His office designed The Free Library of Philadelphia at Logan Square, The Philadelphia Art Museum (with <x-tad-bigger>C. Clark Zantzinger and Charles Borie)</x-tad-bigger>, The Ritz Carlton Hotel, The Widener Building, Widener Memorial Training School for Crippled Children, The Harry Widener Library at Harvard, Eisenlohr Hall and Irvine Auditorium at Penn, The Public Ledger Building, various other public building projects and private residences in and around Philadelphia, in New York and Newport, Rhode Island. "Grey Towers" alias the Castle at Arcadia University is also a Trumbauer design, as were several structures at the Willow Grove Amusement Park, including the Music Pavillion. He also designed the campus of Duke University.
Here are a few Horace Trumbauer links:
http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0863/T086391.asp
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?RecordId=A1415
http://libwww.library.phila.gov/75th/commercial.htm
http://www.archinform.net/arch/3152.htm?ID=8kQDahzJ0Gx7Mtpe
http://www.serianni.com/wh6.htm [Sorry, about half of the links to building sites are not up to date]
http://partyspace.com/
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/index_duke.htm
Elliot
On 11 Feb 2005, at 08:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The DP had a little more about the conversion of 4200 Pine St to condos, today. Here's what it said:Elliot M. Stern
Senior Vice President for Facilities and Real Estate Services Omar Blaik briefed the Facilities and Campus Planning Committee on westward campus developments -- namely, the conversion of 4200 Pine St. to condominiums and the revamping of 40th and Chestnut streets.
Most recently utilized as office space, the building at 4200 Pine St. will be converted into 30 condominiums, helping to advance the University's goal of increasing home-ownership in the area.
It seems to me that adding 30 families to the parcel in question ought to get the folks in the 4200 blocks of Pine and Osage fairly uncomfortable. Even though the property has parking lot, this means more traffic and more of what people seem to raise as objections every time someone other than the 800-lb gorilla wants to get zoning a zoning change that increases density.
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And, of course, I'm still wondering why the Spruce Hill Community Association, which zealously opposes every application to the Zoning Board submitted by one of us in the great unwashed masses, hasn't held rallies to oppose this change. Maybe the people who purport to represent the community know which side of the bread is buttered and who's doing the buttering.
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Ditto�for all the people who get emotional about the historic district nomination. The building in question is in the nomination as "significant." (Not that there's anything you could really call "historic" about it -- an architect nobody ever heard of <let's hear it for Horace Trumbauer!>; built in 1904 but modified in '47, '61, '62, and '71; paid for by Charles Eisenlohr whose claim to fame was that he was rich (a cigar maker?) for his daughter Marie. The style, in case anyone's interested, is French Renaissance -- which, of course, has nothing to do with the architectural "fabric" of the Victoriana the preservation zealots seem to want to protect.
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Al Krigman
(Left of Ivan Groznyj)
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PS: Don't you just love the doublespeak by Omar Blaik? "... increasing home-ownership in the area" would seem to connote buying rental properties and converting them back to owner-occupancy (an objective I consider economically unsound in most cases, but favor in principle if that's what market forces induce). But converting an institutional building that's got relatively light use -- and, even then, during the day when the neighborhood is otherwise fairly lightly-burdened -- to condos for 30 families, is something else entirely. Even if they are "small families," as reported previously (a diverse community like ours certainly ought to be able to welcome whatever the politically-correct term for "midgets" is today).
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