President Warren G Harding Marion Ohio Tomb's architect Hornbostel SIGNED photo-

Description: Check it out...Here's a classic & VERY UNCOMMON @ 10" wide by 8" tall VINTAGE sepia-toned wirephoto from the 1920s Era that features a GREAT silver gelatin image of the tomb of President Warren G. Harding in Marion, Ohio and the has been 100% HAND-SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by the tomb's architect Henry Hornbostel (Died in 1961)-How fun is that? Has info reading: "Trinity Court Studio Ralph W. Johnston" in red ink inset on the back-(See photos below for clarification)-Very cool item in good condition and ready to display! How many of these survived? This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required. President Warren G Harding Marion Ohio Tomb's architect Hornbostel SIGNED photo- Click images to enlarge Description Check it out...Here's a classic & VERY UNCOMMON @ 10" wide by 8" tall VINTAGE sepia-toned wirephoto from the 1920s Era that features a GREAT silver gelatin image of the tomb of President Warren G. Harding in Marion, Ohio and the has been 100% HAND-SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by the tomb's architect Henry Hornbostel (Died in 1961)-How fun is that? Has info reading: "Trinity Court Studio Ralph W. Johnston" in red ink inset on the back-(See photos below for clarification)-Very cool item in good condition and ready to display! How many of these survived? Here's some info on the architect & the tomb: The Harding Tomb is the burial location of the 29th President of the United States, Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding. It is located in Marion, Ohio. Also known as the Harding Memorial, it was the last of the elaborate presidential tombs. Shortly after Harding died in office, the Harding Memorial Association formed to raise money for a memorial site in honor of the late president. The association ultimately received $978,000 in donations from more than one million people across the country, as well as contributions from several European nations. Among the list of contributors from the United States were an estimated 200,000 school children, who donated pennies towards the memorial. The tomb is located in Marion, Ohio, at the southeast corner of Vernon Heights Boulevard and Delaware Avenue, just south of Marion Cemetery. Construction began in 1926 and finished in the early winter of 1927. It is designed in the style of a circular Greek temple with Doric order marble columns. The columns are built of Georgia white marble and are 28 feet high and 5 feet in diameter at the base. Designed by Henry Hornbostel, Eric Fisher Wood and Edward Mellon, the winners of a 1925 national design competition, the structure is 103 feet in diameter and 53 feet in height. The structure is unroofed (peribolus), in the style of some Greek temples in which the center (Hypaethros) was open to the sky and without a roof (medium autem sub diva est sine tecto). The open design honors the Hardings' wishes that they be buried outside, and is covered in ivy and other plantings. At their deaths, the bodies of the Hardings were entombed in the Marion Cemetery Receiving Vault. Once the Harding Memorial was completed in 1927, the bodies were reinterred in the Memorial's sarcophagus and it was sealed. Because Harding's reputation was damaged by personal controversies and presidential scandals, the Harding Memorial was not officially dedicated until 1931 when President Herbert Hoover presided. Henry Hornbostel (August 15, 1867 – December 13, 1961) was an American architect and educator. Hornbostel designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States. Twenty-two of his designs are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Oakland City Hall in Oakland, California and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum and University Club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The son of Edward Hornbostel, a stockbroker, and Johanna Cassebeer, Hornbostel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He trained in architecture at Columbia University (BA 1891) and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1893–97). Hornbostel distinguished himself as a superb draftsman and renderer, earning in Paris the name, “l’homme perspectif.” He was a partner, over his career, in the New York firms of Howell, Stokes & Hornbostel; Wood, Palmer & Hornbostel; Palmer & Hornbostel; and Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones. He also practiced independently from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office. Hornbostel first earned distinction for his work with the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in New York City, assisting engineers in the design of bridges. Between 1903 and 1917, he was responsible for the architecture of the Queensborough, Manhattan, Pelham Park, and Hell Gate bridges—spans for both automobiles and trains. His masterpiece, the Penn Central Hell Gate viaduct (1917), is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful railway bridges in the world. In 1903, Palmer & Hornbostel won a competition for the design of a new campus for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon University). Their Beaux-Arts scheme created an ordered, axial sequence of buildings despite the hilly topography. Hornbostel convinced Andrew Carnegie, his patron, to hire him as a professor in a new school of design at the university, allowing him the time and latitude to perfect his design over decades. The result is one of America's most distinctive classical campuses, on a par with those of Columbia University and the University of Virginia. He was active in the Pittsburgh area, and influenced many buildings there in the early 20th century. This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required. 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Price: 39.99 USD

Location: Noblesville, Indiana

End Time: 2024-09-19T15:16:17.000Z

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