The Mansions of England in the Olden Time
By JOSEPH NASH
One Hundred and Four Plates of Great Interest and Artistic Value. Supplement to the INTERNATIONAL
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This special number of the International Studio consists for the most part of very handsome engarvings, printed in sepia, of the stately homes of mediaeval England. The banquet and drawingrooms, baronial halls, bedrooms, courts and galleries of such historic mansions as Haddon Hall, Broughton Castle, Bramshill, Setton Place, Moat House, Levens, Hatfield, Hampton Court and Crew Hall, are shown with the picturesquely-dressed people of the days of their first glory, giving life to the pictures. As many of these ancestral estates exist comparatively unchanged to-day, save in the garb of their occupants, this album of engravings is unusually interesting. Mr. C. Harrison Townsend writes the introduction and the work is edited by Charles Holme.
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SOCIETIES
PITTSBURGH CHAPTER, A. I. A.
The Pittsburgh Chapter, American Institute of Architects, has just announced a competition which is of great interest. By a gift of a friend of architecture, whose name is withheld, the Chapter is able to offer , $300 in two prizes of $250 and $50 each for the best design submitted under the head of “Domestic Architecture.” A committee composed of Architects C. M. Bartberger, F. A. Russell, C. A. MacClure, C. T. Ingham and E. B. Lee has prepared the following set of rules to govern the competition :
On Saturday, March 3, the contestants shall report to Prof. Henry Hornbostel at the Carnegie Technical Schools with all materials except a drawing-board and a T- square. Each applicant must there prepare and submit a preliminary nine-hour sketch to be made entirely without help and signed with a statement to that effect. Six weeks thereafter a final drawing of the -same subject shall be submitted to the committee of awards at the same place. The committee shall then, make and announce the awards a$ soon as possible. The winner of the first prize, $250, shall be obliged to travel one month in Eastern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to make a thorough study of the “old colonial” architecture. He shall submit a written report of his travels and observations to the Chapter, and on his return to Pittsburgh shall make and deliver, as the property of the Chapter, a measured drawing the size
of a “double-elephant sheet” of some building, the choice of which shall be subject to the approval of the committee. The second prize of $50 shall be awarded without restriction, and the winner will not have to travel. Formal announcements of the competition were sent to the forty-five members of the Chapter, about forty members of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club , and the sixty-five students enrolled in the architectural courses at the Carnegie Technical Schools under the direction of Professor Henry Hornbostel. The competition is open only to those who are not practising architects at the time of the contest, thus limiting it to the younger members of the profession, which numbers in Greater Pittsburgh probably 250 draughtsmen.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Cleveland, O.—Mr. T. F. Laist is not content to drop the “spite” fence controversy with the decision of the Common Pleas Court, upholding Sylvester T. Everett. Recently he appealed the case to the Circuit Court. He says he intends to have the fence pulled down if he has to fight Everett through all the courts.
Peru, Ind.—Messrs. Lehman & Schmitt, of Cleveland, architects, to whom the County Commissioners recently awarded the contract for the new plans and specifications for the new court-house, to be erected in Peru, have filed a sworn bill setting forth that they are entitled to $2,500, which is equal to 1 per cent, of their contract price. An effort will be made by citizens to prevent the payment of the claim.
Red Lion, Pa.—Judge Bittenger has recently approved the action of the Red Lion School Board and holds that the claim of B. F. Willis, architect, of York, Pa., ought to be paid. Mr. Willis’s claim is for $409, the balance due on plans for a school building, which was never erected. Judge Bittenger holds that there was no abuse of discretion on the part of the School Board in contracting with Mr. Willis for plans for a modern school building, as loans to the amount of $20,000 had been authorized and $6,000 was expected to be derived from the sale of the school property then held by the School Board. The case may be carried to the Supreme Court by some taxpayers.
San Francisco, Cal.—Messrs. Stone & Smith have been awarded a diploma and gold medal for their exhibit of plans and designs of school architecture on the Pacific Coast at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
Seattle, Wash.—Mr. Louis Mendel, of Bebb & Mendel, has returned to the city from a six months’ trip to Europe. Mr. Mendel went to his old home in Germany to see his mother, and at the same time to study the architecture of Europe, traveling through all -of the principal countries.
Atlanta, Ga.—Mr. Edward E. Dougherty, architect, opened offices in the Candler building on February 1. Mr. Dougherty is a graduate of the University of Georgia and of Cornell University, and has taken a special course in the School of Fine Arts at Paris.
Woonsocket, R. I.—Mr. Walter F. Fontaine, of Eantaiue & Kinnicutt, architects. Ims-Yailed for Tourcoing, France, to consult with the Tiberghiens relative to the plans
By JOSEPH NASH
One Hundred and Four Plates of Great Interest and Artistic Value. Supplement to the INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO.
A Few Copies Remain. No Reissue. 4to, $5.00 net. Postage, 35 cts.
