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Cass Gilbert ( Zanesville, Ohio November 29, 1859 - New York, New York May 17, 1934) attended MIT and worked for a time with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was the heir of Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. Gilbert is rated as a skyscraper pioneer, but the cladding of his buildings looked back to Neoclassicism rather than embracing modernity. His high reputation plunged among professionals during the age of Modernism, but ordinary people have always been uplifted by the reassuring sense of continuity that his rich and sober but slightly bland designs offer.His works include:
- Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul, 1895 - 1905, in High Renaissance style, was not a mere replica of the US Capitol. Local newspapers made a fuss when Gilbert sent to Georgia for marbleThis page is about the metamorphic rock. For the game with little glass spheres see marbles. Marble is metamorphosed limestone, composed of fairly pure calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, Ca C O). It is extensively used for sculpture, as an, but the result, in which a hemispherical dome caps a high drum not unlike Saint Peters over a range of buildings expressing the bicameral legislature, was so nobly handsome that West VirginiaWest Virginia is a state of the United States, known as The Mountain State. While many consider it part of the South, many in the state's Northern Panhandle feel a greater affinity for Pittsburgh, while those in the Eastern Panhandle feel a greater affini and ArkansasArkansas [akns] is a southern state in the southern United States. The 2000 census was 2,673,400. postal abbreviation is AR. It was admitted in 1836. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. History The early French explorers of the state gave it it contracted for Gilbert capitols too. Its brick dome is held in hoops of steel.
- 90 West Street, New York City90 West Street is a building in Lower Manhattan designed by architect Cass Gilbert for the West Street Improvement Corporation. When completed in 1907, the building's Gothic styling and ornamentation served to emphasize its 23-story height, and foreshadow, 1907
- Woolworth BuildingThe 60-story Woolworth Building is one of the oldest and one of the most famous skyscrapers in New York City. After more than ninety years it is still one of the fifty tallest buildings in the USA. Constructed in neo-Gothic style by architect Cass Gilbert, New York, New York, 1913, his GothicBesides its original meaning, "of or relating to the Goths, a Germanic tribe" and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, and aside from its Early Modern connotations of "rough, barbarous," the word Gothic has been used since the 18th century to skyscraper clad in terracotta panels, the tallest building in the world in its time.
- University of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the state of Minnesota, USA. There are four primary campuses: Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, and Morris. In addition, University services are available in Rochester campus, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Known as the Palace of the Fine Arts, for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri
- Plans for cladding the George Washington Bridge, New York, in classicizing masonry, 1926, fortunately not carried out
- New York Life Insurance Building, 1928.
- United States Supreme Court building, Washington, DC (illustrated, right), Gilbert's last major project. He died a year before it was completed. A vast Roman temple in the Corinthian order is penetrated by a cross range articulated with pilasters in very low relief. The central tablet in the richly sculpted frieze reads EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. The pediment sculptures Liberty attended by order and Authority (great lawgivers Moses, Confucius and Solon are on the West Portico) were executed by Herman A. MacNeil.
Gilbert's drawings and correspondence are preserved at the New-York Historical Society.
Gilbert, Cass
Gilbert, Cass
