The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. LXXXIX.APRIL 7, 1906.
No. 1580.
Editorial Summary:
Pages 117, 118 London Architects intervene in Behalf of the District-Surveyorship System. — Some of the Grounds for such Action. — Applicability of the System to New York Conditions. — Proposed Exhibitions of Sculpture in London and New York. — Non-success of Sculpture as applied to New York Buildings. — A foolish Bill to prevent the Erection of Monarchical Memorials in New York. — Proposed Search for a General Scheme of Improvement for the Boston Metropolitan District. — Divergent Scotch and English Views of Testamentary Rights.
The Possibilities of Concrete Construction from the Stand
point of Utility and Art....................................................................... 119 Rood-Screens............................ 120 The Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg........................................................... 120 A Western View of the Architects’ License...................................... 122 Notes and Clippings........................................................... 124 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc.
Plates:
Proposed Cragmore Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, Colo. — Ford Building, Boston, Mass. — Two Doorways, Alt-Kassel, Prussia. — Rood and Chapel Screens: Plates 18-25. — House of Mrs. C. B. Ellis, Seneca Lake, N. Y. — Elevations of the Same. Additional Plate (International Edition):
Rear Façade: Harvard Club, Forty-Fifth Street, New York, N. Y. TIMES BUILDING NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE
Entered as second class matter Nov. 1 8, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1870
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. LXXXIX.APRIL 7, 1906.
No. 1580.
Editorial Summary:
Pages 117, 118 London Architects intervene in Behalf of the District-Surveyorship System. — Some of the Grounds for such Action. — Applicability of the System to New York Conditions. — Proposed Exhibitions of Sculpture in London and New York. — Non-success of Sculpture as applied to New York Buildings. — A foolish Bill to prevent the Erection of Monarchical Memorials in New York. — Proposed Search for a General Scheme of Improvement for the Boston Metropolitan District. — Divergent Scotch and English Views of Testamentary Rights.
The Possibilities of Concrete Construction from the Stand
point of Utility and Art....................................................................... 119 Rood-Screens............................ 120 The Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg........................................................... 120 A Western View of the Architects’ License...................................... 122 Notes and Clippings........................................................... 124 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, Etc.
Plates:
Proposed Cragmore Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, Colo. — Ford Building, Boston, Mass. — Two Doorways, Alt-Kassel, Prussia. — Rood and Chapel Screens: Plates 18-25. — House of Mrs. C. B. Ellis, Seneca Lake, N. Y. — Elevations of the Same. Additional Plate (International Edition):
Rear Façade: Harvard Club, Forty-Fifth Street, New York, N. Y. TIMES BUILDING NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE
Entered as second class matter Nov. 1 8, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1870