The American Architect and Building News
Vol. XC.
SATURDAY DECEMBER i, 1906.
No. 1614.
REGULAR EDITION
$ 6 a year
Single copies, 15 cents
Contains over 700 pages of text and nearly 500 pages of plate illustrations, reproduced mainly from copyrighted
photographs and from architects’ plans and drawings.
A weekly Journal of Constructive and Decorative Art. Published
every Saturday by
The American Architect
(Incorporated)
12 West 40TH St., New York.
INTERNATIONAL EDITION
$16 a year
Single copies, 40 cents
Contains the same matter as the Regular Edition and also 100 pages of plates from foreign subjects and 100 pages
made by the gelatine or photogravure
process.
Neponset Waterproof Papers
FOR
Wall Sheathing
A first-class insulation against heat in summer and
cold in winter
THEY ARE THICKER, STRONGER AND
MORE WATERPROOF THAN OTHER SHEATHING PAPERS.
THEREFORE THEY GIVE BETTER RESULTS AND FOR A LONGER TIME.
Neponset Red Waterproof Paper
FOR
Backplaster Work
Architects for many years have specified it for
this purpose because it does not draw away from the studding as ordinary backplaster will.
F. W. BIRD & SON, Makers
Established 1817
EAST WALPOLE, MASS.
New York Chicago Washington
Canadian Factory and Office, Hamilton, Ont.
F
ROM the sim
plest hoist by hand to the most comprehensive elevator equipment, em
bracing in one in
stance over 40 elevators in a single building, we are prepared to successfully cope with any elevator problem. Besides ordi
nary passenger and freight elevators,
we manufacture and install dumb waiters, escalators (moving stairways), hoists for mines, docks, ware
houses, building operations, blast furnaces, etc. We also build incline railways, gravity conveyors, etc.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
OTIS ELEVATOR
COMPANY
New York Office, 17 Battery Place
OFFICES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE WORLD
The Illuminating Engineering Department OF THE
“THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS”
HOLOPHANE COMPANY
20 Plates, folio. Price, $5.00
IS AT YOUR DISPOSAL.227-229 Fulton St., New YorK
The American Architect, Publishers,
New York and Boston
OKO NITE
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring ot PUBLIC y PRIVATE BUILDINGS
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape
Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
Vol. XC.
SATURDAY DECEMBER i, 1906.
No. 1614.
REGULAR EDITION
$ 6 a year
Single copies, 15 cents
Contains over 700 pages of text and nearly 500 pages of plate illustrations, reproduced mainly from copyrighted
photographs and from architects’ plans and drawings.
A weekly Journal of Constructive and Decorative Art. Published
every Saturday by
The American Architect
(Incorporated)
12 West 40TH St., New York.
INTERNATIONAL EDITION
$16 a year
Single copies, 40 cents
Contains the same matter as the Regular Edition and also 100 pages of plates from foreign subjects and 100 pages
made by the gelatine or photogravure
process.
Neponset Waterproof Papers
FOR
Wall Sheathing
A first-class insulation against heat in summer and
cold in winter
THEY ARE THICKER, STRONGER AND
MORE WATERPROOF THAN OTHER SHEATHING PAPERS.
THEREFORE THEY GIVE BETTER RESULTS AND FOR A LONGER TIME.
Neponset Red Waterproof Paper
FOR
Backplaster Work
Architects for many years have specified it for
this purpose because it does not draw away from the studding as ordinary backplaster will.
F. W. BIRD & SON, Makers
Established 1817
EAST WALPOLE, MASS.
New York Chicago Washington
Canadian Factory and Office, Hamilton, Ont.
F
ROM the sim
plest hoist by hand to the most comprehensive elevator equipment, em
bracing in one in
stance over 40 elevators in a single building, we are prepared to successfully cope with any elevator problem. Besides ordi
nary passenger and freight elevators,
we manufacture and install dumb waiters, escalators (moving stairways), hoists for mines, docks, ware
houses, building operations, blast furnaces, etc. We also build incline railways, gravity conveyors, etc.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
OTIS ELEVATOR
COMPANY
New York Office, 17 Battery Place
OFFICES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE WORLD
The Illuminating Engineering Department OF THE
“THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS”
HOLOPHANE COMPANY
20 Plates, folio. Price, $5.00
IS AT YOUR DISPOSAL.227-229 Fulton St., New YorK
The American Architect, Publishers,
New York and Boston
OKO NITE
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring ot PUBLIC y PRIVATE BUILDINGS
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape
Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York