The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI. APRIL 27, 1907. No. 1635 Summary:
Pages 153-154
The Losses Caused by the San Francisco Disaster—A Sevenhundred-foot Skyscraper Proposed in Pittsburgh, Pa.—A Kindly Recognition of the Architects of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.—Paying Taxes on a Lot Permanently Restricted from Improvement.—Anniversary of New York’s Street-plan System—The Obligation Upon the Public to Erect Its Own Fire-breaks—State Rental Paid to Private Owners Not Always Wasteful.
Actions by Architects for their Fees..................................................... 155 A German Authority on German and American Architecture.. 156 Some Engineering Lessons of the San Francisco Disaster. ... 158 Plates:
159
All Saints’ Cathedral, from the Southeast, Albany, N. Y.— House on Soldiers’ Place, Buffalo N. Y.—No. 3 W. Ninety-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.—New York Medical College and Hospital for Women—Houses at Buffalo, N. Y.: Two Plates—Two Houses at Rochester, N. Y.—House of W. E. Sloan, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Die Pfalz, near Caub, Prussia—Monument to the Brothers Cairoli, Rome, Italy-—Vase, Versailles Park, and Pasha’s Garden, Tetuan, Morocco—-Views in the Bardo Museum, Algiers.
Notes and Clippings. .................................................. ......................- 60 12 West 40TH Street
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 19(14, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y„ under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI. APRIL 27, 1907. No. 1635 Summary:
Pages 153-154
The Losses Caused by the San Francisco Disaster—A Sevenhundred-foot Skyscraper Proposed in Pittsburgh, Pa.—A Kindly Recognition of the Architects of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.—Paying Taxes on a Lot Permanently Restricted from Improvement.—Anniversary of New York’s Street-plan System—The Obligation Upon the Public to Erect Its Own Fire-breaks—State Rental Paid to Private Owners Not Always Wasteful.
Actions by Architects for their Fees..................................................... 155 A German Authority on German and American Architecture.. 156 Some Engineering Lessons of the San Francisco Disaster. ... 158 Plates:
159
All Saints’ Cathedral, from the Southeast, Albany, N. Y.— House on Soldiers’ Place, Buffalo N. Y.—No. 3 W. Ninety-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.—New York Medical College and Hospital for Women—Houses at Buffalo, N. Y.: Two Plates—Two Houses at Rochester, N. Y.—House of W. E. Sloan, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Die Pfalz, near Caub, Prussia—Monument to the Brothers Cairoli, Rome, Italy-—Vase, Versailles Park, and Pasha’s Garden, Tetuan, Morocco—-Views in the Bardo Museum, Algiers.
Notes and Clippings. .................................................. ......................- 60 12 West 40TH Street
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 19(14, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y„ under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.