SOCIETIES.
WASHINGTON, D. C., ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
In connection with the work of the architectural department of the George Washington University, the Architectural Club of Washington has this year awarded its annual prize for excellence in design to Reginald Wickliffe Geare.
PORTLAND, ORE., ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The annual election was held on May 7 at the Commercial Club, when F. J. Berndt was chosen President; H. A. Whitney, Vice-president; C. H. Kable, Treasurer, and F. J. Webber, Secretary. The standing committees were announced as follows: Municipal Affairs — E. B. McNaughtan, R. J. Grace, John G. Wilson. Educational — H.
E. Plummer, Emil Schacht, H. H. Menges. Scholarship — E. G. Lawrence, A. E. Doyle, Joseph Jacobberger. House — W. F. Tobey, E. Kroner, C. L. Linde.
PERSONALS
Columbia, S. C. — Mr. Charles C. Wilson announces that he has associated, as partners in his practice of engineering and architecture, at Columbia, Mr. E. D. Sompayrac, a graduate in architecture at Cornell University, and for the past ten years chief inspector, insurance department, Southern Railway, and Mr. J. B. Urquhart, a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and for the past six years chief draughtsman and designer in this office.
Wilmington, N. C. — Messrs. Charles McMillen and Carl B. Cooper, architects, have formed a copartnership for the practice of their profession, under the firm name of McMillen & Cooper.
Pendleton, Ore. — Notice is given that the partnership heretofore existing between T. F. Howard and F. A. Swingle, under the name of Howard & Swingle, architects, is dissolved by mutual consent. T. F. Howard will collect all bills and pay all debts of the firm at Pendleton, Ore., and F. A. Swingle will collect all bills and pay all debts of the firm at Kennewick, Wash.
Providence, R. I. — A suit for $12, 000, under a contract to furnish labor and materials for the erection of a building has been filed in the Superior Court by Thomas H. Doane against Annie E. Simmons and Mary L. Walker. The plaintiff claims that a contract was signed by the parties thereto March 31, 1906, by the terms of which the defendants were to pay the sum of $11, 500 in consideration of the performance by the plaintiff of the obligations specified. He says that certain payments of money for work and materials that the architect certified were necessary have been refused.
San Francisco, Cal. — Messrs. G. A. Wright, George Rushforth and B. J. S. Cahill, formerly of 2277 California Street, have removed their offices to 571 California Street.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — The home of Mr. Isaac E. Ditmars, architect, who lives at
No. 227 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, was entered by burglars on Saturday night, June 9, and wedding gifts, linen and costly liquors worth $500 stolen. Mr. Ditmars, his wife and daughter were not awakened by the thieves.
Atlanta, Ga. — Mr. Hardy Padgett, for many years connected with the advertising department of The Constitution, has resigned his position and will in future be connected with the firm of B. R. Padgett & Son, architects and contractors. The name of the new firm will be B. R. Padgett & Sons.
St. Louis, Mo. — H. Clay Pierce is the defendant in a suit filed in the Circuit Court by Messrs. Eames & T. C. Young, architects, who charge that he owes them a balance on a mausoleum which they were to erect in Bellefontaine cemetery. They allege that the price was to be $2, 500, but that he only paid them $1, 700, and when they were half through stopped the work without giving them any reason and they sue for the $750 still due and also $289. 80 for extras. Another count in the petition alleges that Pierce owes them $554. 08 for plans for the alteration of his house at 40 Vandeventer Place.
Middletown, N. Y. — Messrs. Frank J Lindsey & Son, architects, with offices at 42 North Street, have placed their business in charge of E. R. Valkenburg, an inspector from the State Architect’s office, who has been in charge of the construction of the new buildings at the Middletown State Hospital, and will continue the busi
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. 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. J. 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, Urbana, ILL.
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 Graduate School of Applied Science and The Lawrence Scientific School
offer graduate and undergraduate courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology.
Forfurther information, address W. C. SABINE, 15 University Hall. Cambridge, Mass.
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 on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
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.
“ MONUMENTAL STAIRCASES.
40 Gelatine Plates, on bond paper, 9ʹʹ × 11ʹʹ.
In Envelope. Price, $5. 00.
The American Architect, Publishers.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60. 00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America. ” — Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
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ST. LOUIS SURFACER & PAINT CO., Makers
Cor. Commercial, Walnut and Levee, ST. LOUIS, U. S. A.
