The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. LXXXIX. JUNE 16, 1906. No. 1590 Editorial Summary:
Pages 197-198
Obstacles to the Use of Reinforced-Concrete—The Disembodied Depajlment of Agriculture Building—Burning of the Louisiana Statelifae—Dedication of the Christian Science Temple at Boston—Death off/j. B. McElfatrick, Architect—Diffused Colored-lights in Theater dt6ration—An Abattoir Wisely Disguised—The Number of Foreign
and Educated Architects.
b/i/oir of the New York Butchers ’ Dressed Meat Co....................... 199 Cryf.i/R in Stonework—I.............................................-.......................................... 200 QfcmcTAL Architecture............;........................................................................... 201 A Pair of Novel Elevators................................................................................... 202 plioisoNNE Glass.......................................................................................................... 202
Communication :......................................................................................................... 203
Collapse of Masonry Tower at the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada.
Notes and Clippings................:.............................................................................. 204 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc.
Plates:
Abattoir of the New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Co.—Plans of the Same: ThreeuPlates—Sections of the Same—House of R. W. Patterson, Esq., Washington, D. C.—Suffolk Savings Bank Building, Boston, Mass.—Plan and Section of the Same.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Entrance Detail: House of R. W. Patterson, Esq., 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 3, 1870