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Beaux-Arts architecture

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Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. [1]

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Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society.

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Académie royale d'architecture

The Académie Royale d'Architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture), founded in 1671, was a French learned society, which had a leading role in influencing architectural theory and education, not only in France, but throughout Europe and the Americas from the late 17th century to the mid-20th.

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Acroterion

An acroterion or acroterium or akroteria is an architectural ornament placed on a flat pedestal called the acroter or plinth, and mounted at the apex or corner of the pediment of a building in the classical style.

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Albert Kahn (architect)

Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was the foremost American industrial architect of his day.

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Alberta Legislature Building

The Alberta Legislature Building is located in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly and the Executive Council.

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Alejandro Bustillo

Alejandro Bustillo (18 March 1889 - 3 November 1982) was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia.

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Alejandro Christophersen

Alejandro Christophersen (1866–1946) was an Argentine architect and artist of Norwegian descent who designed many important buildings in the city of Buenos Aires, including the renowned Anchorena Palace.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but differed from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Architectural firm

An architectural firm, architecture firm or architectural practice is a business which offers architectural services in the profession of architecture.

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Architectural style

An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable.

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Architecture of the United States

The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.

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Architecture parlante

Architecture parlante (“speaking architecture”) is architecture that explains its own function or identity.

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Arthur Brown Jr.

Arthur Brown Jr. (1874–1957) was a prominent American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks.

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Arthur W. Rice

Arthur Wallace Rice, FAIA (July 8, 1869 – March 23, 1938) was a prominent architect in Boston during the early 20th Century as a major contributor to the Beaux-Arts architectural movement in America.

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Augustus

Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.

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Austin W. Lord

Austin Willard Lord FAIA (27 June 1860 – 19 January 1922) was an American architect and painter.

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École des Beaux-Arts

An École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) is one of a number of influential art schools in France.

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Baluster

A baluster—also called spindle or stair stick—is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, cut from a rectangular or square plank, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.

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Bancroft Hall

Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is the largest single dormitory in the world.

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Bank of Montreal

The Bank of Montreal, operating as BMO Financial Group, is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church.

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Basilica of Saint Mary (Minneapolis)

The Basilica of Saint Mary is a Roman Catholic minor basilica located on its own city block along Hennepin Avenue between 16th & 17th Streets in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Beaux-Arts Institute of Design

The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID) was an art and architectural school at 304 East 44th Street in Turtle Bay, Manhattan, in New York City.

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Brief (architecture)

An architectural brief is a statement of a client's requirements, which form the basis for appointing an architect.

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Buenos Aires House of Culture

The Buenos Aires House of Culture is an architectural landmark in the Montserrat section of the Argentine capital.

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C. P. H. Gilbert

Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert (August 29, 1861 in New York City – October 25, 1952), most often referred to as C. P. H. Gilbert, was an American architect of the late-19th and early-20th centuries best known for designing townhouses and mansions.

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Calvo Building

The Calvo Building is a historic building along Escolta corner Soda Streets, Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

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Canada Life Building

The Canada Life Building is a historic office building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies is a region in Western Canada, which may correspond to several different definitions, natural or political.

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Carlos Thays

Carlos Thays (August 20, 1849 – January 31, 1934) was a French-Argentine landscape architect, and a student of French landscape architect Édouard André.

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Carnegie library

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Carolands

Carolands Chateau is a; 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on in Hillsborough, California.

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Carrère and Hastings

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère (November 9, 1858 – March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929), was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture firms in the United States.

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Cartouche (design)

A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork.

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Cass Gilbert

Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was a prominent American architect.

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Centaur Theatre

The Centaur Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Central, Hong Kong

Central (also Central District) is the central business district of Hong Kong.

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Charles Follen McKim

Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century.

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Charles Klauder

Charles Zeller Klauder (February 9, 1872 – October 30, 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, the first educational skyscraper.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Union Station

Chicago Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, replacing an earlier station built in 1881.

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Cincinnati

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City Beautiful movement

The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia-Tusculum, Cincinnati

Columbia-Tusculum is the oldest neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and is located on the East Side of the city.

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Conservatoire national des arts et métiers

The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM; National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) is a doctoral degree-granting higher education establishment (or grand établissement) and Grande école in engineering, operated by the French government, dedicated to providing education and conducting research for the promotion of science and industry.

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Constant-Désiré Despradelle

Constant-Désiré Despradelle (May 20, 1862 – February 8, 1912) was a French-born architect and professor of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who, through his teaching, influenced a generation of Beaux-Arts style architects and helped to popularize this style throughout North America.

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Corbel

In architecture a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.

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Cornice

A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall.

