Cass Gilbert cladding a steel frame became the model for decades. Modernists embraced his work: John Marin painted it several times; even Frank Lloyd Wright praised the lines of the building, though he decried the ornamentation. Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas at Austin, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, railroad stations (including the New Haven Union Station, 1920), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.. His reputation
Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette is a statue in Lafayette Square, by Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere. It was cast in 1890, and installed in April 1891. The inscription reads: <br> Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere<br> Marius Jean Antonin Mercie (Base, west side, on cannon:) <br> Maurice Denonvilliers, Foundeur Paris 1890 (Base, south side, on shield:) <br> TO<br> GENERAL<br> LA FAYETTE<br> AND HIS<br> COMPATRIOTS<br> 1777-1783<br> DERVILLE FARBRE (Base, north side, on cartouche:) <br> BY THE CONGRESS<br> IN COMMEMORATION<br> OF THE SERVICES<br> RENDERED BY<br> GENERAL LAFAYETTE<br> AND HIS COMPATRIOTS<br> DURING THE STRUGGLE<br> FOR THE<br> INDEPENDENCE <br>