Known as the White City, it launched the City Beautiful movement, giving the country a seemingly insatiable appetite for monumental courthouses, museums, libraries, and train stations that made every city look as if its roots went back to ancient Rome.
Designed by Calvin Pollard, a self-taught architect, the monument was to be a soaring, five-sided Gothic tower of granite, containing a library, a monumental rotunda, a university and, within the spire, a "National Observatory," according to "The City That Never Was" by Rebecca Read Shanor (Viking, 1988).
He spent his war profits on monumental building, on a library, and on art.
"We did not want this to be monumental like some other libraries are," Mrs. Bush said.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
Maybe this is because the same culture that produced a monumental civic architecture to humble Athens and Rome, art galleries, libraries, museums, railways and flushing lavatories also gave us child sexual slavery and foetid slums.
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.
Thomas's library was the major documentary source for the monumental A History of Printing in America, compiled over two years and published in two volumes in 1810 and still a major historical source.
It was precisely because of this frugal lifestyle that she was able to accomplish something monumental: She'd saved over $1 million, donating all of it to libraries and reading programs she'd come to love.