WASHINGTON, D. C., ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
In connection with the work of the architectural department of the George Washington University, the Architectural Club of Washington has this year awarded its annual prize for excellence in design to Reginald Wickliffe Geare.
PORTLAND, ORE., ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The annual election was held on May 7 at the Commercial Club, when F. J. Berndt was chosen President; H. A. Whitney, Vice-president; C. H. Kable, Treasurer, and F. J. Webber, Secretary. The standing committees were announced as follows: Municipal Affairs — E. B. McNaughtan, R. J. Grace, John G. Wilson. Educational — H.
E. Plummer, Emil Schacht, H. H. Menges. Scholarship — E. G. Lawrence, A. E. Doyle, Joseph Jacobberger. House — W. F. Tobey, E. Kroner, C. L. Linde.
PERSONALS
Columbia, S. C. — Mr. Charles C. Wilson announces that he has associated, as partners in his practice of engineering and architecture, at Columbia, Mr. E. D. Sompayrac, a graduate in architecture at Cornell University, and for the past ten years chief inspector, insurance department, Southern Railway, and Mr. J. B. Urquhart, a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and for the past six years chief draughtsman and designer in this office.
Wilmington, N. C. — Messrs. Charles McMillen and Carl B. Cooper, architects, have formed a copartnership for the practice of their profession, under the firm name of McMillen & Cooper.
Pendleton, Ore. — Notice is given that the partnership heretofore existing between T. F. Howard and F. A. Swingle, under the name of Howard & Swingle, architects, is dissolved by mutual consent. T. F. Howard will collect all bills and pay all debts of the firm at Pendleton, Ore., and F. A. Swingle will collect all bills and pay all debts of the firm at Kennewick, Wash.
Providence, R. I. — A suit for $12, 000, under a contract to furnish labor and materials for the erection of a building has been filed in the Superior Court by Thomas H. Doane against Annie E. Simmons and Mary L. Walker. The plaintiff claims that a contract was signed by the parties thereto March 31, 1906, by the terms of which the defendants were to pay the sum of $11, 500 in consideration of the performance by the plaintiff of the obligations specified. He says that certain payments of money for work and materials that the architect certified were necessary have been refused.
San Francisco, Cal. — Messrs. G. A. Wright, George Rushforth and B. J. S. Cahill, formerly of 2277 California Street, have removed their offices to 571 California Street.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — The home of Mr. Isaac E. Ditmars, architect, who lives at
No. 227 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, was entered by burglars on Saturday night, June 9, and wedding gifts, linen and costly liquors worth $500 stolen. Mr. Ditmars, his wife and daughter were not awakened by the thieves.
Atlanta, Ga. — Mr. Hardy Padgett, for many years connected with the advertising department of The Constitution, has resigned his position and will in future be connected with the firm of B. R. Padgett & Son, architects and contractors. The name of the new firm will be B. R. Padgett & Sons.
St. Louis, Mo. — H. Clay Pierce is the defendant in a suit filed in the Circuit Court by Messrs. Eames & T. C. Young, architects, who charge that he owes them a balance on a mausoleum which they were to erect in Bellefontaine cemetery. They allege that the price was to be $2, 500, but that he only paid them $1, 700, and when they were half through stopped the work without giving them any reason and they sue for the $750 still due and also $289. 80 for extras. Another count in the petition alleges that Pierce owes them $554. 08 for plans for the alteration of his house at 40 Vandeventer Place.
Middletown, N. Y. — Messrs. Frank J Lindsey & Son, architects, with offices at 42 North Street, have placed their business in charge of E. R. Valkenburg, an inspector from the State Architect’s office, who has been in charge of the construction of the new buildings at the Middletown State Hospital, and will continue the busi
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. 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. J. 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, Urbana, ILL.
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 Graduate School of Applied Science and The Lawrence Scientific School
offer graduate and undergraduate courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology.
Forfurther information, address W. C. SABINE, 15 University Hall. Cambridge, Mass.
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 on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
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.
“ MONUMENTAL STAIRCASES.
40 Gelatine Plates, on bond paper, 9ʹʹ × 11ʹʹ.
In Envelope. Price, $5. 00.
The American Architect, Publishers.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60. 00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America. ” — Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
12 West Fortieth St. New York “METALSTEEL” PAINT
ST. LOUIS SURFACER & PAINT CO., Makers
Cor. Commercial, Walnut and Levee, ST. LOUIS, U. S. A.