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Brown, the architect of the San Francisco City Hall and the vaguely nozzle-shaped Coit Tower -- apparently a coincidence, despite the fireman connections -- was the finest beaux-arts classicist and was, around the same time at work on a handsome Byzantinoid synagogue, also in San Francisco, Temple Emanu-El.
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Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist David Galenson 2011
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John Burd stands on the former site of Shamokin, Pennsylvania's Victoria Theatre with scavenged remnants of the demolished 1918 beaux-arts landmark.
Protecting the Heart of the Borough « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist David Galenson 2011
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Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist David Galenson 2011
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The beaux-arts building, which was completed more than a century ago, was bought for $54 million in 2005 by a partnership of developers led by Savanna.
Dose of Reality Helps to Sell Condos Craig Karmin 2011
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From its perch at the busiest intersection in town, the theater lent Shamokin a touch of beaux-arts grandeur.
Protecting the Heart of the Borough « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Dr. and Mrs. Paul Lee are selling a two-story, beaux-arts mansion built in 1910.
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Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist David Galenson 2011
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(I was told a dramatic story about employees of the New Orleans Museum of Art taking refuge with their families in the redoubtable beaux-arts pile and being rescued by the National Guard, but apparently little art was lost.)
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