SOCIETIES
ST. LOUIS ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The old McClure home, at Grand and Washington Avenues, one of St. Louis’s historic buildings, will probably soon be occupied by the St. Louis Architectural Club and remodeled. The question of securing these new quarters was discussed at a meeting of the Club April 27, at which the officers for the ensuing year were installed.
The new officers of the Club, which has been an active supporter of the Civic Improvement League, are: President, A. D. Miller; First Vice-president, Eugene L. Plietsch; Second Vice-president, Frank Dellard; Secretary, Albert Pollard; Treasurer, Archie Garland.
The club has a membership of 190. At the next meeting an exhibition of the draw
ings of the Washington University students will be made and a membership in the Club conferred upon the student showing the best talent.
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
It is possible that Washington may become the permanent headquarters of the Architectural League of America, which completed its ninth annual convention at the New Willard on April 24. The idea was suggested Monday at the opening session in an address by Commissioner Macfarland. Since then the delegates have been considering the matter, and the decision has been left with the executive committee. The delegates, almost as a whole,
are in favor of the selection of that city as the headquarters of the League.
Detroit was decided upon as the next meeting-place of the association. If Washington is selected as the headquarters of the League, the members will, in all probability, meet there every other year, the alternate years the meeting being held in different cities throughout the country.
In case of the establishment of the permanent headquarters of the association here, a secretary, whose home is in Washington, will be appointed.
J. P. Hayes, of Toronto, Canada, was elected as President for the ensuing year. Mr. Hayes, who has been chairman of the committee on current club work, is a member of the “Toronto Eighteen, ” one of the best known architectural societies of Canada. Mr. Hayes succeeds Ernest Russell, of St. Louis, as president of the League.
During the afternoon the delegates were taken about the city in a sight-seeing automobile, visiting the residential portion of Washington. Among other places visited was the Soldiers’ Home and the Octagon House, where a reception was tendered them by the Washington Chapter of the A. I. A.
At the banquet at the New Willard Hotel, Washington as the architectural centre of the country was the theme of the addresses. Commissioner Henry L. West was the principal speaker of the evening. The other speakers were Dr. Thomas Nelson Page, Glenn Brown, Franklin Webster Smith, Percy Ash, E. W. Donn, J. C. Hornblower and W. D. Windom, of Wash
ington; Ernest J. Russell, of St. Louis, and Max Dunning, of Chicago.
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS.
The New York Society of Architects celebrated the first anniversary of its organization by a dinner and business meeting, Wednesday evening, April 24. The Society, which includes in its membership architects in Brooklyn and Manhattan, passed resolutions strongly condemning the proposed amendments to the Tenement-house Law formulated by the Commission for passage through the Legislature. The feeling of members present was very strong that the proposed changes, instead of affording the relief which they had been led to hope for, constitute on the whole an additional burden and invasion of the rights of property owners, while containing incon
sistencies and complications which render the law practically unworkable and abortive. Special attention was called to the numerous instances where discretionary power is given to the Department in enforcing the law, thereby opening the way to favoritism and other abuses. The absurdity also of limiting the greatest dimension of any room in an apartment-house, except when provided with a power passenger-elevator, to fifteen feet, and the prohibition of any alcove whatever, unless having a floor area of seventy square feet with a separate window, was also strongly commented upon.
The proceedings closed with election of officers for the ensuing year and auditing of the treasurer’s account.
RICHARDSON
FIRE PROOF
DOORS
MAKE EACH ROOM A SEPARATE BUILDING I
T is just as easy and no more expensive to use Fire Proof Doors in place of wood doors — if you use Richardson Doors.
They are finished in Antique Copper and Brass Plate or the Natural Wood Grain, or White for hospitals.
The cost of Fire Proof Doors will be the same or less than wood doors — all points considered. Suitable to all classes of fire proof structures. The door is an integral part of the partition.
The door illustrated is one of the Richardson Standard Corridor Doors, dark mahogany finish, in the B. & O. Office Building, Baltimore; Parker & Thomas, Architects.
THORP FIRE PROOF DOOR CO.
Formerly Fire Proof Door Co.