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Court of Cassation (France)

The Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation) founded in 1804 is one of France's courts of last resort having jurisdiction over all matters triable in the judicial stream with scope of certifying questions of law and review in determining miscarriages of justice.

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Daniel Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham, (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer.

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Darling and Pearson

Darling and Pearson was an architectural firm based in Toronto from 1895 through 1937.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Diana (mythology)

Diana (Classical Latin) was the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature in Roman mythology, associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals.

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Dominion Public Building

The Dominion Public Building is a five-storey Beaux-Arts neoclassical office building built between 1926 and 1935 for the government of Canada at southeast corner of Front and Bay streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Dominion Square Building

The Dominion Square Building, also known as the Gazette Building, is a landmark office building in Downtown Montreal facing Dorchester Square on its northern side.

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Eclecticism

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.

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Edward Emmett Dougherty

Edward Emmett Dougherty, a.k.a. Edwin Dougherty (March 18, 1876 – November 11, 1943) was an architect in the southeastern United States.

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Edward Lippincott Tilton

Edward Lippincott Tilton (19 October 1861 – January 1933) was an American architect, with a practice in New York City, where he was born.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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El Hogar Filipino Building

El Hogar Filipino Building, also known simply as El Hogar, is an early skyscraper in Manila, Philippines.

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Electus D. Litchfield

Electus Darwin Litchfield, FAIA (1872–1952) was an American architect and town planner, practicing in New York City.

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Ellamae Ellis League

Ellamae Ellis League, (July 9, 1899 – March 4, 1991) was an American architect, the fourth woman registered architect in Georgia and "one of Georgia and the South's most prominent female architects." She practiced for over 50 years, 41 of them from her own firm.

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Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy

The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy was an Australian domestic science college for women, in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Emmanuel Louis Masqueray

Emmanuel Louis Masqueray (1861–1917) was a Franco-American preeminent figure in the history of American architecture, both as a gifted designer of landmark buildings and as an influential teacher of the profession of architecture dedicated to the principals of Beaux-Arts architecture.

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Enock Hill Turnock

Enock Hill Turnock (born 1857) was an American architect, originally from England.

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Ernest Cormier

Ernest Cormier, OC (December 5, 1885 – January 1, 1980) was a Canadian engineer and architect who spent much of his career in the Montreal area, erecting notable examples of Art Deco architecture, including his home in the Golden Square Mile, Cormier House.

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Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts style.

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Escolta Street

Escolta Street is a historic east-west street located in the old downtown district of Binondo in Manila, Philippines.

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Estrugamou Building

The Estrugamou Building is an architecturally significant residential building in the Retiro area of Buenos Aires.

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Exposition Universelle (1889)

The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889.

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Félix Duban

Jacques Félix Duban (14 October 1798, Paris – 8 October 1870, Bordeaux) was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.

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Festoon

A festoon (from French feston, Italian festone, from a Late Latin festo, originally a festal garland, Latin festum, feast) is a wreath or garland hanging from two points, and in architecture typically a carved ornament depicting conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Forrest Place

Forrest Place is a pedestrianised square located within the CBD of Perth, Western Australia.

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Francis Palmer Smith

Francis Palmer Smith (born 1886, Cincinnati – 1971) was an architect active in Atlanta and elsewhere in the Southeastern United States.

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French Academy in Rome

The French Academy in Rome (Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.

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French Gothic architecture

French Gothic architecture is a style of architecture prevalent in France from 1140 until about 1500.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870 when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War until 1940 when France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.

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Garland

A garland is a decorative wreath or cord (typically used at festive occasions) which can be hung round a person's neck or on inanimate objects like Christmas trees.

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General Post Office, Perth

The General Post Office is a heritage landmark building in Perth, Western Australia.

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Generation of '80

The Generation of '80 (Generación del '80) was the governing elite in Argentina from 1880 to 1916.

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Goddess

A goddess is a female deity.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Government Conference Centre

The Government Conference Centre (Centre de conférence du gouvernement) is a government building in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 2 Rideau Street.

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Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter and intercity railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Grand Palais

The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.

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Guastavino tile

Guastavino tile is the "Tile Arch System" patented in the United States in 1885 by Valencian (Spanish) architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908).

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Hamilton County Memorial Building

The Hamilton County Memorial Building, more commonly called Memorial Hall OTR, is located at Elm & Grant Streets, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Harry B. Mulliken

Harry B. Mulliken was an early twentieth-century American architect and developer who built many of his works in New York City, NY.

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Henri Labrouste

Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste (11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of architecture.

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Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was a prominent American architect who designed buildings in Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Hartford, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and other cities.

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Henry Hope Reed

Henry Hope Reed (11 July 1808 – 27 September 1854Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. The Biographical Society) was an American educator.

