THE
AMERICAN
ARCHITECT
With Which Is Consolidated The Architectural Review
Volume cxxixJUNE 20, 1926Number 2499
CONTENTS
Howard Van Doren Shaw, F. A. I. A..............................................................Frontispiece
Plan of the Modern Apartment House.........................................................................609 The Cloisters — The First Branch Museum of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art................................................................................617 Editorial Comment..........................................................................................................621
The Interior of Apartments.............................................................................................. 623 Steam Cleaning a Stone Building.................... H. H. Dutton .................... 629
Automatic Elevators for Apartment Houses..............................................................633
PLATES
Apartment Houses — City and Suburban.............................................................. 16 Plates
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WILLIAM H. CROCKER, Editor
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BETTS, Associate Editor
R. W. SEXTON, Associate Editor, Department of Interior Architecture E. K. BRUNNER, Editorial Assistant
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AMERICAN
ARCHITECT
With Which Is Consolidated The Architectural Review
Volume cxxixJUNE 20, 1926Number 2499
CONTENTS
Howard Van Doren Shaw, F. A. I. A..............................................................Frontispiece
Plan of the Modern Apartment House.........................................................................609 The Cloisters — The First Branch Museum of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art................................................................................617 Editorial Comment..........................................................................................................621
The Interior of Apartments.............................................................................................. 623 Steam Cleaning a Stone Building.................... H. H. Dutton .................... 629
Automatic Elevators for Apartment Houses..............................................................633
PLATES
Apartment Houses — City and Suburban.............................................................. 16 Plates
owned and published by
THE ARCHITECTURAL AND BUILDING PRESS, Inc.
E. J. ROSENCRANS, President and Treasurer FREDERICK S. SLY, Vice-President Publication, Editorial and Advertising Offices: 239 West 39TH Street, New York City
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM H. CROCKER, Editor
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BETTS, Associate Editor
R. W. SEXTON, Associate Editor, Department of Interior Architecture E. K. BRUNNER, Editorial Assistant
Board of Directors
H. J. REDFIELD E. J. ROSENCRANS PAGE A. ROBINSON G. E. SLY
FREDERICK S. SLY H. H. MINER
Western Office: First National Bank Building, Chicago, PAGE A. ROBINSON, Manager
London Office: DORLAND HOUSE, 14 Regent Street, S. W. I.
Yearly Subscription in the United States and Possessions, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, Six Dollars. Other Countries, Eight Dollars,
Payable in New York Funds. Single copies (Regular Issues) 50 cents.