International studio (34.1908)

Architectural League


There was an abundance of country
house work, though the fact of its being
so widely scattered on the walls gave
the opposite impression. Mr. Grosvenor
Atterbury exhibited some excellent pho-
tographs and drawings of an unusually
successful house in half timber and
brick construction at Locust Valley,
L. I. A summer cottage at Land’s
End, Mass., by Frank A. Bourne; a
cottage for Mr. H. S. Orr, and a resi-
dence for Mrs. Charles E. Bayliss, by
Mr. Aymar Embury, II, and a house at
Newburyport, Mass., by Mr. Franklin
H. Hutchins, were among the exhibits
in which the design and the presenta-
tion were equally notable. Then there
were excellent photographs of a charm-
ing villa at Montecito, Cal., by Cram,
Goodhue &: Ferguson, several houses
in Mr. J. W. Dow’s quaint and origi-
nal vein; a good house at Cedarhurst,
L. I., by Ewing & Chappell; some
more of Mr. Embury’s uniformly ex-
cellent houses, and a simple and digni-
fied Italian house in plaster, by Mr. A.
Durant Sneden.
There were not many exhibits in land-
scape architecture—a rather stiff layout
for Mr. John D. Rockefeller’s estate at
Pocantico Hills; an attractive drawing
of the exedra of the “ God Pan” at Co-
lumbia University, designed byMcKim,
Mead & White in conjunction with Mr.
George Gray Barnard, sculptor, and
the landscape work by Mr. Charles
W. Leavitt, Jr., in connection with
“Kinnekort,” Colonia, N. J., where
the house, designed by Mr. George
Nichols, and its surroundings made a
harmonious whole that was irresistibly
charming.
This review would be sadly incom-
plete without a reference to some of the
architectural work that was submitted
as drawings. Mr. Vernon Howe Bailey
showed a number of his charming pen-
cil sketches; Mr. Alfred C. Blossom
was represented by a drawing after the English
type showing a club-house for the Countess of
Stradbroke, Hensham, England; Mr. Birch Bur-
dette Long exhibited but two drawings him-
self, both of them sketches of the Singer Build-
ing, which exuded in the subtlest sort of a way

SINGER BUILDING
NEW YORK

ERNEST FLAGG, ARCHITECT
NEW YORK

the real character of that great skyscraper, but he
was well represented also in the exhibits of several
architects, notably in the wonderful Japanese
drawings for Air. Embury’s Bayliss house. Mr.
J. H. Phillips sent an attractive drawing in flat
colors of a studio building, and a very nice per-

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