THE
American Architect
VOL. CXX CONTENTS
No. 2371
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1921
House in Washington, D. C, of George Oakley Totten, Architect ------ 1 Architects Offices Solving High Cost of Office
Rent ---------8 By C. A. Ziegler
Washington Monument, Baltimore, Md. - 12 Drawing by O. R. Eggers
Editorial Comment ------ 13 Registration of Architects and Engineers - 14
By D. Everett Waid
American Institute of Specifications - - 28 Current News ------- 29 Review of Construction Field
31
Illustrations
Early Mediaeval Campanile, Ravenna, Italy—
Frontispiece
Building, 64 East SSth Street, New York Harry Allan Jacobs, Architect
House of S. H. P. Pell, Esq., Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Alfred C. Bossotn, Architect
Work of Tooker & Marsh, Architects St. Jude s Chapel, New York
Ludlow & Peabody, Architects
Department of Specifications
The Specification Writer - - - - 17
Department of Architectural Engineering
Third Annual Convention of the National
Lime Association ------ 20 Brick of Concrete with Texture of Clay - 24 Iron and Steel - -- -- --26
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