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Henry Hornbostel

Henry Hornbostel (August 15, 1867 – December 13, 1961) was an American architect.

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Henry Orth

Harold (Henry) William Orth (April 14, 1866 - March 5, 1946) was an American architect.

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Henry Sproatt

Henry Sproatt (June 14, 1866 – October 4, 1934) was a Canadian architect who was prominent during the early 20th century.

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Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame (Temple de la renommée du hockey) is an ice hockey museum located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Horace Trumbauer

Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy.

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Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century (Trecento) and lasted until the 17th century (Seicento), marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe.

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James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr.

James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr. (also known as J. E. R. Carpenter) (January 7, 1867 – June 11, 1932) was the leading architect of luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s.

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John Galen Howard

John Galen Howard (May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts – July 18, 1931 in San Francisco, California) was an American architect who began his career in New York before moving to San Francisco, California.

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John M. Lyle

John MacIntosh Lyle (1872–1945) was an Irish born Canadian architect, designer, urban planner, and teacher active in the late 19th century and into the first half of the 20th century.

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John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing of the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, DC.

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Joseph-Louis Duc

Joseph-Louis Duc (25 October 1802 – 22 January 1879) was a French architect.

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Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect.

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Julio Dormal

Julio Dormal (18461924) was a Belgian architect who, after studying in Paris, arrived in Argentina in 1868 where he became one of the first exponents of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture.

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Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, Jr. (September 29, 1872 - December 15, 1938) was a U.S. architect.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Léon Vaudoyer

Léon Vaudoyer (7 June 1803 – 9 February 1872) was a French architect.

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London and Lancashire Life Building, Montreal

The London and Lancashire Life Building was built in 1898 by the architect Edward Maxwell for the London and Lancashire Life Association of Scotland.

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".

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Louis-Jules André

Louis-Jules André (24 June 1819 – 30 January 1890) was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts.

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Low Memorial Library

The Low Memorial Library of Columbia University was built in 1895 by University President Seth Low as the University's central library.

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Lutyens' Delhi

Lutyens' Delhi is an area in New Delhi, India, named after the British architect Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), who was responsible for much of the architectural design and building when India was part of the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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Manitoba Legislative Building

The Manitoba Legislative Building (Palais législatif du Manitoba) is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba," ", at the Legislative Tour, Province of Manitoba.

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Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata is an Argentine city in the southeast part of Buenos Aires Province located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a United States-born architectural historian, author and critic.

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Mascaron (architecture)

In architecture, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric whose function was originally to frighten away evil spirits so that they would not enter the building.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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McKim, Mead & White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Michigan Central Station

Michigan Central Station (also known as Michigan Central Depot or MCS) is a historic former main intercity passenger rail depot in Detroit, Michigan.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, MBAM) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Mount Royal Chalet

Mount Royal Chalet (Chalet du Mont-Royal) is a building located near the summit of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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National Theatre, Melbourne

The National Theatre is a 783-seat Australian theatre and theatrical arts school located in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda, on the corner of Barkly and Carlisle Streets.

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Natividad Building

Natividad Building is a historic building along Escolta corner Tomas Pinpin, Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Public Library Main Branch

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library, originally called the Central Building and more widely known as the Main Branch or as the New York Public Library, is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system and a prominent historic landmark in Midtown Manhattan.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Otto Eugene Adams

Otto Eugene Adams (Sr.) (November 1, 1889 – January, 1968), the architect, was born in Baltimore, MD, on November 1, 1889, to a family with Baltimore and German ancestry.

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Over-the-Rhine

Over-the-Rhine is a neighborhood in Cincinnati.

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Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.

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Palace of the Argentine National Congress

The Palace of the Argentine National Congress (Palacio del Congreso Nacional Argentino, often referred locally as Palacio del Congreso) is a monumental building, seat of the Argentine National Congress, located in Buenos Aires at the western end of Avenida de Mayo (at the other end of which is the Casa Rosada).

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Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

The Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Palace of the Buenos Aires City Legislature) houses the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Palais de Justice, Paris

The Palais de Justice ('"Palace of Justice"), formerly the Palais de la Cité ("Palace of the City"), is located on the Boulevard du Palais in the Île de la Cité in central Paris, France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paul Philippe Cret

Paul Philippe Cret (October 24, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-born Philadelphia architect and industrial designer.

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Peak Tram

The Peak Tram is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island.

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Pedder Building

The Pedder Building, located at No.12 Pedder Street, in Central, Hong Kong, is a historic commercial building built in the Beaux-Arts style.

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Pediment

A pediment is an architectural element found particularly in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture, and its derivatives, consisting of a gable, usually of a triangular shape, placed above the horizontal structure of the entablature, typically supported by columns.

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Pilaster

The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.

