International studio (35.1908)

Philadelphia Architectural Exhibition


BROADWAY SAVINGS INSTITUTION YORK AND SAWYER, ARCHITECTS

Mr. Lowry’s house, by the same architects, is
worthy of mention; the stately residence of Mr.
John C. Bell seemed the most interesting of Horace
Trumbauer’s work, and a perspective of a typical
narrow city house for New York, by Watson &
Hinckel, gave promise of a successful home of that
type.
There was not a great amount of ecclesiastical
work to be seen and still less of striking merit.
A Roman Catholic church, by Ballinger & Perrot,
was refreshing in its use of Lombard motives en-
riched with tile work in the cement walls; there
was much interesting detail in Field & Medary’s
Washington Memorial Chapel, at Valley Forge;
W. E. Jackson showed an unusually pleasing de-
sign for a very small church at Lancaster, Pa.,

and Horace W. Sel-
lers’s altar and altar
brasses for St. Clem-
ents were most inter-
esting.
Among the most im-
portant exhibits illus-
trating work of a pub-
lic or semipublic char-
acter were Carrere &
Hastings’s chaste Mc-
Kinley monument for
Buffalo, the sculpture
upon which is by R.
Phimister Proctor;
John Russell Pope’s
Lincoln Memorial
Farm; a charming ele-
vation in pencil of a
cottage for the House
of Refuge, by Cope &
Stewardson; Delano &
Aldrich’s Philadelphia
Orphanage at Walling-
ford; Kelsey & Cret’s
successful competitive
design shown by draw-
ings and a plaster
model, for the Interna-
tional Bureau of the
American Republics;
the dignified Georgian
design for the Army
General Hospital at
Washington, by
Rankin, Kellogg &
Crane, and Field &
Medary’s eminently
successful new Spring Garden Branch Library.
Under the head of schools and colleges the new
building for the College of Physicians, by Cope &
Stewardson, was shown by plan and a plaster
model. It is a work of dignified restraint that will
do honor to Philadelphia and to its designers.
Pell & Corbett’s Maryland Institute, honored by
the New York Chapter of the American Institute,
deserves especial mention.
Club houses were not particularly in evidence,
though Janssen & Abbott’s preliminary sketch for
the Pittsburgh Americus Club was attractive, and
Frank E. Newman’s drawing in color for the ad-
ditions to the Art Club in Philadelphia was one of
the best things in the exhibition.
That triumph of design in cement-and-tile con-

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