Purcell & Elmslie
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Purcell & Elmslie. American architectural partnership of William Gray Purcell (1880–1965) and George Grant Elmslie (1871–1952), famous first for the various fine houses of the
Prairie School. Elmslie, originally from Scotland, worked for a while with Adler &
Sullivan and was responsible for the ornament on e.g. the Cage Building (1898–9) and the Carson Pirie Scott Store (1899–1904), both in Chicago, IL Purcell & Elmslie designed several small Banks for the Mid-West, e.g. First State Bank, Le Roy, MN (1914), which were similar to some of Sullivan's Banks. Their best work was in the field of private houses (e.g. Bradley House, Woods Hole, MA (1911), Owre House, Minneapolis (1911–12), Decker House, Holdridge, Lake Minnetonka, Minn. (1912–13), Purcell House, Minneapolis (1913), Backus House, Minneapolis (1915), and Purcell Bungalow, Rose Valley, PA (1918) ). Their Woodbury County Court House, Sioux City, IA (1915–17), was in a robust
stripped Classical style, with certain details reminiscent of
Wright's work in the brick façade.
Bibliography
W. Andrews (1955);
H. Brooks (1972);
Condit (1968);
Gebhard (1953, 1965a);
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, xix/1 (Mar. 1960), 62–8;
Placzek (ed.)(1982);
Spencer (ed.) (1979);
Jane Turner (1996)
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Mysterious megalithic monuments.(England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Appleseeds; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Stonehenge, an ancient megalithic monument in Wiltshire...hot" rocks. Megalithic monuments or megaliths come...the Stonehenge monument, medicine wheels...of the reasons megalithic monuments and other stone...
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The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2008; 482 words
; The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland. Chris Scarre...Paris in 2005, is concerned with the monuments of the Neolithic period, i.e...naturally pays much attention to the 'megalithic' monuments, i.e. those built...
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Architecture and sound: an acoustic analysis of megalithic monuments in prehistoric Britain.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...many Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments has had a substantial bearing upon...dimensions to our understanding of ancient monuments, they do not consider the possibility...understanding of the ways in which prehistoric monuments may have been used. To test this possibility...There may have been a ...
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Direct radiocarbon dating of megalithic paints from north-west Iberia.(Method)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...wall or a megalithic monument, pose serious and...from six Galician megalithic monuments (Figure 2). These...west Spain). These monuments are all passage graves...Unfortunately, these monuments have suffered from...interior of the stone monument. We collected only...attempts ...
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Vera Collum and the excavation of a `Roman' megalithic tomb.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Vera Collum excavated the megalithic tomb at Tresse in Brittany...for the reuse of Neolithic monuments in that area. Key-words...Brittany, mother goddess, monument re-use Devotees of the...Collum and her excavations in megalithic tombs. She is not a well...1935). The Tresse Iron Age ...
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Signs for megalithic remains in Miri, Limbang
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 1/3/2000; 276 words
; ...03-2000 Signs for megalithic remains in Miri, Limbang...Sun. - More than 20 megalithic remains and engraved...the home of historical monuments and artefects with the recent discovery of many megalithic remains believed to be...
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Megalithic Pochampad: the skeletal biology and archaeological context of an Iron Age site in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...B.C.), and with the "megalithic complex" that spread from...OMITTED] Megaliths are stone monuments visible on the landscape as...chamber. These hallmarks of the megalithic complex of the Indian Iron...peoples have continued erecting megalithic structures in association...
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An island decides: megalithic burial rites on Menorca.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...development of an outstanding megalithic or cyclopean architecture...richness of the prehistoric monuments of the Balearic Islands...enigmatic taulas, a unique monument type whose best examples...facades, rock-cut tombs, megalithic sanctuaries, defensive walls...Martinez et al. 2003). Other ...
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Subjective vision and the source of Irish megalithic art.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...notion that Irish and European megalithic art may be so derived has...treatment of western European megalithic art, including diverse areas...regional manifestation of megalithic art in greater detail. This...completeness of survival of the monuments and, therefore, the art...
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New megalithic art within the Neolithic passage grave of Barclodiad y Gawes, Anglesey, North Wales.(BRIEF REPORTS)
Magazine article from: Rock Art Research; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...authors discuss the recent megalithic rock art discovery at the...4500 cal. BP), and the megalithic art from this site is regarded...1970: 40). The other two monuments, Bryn Celli Ddu in Anglesey...the destroyed Calderstones monument in Liverpool possess similar...The rock art from the three ...
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megalithic monument
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
megalithic monument [Gr.,=large stone...prehistoric antiquity. These monuments are found in various parts...and public events, most megalithic monuments seem to have...date somewhat later. Megalithic monuments may be divided...
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Stonehenge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...England. Preeminent among megalithic monuments in the British Isles...to an older and larger monument at Avebury . The great...mapping of hundreds of megalithic sites, indicates that the megalithic ritual circles were built...
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Avebury
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...spectacular of the ancient megalithic monuments in the British Isles, far...Wiltshire. Enough of the monument has survived that a picture...south toward an associated monument about a mile away. There...1976. Thom, Alexander. Megalithic Sites in Britain. Oxford...
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Bronze Age Ireland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...Neolithic traits, such as the use of megalithic tombs , indicates the important role...period is scarce, but a new range of megalithic monuments appears which includes stone circles...An enigmatic and extremely common monument of this period is the so‐...
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Montelius, Gustav Oscar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...applied his theories and tested them in relation to megalithic monuments; his The Orient and Europe (1894) ï s a classic statement of the theory of megalithic origins in the eastern Mediterranean. BIBLIOGRAPHY...
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