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Polychrome

Polychrome is the "'practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or sculpture in multiple colors.

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Pomona (mythology)

Pomona (Pōmōna) was a goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Roman religion and myth.

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Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center

Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center is a convention center located in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.

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Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.

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Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.

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Quattrocento

The cultural and artistic events of Italy during the period 1400 to 1499 are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento from the Italian for the number 400, in turn from millequattrocento, which is Italian for the year 1400.

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Quezon

Quezon is a province of the Philippines in the Calabarzon region of Luzon island.

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Rafael Guastavino

Rafael Guastavino Moreno (Valencia, Spain, March 1, 1842 – Asheville, North Carolina, February 1, 1908) was a Spanish building engineer and builder.

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Raymond Hood

Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Art Deco style.

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Regina Building

Regina Building, previously known as Roxas Building, is a historic building located along Escolta Street in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Richard Morris Hunt

Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture.

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Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886), whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston (1872–1877), designated a National Historic Landmark.

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Robert W. Gibson

Robert W. Gibson, AIA, (1854 in England – 1927 in New York City) was an English-born American ecclesiastical architect active in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New York City and New York State.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", was an exuberantly decorative 18th-century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Ross and Macdonald

Ross and Macdonald was one of Canada's most notable architecture firms in the early 20th century.

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Royal Alexandra Theatre

The Royal Alexandra Theatre, commonly known as the Royal Alex, is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, located near King and Simcoe Streets.

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Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada (Collège militaire royal du Canada), commonly abbreviated as RMCC or RMC, is the military college of the Canadian Armed Forces, and is a degree-granting university training military officers.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below. In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.

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Sainte-Geneviève Library

Sainte-Geneviève Library (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève) is a public and university library in Paris, which inherited the collection of the Abbey of St Genevieve.

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San Francisco City Hall

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.

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San Miguel de Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucumán; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital of the Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza and the most important of the northern region. The Spanish Conquistador founded the city in 1565 in the course of an expedition from present-day Peru. Tucumán moved to its present site in 1685.

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Sariaya

, officially the, (name), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Saskatchewan Legislative Building

The Saskatchewan Legislative Building is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and houses the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

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Second Empire architecture

Second Empire is an architectural style, most popular in the latter half of the 19th century and early years of the 20th century.

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Second French Empire

The French Second Empire (Second Empire) was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.

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Severan dynasty

The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235.

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Stanford White

Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

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State Savings Bank Building

The State Savings Bank Building is a large bank building situated at 48 Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Style Louis XIV

The Style Louis XIV, also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign.

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Sun Life Building

The Sun Life Building (Édifice Sun Life) is a historic, 24-storey office building at 1155 Metcalfe Street on Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Sun Tower

The Sun Tower is a 17 storey Beaux-Arts building at 128 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.

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Teatro Colón

The Teatro Colón (Spanish: Columbus Theatre) is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris, "Our Lady of Paris") is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

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The Water Company Palace

The Palace of Flowing Waters (Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Theodore Wells Pietsch I

Theodore Wells Pietsch (October 2, 1869, Chicago, Illinois – January 1, 1930, Baltimore, Maryland) was a well-known American architect, best remembered for a large body of work in and around Baltimore, Maryland.

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Thomas Hastings (architect)

Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929) was an American architect, a partner in the firm of Carrère and Hastings (active 1885–1929).

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Tracy and Swartwout

Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York City architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.

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Tucumán Government Palace

The Tucumán Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of the Province of Tucumán.

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Union Station (Toronto)

Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Villa Medici

The Villa Medici is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy.

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War Memorial Opera House

The War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California is located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the westside /rear facade of the San Francisco City Hall.

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Washington Union Station

Washington Union Station is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters and the railroad's second-busiest station with annual ridership of just under 5 million.

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Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – January 24, 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.

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William A. Boring

William Alciphron Boring (September 9, 1859 – May 5, 1937) was an American architect noted for co-designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor.

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William Rutherford Mead

William Rutherford Mead (August 20, 1846 – June 19, 1928) was an American architect who was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm.

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William Sutherland Maxwell

William Sutherland Maxwell (November 14, 1874 – March, 1952) was a well-known Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith.

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William W. Bosworth

William Welles Bosworth (May 8, 1869 – June 3, 1966) was an American architect whose most famous designs include MIT's Cambridge campus, the AT&T Building in New York City, and the Theodore N. Vail mansion in Morristown, New Jersey (1916), now the Morristown Town Hall.

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Willis Polk

Willis Jefferson Polk (October 3, 1867 – September 10, 1924) was an American architect best known for his work in San Francisco, California.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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18th-century French art

18th-century French art was dominated by the Baroque, Rocaille and neoclassical movements.

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References

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