PERSONAL MENTION
Morristown, N. J. — George W. Bower, for forty years an architect in this section, died at his home August 20, after a long illness. He was born in Ohio, sixty-nine years ago. Early in life he came East. For a number of years he resided in Chatham, but twenty years ago came to Morristown, where he has since resided and practised his profession. He designed a very large number of buildings from Summit to Dover, and even farther away, among them being several churches and business blocks, besides almost innumerable residences.
New York, N. Y. — The Atelier Jallade of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, announces that after September 1st it will reorganize, under the name of “The Jallade-Prevot Atelier. ”
Mr. Jallade associates in his atelier work Professor M. Prevot, late of Cornell University, Department of Architecture, who has resigned his professorship, and comes to New York this fall. Mr. Prevot’s record at the Ècole des Beaux-Arts has made him well known to most architects. His greatest achievement being the winning of the second Grand-Prix de Rome.
The object of this association is to give more personal attention and time to each pupil. It is proposed to have the pupils continue to do the regular Society Beaux- Arts Architects’ problems, and in addition to give a series of lectures on the Theory of Architecture and practical construction. A class in free hand drawing from casts will also be maintained. These lectures and drawings will be compulsory to certain classes of the students, in order to force a more equal development among the pupils. Admission to the Atelier will be through an examination, and the number of pupils will be limited.
Utica, N. Y. — Mr. Burton L. Wilcox, architect, formerly of Utica, who nine years ago went to New York, where he became identified with the Flexifold Door & Shutter Company of that city, has decided to locate in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Wilcox’s family will remain in New York for the present.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION
The Raymond Concrete Pile Co., 135 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill., reports that foundations of their piles will be used under the following important buildings: The new Rome Hotel, Omaha, Neb.; John Latenser, architect; the Shaughnessy Warehouse, St. Louis, Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, architects, and the new building of the New York Kindergarten Association, New York City, Babb, Cook & Willard, architects.
F. W. Bird & Son, East Walpole, Mass., have adopted a very practical and striking way of proving the toughness and durability and the impermeability by water of their roofing materials. They are supplying their dealers’ stores with door mats made of “Paroid” roofing, and with cups made of “Neponset. ”
The Berger Manufacturing Co., Canton, O., states that there is a considerably in
creased demand for the “Prong Lock Wireless” fireproofing system, of which they are patentees and manufacturers. This may be ascribed to the very satisfactory behavior of this system in the San Francisco disaster.
CATALOGUES
The new high school building for the City of Brockton, Mass., Charles A. Brigham, architect, is very fully illustrated and quite adequately described in an attractive pamphlet which is being sent out with the compliments of Simpson Bros., corporation, 166 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. The illustrations include exterior views, views of the principal rooms, offices, and assembly halls, and plans of the principal floors.
“Unions for Steam Pipes, ” a paper by W. H. Wakeman, has been reprinted in pamphlet form by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., and is sent by them free of charge to anyone who is interested in the subject. It describes and illustrates the various styles of unions and gives valuable suggestions as to their use and the best way of fitting them.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities. )
Albany, N. Y. — The state trustees of public buildings have decided that the new state educational building shall be located on Elk and Swan streets. The new building will be four stories high, and will cover 141, 000 square feet. The appropriation is $400, 000. Governor Higgins, Lieutenant- Governor Bruce and Speaker Wadsworth, trustees.
Albion, Neb. — It is reported that the Roman Catholics intend erecting a $40, 000 edifice.
Albuquerque, N. Mex. — Reports state that a $100, 000 postoffice is to be erected here.
Allegheny, Pa. — Judge S S. Mehard will erect a six-story brick and steel store building at East Ohio and Sandusky streets. Cost, $60, 000.
Anderson, Ind. — H. L. Duncan, a local architect, it is reported, has secured the contract to prepare plans for immense car shops and car barns in North Anderson, for the Indiana Union Traction Company. The estimated cost is upwards of $100, 000. Bids will be in order as soon as plans are completed. A. W. Brady, president.
Annapolis, Md. — The Navy Department will receive bids for the construction of a naval experiment station to cost $250, 000, on the grounds of old Fort Madison, across Severn River from the Naval Academy.
Argenta, Ark. — Reports state that a brewery costing $300, 000 is to be erected in Argenta, by R. A. Furth, of Little Rock, and E. P. Fairbanks, and J. F. Whitlock, of Terre Haute, Ind.
Atlanta, Ga. — Plans are being prepared by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury, Washington, D. C., for
the construction of a postoffice building and courthouse to be erected at Atlanta. It will be of brick and stone, fireproof, five stories high, and will cost $1, 000, 000.
