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October 2010 Archives


Column: Bulfinch Awards slow architect's spin

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Pavilion in the Park, a winner of the Bulfinch Awards, is outside of Boston. Below, Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), painted at age 23 by Mather Brown; the Massachusetts State House; Grand Staircase of State House; its Doric......

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Coming up: Bulfinch twirling more gently these days

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, this dusk frontal shot of Pavilion in the Park, by Ivan Bereznicki, was selected as the iconic image of the inaugural Bulfinch Awards. Another version is below, with his citation, along with a representative photo for each......

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Column: Ralph Lauren beautifies Manhattan

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Polo Ralph Lauren's new flagship store, in New York, and the building it replaced (inset). Below, the Rhinelander Mansion; the modernist building torn down to make way for the new Ralph Lauren flagship; the McKim, Mead & White......

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Coming up: Bring polo to Providence

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By David Brussat    Email

Tomorrow's column is about the architecture of Polo Ralph Lauren, not how Providence managed to boot the opportunity to bring the sport of gentlemen - polo - into the shadow of the State House. Nor is about other aspects......

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Blast from the past: East Side, West Side

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: Statue of Roger Williams erected at Prospect Terrace in 1939. No pictoral record of Williams's appearance has come down to us. (Photo by Richard Benjamin); below, George Whitfield, British preacher who visited Rhode Island during an American swing......

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Blast from the past: Being nice to Beneficent House

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By David Brussat    Email

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Illustration: Round Top Church and Beneficent House (Courtesy of Beneficent House) Beneficent House, the apartment building run by the Beneficent Congregational Church on Weybosset Street, in Providence, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Sunday. In 1963, as......

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Column: When Round Top was revolutionary

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Providence, circa 1762, as seen looking west from College Hill across Weybosset Bridge to the West Side, now downtown. Drawn by Henry A. Barker in 1914; from "Civic and Architectural Development of Providence" (1957) by John Hutchins......

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Sermon on a well-turned ankle

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By David Brussat    Email

The new minister at Grace Church, in downtown Providence, soon after his installation, shows that he didn't spend time in Paris for nothing.......

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Coming up: 257th anniversary of Beneficent's split

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By David Brussat    Email

Beneficent Congregational Church celebrates the 200th anniversary of Round Top, a totally memorable meeting house whose ambitious dome and portico (added decades after the original church was built in 1810) makes some in the congregation feel a tad sheepish......

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How much is that artist in the window?

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By David Brussat    Email

On the way to lunch my friend Robert Cocroft needed a key copied so we popped into the new Clark the Locksmith in AS220's nearly complete renovation of the Merchants Block, on Washington Street. Clark had been moved all the......

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Glorious Gloria Dei

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By David Brussat    Email

A couple of weekends ago my son Billy (16 mos.) and I adventured to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, across the street from Providence Place mall and in back of the Masonic Temple (incomplete and stood empty for 75 years, now......

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Column: iBehold the iHouse in the iWoods

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, floor plan of proposed Steve Jobs house as spoofed by Snowjogg (click to enlarge); below, 1926 Jackling Mansion to be demolished by Jobs; Daniel Jackling; Steve Jobs; site plan for Jobs house; larger scale site plan for......

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Coming up: The iPhone of MacMansions?

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By David Brussat    Email

Your intrepid correspondent loves his MacMini and his iPod, and has nothing but respect for the great entrepreneur who, um, thought them up. Nevertheless, it's hard to get beyond the image of Steve Jobs pulling on his chin as......

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