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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (/ ˈɑldɹɪt͡ʃ/; November 6, 1841 – April 16, 1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt, William B. Allison, and John Coit Spooner.Lewis Gould, ''The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate'' (2009) pp 17–31 Because of his impact on national politics and central position on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, he was referred to by the press and public alike as the "general manager of the Nation", dominating tariff and monetary policy in the first decade of the 20th century. Born in Foster, Rhode Island, Aldrich served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he became a partner in a large wholesale grocery firm and won election to the Rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty
Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty (CAN) was a Boston, Massachusetts, United States, architectural firm. The firm's principals were leading modernism, modernists, from the 1950s to the 1970s, when International Modernism matured in America. CAN was a successor of Campbell & Aldrich, founded in 1945. Its principals were Walter E. Campbell, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, and Lawrence Frederick Nulty. In the late 1960s and in the 1970s, the partnership of Aldrich and Nulty designed some of New England's most recognizable and controversial modernist architecture. Building designs Some of the New England structures designed by CAN in a modernist and frequently brutalist architecture, brutalist idiom are Boston's 100 Federal Street 37-floor skyscraper, formerly known as the First National Bank Building (Boston), First National Bank Building and nicknamed the Pregnant Building; the Lederle Graduate Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Amherst; the Merrill Science Center at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
