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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921 New Fifth Avenue Shop Fronts -
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Notes of a Rotch Scholar -
108
By Robert M. Blackall
A Review of American Architecture in the Exhibition of The Société des Artistes Français
109 A Difference of Opinion ----- 111 Old Stock Exchange, Philadelphia - - 116
Drawing by O. R. Eggers
Editorial Comment ------ 117 Beaux-Arts Institute of Design -
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Current News and Book Notes -
135 The American Specification Institute - - 138
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Parapet Detail, Church of S. Vitale, Ravenna,
Italy—F rontispiece French and Italian Details—Window in the
Palazzo Piccolomini, Siena House of Amos D. Carver, Esq., Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y.
Tooker & Marsh, Architects House at Elizabeth, N. J.
Designed and Owned by H. G. Morse, Architect House of G. S. Gaylord, Neenah, Wis. Childs & Smith, Architects
Department of Specifications
The Construction of a Specification—Part II 123
Department of Architectural Engineering
The Foundations of the Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit -
t / Novel Concrete Roofing Construction - - 132 Book Reviews.........................................................
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VOL. CXX CONTENTS
No. 2374
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921 New Fifth Avenue Shop Fronts -
105
Notes of a Rotch Scholar -
108
By Robert M. Blackall
A Review of American Architecture in the Exhibition of The Société des Artistes Français
109 A Difference of Opinion ----- 111 Old Stock Exchange, Philadelphia - - 116
Drawing by O. R. Eggers
Editorial Comment ------ 117 Beaux-Arts Institute of Design -
119
Current News and Book Notes -
135 The American Specification Institute - - 138
Illustrations
Parapet Detail, Church of S. Vitale, Ravenna,
Italy—F rontispiece French and Italian Details—Window in the
Palazzo Piccolomini, Siena House of Amos D. Carver, Esq., Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y.
Tooker & Marsh, Architects House at Elizabeth, N. J.
Designed and Owned by H. G. Morse, Architect House of G. S. Gaylord, Neenah, Wis. Childs & Smith, Architects
Department of Specifications
The Construction of a Specification—Part II 123
Department of Architectural Engineering
The Foundations of the Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit -
t / Novel Concrete Roofing Construction - - 132 Book Reviews.........................................................
Owned and Published by
X^T/- THE ARCHITECTURAL AND BUILDING PRESS, INC.
No. 243 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York E. J. ROSENCRANS
FREDERICK S. SLY
President and Treasurer
Vice-President
WILLIAM H. CROCKER, Editor
ERNEST McCULLOUGH, CE., Associate Editor
Board of Directors H. J. REDFIELD
„ „ _T „ E. J. ROSENCRANS H. M. SWETLAND G. E. SLY FREDERICK S. SLY WILLARD C. HOWE