[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas

Really neat to see the Dome back in place. The patina on it would lead one to believe it had been stored someplace in case it might be re-installed.

Irving Gill is aptly credited with creating the basis for what would later be known as Streamline Modern. Way ahead of his time much like Frank Lloyd Wright.

Irving Gill....Architect. 1879-1936. A bachelor until the age of 58, Gill married Mrs. Marion Waugh Brashears on May 28, 1928, but the marriage was unsuccessful and Gill died at age 66 on October 7, 1936, alone in Carlsbad, California. Gill was in ill health for most of his life.

Gill discussed his '' ideal of simplicity'' in his 1916 essay, "The New Architecture of the West." For him, "the source of all architectural strength" emerged from the straight line, the arch, the cube, and the circle in combination.

Trained in the office of Louis Sullivan of Chicago, Gill spent most of his career in southern California where in the early 1900s he developed an original and radical simplification of Mission style architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Gill




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