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From New Notes from a Commonplace Book. Kind of a long story that talks about architecture, religion, civilization and books.
The Rightness of Ralph Adams Cram by Terry Cowan
An excerpt:
A bit closer to home is his design for the Rice University campus, including Lovett Hall, and the Central Plant, disguised behind an Italianate loggia and a campanile* which hides the smokestack. His small All Saints Church in Peterborough, NH is said by some to be the most beautiful church in America. Indeed, some architectural historians argue that he should be much better known today, suggesting that his eclipse by Frank Lloyd Wright was undeserved.
* Italian bell tower
Rice University is in Houston, Texas.
Note about the image. The image Google served up was a bit fuzzy compared to the original on Facebook. Don't think I've ever run into that before.
I went to Rice. Years later, I was stationed in Italy. He captured the look. And as an aside, everybody knew that the campanile was "a bell tower," but nobody knew it was a smokestack.
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