The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI.JANUARY 19, 1907.No: 1621.
Editorial Summary: Pages 33-34
Success of the Jubilee Convention—The Philadelphia Board of Education Reverts to Combustible School-houses—Reinforcedconcrete Buildings the Quarry Ground of the Future—The “Paris Prize” of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects—Defacement of a Statue on the New York Custom-house—The Deforestation of New England—The Casting of Niehaus’s Statue of “St. Louis.”
Report of the Board of Directors, A. I. A........................................... 35 Proceedings of the Fortieth Convention of the A. I. A............. 36 Report of the Committee on Architectural Education............... 40 Report of the Committee on Specifications..................................... 42 Report of the Committee on Signing Buildings and
Using-Institute Initials................................................................. 43 Early History of the American Institute of Architects............ 43 Forest Restoration ....................... 46
Communication ......... 47
Music in the Draughting-room.
Notes and Clippings........................................... 48 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, etc.
Plates :
The “West Street Building,” New York, N. Y.—Section and Rear View : Original Design for the Same Building—Plans of the Sam _Entrance Details of the Same—Corridors in the Same—Details of Elevator-screens in the same: Three Plates.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
The Cathedral, Monza, Italy—Church at Pinterville, near Louviers, Eure, France—House of “la Reine Berengere,” Le Mans, Sarthe, France—Hampton Ferry, Evesham, England.
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Entered as second class matter November IS, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y„ under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1S79.