Architecture Commissioned By Women For Women

Architecture commissioned by the early dowagers of Grand Rapids:
St. Cecilia Music Center founded in 1883 by nine women for the musical education of women.

This building was built in 1894 in the Italian Renaissance style, and designed by Henry Ives Cobb. The details on the outside are nice, but not overly beautiful. Here's the quotation from the site about the design: Cobb was "to design a 'simple and diginified' temple of music."

I have been here for two weddings, and it is quite lovely inside. It has been classified a historical landmark building since 1971, before I was born.






St. Cecilia Music Center. 24 Ransom Avenue NE . Grand Rapids . MI 49503

Vienna Opera

There is a nice overall repetition of circles and elipses on the building.



I LOVE the scroll above the arch here.

Famous Dead White Guys

This building is right on Stephansplatz.
The wall of famous men from history. From left is Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Gutenberg, Galileo Galilei, and Christopher Columbus.

DETAILS: Look at how shiny the gold is...I wonder if it's real gold leaf.



I love the design above the old famous guys. The colors are great and I think it's an interesting pattern.