THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT
With which is consolidated
The Architectural Review
CONTENTS
VOL. CXXVIII WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925 NUMBER 24Y8
Temple of Miheeva, Rome. From the Orig
inal Sketch by ................................................Otto B. Eggers.................. Cover “Working Photographs.” One of a Series
Made in England by....................................................John Russell Pope,
F. A. I. A.........Frontispiece
Etching as a Medium of Architectural Ex
pression ...............................................................................Samuel Chamberlain............... 119 Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London................Carrere & Hastings
Professor C. H. Reilly . . 127 Editorial Comment ................................................................................................................................ 133 Masters of Architecture .................................................................................................................. 134 Emissive Tests of Paints for Decreasing or Increasing Heat Radiation from
Surfaces ................................................................................................................................................ 135 An Office Building Altered to House a
Hew York Bank ............................................................................................................................. 143 Interior of the Provident Trust Co. of
Philadelphia, Pa..................................................................................................................... 147
The Law as to Architecture........................................Clinton H. Plaice, Jr................. 149
Plates
Reproductions of Original Etchings by..............Samuel Chamberlain . 6 Plates Building for Provident Trust Co., Phila
delphia, Pa............................................................................Carl A. Ziegler ............... 4 Plates House of M. H. Harrington, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pa............................................................Edmund B. Gilchrist . 2 Plates
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