended up with a much simplified design.
www.tedsimages.com /text/balbpark.htm   (1159 words)

  
 Washington Heights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is connected to Fort Lee, New Jersey via the George Washington Bridge.
One of the Heights now-vanished riverfront estates was, the home of artist John James Audubon, who is buried in the churchyard of the neighborhood's Church of the Intercession, a masterpiece by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.
At is a cluster of five underused Beaux Arts museum buildings of distinguished architecture.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Washington_Heights   (583 words)

  
 PART II - BERTRAM GOODHUE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He envisioned a campus planned as an integrated unit with a style of architecture that would blend with the California landscape.
After viewing the work of Bertram Goodhue at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, Hale decided he had found his man. He was particularly impressed with the true Spanish spirit and exoticism expressed in Goodhue’s Exposition buildings.
Goodhue wrote, "The central long court leading up to the Memorial Building..will give...with its portales, rows of cypresses, garden and central pool of water, something, though on a smaller scale, of the effect of the one leading to the Taj Mahal at Agra.
pr.caltech.edu /media/wyllie/excerpts/excerpt2.html   (183 words)

  
 THE SAN DIEGO ZOO AND ITS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bertram Goodhue thought twentieth-century architecture was uninspiring while thirteenth-century architecture was uplifting.
For his part, Goodhue wrote condescendingly of "the soft speech and unfailing courtesy of the half-Spanish, half-Indian peasantry." he had known in Mexico.(10.) Regal and clerical symbols on buildings added to their enchantment, for no one knew what the symbols meant.
Goodhue said the buildings were fakes and unsuitable for contemporary uses.
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 NYDA89-F26
Most of the drawings in the Goodhue collection are unlabeled and unda ted.
According to Oliver, this house, which Goodhue designed for himself, was never built.
In 1920 Goodhue enlarged a small house in Montecito.
www.columbia.edu /library/diap/marchtml/aviador/NYDA89-F26.html   (126 words)

  
 Architecture
The architecture of the historic district of NTC was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924).
Goodhue's style was romantic and modern for the 19th century, but he had a flair for medieval and Hispanic traditions.
After winninga competition to design a church in Dallas, he joined the firm of Cram, Wentworth and Goodhue in 1892, which later changed to Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson in 1898.
www.geocities.com /ntchistory/architecture/architecture.html   (764 words)

  
 Bertram Goodhue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bertram Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, and began his architectural career at the age of fifteen in the New York office of Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell.
By 1898 he had established the partnership, Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson.
Bartholomew’s Church, NY (1914-19), Los Angeles Public Library (1921-26), and the Nebraska State Capitol (1920-32) are among Goodhue’s landmark buildings.
www.lib.utexas.edu /apl/blakeschoice/goodhue.html   (126 words)

  
 Nebraska State Capitol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The building was designed by architect Bertram G. Goodhue as both a practical working environment for state government and an inspiring monument for Nebraskans.
Goodhue assembled a four-person team to decorate the building: Lee Lawrie, sculptor; Hildreth Meiere, tile and mosaic designer; Hartley B. Alexander, thematic consultant for inscription and symbolism; and Augustus V. Tack, mural artist.
Built of Indiana limestone, the capitol's base is a cross within a square with four interior courtyards.
info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/goodcap.htm   (377 words)

  
 Saint Bartholomew's Church - Religious Sites - Visitors Guide - New York
The building was designed by Bertram Goodhue and contains a portal (moved from an earlier building) by Stanford White.
Goodhue had planned a great central tower as the culmination of the building’s exterior but church fathers found the cost prohibitive and the design had to be abandoned.
After Goodhue’s death in 1924, his associates found his design for the dome of the California State Building at the San Diego Exposition and adapted it for the St. Bartholomew’s project.
www.newyorkmetro.com /pages/venues/131.htm   (559 words)

  
 CLSweb Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was already here when Bertram Goodhue produced his master plan for the Caltech campus.
This building was designed and built by Goodhue and Associates in 1930, and was completed in 1932.
Bertram Goodhue, who died in 1924, developed the master plan for the Caltech campus, although this plan has not been followed precisely.
library.caltech.edu /about/design.htm   (1278 words)

  
 Cheltenham
Designed in 1896 by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue for the Cheltenham Press of New York.
It is designed according some of legibility studies indicating that the eye identifies letters by scanning their tops.
Goodhue designed also a type designed with long ascenders and short descenders.
abc.planet-typography.com /classic/cheltenham.html   (70 words)

  
 CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSION
The architect of the church, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue is laid to rest in a wall vault
Goodhue was a member of the architectural firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson who also designed the chapel at West Point, Saint Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street and Saint Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue and 51st Street.
Saint Bartholomew’s was and still is known as the "quintessential" Goodhue church and was the favorite of the architect.
hhoc.org /hist/Church_of_the_Intercession.htm   (971 words)

  
 Great Hall, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Lee Lawrie, Hidreth Meiere & Albert Herter
Bertram Grosevenor Goodhue, Lee Lawrie, Hidreth Meiere and Albert Herter
The Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences was designed by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, working closely with sculptor Lee Lawrie, and artists Hidreth Meiere and Albert Herter.
As throughout the entire National Academy of Sciences building, decoration celebrates the history and significance of science, as it was known in 1924.
www7.nationalacademies.org /arts/NAS_Great_Hall.html   (366 words)

  
 Palladio Awards Winner Robert A.M. Stern Architects
The Taft campus was originally built with all of its buildings connected in one articulated structure, and with a common architectural vocabulary and materials.
In the early 1900s Bertram G. Goodhue designed a building for the school in an Arts and Crafts-Gothic style, which was later expanded by James Gamble Rogers in the high Collegiate Gothic style.
Since we were adding right on to a building by Rogers, we wanted to show that we could conceive of a building in the same manner, but with its own expression.” The architects’; research into the Gothic language was wide-ranging, but they also looked carefully at the Taft campus itself.
www.traditional-building.com /palladio/pw2004t4.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
ertram Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut in 1869.
ver the course of his career, Goodhue designed numerous churches, houses and public buildings, gradually moving away from the Gothic style he adapted earlier in his career towards a lighter Romanesque idiom.
Towards the end of his career, Goodhue developed a personal contemporary style, but his search for an innovative style for his time was more successful in terms of generated ideas rather than through his buildings.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/statue/1287/English/ArtDeco/nebraska/goodhue.htm   (134 words)

  
 Walt Lockley
Goodhue was seen as clinging to a departed set of values, and also difficult to
Goodhue died in New York in April 1924.
It's not that Goodhue was necessarily a master of spatial psychology, or that this
www.waltlockley.com /lalibrary/lalibrary.htm   (2685 words)

  
 St. Bartholomew's Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Built during and after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, this fashionable Episcopal parish church catered to the rich residents of the new Park Avenue North.
Goodhue's limestone and brick building is fronted by a Romanesque Revival entrance portal relocated from McKim Mead and White's earlier church on lower Madison Avenue.
In the end, the Supreme Court silently stood by its 1978 Grand Central Station decision, preventing the church from proceeding with its plans and turning the St. Bartholomew's case into a victory for landmark preservation interests in the city.
www.nyu.edu /classes/finearts/nyc/park/barts.html   (199 words)

  
 St. John's Grace Episcopal Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mayers, Murray and Philip of New York, who were to have been associated in the project with famed architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924).
Goodhue had been a partner in the prestigious firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson.
As evident in St. John's Grace, Goodhue's distinctive ecclesiastical style was Gothic in form but permeated with a modern spirit.
ah.bfn.org /a/colon/51/ext   (177 words)

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