THE
Amerigan Architect
Vol. CXIX • CONTENTS No. 2368
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1921
Fifty-fourth Annual Convention, American
Institute of Architects - - - - 573 National Council of Architectural Regis
tration Boards - - - - - 580 Urban Congestion—A Study of Its Causes and
Suggestions for Its Eradication - - 581
By John Irwin Bright Doorway to Fairfax House, Alexandria, Va. 584 Drawing by O. R. Eggers Editorial Comment -
585 A Louis XV Paneled Room - - - - 586 Correspondence - - - - - - 595 Current News ------ 596 Federal Views Toward Building Trades - 598 Review of Construction Field - - - 600
/ Uustrations
Church of S. Stephen, Florence, Italy
Frontispiece - House of Mr. Andrew V. Stout, Redbank, N. J.
John Russell Pope, Architect Mendleson Memorial Chapel, Loudenville, N. Y.
Lewis Colt Albro, Architect
House of Mr. B. Austin Cheney, New Haven,
Conn.
Rossiter & Muller, Architects
Loft Building, Fourth Avenue and Nineteenth
Street, New York
Robert D. Kohn, Architect
Department of Architectural Engineering Refrigeration—Part Two -
587
By Charles L. Hubbard
Shoring and Underpinning the Central Ware
house, Chicago ------ 592 Fire-Resisting Paints and Varnishes - 594 By Henry A. Gardner
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