Goodhue by Lee Lawrie, holding the Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, Illinois

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869–April 23, 1924) was a renowned American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press. Download high resolution version (458x693, 53 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Lee Lawrie File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (458x693, 53 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Lee Lawrie File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Grill work from Education Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Lee Oscar Lawrie (October 16, 1877 - January 23, 1963) was one of Americas foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II. His work includes the details on the Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska and... is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ... “Font” redirects here. ... Cheltenham is an American typeface. ... Merrymount Press colophon (Against War, by Erasmus, printed 1908). ...

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut to Charles Wells Goodhue and his second wife, Helen (Eldredge) Grosvenor Goodhue. Due to financial constraints he was educated at home by his mother until, at age 11 years, he was sent to Russell's Collegiate and Military Institute. Finances prevented him from attending university, but he received an honorary degree from Trinity College in 1911. In lieu of formal training he moved to New York in 1884 to apprentice at the architectural firm of Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell (one of its principals, James Renwick, Jr., was the architect of Grace Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral, both in New York City). Goodhue's apprenticeship ended in 1891 when he won a design competition for St. Matthew's in Dallas. Pomfret is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. ... Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... James Renwick, Jr. ... James Renwick, Jr. ... Grace Church, at 802 Broadway in New York City, is a full service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. ... St. ...

Frieze above Goodhue's tomb, Church of the Intercession, New York City, New York

After completing his apprenticeship, Goodhue moved to Boston, where he was befriended by a group of young, artistic intellectuals involved in the founding of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston in 1897. This circle included Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard University and Ernest Fenollosa of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was also through this group that Goodhue met Ralph Adams Cram, who would be his business partner for almost 25 years. Cram and Goodhue were members of several societies, including the "Pewter Mugs" and the "Visionists". In 1892–1893 they published a quarterly art magazine called The Knight Errant. The multitalented Goodhue was also a student of book design and type design. In 1896, he created the Cheltenham typeface for use by a New York printer, Cheltenham Press. This typeface came to be used as the headline type for The New York Times. Image File history File links Goodhue_tomb_frieze_by_lee_lawrie. ... Image File history File links Goodhue_tomb_frieze_by_lee_lawrie. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... The brothers Charles Benjamin Norton, Frank Henry Norton, and Charles Eliot Norton, between 1853-1855. ... Title page of Cathay, poems by Ezra Pound, 1915, based on translations by Ernest Fenollosa. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... Ralph Adams Cram, circa 1890 Ralph Adams Cram, (December 16, 1863 - September 22, 1942), was an American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the gothic style. ... Book design refers to the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. ... Type design is the art of designing typefaces. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago

In 1891, Cram and Goodhue formed the architectural firm of Cram, Wentworth, and Goodhue, renamed Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson in 1898. The firm was a leader in neo-gothic architecture, with significant commissions from ecclesiastical, academic, and institutional clients. When Goodhue left to begin his own practice in 1914, Cram had already earned his dream Gothic commission at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Goodhue had successfully experimented with Byzantine style at the conspicuously-sited St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue in New York City (built on the new platform just above the Grand Central Terminal railyards). Goodhue had an eye for ornament and was not above introducing contemporary images into the carved reredos. In 1915, Goodhue re-interpreted a masterful Spanish Baroque complete with Churrigueresque detailing, for El Prado, in Balboa Park for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, for which he was the lead designer. Download high resolution version (589x904, 107 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Bertram Goodhue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (589x904, 107 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Bertram Goodhue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ralph Adams Cram, circa 1890 Ralph Adams Cram, (December 16, 1863 - September 22, 1942), was an American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the gothic style. ... Ralph Adams Cram, circa 1890 Ralph Adams Cram, (December 16, 1863 - September 22, 1942), was an American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the gothic style. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin San Sebastian Church in Manila, Philippines made entirely of steel. ... The Western facade, including the Rose Window Western entrance on Amsterdam Avenue The Cathedral of St. ... Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. ... Ralph Adams Cram had nothing to do with the design of St. ... The main concourse Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often unofficially called Grand Central Station) is a terminal rail station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue (42nd Street and Park Avenue) in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ... An altar and reredos from University Church, Dublin A reredos (also spelled raredos) is a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images. ... The most impressive display of Churrigueresque spatial decoration may be found in the west facade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (1738-49). ... Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. ... Desert garden Museum Botanic building Balboa Park is a 1,200 acres (4. ... The Panama-California Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California between January 1, 1915 and January 1, 1917. ...

State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska

Eventually, Goodhue’s architectural creations became freed of detail and more Romanesque, finally arriving at modern interpretations of gothic design. His work evidences his personal style, and his innovations paved the way for others to transition to modern architectural idioms. He is sometimes credited with the transition to art deco, as in his design for the Nebraska State Capitol building, by dint of which he may be classified as an American Modernist. Download high resolution version (427x634, 47 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Bertram Goodhue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (427x634, 47 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Bertram Goodhue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century. ... Asheville City Hall. ... The Nebraska State Capitol The Nebraska State Capitol (aka The Tower on the Plain), located in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the capitol and seat of government of the U.S. state of Nebraska. ... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ...

