The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI.MAY 18, 1907.No. 1638.
Summary: Pages 197-198
The Unusual Breakage of Steel Rails — The Reciprocal Duties of the Underwriters and the Community — Half a Century’s Profit and Loss on Fire Insurance — Municipal Ownership of Firebreaks — Opposition to a Day-camp: for Tuberculous Children — Contesting a Final Certificate on the Ground of Insanity — The Considerate Architect and the Economical University — The Tribulations of a Belgian Competition-winner.
Westminster Cathedral. — II................... 199 An Island Cathedral for Boston.................................................................................... 201
Communication ............................... 203
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine: a Criticism.
Illustrations .................................................................................................................................... 204 Church of the Disciples, Boston, Mass.: Four Plates — Pontefract House, Sewickley, Pa. — Stable at Greenwich, Conn. — John Hancock Building, Boston, Mass. — House of W. L. Mellon, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Additional: Public Library, Racine, Wis. — Entrance to John Hancock Building; Boston, Mass. — McKinley High School, St. Louis, Mo. — First Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Lindell Exchange of the Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Notes and Clippings.............................. 204
FLATIRON BUILDINGNEW 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, 1879.
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI.MAY 18, 1907.No. 1638.
Summary: Pages 197-198
The Unusual Breakage of Steel Rails — The Reciprocal Duties of the Underwriters and the Community — Half a Century’s Profit and Loss on Fire Insurance — Municipal Ownership of Firebreaks — Opposition to a Day-camp: for Tuberculous Children — Contesting a Final Certificate on the Ground of Insanity — The Considerate Architect and the Economical University — The Tribulations of a Belgian Competition-winner.
Westminster Cathedral. — II................... 199 An Island Cathedral for Boston.................................................................................... 201
Communication ............................... 203
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine: a Criticism.
Illustrations .................................................................................................................................... 204 Church of the Disciples, Boston, Mass.: Four Plates — Pontefract House, Sewickley, Pa. — Stable at Greenwich, Conn. — John Hancock Building, Boston, Mass. — House of W. L. Mellon, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Additional: Public Library, Racine, Wis. — Entrance to John Hancock Building; Boston, Mass. — McKinley High School, St. Louis, Mo. — First Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Lindell Exchange of the Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Notes and Clippings.............................. 204
FLATIRON BUILDINGNEW 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, 1879.