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Thomas Taggart Memorial, Riverside Park, Indianapolis
Indianapolis

Thomas Taggart Memorial, Riverside Park, Indianapolis

A neoclassical flourish meant to cap the entrance to Indianapolis’ Riverside Park, the Thomas Taggart Memorial was built to honor the progressive three-term Mayor of Indianapolis who founded the city parks department and pushed for the creation of Riverside Park.
Hotel Sutherland, Chicago
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Hotel Sutherland, Chicago

Lot going on here: begun as the Cooper-Monatah Hotel, but requisitioned by the federal government for use as a military hospital before it ever opened. Operated for years as a segregationist white-only apartment hotel. Home to a legendary jazz venue that served integrated audiences.
Marmorkirken, Copenhagen
Copenhagen From the archive

Marmorkirken, Copenhagen

openhagen’s Marmorkirken: Scandinavia’s largest church dome, it took 145 years of start-stop construction to build it, and in that time basically every architect in Denmark floated a design proposal for the half-finished church.

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