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NUMEROUS requests for catalogs of the various manufacturers listed in the Reference List of Business Literature in the advertising section of each issue of The American Architect, testify to the value of the service rendered to our subscribers in this manner. Each catalog is given a number for your convenience in requesting a copy of any catalog listed. While any of these catalogs may be obtained by addressing the manufacturers direct, where a number of booklets are required considerable letter writing may be avoided by forwarding a list of catalogs desired to the Service Department of The American Architect. To facilitate the selection of catalogs, they are grouped by materials in accordance with the standard construction classification of The American Institute of Architects. This arrangement is an added convenience to architects using this system for the filing of producers literature, since the list and the files can be readily compared to make sure that the files contain the most recent publications of each material group. The Reference List of Business Literature is constantly changing and brings to the attention of our subscribers the most recent literature of the producers of building materials and equipment. We offer the suggestion that subscribers frequently review this section of The AMERICAN ARCHITECT, and make use of the service provided for their convenience.
There is a big movement to preserve rural England, writes a correspondent practicing in London. There has been such a wave of destruction of the fine old cottages that made England England, that a wave of revulsion is passing over the country, due to a most complicated housing situation that affords no remedies.
There is, in a certain degree, a similarly existing condition in this country, but with two distinctly different points of view. Elere, the damage being done lies chiefly in the marring of the landscape beauty of the countryside by the injudicious placing of blatant sign boards, vividly colored “filling stations,” and the many so-called refreshment booths that line our highways.
In England the artistic loss is becoming permanent. Fine old cottages are being razed and unsightly modern “villas” taking their place. Undoubtedly the English countryside is a valuable asset to the English nation. Like the good art that is everywhere to be seen in Italy, it attracts the attention of tourists. When apathy permits the despoilation of all these things, the loss becomes not only artistic, but largely economic.
These are matters that interest architects everywhere and their discussion is of interest. There will shortly appear some intimate and fully illustrated articles that will discuss this feature of despoliation of the countryside and point out a remedy.
The Sacred Heart Seminary at Detroit, Michigan, Donaldson H Meier, architects, is an unusual group and has been thoughtfully designed and executed. It combines in a series of buildings many novel features of design and plan. It will be very completely illustrated in our issue of October 5th.
The leading article to appear in that issue has been contributed by Brigadier General John Ross Delafield, and describes Montgomery Place,” one of the few remaining early Colonial mansions that border the Hudson River. The restoration of this house was effected by Dwight James Baum, architect.
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Samuel Chamberlain’s usual breezy contribution, appearing in this issue, is accompanied by some illustrations of Italian farmhouses. These are in Mr. Chamberlain’s usual and brilliant manner, and are valuably suggestive as motives for houses of moderate cost.
Mr. Chamberlain’s article and sketches to appear in issue of October 20th will relate to a recent sketching tour, during which he visited Angers and Saumur, in the Department of Maine-et-Loire, France. The sketches are of considerable artistic interest and refer particularly to the older and historic sections of these two historic French towns.
Life insurance home office buildings are, as a rule, located in large cities, where ground is valuable. They tower to great heights, as witness the Metropolitan Life Building in New York, and the New York Life Building, now being constructed on the original Madison Square Garden site. But in smaller cities where real estate values are more in reason, the buildings of large corporations spread horizontally and not to excessive heights.
The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance group at Springfield, Mass., Kirkham H Parlett, architects, is a dignified example of a home office insurance building. It has many points of interest. It will be illustrated and described in an early issue.
Reference above to Cass Gilbert’s New York Life Building, serves to remind us to let our readers know that by special arrangements with the architect, this building will have a complete presentation in The American Architect.
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Topical Architecture section should be found in this issue. If by any chance you do not get yours, let us know and we will promptly supply the omission.
NUMEROUS requests for catalogs of the various manufacturers listed in the Reference List of Business Literature in the advertising section of each issue of The American Architect, testify to the value of the service rendered to our subscribers in this manner. Each catalog is given a number for your convenience in requesting a copy of any catalog listed. While any of these catalogs may be obtained by addressing the manufacturers direct, where a number of booklets are required considerable letter writing may be avoided by forwarding a list of catalogs desired to the Service Department of The American Architect. To facilitate the selection of catalogs, they are grouped by materials in accordance with the standard construction classification of The American Institute of Architects. This arrangement is an added convenience to architects using this system for the filing of producers literature, since the list and the files can be readily compared to make sure that the files contain the most recent publications of each material group. The Reference List of Business Literature is constantly changing and brings to the attention of our subscribers the most recent literature of the producers of building materials and equipment. We offer the suggestion that subscribers frequently review this section of The AMERICAN ARCHITECT, and make use of the service provided for their convenience.
There is a big movement to preserve rural England, writes a correspondent practicing in London. There has been such a wave of destruction of the fine old cottages that made England England, that a wave of revulsion is passing over the country, due to a most complicated housing situation that affords no remedies.
There is, in a certain degree, a similarly existing condition in this country, but with two distinctly different points of view. Elere, the damage being done lies chiefly in the marring of the landscape beauty of the countryside by the injudicious placing of blatant sign boards, vividly colored “filling stations,” and the many so-called refreshment booths that line our highways.
In England the artistic loss is becoming permanent. Fine old cottages are being razed and unsightly modern “villas” taking their place. Undoubtedly the English countryside is a valuable asset to the English nation. Like the good art that is everywhere to be seen in Italy, it attracts the attention of tourists. When apathy permits the despoilation of all these things, the loss becomes not only artistic, but largely economic.
These are matters that interest architects everywhere and their discussion is of interest. There will shortly appear some intimate and fully illustrated articles that will discuss this feature of despoliation of the countryside and point out a remedy.
The Sacred Heart Seminary at Detroit, Michigan, Donaldson H Meier, architects, is an unusual group and has been thoughtfully designed and executed. It combines in a series of buildings many novel features of design and plan. It will be very completely illustrated in our issue of October 5th.
The leading article to appear in that issue has been contributed by Brigadier General John Ross Delafield, and describes Montgomery Place,” one of the few remaining early Colonial mansions that border the Hudson River. The restoration of this house was effected by Dwight James Baum, architect.
* * * * *
Samuel Chamberlain’s usual breezy contribution, appearing in this issue, is accompanied by some illustrations of Italian farmhouses. These are in Mr. Chamberlain’s usual and brilliant manner, and are valuably suggestive as motives for houses of moderate cost.
Mr. Chamberlain’s article and sketches to appear in issue of October 20th will relate to a recent sketching tour, during which he visited Angers and Saumur, in the Department of Maine-et-Loire, France. The sketches are of considerable artistic interest and refer particularly to the older and historic sections of these two historic French towns.
Life insurance home office buildings are, as a rule, located in large cities, where ground is valuable. They tower to great heights, as witness the Metropolitan Life Building in New York, and the New York Life Building, now being constructed on the original Madison Square Garden site. But in smaller cities where real estate values are more in reason, the buildings of large corporations spread horizontally and not to excessive heights.
The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance group at Springfield, Mass., Kirkham H Parlett, architects, is a dignified example of a home office insurance building. It has many points of interest. It will be illustrated and described in an early issue.
Reference above to Cass Gilbert’s New York Life Building, serves to remind us to let our readers know that by special arrangements with the architect, this building will have a complete presentation in The American Architect.
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Topical Architecture section should be found in this issue. If by any chance you do not get yours, let us know and we will promptly supply the omission.