Cyclorama Building, 125 Taneytown Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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sporthallen, fotocollectie nederlandse heidemaatschappij

Theater, Langdon, Kansas. Photogrpah by John Margolies

Work on five new battle simulations buildings in the

Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea: Opening en gebruik van het nieuwe Centrale Ziekenhuis te Hollandia

Navahradak, Mindoŭh. Наваградак, Міндоўг (1913)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Significance: One of a handful of high profile new visitor centers designed by famous architects as part of the larger Mission 66 initiative. Mission 66 was a NPS-wide effort to upgrade park visitor facilities and provide more professional interpretation for growing crowds of visitors. The program lasted from roughly 1956 to 1966, culminating at the 50th anniversary of NPS. Ever since the immediate post-Civil War years, private and government organizations struggled to simultaneously provide access to important battlefield and commemorative landscape at Gettysburg...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1001

Survey number: HABS PA-6709

Building/structure dates: 1962 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 2013 Demolished

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The Bauhaus was influenced by 19th and early-20th-century artistic directions such as the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as Art Nouveau and its many international incarnations, including the Jugendstil and Vienna Secession. In the Weimar Republic, a renewed liberal spirit allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts. The most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a movement whose origins lay as early as the 1880s. After World War Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism. The Bauhaus style, however, also known as the International Style, was marked by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design. Bauhaus is characterized by simplified forms, rationality, and functionality, and the idea that mass production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.

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1933 - 1970

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Neutra, Richard J, Architect

Neutra & Alexander, Architect

Longstreth, Thaddeus

Alexander, Robert

Neutra, Dion

Orndorff Construction Company

Cabot, John

Smith, David

Utz, Steve, delineator

Carnahan, Brian, delineator

McManus, Noelle, delineator

Chrabascz, Robin, delineator

Loughlin, Amanda, delineator

Davidson, Lisa P, project manager

Schara, Mark, project manager

Bauhaus

The most influential modernist art school of the 20th century

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