THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
With Which Is Consolidated The Architectural Review
VosiumeS cxxx APRIL 5, 1927 Number 2518
CONTENTS
Courtyarij§n Hi^Eoi.ical Museum, Hamburg......................................................Frontispiece The Utilisation of Reclaimed Materials. An
Illustrated Editorial by..................................Alfred C. Bossom, F.R.I.B.A. . 419 Traveling with a Fountain Pen—V .... Irving K. Pond, F.A.I.A. . . 423 Architecture as a Record of Civilization . F. M. Mann..................................431 A Group of Buildings of Moderate Cost.................................................................................467 Structural Plan and Purpose of a Room are the
Basis of Interior Architectural Design..........................................................................475 Passenger Station at Buffalo, N. Y., for the
New York Central Railroad...........................Alfred Fellheimer...............................481
Septic Tanks for Unsewered Houses .......................... W. A. Hardenbergh............................487
PLATES
Masonic Temple, St. Louis, Me..........................................................Eames & Young •
Albert B. Groves....................... 5 Plates ‘‘Hiddenhome,” Ithaca, N. Y., House of ........................................... George Young, Jr., and
Helen Bin\erd Young...............5 Plates The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla. ................................ Schultze & Weaver.....................5 Plates Plant for Bell & Howell Co., Chicago, III .................................................................... Pond & Pond
Martin fix Lloyd........................ 1 Plate
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