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.—Barber & Bennett, Albany, N. Y., it is stated, will shortly construct a large three-story building for storage purposes, at Arch and Church Streets, Albany. The new building will be square, being 120x120 feet.
Altoona, Pa.—The Board of Education is said to be contemplating erecting two school buildings, to cost $100,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—A $75,000 Pythian castle hall will be erected here by the Knights of Pythias, No. 153. A committee, consisting of Carlos Lyons, Foster B. Vary, Newton S. Thomas, and others are interested.
Reports state that plans by Morgan & Dillon have been adopted for the $200,000 Masonic Temple.
Atlanta trades unions, it is stated, have secured option on a site on which to erect a three-story labor temple, to cost $60,000. Address Charles H. Bernhardt, Vice-President Federation of Labor.
The Georgia School of Technology has purchased a tract of land 400x400 feet, between Kimball, Orme, and Fowler Streets, on which it will erect a new dormitory and gymnasium.
E. M. Yow, of the E. M. Yow Grocery Company, is said to be contemplating the erection of a five-story brick and granite apartment house, to be erected at West Peachtree and North Avenue, at a cost of $85,000, and has had plans prepared by Norrman & Falkner.
Plans are being prepared for the auditorium-church and infirmary to be erected by the Tabernacle Realty Company. The build ings will consist of a church, auditorium, and office building combined, with a frontage of 155 feet ; eight or ten stories high, with an auditorium in the rear having a seating capacity of 6,000; buff brick; cost $150,000. A smaller lecture hall will have
a seating capacity of 2,000 people. The infirmary building will be four stories, equipped with modern apparatus, and cost $75,000.
Plans have been prepared for the erection of a business building for the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railway Company. Morgan & Dillon, Prudential Building, architects. Cost, $200,000. Alexander Bonnyman, of this city, is chief engineer.
Baltimore, Md.—Salvatore Cascio, 21 South Eutaw Street, will erect four-story concrete warehouse, 16x80 feet, at 34 South Eutaw Street.
The Roman Catholic residents of Roland Park are said to be contemplating the erection of an edifice estimated to cost $100,000.
The Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, R. Brent Keyser, President, Keyser Building, German and Calvert Streets, will erect two-story office building, 27x52 feet, at corner South and Water Streets, to be occupied by Home Fire Insurance Company, New York.
Cassell & Son, architects, Law Building, have prepared plans for a five-story, brick and ,steel addition to store building of Bernheimer Bros., at Lexington Street and Stag Alley.
Samuel Ready School, North and Har ford Avenues, will erect school building, hospital, and heating and laundry plant; school to be three stories, 54x96 feet; hospital one-story high, 28x58 feet, and heating and laundry plant one story, 28x55 feet. Building will be of brick with marble or stucco trimmings ; structural iron and steel ; sanitary plumbing.
The Municipal Board of Awards, City Hall, will receive bids until November 28 for erecting municipal hospital building. Plans and specifications may be obtained from office of Edward D. Preston, Inspector of Buildings. City Hall ; Simonson ft Pietsch, architects, American Building, Baltimore and South Streets.
Bennington, Vt.—Guy H. Johnson, vicepresident of the American Ice Company,
will build a $30,000 residence on the lot recently purchased in Bennington Centre.
Berkeley, Cal.—Reports state that bids will be received until December II, 1906, for the erection of the new Polytechnic High School on the lot between Allston Way and Kittredge Street. For particu lars address Trustees of Berkeley School.
Boise City, Idaho.—The Capitol Building Committee, it is reported, has awarded the contract for the granite to be used in the first course of construction to James Welsh, of Butte.
Bridgeport, Conn.—The Modern Woodmen of America, it is stated, are taking steps forming a corporation to erect a fivestory building. A. D. Rose has charge.
Camden, N. J.—It is reported that the Porcelain Trust will erect a large plant here at a cost of $500,000.
Charlotte, N. C.—It is stated that the members of the Y. M. C. A. are planning to erect a $70,000 lodge building. Address the Secretary.
Chicago, III.—Plans have been completed, according to reports, for a $650,000 ten-story police station, to be erected in the First Ward next spring. Plans have also been prepared for a $35,000 station tor the Thirteenth Precinct in Seventy-sixth Street ; a $25,000 station at Hamlin Avenue and Twenty-second Street, for the Twentyfifth Precinct ; a $40,000 station in State Street.
W. C. Armstrong is reported to have secured the contract to erect the terminal station for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad ; probable cost, $20,000,000.
Myron H. Church, Marquette Building, 204 Dearborn Street, has let the masonry and cement contracts to the B. H. Lichter Company, 115 Dearborn Street, for a manufacturing plant to be built on about four acres of land at Lumber and Canal Streets, extending to Seward Street, for the Heath ft Milligan Manufacturing Company, 170 Randolph Street. It will be a four-story
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
POUR-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 OP TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. 5. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 tne 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.
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, Ii.l.
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.
