COMPETITIONS
Oakland, Md.—Press reports state that the Garrett County Commissioners have invited competitive plans for erection of a court-house. The building will have three stories, and will cost about $150,000.
Previously reported: Court-house, Laredo, Tex. (See issue Jan.
26, ’07.) County High School, Middlebourne, W.
Va. (See issue Jan. 26, ’07.) Four School Buildings, Milwaukee, Wis.
(See issue Jan. 26, ’07.) High School, Woodbury, N. J. (See issue
Jan. 26, ’07.) Departmental and Justice Buildings, Ottawa, Canada. (See issue Jan. 5, ’07.)
BUILDING NEWS.________
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Abbeville, S. C.—Edwards & Walter, of Columbia, it is stated, have been directed to prepare plans for a court-house for Abbeville County, the cost to be about $50,000.
Ames, Ia.—The Trustees of the Iowa State College, it is reported, have petitioned the legislature for $345,000 to be used in erecting new buildings and equipping the college.
Henry W. Schlueter, contractor, 204 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., is said to be taking bids on the agricultural building to be built for the Iowa State College at Ames. It will be four-story, 250x190 feet, of Bedford stone and granite, and cost $271,000.
Reports state that the M. E. Society is having plans drawn for a church to cost $35,000. Rev. A. M. Shea, pastor.
Amherst, Mass.—McKim, Mead & White, 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y., it is reported, have sent preliminary plans for the biological and geological building for the Amherst College, to cost $150,000. Andrew Carnegie has donated $75,000 and the alumni has raised the balance,
Antigo, Wis.—Announcement is made that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway will soon begin arrangements for a new $80,000 depot at Antigo.
Baltimore, Md.—It is reported that Owens & Sisco, Continental Building,, have not as yet completed plans for terminal warehouse, at Front and Constitution Streets. They will be ready for bidders in about two weeks.
Joseph Bowes, 221-234 Equitable Building, has commissioned Bayard Turnbull, architect, 12 East Lexington Street, to prepare plans and specifications for a dwelling to be erected at Roland Park.
Henry Smith & Sons, South Register Street, it is stated, have been awarded the contract for constructing a four-story brick and stone restaurant, 40x210 feet, at 304 East Baltimore Street, for Horn & Horn, 303 East Fayette Street. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Bellingham, Wash.—Press reports state that the Dingee-Croker-Bachman Syndicate will erect a cement plant at Bellingham, Wash., at a cost of $1,000,000.
Birmingham, Ala.—The Birmingham Railway Light and Power Company (Ford, Bacon & Davis, of New York, N. Y., chief engineers), is said to have under consideration plans for an addition to be erected to the car barns at Fourth Avenue and Eleventh Street, which will cost $75,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—It is stated that the Chattanooga Station Company will award contract within thirty days for the construction of its proposed passenger station, the cost to be approximately $300,000. This building will be a modern structure equipped with the latest improved facilities. W. Dunbar Jenkins, offices in the News Building, is the company’s engineer-incharge. Donn Barber, 24 East Twentythird Street, New York, is the architect. Foundations to be of stone, framework of steel, and main building of brick. It is estimated that accompanying structures and various terminal facilities will cost about $500,000.
Chicago, III.—Siegel, Cooper & Co. (department store), State and Van Buren Streets, it is stated, will build a large new warehouse at the corner of Sixteenth and State Streets. Architect C. A. Eckstrom, 131 La Salle Street, has prepared plans for an eight-story structure, covering an area of 200x150 feet, to be built of brick, stone and iron, and to have steam heating, electriclighting, elevators, etc. Cost, $250,000.
Reports state that plans have been about completed and estimates are being taken for the addition which is to be built to the plant of the American Cutlery Company at 203 Mather Street from designs by Architect H. L. Newhouse. Plans show a twostory building, covering an area of 150x200 feet. It will be built of brick and stone with composition roofing, and cost about $175,000.
A new chapel and school building, it is reported, will be erected at Ridge and Devon Avenues for the Guardian Angel Orphanage. It will be built of brick and stone, to have slate roofing, narawood finish, steam heating, electric lighting, etc.
It is stated that Architects Huehl & Schmidt, 163 Randolph Street, are preparing plans for the new factory to be erected by Spielman Bros. Company, 99 North Avenue. The new building will probably be five stories high and cover an area of at least 200x200 feet. It will be built of brick, stone and iron, fireproof, and will probably cost in the neighborhood of $150,000.
Architect Richard Griesser, 109 Randolph Street, is preparing plans and will take estimates for a storehouse, to be built at Twenty-first Place and Albany Avenue for the Garden City Brewing Company, 980 South Albany Avenue. It will be six-story, 100x80 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have brick exterior, concrete loundation, gravel roof, iron shutters and rolling doors, wiring for electric light, metal skylights, electric elevators, steel enameled tanks, and cost about $135,000.
Krietenstein Brothers, real estate dealers
and builders, 107 Dearborn Street, have
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. 5. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address; DR. T. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urban a, III.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. N. S. SHALER, Dean.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year coume in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee or> Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
ia West Fortieth St., New York
Oakland, Md.—Press reports state that the Garrett County Commissioners have invited competitive plans for erection of a court-house. The building will have three stories, and will cost about $150,000.