Yale College Wolf's Head Senior Society's 'New Hall', designed ca. 1924

Over the course of his career, Goodhue relied on frequent collaborations with several significant artists and artisans. These included sculptor Lee Lawrie and mosaicist and muralist Hildreth Meiere. Their work is central to the aesthetic power and social messages implicit in Goodhue's best work, creating evocative examples of American architecture parlante that suggest a future that never was. Lawrie worked with Cram and Goodhue for the Chapel at West Point, Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Bartholomew's, and the reredos at Church of St. Thomas, and then after Goodhue's independence in 1914, on the Nebraska State Capitol, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C., and Christ Church Cranbrook, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the latter after Goodhue's death. Lawrie, Meiere, and "thematic consultant" Hartley Burr Alexander reassembled, in a way, for Rockefeller Center under architect Raymond Hood, who had also worked in Goodhue's office. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 326 pixelsFull resolution (4155 × 1694 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 326 pixelsFull resolution (4155 × 1694 pixel, file size: 2. ... Grill work from Education Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Lee Oscar Lawrie (October 16, 1877 - January 23, 1963) was one of Americas foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II. His work includes the details on the Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska and... Hildreth Meiere (1892 New York City – 1961), American artist, architectural artist, muralist and mosaicist. ... The phrase architecture parlante (“speaking architecture”) refers to the concept of buildings that explain their own function or identity. ... The Cranbrook Educational Community, a National Historic Landmark, in the U.S. state of Michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. ... Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph. ... Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. ... Raymond M. Hood (March 29, 1881 - August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. ...

Goodhue was neurasthenic (plagued with fatigue and worry) and prone to extreme mood swings. His biographer Richard Oliver reports that he worried about money his whole life, even after achieving success. Goodhue died in New York City and, at his request, was buried at the building he considered his finest, the Church of the Intercession. There, Lawrie created for him a Gothic styled tomb, featuring Goodhue recumbent, crowned by a halo of carvings of some of his buildings. After Goodhue's death, many of his designs and projects were completed by a successor firm, Mayers Murray & Phillip. A significant archive of Goodhue's correspondence, architectural drawings, and professional papers is held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Neurasthenia was a term first coined by George Miller Beard in 1869 to describe a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety and pessimism. ... ... The Church of the Intercession is a congregation of the Episcopal Church in the United States. ... The architectural firm of Mayers Murray & Phillip was the successor of Goodhue Associates after Bertram Goodhues unexpected death in 1924. ... The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is part of Columbia Universitys library system. ... Alma Mater Columbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Buildings

Church of St Thomas, New York City, New York

• All Saints' Church, Ashmont, Massachusetts, 1892
• Public Library, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1902
• Grace Church Chapel, Chicago, Illinois, 1904
• The Chapel and the original campus of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1906
• Saint Thomas Church in New York City, 1906
• First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1909
• St. John's Episcopal Church, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1909
• Church of the Intercession, New York, New York, 1913
• St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City, 1913
• Hotel Washington, Colon, Panama, 1913
• Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, 1914
• El Prado Quadrangle, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 1915
• The Fine Arts Building and the California Building (now the "Museum of Man") in Balboa Park for the Panama-California Exposition Buildings, San Diego, California, 1915
• Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, commissioned 1918, built 1925–1928
• the town plan and several buildings for the "Million Dollar Ghost Town", Tyrone, New Mexico
• Grolier Club Library, New York City, 1917
• St. Vincent Ferrer, New York City, 1920
• Oahu College and Kamehameha School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1915–1920
• Naval Training Center, San Diego, California, 1921
• Marine Corp Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, 1921
• Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1924
• National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C., 1924
• Richard Riordan Central Library, Los Angeles, California, 1924
• Master Plan, the Physics Building, Dabney Hall, and other campus buildings for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, 1924
• Fraternity House of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers, Troy, New York, 1922–1924
• Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1924
• Yale University Wolf's Head Secret Society, New Haven, Connecticut, designed ca. 1924, built posthumously.
• Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, commissioned 1919, completed in 1931 by the successor firm of Mayers Murray & Phillip.

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References

• Oliver, Richard. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983 for the Architectural History Foundation. xii + 297 pp.; 146 illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN-13: 978-0262150248
• Whitaker, Charles Harris, ed. With text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Cram, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, and C. Howard Walker. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue: Architect and Master of Many Arts. New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc., 1996. ISBN-13: 978-1558351479

External links

• Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI
• Online history of Hotel Washington in Panama
• St. John's Episcopal Church, West Hartford, Connecticut
• Cheltenham typeface (in French)
• About the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C.