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Williamson Building

Come for the Gothic revival architecture but stay for the Neoclassical portrait busts on the façade!

Posted bygsb03632August 31, 2021Posted inAnthracite country, architecture, photography, public art, World War ITags: allegory, Neoclassicism, Olyphant PA, portrait bustLeave a comment on Williamson Building

Carr-nival!

An astounding plot in Durham’s Maplewood Cemetery with three monumental axes.

Posted bygsb03632March 18, 2020August 17, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, Confederate, poetry, public art, U.S. Civil WarTags: abstraction, Age of Reconciliation, allegory, Alphonse Mucha, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Toplady, cherub, Clover Adams, Durham N.C., Edwin Howland Blashfield, Eugene Cowles, Flora Wulschner, Forgotten, G.F.C. Smillie, halo, Henry Adams, In the Cross of Christ I Glory, John Bowring, John Singer Sargent, Julian Shakespeare Carr, landscape architecture, Maplewood Cemetery, Mine, MIT, Nancy Graham Parrish Carr, Neoclassicism, Proverbs, Rock of Ages, Sarah Bernhardt, Silver Certificate, Simply to Thy Cross I Cling, Stanford White, United Confederate Veterans, United Methodist Church, Walker Memorial Mural3 Comments on Carr-nival!

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