Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 May 1933, p. 33

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Va. d is DuUy cU11tructLiIg the pieces that will hé shipped here and hoisted to the dome, The niaterial being used is white quartz. Construction of the temple, unique in its architectural and engineering design, progr esses as rapidly as funds are available for the: purpose.. It is expected. that sufficient money will be on hand to fin ish'the exterior or- namentat-ion of the dome by January l> 1934. World's. fair visitors, thps will, have an. opportunity to see a part of the structure in its compieted furin. The,,temple was designed by the late Louis Bourgeois, noted architect, If* has been called "the first new idea in architecture since the thir- teenth .century." It is. a nine-sided str*ucture,leach side having the form ofa circular arc, with a large door- way in the, center. Pylons, forty-five feet in heiglit stand. at the corners of the first story. Above the gallery, the clerestory and the dorne also are niesiebut wit h the ribs 'rising f rotn midway of the first story sides.,; The dome, on wbich the exterior ornamnentation work is to be finished first,. has an interior diameter.of sev- enty-five feet and a heîgit -of. 13e feet in the center, The Baàha'i movenient, or Bahiism, which is building the temple', is a reli gious movement %vhich was found- ed in Penisa ini 1844. It bas thousands of adherents throughout the world, and stresses the essential oneness of ail religions. N. T. Republican Club Bticks Kinne Candidacy Resolutions endorsing the candida- cy of Harry C. Kinnie of Wilmette. Republican candidate 0 udeo the Circuit court, were adopted re- cen tly1 at a meeting of the New Trier Township R epublican club. The meet- ing was. held in the Wilmette Village hall. More than one huldred personii. were present,. including: practicallv al the Republicali precinct comm-ittee- men. The resolution adopted by the' gathering called attention to Mr. Kinne's "long and honorable" career A NEW DELI GHT TO EVERY WOMAN PA TRONIZE O UR AD VER TIZERS 'Your telephone will help ,you. play. as welI as work", *Feel as thougùh you, need a littie recreation? Well, why flot! You çan keep yourself inforrred by tele- .. . . . . . . Lindleflavenue a Wilmette, Sunda) o'clock. The spE CoFinne True of wilmette. a telephone is somewhere .ay 21, at r will be Forest.avc near., . ........

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