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Article: Till we have built Jerusalem.( The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office)(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- February 1, 2008
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF RALPH ADAMS CRAM AND HIS OFFICE by ETHAN ANTHONY W. W. Norton, 176 pages, $60
RALPH ADAMS CRAM--the twentieth-century church builder, neomedieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight-errant--is ready to take on a whole new century.
In fact, if architect Ethan Anthony is to be believed, his spirit never quite left the building. Anthony begins The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office with his 1991 discovery that Cram's successor firm was still hanging on in a Boston basement a half century after the great man's death. As the revamped firm's principal, Anthony has combed Cram's old archives to produce ...