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The illumination here is such, indeed, that it must be one of the most impressive and lasting memories to be carried away by the visitor. The Tower of Jewels was designed by Thomas Hastings, of the firm Carrere and Hastings of New York. Sculpture The sculpture, like the mural paintings, deals in general with the winning of the Americas and the achievement of the canal project.
However, on closer examination it becomes very evident that the individuality of many men has found expression in the architectural structural forms, as well as in the minor and decorative forms. The main Tower of Jewels, by Carrère and Hastings, marking the center of the whole scheme, has a distinct character of its own.
If the tin church gets too awful, I shall run over to Delphine Carrere for a week to steady my nerves." What could I say? The abomination of desolation lay around about me. I might have prated to her of my needs, wrung her heart with the piteousness of my appeal. Cui bono? I can't whine to women or to men either, for the matter of that.
Judith said nothing, but bound up my wound, and, like the well-conducted person of the ballad, went on cutting bread-and-butter. Her smile, however, was provoking. "And all this time," I said, half an hour later, "you haven't told me where you are going." "Paris. To stay with Delphine Carrere." "I thought you said you wanted solitude." Judith, however, explained.
His determination was immediately taken, and he resolved to embark secretly for Europe, and on August 22nd, taking with him Berthier, Lannes, Murât, Andréossy, Marmont, Berthollet, and Monge, and escorted by some of his guides, he proceeded to a retired spot on the beach, where boats were awaiting them. They got into them and went on board the frigates, La Muiron and La Carrère.
On the 23d of August we embarked on board two frigates, the 'Muiron' and 'Carrere'. Our number was between four and five hundred. Such was our squadron, and such the formidable army with which Bonaparte had resolved, as he wrote to the divan of Cairo, "to annihilate all his enemies." This boasting might impose on those who did not see the real state of things; but what were we to think of it?
The Zone lies in the extreme eastern wing of the grounds, and the corresponding section to the west is devoted to the Pavilions of the Foreign Nations and of the States of the Union. Tower of Jewels The Illumination by Night The Tower of Jewels, designed by Carrere and Hastings of New York City, is the centralizing and dominating feature of the Exposition.
Carrere and Hastings, also New Yorkers. It was regarded as one of the most successful structures upon the grounds from an architect's point of view and it was appropriate that to New York men should have been intrusted the construction of the building in which exhibits of manufactures were displayed, in view of the pre-eminence of our State from a manufacturing and commercial standpoint.
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