2) Skidmore College. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Skidmore College, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; chartered and opened 1911 as Skidmore School of Arts (for women) through a gift from Lucy Skidmore Scribner; chartered...

3) Bunshaft, Gordon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Owings and Merrill, Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been widely imitated. Among his...

4) Saratoga Springs. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Saratoga Springs, resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source...

5) Sears Tower. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sears Tower, Chicago, the world's second tallest building. Until the opening of the 1,483-ft (452-m) Petronas Towers (1997) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was the...

6) modern architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Western countries in the decade after World War I. It was based on the "rational" use of modern materials, the principles of functionalist planning, and the rejection...

7) New York, state, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...New York, state, United States, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New...

8) American architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...American architecture, the architecture produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. 1 Early HistoryAmerican architecture properly begins...