This special number of the International Studio consists for the most part of very handsome engarvings, printed in sepia, of the stately homes of mediaeval England. The banquet and drawingrooms, baronial halls, bedrooms, courts and galleries of such historic mansions as Haddon Hall, Broughton Castle, Bramshill, Setton Place, Moat House, Levens, Hatfield, Hampton Court and Crew Hall, are shown with the picturesquely-dressed people of the days of their first glory, giving life to the pictures. As many of these ancestral estates exist comparatively unchanged to-day, save in the garb of their occupants, this album of engravings is unusually interesting. Mr. C. Harrison Townsend writes the introduction and the work is edited by Charles Holme.
THE
International STUDIO
The Monthly Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts.
50c. a copy. $5.00 a year
THE STANDARD IN AMERICA AND
EUROPE.
ALL ARCHITECTS should keep THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO on file. It keeps its readers in touch with all the latest Architectural work of merit. Beginning with the October Number there will appear a Special Series of Articles on the Current Work of our foremost Architects.
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE.
JOHN LANE COMPANY, N. Y.
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Manufactured under letters Patent 708,472 and sold exclusively by us and
our representatives
Pennsylvania Rubber Co.
JEANNETTE, PA.
SOCIETIES
PITTSBURGH CHAPTER, A. I. A.
The Pittsburgh Chapter, American Institute of Architects, has just announced a competition which is of great interest. By a gift of a friend of architecture, whose name is withheld, the Chapter is able to offer , $300 in two prizes of $250 and $50 each for the best design submitted under the head of “Domestic Architecture.” A committee composed of Architects C. M. Bartberger, F. A. Russell, C. A. MacClure, C. T. Ingham and E. B. Lee has prepared the following set of rules to govern the competition :
On Saturday, March 3, the contestants shall report to Prof. Henry Hornbostel at the Carnegie Technical Schools with all materials except a drawing-board and a T- square. Each applicant must there prepare and submit a preliminary nine-hour sketch to be made entirely without help and signed with a statement to that effect. Six weeks thereafter a final drawing of the -same subject shall be submitted to the committee of awards at the same place. The committee shall then, make and announce the awards a$ soon as possible. The winner of the first prize, $250, shall be obliged to travel one month in Eastern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to make a thorough study of the “old colonial” architecture. He shall submit a written report of his travels and observations to the Chapter, and on his return to Pittsburgh shall make and deliver, as the property of the Chapter, a measured drawing the size
of a “double-elephant sheet” of some building, the choice of which shall be subject to the approval of the committee. The second prize of $50 shall be awarded without restriction, and the winner will not have to travel. Formal announcements of the competition were sent to the forty-five members of the Chapter, about forty members of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club , and the sixty-five students enrolled in the architectural courses at the Carnegie Technical Schools under the direction of Professor Henry Hornbostel. The competition is open only to those who are not practising architects at the time of the contest, thus limiting it to the younger members of the profession, which numbers in Greater Pittsburgh probably 250 draughtsmen.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Cleveland, O.—Mr. T. F. Laist is not content to drop the “spite” fence controversy with the decision of the Common Pleas Court, upholding Sylvester T. Everett. Recently he appealed the case to the Circuit Court. He says he intends to have the fence pulled down if he has to fight Everett through all the courts.
Peru, Ind.—Messrs. Lehman & Schmitt, of Cleveland, architects, to whom the County Commissioners recently awarded the contract for the new plans and specifications for the new court-house, to be erected in Peru, have filed a sworn bill setting forth that they are entitled to $2,500, which is equal to 1 per cent, of their contract price. An effort will be made by citizens to prevent the payment of the claim.
Red Lion, Pa.—Judge Bittenger has recently approved the action of the Red Lion School Board and holds that the claim of B. F. Willis, architect, of York, Pa., ought to be paid. Mr. Willis’s claim is for $409, the balance due on plans for a school building, which was never erected. Judge Bittenger holds that there was no abuse of discretion on the part of the School Board in contracting with Mr. Willis for plans for a modern school building, as loans to the amount of $20,000 had been authorized and $6,000 was expected to be derived from the sale of the school property then held by the School Board. The case may be carried to the Supreme Court by some taxpayers.
San Francisco, Cal.—Messrs. Stone & Smith have been awarded a diploma and gold medal for their exhibit of plans and designs of school architecture on the Pacific Coast at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
Seattle, Wash.—Mr. Louis Mendel, of Bebb & Mendel, has returned to the city from a six months’ trip to Europe. Mr. Mendel went to his old home in Germany to see his mother, and at the same time to study the architecture of Europe, traveling through all -of the principal countries.
Atlanta, Ga.—Mr. Edward E. Dougherty, architect, opened offices in the Candler building on February 1. Mr. Dougherty is a graduate of the University of Georgia and of Cornell University, and has taken a special course in the School of Fine Arts at Paris.
Woonsocket, R. I.—Mr. Walter F. Fontaine, of Eantaiue & Kinnicutt, architects. Ims-Yailed for Tourcoing, France, to consult with the Tiberghiens relative to the plans