Previously reported: Court-house, Laredo, Tex. (See issue Jan.
26, ’07.) County High School, Middlebourne, W.
Va. (See issue Jan. 26, ’07.) Four School Buildings, Milwaukee, Wis.
(See issue Jan. 26, ’07.) High School, Woodbury, N. J. (See issue
Jan. 26, ’07.) Departmental and Justice Buildings, Ottawa, Canada. (See issue Jan. 5, ’07.)
BUILDING NEWS.________
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Abbeville, S. C.—Edwards & Walter, of Columbia, it is stated, have been directed to prepare plans for a court-house for Abbeville County, the cost to be about $50,000.
Ames, Ia.—The Trustees of the Iowa State College, it is reported, have petitioned the legislature for $345,000 to be used in erecting new buildings and equipping the college.
Henry W. Schlueter, contractor, 204 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., is said to be taking bids on the agricultural building to be built for the Iowa State College at Ames. It will be four-story, 250x190 feet, of Bedford stone and granite, and cost $271,000.
Reports state that the M. E. Society is having plans drawn for a church to cost $35,000. Rev. A. M. Shea, pastor.
Amherst, Mass.—McKim, Mead & White, 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y., it is reported, have sent preliminary plans for the biological and geological building for the Amherst College, to cost $150,000. Andrew Carnegie has donated $75,000 and the alumni has raised the balance,
Antigo, Wis.—Announcement is made that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway will soon begin arrangements for a new $80,000 depot at Antigo.
Baltimore, Md.—It is reported that Owens & Sisco, Continental Building,, have not as yet completed plans for terminal warehouse, at Front and Constitution Streets. They will be ready for bidders in about two weeks.
Joseph Bowes, 221-234 Equitable Building, has commissioned Bayard Turnbull, architect, 12 East Lexington Street, to prepare plans and specifications for a dwelling to be erected at Roland Park.
Henry Smith & Sons, South Register Street, it is stated, have been awarded the contract for constructing a four-story brick and stone restaurant, 40x210 feet, at 304 East Baltimore Street, for Horn & Horn, 303 East Fayette Street. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Bellingham, Wash.—Press reports state that the Dingee-Croker-Bachman Syndicate will erect a cement plant at Bellingham, Wash., at a cost of $1,000,000.
Birmingham, Ala.—The Birmingham Railway Light and Power Company (Ford, Bacon & Davis, of New York, N. Y., chief engineers), is said to have under consideration plans for an addition to be erected to the car barns at Fourth Avenue and Eleventh Street, which will cost $75,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—It is stated that the Chattanooga Station Company will award contract within thirty days for the construction of its proposed passenger station, the cost to be approximately $300,000. This building will be a modern structure equipped with the latest improved facilities. W. Dunbar Jenkins, offices in the News Building, is the company’s engineer-incharge. Donn Barber, 24 East Twentythird Street, New York, is the architect. Foundations to be of stone, framework of steel, and main building of brick. It is estimated that accompanying structures and various terminal facilities will cost about $500,000.
Chicago, III.—Siegel, Cooper & Co. (department store), State and Van Buren Streets, it is stated, will build a large new warehouse at the corner of Sixteenth and State Streets. Architect C. A. Eckstrom, 131 La Salle Street, has prepared plans for an eight-story structure, covering an area of 200x150 feet, to be built of brick, stone and iron, and to have steam heating, electriclighting, elevators, etc. Cost, $250,000.
Reports state that plans have been about completed and estimates are being taken for the addition which is to be built to the plant of the American Cutlery Company at 203 Mather Street from designs by Architect H. L. Newhouse. Plans show a twostory building, covering an area of 150x200 feet. It will be built of brick and stone with composition roofing, and cost about $175,000.
A new chapel and school building, it is reported, will be erected at Ridge and Devon Avenues for the Guardian Angel Orphanage. It will be built of brick and stone, to have slate roofing, narawood finish, steam heating, electric lighting, etc.
It is stated that Architects Huehl & Schmidt, 163 Randolph Street, are preparing plans for the new factory to be erected by Spielman Bros. Company, 99 North Avenue. The new building will probably be five stories high and cover an area of at least 200x200 feet. It will be built of brick, stone and iron, fireproof, and will probably cost in the neighborhood of $150,000.
Architect Richard Griesser, 109 Randolph Street, is preparing plans and will take estimates for a storehouse, to be built at Twenty-first Place and Albany Avenue for the Garden City Brewing Company, 980 South Albany Avenue. It will be six-story, 100x80 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have brick exterior, concrete loundation, gravel roof, iron shutters and rolling doors, wiring for electric light, metal skylights, electric elevators, steel enameled tanks, and cost about $135,000.
Krietenstein Brothers, real estate dealers
and builders, 107 Dearborn Street, have
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. 5. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address; DR. T. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urban a, III.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. N. S. SHALER, Dean.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year coume in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee or> Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
ia West Fortieth St., New York