. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. ne maysurvey the surviving treesof the pleasant wooded dis-trict of Audubon, and lookover the Hudson and acrossto the Palisades. To theleft of this building standsanother, smaller, but madein the same image, lookinglike a ]M-omising on the fa<;ade ofthe parent edifice, above the mullioned windows on the second floor, are thesegreat names: Columbus, Cervantes, Lope de Vega,Camoens, Loyola, Velasquez. So this was the newmuseum of the Hispanic Society of America, aboutwhich I had heard and read, and a gl
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. ne maysurvey the surviving treesof the pleasant wooded dis-trict of Audubon, and lookover the Hudson and acrossto the Palisades. To theleft of this building standsanother, smaller, but madein the same image, lookinglike a ]M-omising on the fa<;ade ofthe parent edifice, above the mullioned windows on the second floor, are thesegreat names: Columbus, Cervantes, Lope de Vega,Camoens, Loyola, Velasquez. So this was the newmuseum of the Hispanic Society of America, aboutwhich I had heard and read, and a glance at thesmaller building to the left showed that it is the newhome of the American Numismatic Society. If youpass through the inner bronze doors of the HispanicSociety Museum, you will see a mahogany slabresting upon a terra cotta basis. Inlaid in themahogany is a silver plate bearing the inscription • This building is dedicated to the Memory of CollisPotter Huntington. Since architecture began countless monumentsof divers kinds have been raised to the memorv of. Courtesy o\ Hispanic .Society oj AmericaTHE TURKEY MARKET BY VIERGE XCIX Hispanic Society of America the unforgotlen dead; but these monuments seldomminister also to the intellectual interest and pleasureof the living. Of such is the gallery that GeneralHawkins has built at Providence and filled withtreasures to the memory of his wife; of such is thisfilial tribute on the heights of Manhattan, aSpanish and Portuguese hbrary and museum,serving as a link between the English and Spanish-speaking people. Spain has always been Mr. Archer M. Hunting-tons preoccupation, his serious hobby. Hisstudies and labors have culminated in the founda-tion of the Hispanic Society and the assemblagewithin its museum of his treasures, including raremanuscripts and a library of nearly 50,000 May, 1904, the deed of foundation was lots of land in Audubon Park were conveyed,and three hundred and fifty thousand do
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