The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
VOL. XC.
JULY 14, 1906.
No. 1594
Editorial Summary:
Rejected Design for Brooklyn Municipal Building Paid for — The Hendrik Hudson Memorial Bridge — Proposed Monument to Hudson at the Navesink — The Commission on “Omitted Work” — Chicago Departmentstore Closed for Violations of the Building-laws — Insurance Companies Accused of Welching — The Pressure on the Structural-steel Works — Celebrating the Semi-Centennial of Modern Rome — “Overtime, ” a Panacea.
Concrete Column Tests at Watertown Arsenal ................................................. 11 The Inventor of Reinforced-concrete....................................... 14
Communication............................................................................................................................................... 15
One Way to Retain a Lawyer.
Notes and Clippings.................................................................................................................................. 16 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc. Plates:
House of Mrs. J. M. Green, Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C. — Grace Church Neighborhood House, New York, N. Y. — Plans of the Same — Adirondack Lodge for W. A. Read, Esq. — Plans and Side Elevation of the Pavilion: Penna. R. R. Terminal Station, New York, N. Y. — East End of General Waiting-room in the Same Station — Design for National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Additional Plates (International Edition):
Doorway: House of Mrs. James M. Green, 1737 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C.
12 West 40 TH Street
NEW YORK Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act
AND BUILDING NEWS
VOL. XC.
JULY 14, 1906.
No. 1594
Editorial Summary:
Rejected Design for Brooklyn Municipal Building Paid for — The Hendrik Hudson Memorial Bridge — Proposed Monument to Hudson at the Navesink — The Commission on “Omitted Work” — Chicago Departmentstore Closed for Violations of the Building-laws — Insurance Companies Accused of Welching — The Pressure on the Structural-steel Works — Celebrating the Semi-Centennial of Modern Rome — “Overtime, ” a Panacea.
Concrete Column Tests at Watertown Arsenal ................................................. 11 The Inventor of Reinforced-concrete....................................... 14
Communication............................................................................................................................................... 15
One Way to Retain a Lawyer.
Notes and Clippings.................................................................................................................................. 16 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc. Plates:
House of Mrs. J. M. Green, Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C. — Grace Church Neighborhood House, New York, N. Y. — Plans of the Same — Adirondack Lodge for W. A. Read, Esq. — Plans and Side Elevation of the Pavilion: Penna. R. R. Terminal Station, New York, N. Y. — East End of General Waiting-room in the Same Station — Design for National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Additional Plates (International Edition):
Doorway: House of Mrs. James M. Green, 1737 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C.
12 West 40 TH Street
NEW YORK Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act