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World War I Memorial Cenotaph

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Description: World War I Memorial Cenotaph

TitleWorld War I Memorial Cenotaph

Creator nameMeeks, Everett V.

Creator name (description)photo by Steven Sculco

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1927

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationYale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture--United States--20th centuryNeoclassicism (Architecture)--United StatesWar memorialsUniversities and colleges

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1. Everett Victor Meeks: Usable Past

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Description: Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

An undated photograph shows the slightly stodgy Everett Victor Meeks dressed in a dapper Edwardian-style three-piece suit on the deck of an ocean liner (fig. 8). A scion of a wealthy New York family and a 1901 graduate of Yale College, Meeks represented the old Yale, which catered to the sons of old East Coast families whose bespoke...

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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2023 by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Related print edition pages: pp.24-42

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31746&redirecttoanchor=106979

Chapter subject tags:Meeks, Everett V. (Everett Victor), 1879-1954Yale University. School of Art and ArchitectureArchitecture--Study and teaching--United States--20th centuryLe Corbusier, 1887-1965Architecture, Modern--20th centurySaarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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