GROUP OF FARM BUILDINGS, ESTATE OF MAJOR CLARENCE FAHNESTOCK, COLD SPRING, N. Y.
LEWIS COLT ALBRO, ARCHITECT
When this plan, now brought to a successful culmination, was first proposed, there were those who were strongly of the opinion that any effort to commingle architecture with craftsmanship would develop incongruities which would imperil the artistic character of the entire effort. Others, with commendable practical foresight, believed that there was here the beginning of a new era. They knew of that golden age when architecture and craftsmanship went hand in hand, onward and upward, to culminate in a period of the highest development
of both the arts and the crafts. They believed that this plan afforded an opportunity to revive, after a long period of decadence, a close affiliation between all the arts and the more highly developed crafts. This exhibition is the result. It will be regarded for many years as epochal, and will set the standard by which all architectural exhibitions will be judged.
The aspect of the exhibition is, in a sense, bewildering, even to one who is familiar with the Vanderbilt Galleries, and their broad spaces as
INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE, WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
GEORGE S. WELSH, ARCHITECT