A campaign led by a spinster headmistress, Miss Fowler-Tutt, who feared it might have a disastrous affect on the morals of the young soldiers also billeted in the building, succeeded first in having it draped, and then returned ignominiously to Warren's house, where it spent the next 15 years in the stables.
Katherine Gustafson of ArchitectureWeek thought the building "succeeds as a monumental edifice befitting its place in the urban frame of the National Mall" while Nathan Guttman of The Jewish Daily Forward described the headquarters as an "architectural gem".
So does this first mega-building succeed in Zuckerberg's ambition "to create the same sense of community and connection among our teams that we try to enable with our services across the world"?
Gosbee said the Coyotes did not need to sell out their building to succeed; they just needed to shift perceptions.
If nation-building cannot succeed in such a small and relatively homogeneous spot, it will have little chance in bigger and more complex places such as Afghanistan and Congo.
In 1879 this building was succeeded by the first Madison Square Garden, which itself was sumptuously rebuilt in 1890 and occupied the site until the New York Life building rose there in 1925.
However, one airport building that succeeds in its passenger friendliness is the 1974 hexagonal terminal at Berlin-Tegel International Airport, designed by Meinhard von Gerkan.
Chanting "Tax the rich, end the wars," the demonstrators were escorted from the building after succeeding in their primary goal: to disrupt business as usual.
But it does have swanky elevators decorated by the late Richard Artschwager, perhaps the most flamboyant gesture in a building that succeeds almost by its overall reticence.
Building work succeeded farm labour, and, for all but the Copper family, the old songs became forgotten relics of a bygone era.
Modem buildings have succeeded in meeting the aesthetic economical factors of the building industry, but failed in terms of the thermal performance.
