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21 de mar. de 2024 · On the Armistice Medal, ’18. Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn. About. This exhibition explores female personifications of the nation state from antiquity through the Enlightenment to today. Through art, figures such as Athena, Roma, Columbia, and Britannia have become deeply embedded in Western cultural history.
Hace 3 días · Tribune Tower, Chicago. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Hood gained national recognition in 1922 when the Neo-Gothic design submitted by John Mead Howells and his associate, Hood, won first prize in the Chicago Tribune Building competition. The Tribune Building was one of ...
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17 de mar. de 2024 · -- In 1956 Mrs. William (Muriel) Howells, the daughter-in-law of John Mead Howells, contacted the City of Portsmouth with her concerns that the city was losing architecturally important buildings. She suggested that new zoning laws might protect colonial homes and neighborhoods from development.
21 de mar. de 2024 · -- In 1956 Mrs. William (Muriel) Howells, the daughter-in-law of John Mead Howells, contacted the City of Portsmouth with her concerns that the city was losing architecturally important buildings. She suggested that new zoning laws might protect colonial homes and neighborhoods from development.
8 de mar. de 2024 · Built in 1924 by architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, the design—with its black brick and elaborate, gold-colored masonry top—was considered neo-Gothic but with ornamentation that made it lean more toward the Art Deco. Here, it’s shown with the Empire State Building in the background.
21 de mar. de 2024 · The idea of turning the waterfront into a tourist Mecca actually dates to the 1930s. Architect John Mead Howells, a Kittery summer resident, conceived a plan to create an historic maritime village. With naval historian Stephen Decatur he hoped to preserve the buildings and rebuild a replica of Portsmouth in its heyday, complete with ...
Hace 14 horas · The winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The newspaper sponsored a pioneering attempt at Arctic aviation in 1929, an attempted round-trip to Europe across Greenland and Iceland in a Sikorsky amphibious aircraft. [20]