A HOUSE AT OAK PARK, ILL.
GEORGE MAHER, ARCHITECT
Thirty-first Annual Chicago Exhibition
execution, and there are the problems of architecture which our entry into the war has developed and made more insistent than any others.
The absorbing question of housing in all of its phases, as affecting our rapidly developing industries, is emphasized. The enormous undertakings of the National Government, the activity on the part of various states, the feverish haste of every manufacturing city to have and to hold the great influx of labor, and the comprehensive efforts of large corporations to keep their labor housed and contented, are all reflected in one way or another in architectural practice to-day.
The Western men have been “on the job from the start. Early to foresee what every close observer felt was the inevitable; quick to grasp the opportunities presented; and strenuously working to keep for architecture that which belongs to it, it is not surprising to learn what has been accomplished in this locality. It is just what would be expected from an energetic, wide-awake body of men.
All these essentials of a spirit abreast of the times are shown in this exhibition.
It has never been the policy of The American Architect to dwell specifically on particular fea
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HOLABIRD AND ROCHE, ARCHITECTS Thirty-first Annual Chicago Exhibition