a blog by Peter Leonard
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s 1922 design for the State Capitol of Nebraska is at once enormous, and quite detailed.
The architect of the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel, Goodhue in both buildings designed decorative carvings in a kind of streamlined, art moderne style. The figures seem to emerge smoothly from the stone:
The building’s imperial setting, on an enormous city block surrounded by broad lawns, ensures that it never competes with nearby structures visually.