Baltimore, Md. — Mrs. Frank, widow of Dr. Samuel Leon Frank, former president of the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, it is reported, has agreed to donate $75, 000 to the said hospital for the erection of a new building on Monument street, near Broadway.
The University of Maryland has purchased a site on South Greene Street, including the northwest corner of Greene and Lombard Streets, and it is said that a dormitory is to be erected there.
Haskell & Barnes, architects, are preparing preliminary drawings for the Ingram Memorial Chapel to be built on the lot at the northeast corner of Olive and McComas Streets, by the Methodist Episcopal Missionary and Church Extension Society.
The Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Monument Street and Hopkins Avenue, East, will erect hospital building adjoining the present building on Monument Street, near Broadway; cost to be about $75, 000.
H. J. Finley, architect, is preparing plans for an apartment house here for The Windsor Hills Park Co. It is to be a four-story brick and stone building of fireproof construction.
Bay City, Mich. — It is stated that the members of the Grace Episcopal Church propose erecting a new edifice at Midland and John Streets, to cost about $155, 000.
Berkeley, Cal. — The citizens, it is stated, have voted in favor of issuing $200, 000 bonds for the erection of a polytechnic high school; $100, 000 for the purchase of grammar school sites and erection of a grammar school, and $20, 000 for the repairing of the high school.
Dickey & Reed are the architects for the new Morse Building to be erected at Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way. It is to be a four-story brick building. Estimated cost, $60, 000.
Birch, Mich. — Fred Charlton, architect, has completed the plans for a hotel building on the town site of Birch.
Boone, Ia. — Bids are wanted for erecting five brick sub-stations along the line of the Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the Northwestern Construction Company, 702 Story Street, Boone.
Boston, Mass. — Architect George A. Fuller, of 1135 Kimball Building, Boston, has prepared plans for Charles A. Newhall, of 18 Tremont Street, Boston. The plans call for a brick and stone building, four stories high, 200 × 70 feet, divided into sixteen apartments, the same to be thoroughly up-to-date in every particular, and to be built on lots 1110 to 1120 Beacon street, Boston.
Calhoun Falls, S. C. — A $400, 000 cotton mill will be erected here by Judge W. F. Cox, of Anderson, S. C., and associates. The mill will be built at the junction of two railways, and will be one of the largest in this part of the State.
Camden, N. J. — Dr. W. H. Long is to build an $87, 000 theater here. It is to be a thoroughly fireproof building.
The firm of Hannah & Hogg is planning
Morristown, N. J. — George W. Bower, for forty years an architect in this section, died at his home August 20, after a long illness. He was born in Ohio, sixty-nine years ago. Early in life he came East. For a number of years he resided in Chatham, but twenty years ago came to Morristown, where he has since resided and practised his profession. He designed a very large number of buildings from Summit to Dover, and even farther away, among them being several churches and business blocks, besides almost innumerable residences.
New York, N. Y. — The Atelier Jallade of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, announces that after September 1st it will reorganize, under the name of “The Jallade-Prevot Atelier. ”
Mr. Jallade associates in his atelier work Professor M. Prevot, late of Cornell University, Department of Architecture, who has resigned his professorship, and comes to New York this fall. Mr. Prevot’s record at the Ècole des Beaux-Arts has made him well known to most architects. His greatest achievement being the winning of the second Grand-Prix de Rome.
The object of this association is to give more personal attention and time to each pupil. It is proposed to have the pupils continue to do the regular Society Beaux- Arts Architects’ problems, and in addition to give a series of lectures on the Theory of Architecture and practical construction. A class in free hand drawing from casts will also be maintained. These lectures and drawings will be compulsory to certain classes of the students, in order to force a more equal development among the pupils. Admission to the Atelier will be through an examination, and the number of pupils will be limited.
Utica, N. Y. — Mr. Burton L. Wilcox, architect, formerly of Utica, who nine years ago went to New York, where he became identified with the Flexifold Door & Shutter Company of that city, has decided to locate in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Wilcox’s family will remain in New York for the present.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION
The Raymond Concrete Pile Co., 135 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill., reports that foundations of their piles will be used under the following important buildings: The new Rome Hotel, Omaha, Neb.; John Latenser, architect; the Shaughnessy Warehouse, St. Louis, Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, architects, and the new building of the New York Kindergarten Association, New York City, Babb, Cook & Willard, architects.
F. W. Bird & Son, East Walpole, Mass., have adopted a very practical and striking way of proving the toughness and durability and the impermeability by water of their roofing materials. They are supplying their dealers’ stores with door mats made of “Paroid” roofing, and with cups made of “Neponset. ”
The Berger Manufacturing Co., Canton, O., states that there is a considerably in
creased demand for the “Prong Lock Wireless” fireproofing system, of which they are patentees and manufacturers. This may be ascribed to the very satisfactory behavior of this system in the San Francisco disaster.
