Another monumental building built during the Indiana Gas Boom, construction of the church building started in 1892, and was completed in 1893.
The recent tsunami in Japan showed how even monumental built capital (levees, sea walls and artificial barrier islands) can be overcome by just one severe environmental event.
In 1909 he advertised in the yearbook of the Brooklyn American Institute of Architects that "we build only monumental buildings".
"They build all those projects in there, and you end up with the huge monumental buildings and the Gap".
The palace was built on a 13 m high mudbrick platform, a feature of many monumental buildings from the Late Period in Egypt (as e.g. Deir el-Ballas).
Archaeologist Paul Bidwell, one of Britain's leading specialists in the study of Roman bathhouses, has described the Exeter Baths as "one of the first two monumental masonry buildings built in Britain" being completed circa AD60.
Between the Victory Gate and the Hall of Generals, he had the monumental Ludwigstrasse built, along which he constructed the state library, the Ludwigskirche, and the University of Munich.
Opposite the town hall is a monumental arch, built in honour of Louis XV; it opens onto the oblong Place de la Carrière (16th 18th century).
That formal Baroque-inspired layout is pierced by a monumental archway, built a century later, marking the entry north into the central city.
In "Stack of Sugar Sacks," the camera aims down at a monumental block built from row after row of thousands of stacked sacks.
The courthouse is a monumental structure built between 1862 and 1878 for more than $13 million paid by the city of New York.
