英语词汇cathedral of commerce的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Cathedral of Commerce. In 1919 the Reverend Dr. S. Parker Cadman christened New York’s Gothic-style Woolworth Build- ing, with its silvery lacework, the Cathedral of Commerce. Later, visiting British statesman Arthur Balfour observed: “What shall I say of a city that builds the most beautiful cathedral in the world and calls it an office building.” Woolworth’s 50-story “Skyqueen,” modeled after London’s House of Parliament, was then the world’s tallest skyscraper, at 792 feet, but was propor- tioned so gracefully by architect Cass Gilbert that it is still re- garded as one of the most majestic buildings in the City of Towers. Frank Woolworth’s office inside is a replica of the Em- pire Room of Napoleon Bonaparte’s palace in Comiègne. But amid all the superlatives about the building, too myriad to cata- log here, perhaps the most amazing is that it was built without a mortgage and without a single dollar’s indebtedness. Frank Woolworth just shelled out $13.5 million in cold cash—unique in the history of great buildings in the United States or any- where else for that matter.

词汇	cathedral of commerce
词源	Cathedral of Commerce. In 1919 the Reverend Dr. S. Parker Cadman christened New York’s Gothic-style Woolworth Build- ing, with its silvery lacework, the Cathedral of Commerce. Later, visiting British statesman Arthur Balfour observed: “What shall I say of a city that builds the most beautiful cathedral in the world and calls it an office building.” Woolworth’s 50-story “Skyqueen,” modeled after London’s House of Parliament, was then the world’s tallest skyscraper, at 792 feet, but was propor- tioned so gracefully by architect Cass Gilbert that it is still re- garded as one of the most majestic buildings in the City of Towers. Frank Woolworth’s office inside is a replica of the Em- pire Room of Napoleon Bonaparte’s palace in Comiègne. But amid all the superlatives about the building, too myriad to cata- log here, perhaps the most amazing is that it was built without a mortgage and without a single dollar’s indebtedness. Frank Woolworth just shelled out $13.5 million in cold cash—unique in the history of great buildings in the United States or any- where else for that matter.
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