The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCII.JULY 6, 1907.No. 1645. Editorial Summary: Pages 1-3
The Automobile Garage and the Fire-hazard — Movement to Establish a National Department of Fine Arts — Some Objections to the Idea — The Competition for the International Bureau of American Republics Building — Failure of Invited Architects to Secure Place — The Publicity Attending Defeat of Invited Competitors a Reason for Their Liberal Compensation — Consulting-Architects to the Mayors of New York and Baltimore — Striking Public Servants are Either Mutineers or Traitors — An Algerian Academy of Fine Art at the Villa Abd-el-Tif — The Unearned Increment in City and Country — Why the Goddess Bast Is Catheaded — The Present Movement to Revise Building Laws.
Motor Garages and Fire-protection ................................................................... 4 W. L. B. Jenney, Architect........................................................................ 5 The Column of Trajan........................................................................................................ 6 The Pittsburgh High-school Competition Scandal....................................................... 7 Illustrations:
House of L. H. Lozier, Oak Park, Ill. — House of Mrs. Wm. Thaw, Pittsburgh, Pa. — House of G. M. Loughlin, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa. — House of S. Eastman, Esq., Kenilworth, Ill. — House of C. Meeker, Esq., Columbus, O. — House of Mrs. J. R. Steers, Greenwich, Conn.: Three Plates.
Additional — Tombs: Plates 65-72.
Notes and Clippings...................................................................................................... 8 Societies, Personal Mention, Industrial Information, Building
FLATIRON BUILDINGNEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Offiee at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCII.JULY 6, 1907.No. 1645. Editorial Summary: Pages 1-3
The Automobile Garage and the Fire-hazard — Movement to Establish a National Department of Fine Arts — Some Objections to the Idea — The Competition for the International Bureau of American Republics Building — Failure of Invited Architects to Secure Place — The Publicity Attending Defeat of Invited Competitors a Reason for Their Liberal Compensation — Consulting-Architects to the Mayors of New York and Baltimore — Striking Public Servants are Either Mutineers or Traitors — An Algerian Academy of Fine Art at the Villa Abd-el-Tif — The Unearned Increment in City and Country — Why the Goddess Bast Is Catheaded — The Present Movement to Revise Building Laws.
Motor Garages and Fire-protection ................................................................... 4 W. L. B. Jenney, Architect........................................................................ 5 The Column of Trajan........................................................................................................ 6 The Pittsburgh High-school Competition Scandal....................................................... 7 Illustrations:
House of L. H. Lozier, Oak Park, Ill. — House of Mrs. Wm. Thaw, Pittsburgh, Pa. — House of G. M. Loughlin, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa. — House of S. Eastman, Esq., Kenilworth, Ill. — House of C. Meeker, Esq., Columbus, O. — House of Mrs. J. R. Steers, Greenwich, Conn.: Three Plates.
Additional — Tombs: Plates 65-72.
Notes and Clippings...................................................................................................... 8 Societies, Personal Mention, Industrial Information, Building
FLATIRON BUILDINGNEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Offiee at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.