THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
With Which Is Consolidated The Architectural Review
Volume cxxx AUGUST 5, 1926 - Number 2502
CONTENTS
Salamanca ...............................................................................................................................Frontispiece Catalan Arts and Crafts.........................................Ralph Adams Cram, F.A.I.A. . 89 Editorial Comment.............................................................................................................................. 101 The Architect and His Profits—Part I . . . . Charles Kyson................................103
Masonic Temple, Madison, Wis....................................James R. & Edui.J. Law .... 107 Transmission and Absorption of Sound by Wood
Stud Partitions.......................................................Paul E. Sabine..................................119
PLATES Capitol Theatre and Office Building, Boston,
Mass.................................................................................Blac\all, Clapp & Whittemore C. Howard Crane Kenneth Franzheim
George JJelson Meserve . . 7 Plates
Building Loan Building, 441 Lexington Avenue,
New York....................................................................Ludlow & Peabody
W. H. Wright.................. 3 Plates Embassy Hotel, St. Louis, Mo........................................Preston J. Bradshaw . ... 2 Plates
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