Wednesday, July 4, 2007

B. Morgan Martin: 40 Favorite Buildings

1. Edge Park United Methodist Church Sanctuary in Ft. Worth
2. Saint Mary’s in San Francisco (“The Maytag”)
3. The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City
4. Notre Dame in Paris
5. Notre Dame in Montreal
6. St. Paul’s in London
7. The Cathedral in Orvietto, Italy
8. Riverside Church in New York City
9. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco
10. Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado
11. ATT Building in New York City (now owned by someone else)
12. Reunion Tower in Dallas
13. CNB Building in Fort Worth
14. Water Gardens in Fort Worth
15. Reichstag in Berlin
16. Gamble House in Pasadena, CA (Emmett Brown’s home exterior in “Back To the Future”)
17. Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (Sam sings in the Gay Men’s Chorus of LA – the first vocal group to record in the DCH)
18. Atomium at the Brussels’s World’s Fair in Belgium
19. Habitat ’67 in Montreal
20. Chitzen Itza in Mexico
21. Grand Central Station in New York City
22. Jester Dorm at UT Austin
23. The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis
24. Tail of the Pup in Hollywood
25. Graumman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood (before they got rid of the Ticket Booth)
26. Radio City Music Hall in New York City
27. The Generator Gallery at Hoover Dam in Nevada
28. Olympic Stadium in Montreal
29. Humble Building in Houston (fabulous elevators!)
30. 2308 Lake Austin Blvd. in Austin
31. King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England
32. Victor Emmanuel Monument in Rome (The Typewriter)
33. Prayer Tower in Tulsa Oklahoma (“Take me home, Jesus!!”. No wait, I got the money!! Whew!!”)
34. Falling Water home by F.L Wright
35. Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles
36. Eiffel Tower in Paris
37. East Berlin TV Tower in (drum roll) Berlin
38. El Valle de los Caídos (where you can dance on Franco’s grave – he is STILL dead) in Spain
39. Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California
40. OEOB in Washington

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