CATALOGUES
The new high school building for the City of Brockton, Mass., Charles A. Brigham, architect, is very fully illustrated and quite adequately described in an attractive pamphlet which is being sent out with the compliments of Simpson Bros., corporation, 166 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. The illustrations include exterior views, views of the principal rooms, offices, and assembly halls, and plans of the principal floors.
“Unions for Steam Pipes, ” a paper by W. H. Wakeman, has been reprinted in pamphlet form by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., and is sent by them free of charge to anyone who is interested in the subject. It describes and illustrates the various styles of unions and gives valuable suggestions as to their use and the best way of fitting them.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities. )
Albany, N. Y. — The state trustees of public buildings have decided that the new state educational building shall be located on Elk and Swan streets. The new building will be four stories high, and will cover 141, 000 square feet. The appropriation is $400, 000. Governor Higgins, Lieutenant- Governor Bruce and Speaker Wadsworth, trustees.
Albion, Neb. — It is reported that the Roman Catholics intend erecting a $40, 000 edifice.
Albuquerque, N. Mex. — Reports state that a $100, 000 postoffice is to be erected here.
Allegheny, Pa. — Judge S S. Mehard will erect a six-story brick and steel store building at East Ohio and Sandusky streets. Cost, $60, 000.
Anderson, Ind. — H. L. Duncan, a local architect, it is reported, has secured the contract to prepare plans for immense car shops and car barns in North Anderson, for the Indiana Union Traction Company. The estimated cost is upwards of $100, 000. Bids will be in order as soon as plans are completed. A. W. Brady, president.
Annapolis, Md. — The Navy Department will receive bids for the construction of a naval experiment station to cost $250, 000, on the grounds of old Fort Madison, across Severn River from the Naval Academy.
Argenta, Ark. — Reports state that a brewery costing $300, 000 is to be erected in Argenta, by R. A. Furth, of Little Rock, and E. P. Fairbanks, and J. F. Whitlock, of Terre Haute, Ind.
Atlanta, Ga. — Plans are being prepared by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury, Washington, D. C., for
the construction of a postoffice building and courthouse to be erected at Atlanta. It will be of brick and stone, fireproof, five stories high, and will cost $1, 000, 000.
Baltimore, Md. — Mrs. Frank, widow of Dr. Samuel Leon Frank, former president of the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, it is reported, has agreed to donate $75, 000 to the said hospital for the erection of a new building on Monument street, near Broadway.
The University of Maryland has purchased a site on South Greene Street, including the northwest corner of Greene and Lombard Streets, and it is said that a dormitory is to be erected there.
Haskell & Barnes, architects, are preparing preliminary drawings for the Ingram Memorial Chapel to be built on the lot at the northeast corner of Olive and McComas Streets, by the Methodist Episcopal Missionary and Church Extension Society.
The Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Monument Street and Hopkins Avenue, East, will erect hospital building adjoining the present building on Monument Street, near Broadway; cost to be about $75, 000.
H. J. Finley, architect, is preparing plans for an apartment house here for The Windsor Hills Park Co. It is to be a four-story brick and stone building of fireproof construction.
Bay City, Mich. — It is stated that the members of the Grace Episcopal Church propose erecting a new edifice at Midland and John Streets, to cost about $155, 000.
Berkeley, Cal. — The citizens, it is stated, have voted in favor of issuing $200, 000 bonds for the erection of a polytechnic high school; $100, 000 for the purchase of grammar school sites and erection of a grammar school, and $20, 000 for the repairing of the high school.
Dickey & Reed are the architects for the new Morse Building to be erected at Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way. It is to be a four-story brick building. Estimated cost, $60, 000.
Birch, Mich. — Fred Charlton, architect, has completed the plans for a hotel building on the town site of Birch.
Boone, Ia. — Bids are wanted for erecting five brick sub-stations along the line of the Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the Northwestern Construction Company, 702 Story Street, Boone.
Boston, Mass. — Architect George A. Fuller, of 1135 Kimball Building, Boston, has prepared plans for Charles A. Newhall, of 18 Tremont Street, Boston. The plans call for a brick and stone building, four stories high, 200 × 70 feet, divided into sixteen apartments, the same to be thoroughly up-to-date in every particular, and to be built on lots 1110 to 1120 Beacon street, Boston.
Calhoun Falls, S. C. — A $400, 000 cotton mill will be erected here by Judge W. F. Cox, of Anderson, S. C., and associates. The mill will be built at the junction of two railways, and will be one of the largest in this part of the State.
Camden, N. J. — Dr. W. H. Long is to build an $87, 000 theater here. It is to be a thoroughly fireproof building.
The firm of Hannah & Hogg is planning