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
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Albany, N. Y.—Barber & Bennett, Albany, N. Y., it is stated, will shortly construct a large three-story building for storage purposes, at Arch and Church Streets, Albany. The new building will be square, being 120x120 feet.
Altoona, Pa.—The Board of Education is said to be contemplating erecting two school buildings, to cost $100,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—A $75,000 Pythian castle hall will be erected here by the Knights of Pythias, No. 153. A committee, consisting of Carlos Lyons, Foster B. Vary, Newton S. Thomas, and others are interested.
Reports state that plans by Morgan & Dillon have been adopted for the $200,000 Masonic Temple.
Atlanta trades unions, it is stated, have secured option on a site on which to erect a three-story labor temple, to cost $60,000. Address Charles H. Bernhardt, Vice-President Federation of Labor.
The Georgia School of Technology has purchased a tract of land 400x400 feet, between Kimball, Orme, and Fowler Streets, on which it will erect a new dormitory and gymnasium.
E. M. Yow, of the E. M. Yow Grocery Company, is said to be contemplating the erection of a five-story brick and granite apartment house, to be erected at West Peachtree and North Avenue, at a cost of $85,000, and has had plans prepared by Norrman & Falkner.
Plans are being prepared for the auditorium-church and infirmary to be erected by the Tabernacle Realty Company. The build ings will consist of a church, auditorium, and office building combined, with a frontage of 155 feet ; eight or ten stories high, with an auditorium in the rear having a seating capacity of 6,000; buff brick; cost $150,000. A smaller lecture hall will have
a seating capacity of 2,000 people. The infirmary building will be four stories, equipped with modern apparatus, and cost $75,000.
Plans have been prepared for the erection of a business building for the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railway Company. Morgan & Dillon, Prudential Building, architects. Cost, $200,000. Alexander Bonnyman, of this city, is chief engineer.
Baltimore, Md.—Salvatore Cascio, 21 South Eutaw Street, will erect four-story concrete warehouse, 16x80 feet, at 34 South Eutaw Street.
The Roman Catholic residents of Roland Park are said to be contemplating the erection of an edifice estimated to cost $100,000.
The Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, R. Brent Keyser, President, Keyser Building, German and Calvert Streets, will erect two-story office building, 27x52 feet, at corner South and Water Streets, to be occupied by Home Fire Insurance Company, New York.
Cassell & Son, architects, Law Building, have prepared plans for a five-story, brick and ,steel addition to store building of Bernheimer Bros., at Lexington Street and Stag Alley.
Samuel Ready School, North and Har ford Avenues, will erect school building, hospital, and heating and laundry plant; school to be three stories, 54x96 feet; hospital one-story high, 28x58 feet, and heating and laundry plant one story, 28x55 feet. Building will be of brick with marble or stucco trimmings ; structural iron and steel ; sanitary plumbing.
The Municipal Board of Awards, City Hall, will receive bids until November 28 for erecting municipal hospital building. Plans and specifications may be obtained from office of Edward D. Preston, Inspector of Buildings. City Hall ; Simonson ft Pietsch, architects, American Building, Baltimore and South Streets.
Bennington, Vt.—Guy H. Johnson, vicepresident of the American Ice Company,
will build a $30,000 residence on the lot recently purchased in Bennington Centre.
Berkeley, Cal.—Reports state that bids will be received until December II, 1906, for the erection of the new Polytechnic High School on the lot between Allston Way and Kittredge Street. For particu lars address Trustees of Berkeley School.
Boise City, Idaho.—The Capitol Building Committee, it is reported, has awarded the contract for the granite to be used in the first course of construction to James Welsh, of Butte.
Bridgeport, Conn.—The Modern Woodmen of America, it is stated, are taking steps forming a corporation to erect a fivestory building. A. D. Rose has charge.
Camden, N. J.—It is reported that the Porcelain Trust will erect a large plant here at a cost of $500,000.
Charlotte, N. C.—It is stated that the members of the Y. M. C. A. are planning to erect a $70,000 lodge building. Address the Secretary.
Chicago, III.—Plans have been completed, according to reports, for a $650,000 ten-story police station, to be erected in the First Ward next spring. Plans have also been prepared for a $35,000 station tor the Thirteenth Precinct in Seventy-sixth Street ; a $25,000 station at Hamlin Avenue and Twenty-second Street, for the Twentyfifth Precinct ; a $40,000 station in State Street.
W. C. Armstrong is reported to have secured the contract to erect the terminal station for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad ; probable cost, $20,000,000.
Myron H. Church, Marquette Building, 204 Dearborn Street, has let the masonry and cement contracts to the B. H. Lichter Company, 115 Dearborn Street, for a manufacturing plant to be built on about four acres of land at Lumber and Canal Streets, extending to Seward Street, for the Heath ft Milligan Manufacturing Company, 170 Randolph Street. It will be a four-story
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
POUR-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 OP TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. 5. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 tne 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.
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, Ii.l.
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.
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