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Building: Gamble House
Architect: Charles and Henry Greene Years: 1907-1908 Significant Features: Built for one of the millionaire partners of the soap firm Procter and Gamble. California Bungalow. Striking building for its intimacy and human scale. Sleeping Porches. Tiffany Lamps and stained glass panels. |
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Building: Goldman & Salatsch Store
Architect: Adolf Loos Years: 1910-1911 Significant Features: Directly across from the Imperial Palace. Includes Doric Columns. Windows lacks detail. Window boxes were later installed. |
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Building: Schroder House
Architect: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Years: 1923-1924 Significant Features: Rectangular, smooth shapes, and bright primary color elements. The building is formed from intersecting planar walls in such a way that some of them appear to hover in space. |
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Building: Robie House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Years: 1909 Significant Features: Prairie Style House. The projecting cantilevered roof eaves, continuous bands of art-glass windows, and the use of Roman brick emphasize the horizontal. The chimney mass contains four fireplaces. |
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Building: University of Virginia
Architect: Thomas Jefferson Years: 1817-1864 Significant Features: Modeled on the Roman Pantheon. The Rotunda originally housed the library. |
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Building: US Capital Building
Architect: Benjamin Latrobe Years: 1811-1864 Significant Features: The Capitol building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress |
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Building: Boston Public Library
Architect: McKim, Mead & White Years: 1882 Significant Features: The building included lavish decorations, a children's room (the first in the nation), and a central courtyard surrounded by an arcaded gallery in the manner of a Renaissance cloister. |
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Building: World Columbian Exposition
Architect: Burnham, Olmsted & others Years: 1893 Significant Features: aka The Chicago World's Fair. Prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. Featured nearly 200 new buildings of classical architecture, canals and lagoons |
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Building: Palace of Fine Arts
Architect: Barnard Maybeck Years: 1915 Significant Features: Inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. It was one of only three buildings from the exposition not to be demolished. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe. |