The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. xc. SEPTEMBER 29, 1906. No. 1605 Editorial Summary:
Pages 97-98 Objection Made to the Appointment of an Architect for the Brooklyn Public Library—Need of a Universally Accepted Method of Securing Designs for Public Buildings—Pay of English Official Architects—A Water-tank Accident—Reinforced-concrete Ill-suited for Complicated Work—Burning of an Old Theatre at Savannah, Ga.—Transmogrification of Bricklayers into Housesmiths.
Sweden—II......................................... 99 The Coignet Reinforced-concrete System.................................................. 101 The Sea s Ravages at Mont St. Michel . ................................................. 102
Communications .......................................................................................................... 103 Architectural Practice— Alcove Rooms”—The Supervising
Architect’s Tenure of Office.
Notes and -Clippings.................................................................... 104 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc. Plates :
Lriion (Traction) Station, Georgetown, D. C.—Base of Tower of the Same—National Cathedral School—General View and Arcading of the Same—Entrance Pavilion of the Same—House of Herbert Wadsworth, Esq., 5003 Mass. Ave., Washington, D. C.—Porte Cochère of the Same—Union Trust & Storage Co.’s Building; Fritz Reuter s, Penna. Ave., Washington, D. C.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Detail: National Cathedral School, Washington, D. C. 12 West 40TH Street
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March , 1879.
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. xc. SEPTEMBER 29, 1906. No. 1605 Editorial Summary:
Pages 97-98 Objection Made to the Appointment of an Architect for the Brooklyn Public Library—Need of a Universally Accepted Method of Securing Designs for Public Buildings—Pay of English Official Architects—A Water-tank Accident—Reinforced-concrete Ill-suited for Complicated Work—Burning of an Old Theatre at Savannah, Ga.—Transmogrification of Bricklayers into Housesmiths.
Sweden—II......................................... 99 The Coignet Reinforced-concrete System.................................................. 101 The Sea s Ravages at Mont St. Michel . ................................................. 102
Communications .......................................................................................................... 103 Architectural Practice— Alcove Rooms”—The Supervising
Architect’s Tenure of Office.
Notes and -Clippings.................................................................... 104 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc. Plates :
Lriion (Traction) Station, Georgetown, D. C.—Base of Tower of the Same—National Cathedral School—General View and Arcading of the Same—Entrance Pavilion of the Same—House of Herbert Wadsworth, Esq., 5003 Mass. Ave., Washington, D. C.—Porte Cochère of the Same—Union Trust & Storage Co.’s Building; Fritz Reuter s, Penna. Ave., Washington, D. C.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Detail: National Cathedral School, Washington, D. C. 12 West 40TH Street
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March , 1879.