The Prometheus Tower: Art Deco Monolith Rising From Manhattan's Electric Night renders the jazz-age skyline at its most operatic — a setback ziggurat crowned in floodlight
Cooney CSC — a documentary scene of the Holy Cross chaplain raising the Mass before Sherman's hard-marching westerners
when America dressed its origin myth in pageantry and World's Fair gilt
1843 — a Whig portrait engraving of the Albany lawyer and orator at mid-career in the House
Every course of masonry and curve of the lantern-room geometry is set down with the patience of men building against the sea
Electrical Building, World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Prometheus Tower: Art DecoElectrical Building, World's Columbian Exposition 1893 the White City's temple to Edison and Westinghouse, rendered in Beaux Arts grandeur for a fair that lit Chicago's lagoons with alternating current and announced that American industry had learned to ornament its own voltage. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the