OKONITE
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring ot PUBLIC ^PRIVATE BUILDINGS
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
TRADE MARK
REG. US. PATENT OFFICE.
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
of Detroit, died January 6, of pneumonia. He was seventy-seven years of age, and a veteran of the Civil War.
Parsons, Kan.—Mr. B. H. Quinn, architect, has opened a night school for the teaching of drawing and architectural plans to carpenters.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Mr. Xavier Lourdon has begun proceedings in the Superior Court against the International Savings and Exchange Bank, the plea being a failure on the part of the defendant corporation to pay for alleged services rendered by him at times during the year dating from June, 1905, to June, 1906.
COMPETITIONS
Carthage, III—It is reported that the county board will consider plans for the proposed court house, to cost $125,000. It is to be located in the center of a park 400 feet square. Plans and specifications are to be submitted without charge.
Laredo, Texas. — Commissioners’ Court of Webb County, Laredo, Texas, will receive plans and specifications for the reconstruction of court house. The architect whose plans are adopted will receive the customary compensation for preparing same, and also be employed to supervise the construction of building. All plans and specifications submitted must conform to ground and second-story plan now on file in office
of George R. Page, County Clerk, as to number of rooms in the building; usual rights reserved.
Middlebourne, W. Va.—Directors of the Tyler County High School will receive competitive bids from architects for plans and specifications, and for the supervision of building (separately) to be erected. The board has adopted the general plan of the Shepherd College, Normal School building, located at Shepherdstown, W. Va., as the plan of the building to be erected. J. G. Mayfield, secretary.
Milwaukee, Wis.—The School Board has authorized the committee on buildings to advertise for competitive plans and specifications for an eighteen-room building to replace the Tenth District School No. 1, at a cost of $72,000; a twenty-four-room new school building to replace the Eleventh District No. 1, to cost $96,000; a ten-room addition to the Thirteenth District School No. 3, to cost $55,000; a ten-room addition to the Fifteenth District School No. 2, to cost $45,000.
Opelika, Ala.—Reports state that a new edifice is to be erected for Trinity Church, and Secretary E. Barnet desires to correspond with architects regarding same.
Woodbury, N. J.—The Board of Education, Woodbury,,N. J., C. A. Madden, chairman, it is reported, will shortly ask for competitive plans for construction of a new high-school building, of stone and brick, three stories, to cost $50,000.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Albany, N. Y.—The Union Bag and Paper Company, it is stated, has plans prepared for a new powerhouse to cost about $200,000.
Alexandria, La.—Reports state that George R. Mann, Little Rock, Ark., has been commissioned to prepare plans for hotel to be erected by J. A. Bentley and associates at a cost of $300,000.
Ames, Ia.—Plans are being prepared for the erection of a church for the Methodist congregation, Rev. A. M. Shea, pastor. Cost, $35,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—Fulton County Commissioners, it is reported, are considering the erection of court-house, to cost $200,000. C. L. Anderson is chairman of Board.
The members of the Presbyterian Club, F. A. Healy, secretary, it is stated, will erect a clubhouse to cost $65,000.
Atlantic City, N. J.—A large addition is to be built to the Imperial Baths, Atlantic City, from plans and detailed specifications by Stearn & Castor, architects and engineers of Philadelphia. The addition will be two stories high, measuring 75x235 feet. It will be built of reinforced-concrete, and work is to be started soon.
AuaygfAj Ga.—Reports stat§ that the
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. {Degree B. S. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering ma> be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. {Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass.
N. S. SHALER, Dean.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urban a, III.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
12 West Fortieth St., New York
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever, Gbo. T. Manson, Gen l
Managers.
Sunt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring ot PUBLIC ^PRIVATE BUILDINGS
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
TRADE MARK
REG. US. PATENT OFFICE.
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
of Detroit, died January 6, of pneumonia. He was seventy-seven years of age, and a veteran of the Civil War.
Parsons, Kan.—Mr. B. H. Quinn, architect, has opened a night school for the teaching of drawing and architectural plans to carpenters.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Mr. Xavier Lourdon has begun proceedings in the Superior Court against the International Savings and Exchange Bank, the plea being a failure on the part of the defendant corporation to pay for alleged services rendered by him at times during the year dating from June, 1905, to June, 1906.
COMPETITIONS
Carthage, III—It is reported that the county board will consider plans for the proposed court house, to cost $125,000. It is to be located in the center of a park 400 feet square. Plans and specifications are to be submitted without charge.
Laredo, Texas. — Commissioners’ Court of Webb County, Laredo, Texas, will receive plans and specifications for the reconstruction of court house. The architect whose plans are adopted will receive the customary compensation for preparing same, and also be employed to supervise the construction of building. All plans and specifications submitted must conform to ground and second-story plan now on file in office
of George R. Page, County Clerk, as to number of rooms in the building; usual rights reserved.
Middlebourne, W. Va.—Directors of the Tyler County High School will receive competitive bids from architects for plans and specifications, and for the supervision of building (separately) to be erected. The board has adopted the general plan of the Shepherd College, Normal School building, located at Shepherdstown, W. Va., as the plan of the building to be erected. J. G. Mayfield, secretary.
Milwaukee, Wis.—The School Board has authorized the committee on buildings to advertise for competitive plans and specifications for an eighteen-room building to replace the Tenth District School No. 1, at a cost of $72,000; a twenty-four-room new school building to replace the Eleventh District No. 1, to cost $96,000; a ten-room addition to the Thirteenth District School No. 3, to cost $55,000; a ten-room addition to the Fifteenth District School No. 2, to cost $45,000.
Opelika, Ala.—Reports state that a new edifice is to be erected for Trinity Church, and Secretary E. Barnet desires to correspond with architects regarding same.
Woodbury, N. J.—The Board of Education, Woodbury,,N. J., C. A. Madden, chairman, it is reported, will shortly ask for competitive plans for construction of a new high-school building, of stone and brick, three stories, to cost $50,000.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Albany, N. Y.—The Union Bag and Paper Company, it is stated, has plans prepared for a new powerhouse to cost about $200,000.
Alexandria, La.—Reports state that George R. Mann, Little Rock, Ark., has been commissioned to prepare plans for hotel to be erected by J. A. Bentley and associates at a cost of $300,000.
Ames, Ia.—Plans are being prepared for the erection of a church for the Methodist congregation, Rev. A. M. Shea, pastor. Cost, $35,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—Fulton County Commissioners, it is reported, are considering the erection of court-house, to cost $200,000. C. L. Anderson is chairman of Board.
The members of the Presbyterian Club, F. A. Healy, secretary, it is stated, will erect a clubhouse to cost $65,000.
Atlantic City, N. J.—A large addition is to be built to the Imperial Baths, Atlantic City, from plans and detailed specifications by Stearn & Castor, architects and engineers of Philadelphia. The addition will be two stories high, measuring 75x235 feet. It will be built of reinforced-concrete, and work is to be started soon.
AuaygfAj Ga.—Reports stat§ that the
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. {Degree B. S. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering ma> be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. {Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass.
N. S. SHALER, Dean.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urban a, III.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
12 West Fortieth St., New York
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever, Gbo. T. Manson, Gen l
Managers.
Sunt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.