the greatest progress in architecture is taking place in the commercial buildings, whereas the period stylist is strongest in monumental and domestic work, of which the latter expresses the greatest latitude in selection.
There are but two exhibits of monumental buildings that are worthy of much consideration: Paul Cret’s Detroit Museum, Renaissance in character and not very unusual, with interiors logically designed as handsome stage-sets for “museum pieces; ”the other — H. Van Buren Magonigle’s
Kansas City Memorial, which to my mind is not very convincing. The shaft is neither pleasant nor strong and seems in no way related to the superb base and steps which support it. The bronze doors are beautiful, as are the winged sphinx of which Mr. Magonigle is the author. His exhibit is rather disappointing both as to arrangement and in the scale of the individual parts.
The college buildings by Delano and Aldrich and Frederick L. Ackerman are beautifully conceived examples of the very best Oxford traditions, JOHN W. WEEKS MEMORIAL BRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — McKIM, MEAD & WHITE, ARCHITECTS
LIBRARY, HOUSE OF BURTON A. HOWE, GREENWICH, CONN. — ERIC KEBBON, ARCHITECT
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