1602 Central Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
ST. LOUIS ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The old McClure home, at Grand and Washington Avenues, one of St. Louis’s historic buildings, will probably soon be occupied by the St. Louis Architectural Club and remodeled. The question of securing these new quarters was discussed at a meeting of the Club April 27, at which the officers for the ensuing year were installed.
The new officers of the Club, which has been an active supporter of the Civic Improvement League, are: President, A. D. Miller; First Vice-president, Eugene L. Plietsch; Second Vice-president, Frank Dellard; Secretary, Albert Pollard; Treasurer, Archie Garland.
The club has a membership of 190. At the next meeting an exhibition of the draw
ings of the Washington University students will be made and a membership in the Club conferred upon the student showing the best talent.
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
It is possible that Washington may become the permanent headquarters of the Architectural League of America, which completed its ninth annual convention at the New Willard on April 24. The idea was suggested Monday at the opening session in an address by Commissioner Macfarland. Since then the delegates have been considering the matter, and the decision has been left with the executive committee. The delegates, almost as a whole,
are in favor of the selection of that city as the headquarters of the League.
Detroit was decided upon as the next meeting-place of the association. If Washington is selected as the headquarters of the League, the members will, in all probability, meet there every other year, the alternate years the meeting being held in different cities throughout the country.
In case of the establishment of the permanent headquarters of the association here, a secretary, whose home is in Washington, will be appointed.
J. P. Hayes, of Toronto, Canada, was elected as President for the ensuing year. Mr. Hayes, who has been chairman of the committee on current club work, is a member of the “Toronto Eighteen, ” one of the best known architectural societies of Canada. Mr. Hayes succeeds Ernest Russell, of St. Louis, as president of the League.
During the afternoon the delegates were taken about the city in a sight-seeing automobile, visiting the residential portion of Washington. Among other places visited was the Soldiers’ Home and the Octagon House, where a reception was tendered them by the Washington Chapter of the A. I. A.
At the banquet at the New Willard Hotel, Washington as the architectural centre of the country was the theme of the addresses. Commissioner Henry L. West was the principal speaker of the evening. The other speakers were Dr. Thomas Nelson Page, Glenn Brown, Franklin Webster Smith, Percy Ash, E. W. Donn, J. C. Hornblower and W. D. Windom, of Wash
ington; Ernest J. Russell, of St. Louis, and Max Dunning, of Chicago.
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS.
The New York Society of Architects celebrated the first anniversary of its organization by a dinner and business meeting, Wednesday evening, April 24. The Society, which includes in its membership architects in Brooklyn and Manhattan, passed resolutions strongly condemning the proposed amendments to the Tenement-house Law formulated by the Commission for passage through the Legislature. The feeling of members present was very strong that the proposed changes, instead of affording the relief which they had been led to hope for, constitute on the whole an additional burden and invasion of the rights of property owners, while containing incon
sistencies and complications which render the law practically unworkable and abortive. Special attention was called to the numerous instances where discretionary power is given to the Department in enforcing the law, thereby opening the way to favoritism and other abuses. The absurdity also of limiting the greatest dimension of any room in an apartment-house, except when provided with a power passenger-elevator, to fifteen feet, and the prohibition of any alcove whatever, unless having a floor area of seventy square feet with a separate window, was also strongly commented upon.
The proceedings closed with election of officers for the ensuing year and auditing of the treasurer’s account.
RICHARDSON
FIRE PROOF
DOORS
MAKE EACH ROOM A SEPARATE BUILDING I
T is just as easy and no more expensive to use Fire Proof Doors in place of wood doors — if you use Richardson Doors.
They are finished in Antique Copper and Brass Plate or the Natural Wood Grain, or White for hospitals.
The cost of Fire Proof Doors will be the same or less than wood doors — all points considered. Suitable to all classes of fire proof structures. The door is an integral part of the partition.
The door illustrated is one of the Richardson Standard Corridor Doors, dark mahogany finish, in the B. & O. Office Building, Baltimore; Parker & Thomas, Architects.
THORP FIRE PROOF DOOR CO.
Formerly Fire Proof Door Co.
1602 Central Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.