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Article: The Great Goth.(Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests - Medieval, Modernist, American, Ecumenical)(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- February 1, 2006
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RALPH ADAMS CRAM: AN ARCHITECT'S FOUR QUESTS--MEDIEVAL, MODERNIST, AMERICAN, ECUMENICAL
By Douglass Shand-Tucci. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $49.95
Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) was the Great Goth who designed some of the canonical US buildings of the 1890s and early decades of the twentieth century, including the campus of Rice University, the exquisite little chapel for the Crowley Fathers in Boston and most of the Anglican Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in New York (taken over and much altered after the death of G. F. Bodley, the competition winner, and much more marvellous than its common description as 'the largest ...
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Article: WHERE THE SPIRIT LIVES Ornate or simple, intimate or spacious, ...
The Boston Globe;
September 21, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... of the Arlington Street Church. Top right: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Dorchester Episcopal 1894 Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Ralph Adams Cram designed churches all over the Boston area, and All Saints is probably his finest work. The ...
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