Boston Letter on Art Clubs and Greek Parallels
Special correspondence praises Boston as Athens of America noting Harvard Wellesley and MIT with large libraries and famed artists. It highlights Copley Square Stuart Allston Hunt museum galleries and major clubs like Paint and Clay and Boston Art Club with a focus on public museums and notable works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
America
Atlantic Seaboard
Boston
Harvard University
Wellesley College
New England Conservatory of Music
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francis A. Walker
Lowell Institute
College of Oratory
Gore Hall
Emerson
Longfellow
Lowell
Holmes
Whittier
Everett
Choate
Webster
Phillips
Motley
Frescott
Channing
Freeman Clarke
Phillips Brooks
Gilbert Haven
Joseph Cook
Father Taylor
Fiske
Demosthenes
Homer
Socrates
Plato
Earth
Péricles
Genius
Phidias
Auchylus
Copley Square
Art Square
Essex Street
Gilbert Stuart
Allston
Hunt
Paint and Clay Club
Boston Art Club
New England
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum
Athenaeum
Teniers
Cuyp
Wouverman
Ruysdael
Kalf
Metza
Maas
van Huysum
Veresist
Netscher
San Donato
Holbein
Diaz
Francais
Corot
Couture
Titian
Tintoretto
Greuze
David
Douw
Millet
Rubens
Dore
Copley
Reynolds
Lely
Lawrence
Newton
Smitert
Stuart
Gray
Harvard College
Sumner
Dowse
Faneuil Hall
Washington
Peter Faneuil
Samuel Adams
Adams
Lincoln
Warren
Edward Everett
Andrew
Healy
Hayne
Liberty
Union
St. Botolph Club
Frank H. Fenno
A $2 000 House With Attractive Exterior and Smart Interior
The article extols a $2,000 house highlighting attractive exterior design and convenient interior layout. It notes savers using loan associations to fund such homes and suggests many towns host VIEW loan offices, enabling buyers to hire an architect and complete the project with modest expenditure.
A Country School House Plans Cost and Features
The National Building Plan association presents a one room brick school house costing about 1,600. It has a brick or stone foundation, 14 foot ceiling, a 25 by 86 foot room, an 8 by 8 foot hall, two wardrobes, and seats about 80 pupils. The design includes an oval mirror hat tree and a carved chest seating area, with oak and mahogany options.
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National Building Plan Association
Detroit
National Building’ Plan Association
Ant
Fortunes in Humor Then and Now
An analysis of financial success among American humorists led by Mark Twain and Bill Nye. It cites sales, royalties, and lecture income, noting Twain’s enormous reach and Nye’s $50 000 yearly earnings, with comparisons to Artemus Ward and others. The piece forecasts a future with fewer horse cars in U.S. cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croesus & Co
Aaron Wiley
New York Journal
Mark Twain
Aristophanes
Twain
Mississippi
King Arthur’s Court
Huckleberry Finn
Bill Nye
Natre
Synirate
Europe
Mr. Nye
Charles Dudley Varney
Frank Stockton
Hough
Comry
Eugene Field
Peer
Ben Butler
Lowell
Emma E. Forsyth
Samoa
New Guinea
Samuel J. Randall
Sammy
General Sherman
George Bancroft
John C. Fremont
Lower Broadway
New York
Chauncey M. Depew
Wall Street
Curious miscellany toasts famous figures and inventions
A collection of pithy quotes and notes on popular figures like Bismarck, Gladstone, Barnum, Sherman, and Fremont. It covers wealth, telephones, and life longevity, with brief items on cinnamon essence against typhoid, underwater telegraph cable specs, ozone epidemic theory, and early photography related to lightning. The piece ends noting President Harrison's vacation voyage on the Dispatch to the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forster
Berlin
Weisman
New York
Washington
Harrison
United States Steamship Dispatch
Potoriver
Chespeake Bay
Ashington
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