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DOI Artikel:Saylor, Henry H.: The fourteenth annual architectural exhibition in Philadelphia
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Philadelphia Architectural Exhibition
struction, Price & McLenahan’s Blenheim Hotel
at Atlantic City, was shown by a wonderful soft
brown photograph, by some detail drawings, and
by a drawing in brilliant color by Jules Guerin.
That Mr. Guerin has no scruples against taking
liberties with the landscape is shown by thesplendid
group of lovely green trees growing along the edge
of the boardwalk. Nevertheless, we would not for
a moment have the picture without them.
There were a few very interesting business build-
ings to be seen: the magnificent new home for the
Girard Trust Company—by McKim, Mead &
White and Allen Evans.—whose low marble dom-
inates the northwestern corner of Broad and
Chestnut streets. It was shown most inade-
quately at the Academy, but one had only to walk
down Broad Street a few blocks to see the impo-
sing building itself. The Reed store is another
Philadelphia business building that is a notable ad-
dition to American architecture, refreshing in its
bold use of brick tile and marble—materials that
Price & McLenahan know so well how to use.
And still another notable exhibit was the Power
House at McCall’s Ferry, by Trowbridge &
Ackerman—a purely utilitarian structure in which
reinforced concrete construction is magnificently
expressed. Two bank buildings are worthy of
especial praise—the American Security Company’s
splendid building in Washington and the recently
completed Broadway Savings Institution in New
York, both by York & Sawyer.
Landscape work formed an important part of the
exhibition. Carrere & Hastings’s scheme for the
development of Ventnor, N. J., a seaside residence
town, is particularly notable for its wealth of
DRAWING BY JULES GUERIN
(hotel Blenheim)
water thoroughfares; a somewhat similar problem
treated in an entirely different manner, as might
have been expected from the author, Louis Sul-
livan, was his set of drawings for Petty’s Island,
Philadelphia.
Stained glass was adequately represented by the
wonderful work of Mr. Willett for Cram, Goodhue
& Ferguson’s Calvary Church at Pittsburgh, by
Nicola D’Ascenzo’s, and by Miss Violet Oakley.
MODEL OF A CITY HOUSE
NEWMAN AND HARRIS, ARCHITECTS
CXVIII
struction, Price & McLenahan’s Blenheim Hotel
at Atlantic City, was shown by a wonderful soft
brown photograph, by some detail drawings, and
by a drawing in brilliant color by Jules Guerin.
That Mr. Guerin has no scruples against taking
liberties with the landscape is shown by thesplendid
group of lovely green trees growing along the edge
of the boardwalk. Nevertheless, we would not for
a moment have the picture without them.
There were a few very interesting business build-
ings to be seen: the magnificent new home for the
Girard Trust Company—by McKim, Mead &
White and Allen Evans.—whose low marble dom-
inates the northwestern corner of Broad and
Chestnut streets. It was shown most inade-
quately at the Academy, but one had only to walk
down Broad Street a few blocks to see the impo-
sing building itself. The Reed store is another
Philadelphia business building that is a notable ad-
dition to American architecture, refreshing in its
bold use of brick tile and marble—materials that
Price & McLenahan know so well how to use.
And still another notable exhibit was the Power
House at McCall’s Ferry, by Trowbridge &
Ackerman—a purely utilitarian structure in which
reinforced concrete construction is magnificently
expressed. Two bank buildings are worthy of
especial praise—the American Security Company’s
splendid building in Washington and the recently
completed Broadway Savings Institution in New
York, both by York & Sawyer.
Landscape work formed an important part of the
exhibition. Carrere & Hastings’s scheme for the
development of Ventnor, N. J., a seaside residence
town, is particularly notable for its wealth of
DRAWING BY JULES GUERIN
(hotel Blenheim)
water thoroughfares; a somewhat similar problem
treated in an entirely different manner, as might
have been expected from the author, Louis Sul-
livan, was his set of drawings for Petty’s Island,
Philadelphia.
Stained glass was adequately represented by the
wonderful work of Mr. Willett for Cram, Goodhue
& Ferguson’s Calvary Church at Pittsburgh, by
Nicola D’Ascenzo’s, and by Miss Violet Oakley.
MODEL OF A CITY HOUSE
NEWMAN AND HARRIS, ARCHITECTS
CXVIII