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1147 Mishawaka Ave. Ph. Atlantic 8-1458 South Bend 1 5, Indiana City & Zone. Srate. Anton Scherrer Eldridge Named Architect, Artist, Convention Speaker Musician, Writer James A. Eldridge. publicity director of Anton Scherrer, one of the most beloved the Indianapolis office of The Bobbs-Merrill and respected members of the architectural Company, Inc., publishers, will be the speak• profession in Indiana, passed away at Method• er for the ISA Annual Convention on Friday ist Hospital in Indianapolis on January 8. night. May 19th. Although not as active in the profession Announcement of the .speaker selection during the most recent of his eighty-two was made recently by Dick Zimmerly. In• years, Mr. Scherrer was honored several diana Society Program Chairman, whose years ago by his fellow ISA members by committee is now completing plans for the election to Honorary Associate Membership. annual event. In earlier years, he followed the architec• tural footsteps of his father. Adolph Scherrer. Prior to joining Bobbs-Merrill, Mr. Eld• architect for the Indiana Statehouse, and ridge had a notable career in journalism and studied architecture in this country and in public affairs. From December, 1946. to Feb• Switzerland. Among his best known projects ruary, 1953, he served as Midwest Field Di• are the Antlers Hotel and Cathedral High rector of the American Association for the School, both in Indianapolis. United Nations. He was a frequent visitor to UN Headquarters in New York during the For ten years immediately prior to 1958, formative years of the UN and was an active Mr. Scherrer served as president of the Art ISA Queen Contestant participant in UN affairs from the opening Association of Indianapolis, which directs Miss Shirley Ann Frey, beautifnl nineteen- days of the Truman Doctrine through the Ko• John Ilerron Art Museum. He was also a year-old daughter of ISA member E. Roger rean War. former president of the Indiana Historical Frey, recently represented the Indiana So• From September, 1954, through July, 1959, Society. ciety in the annual Indianapolis Home Show Mr. Eldridge was a member of the editorial With an outstanding reputation established Queen Contest. staff of The Indianapolis News. In 1958. he in architecture prior to 1929, Mr. Scherrer A Sophomore at Transylvania College, held the John Winant Lecture Fellowship in went on to distinguish himself as an artist, Lexington, Kentucky, majoring in History Great Britain, giving 75 lectures in a three- musician, critic, and story teller, not only and Religion, Miss Frey is a member of Phi month period in Northern Ireland, Scotland, in Indiana and California, but also in Europe. Mu Sorority, works on the staff of the col• Wales and England, including lectures at Ox• lege yearbook, serves as secretary to one of ford, Cambridge and Manchester Universities. The citizens of central Indiana came to the school departments and teaches Sunday A native Hoosier, Eldridge attended But• know Mr. Scherrer best through his column, school in her off-hours. ler University and is a member of the Eng• "Our Town," a chronicle of his reminiscences Her father is associated with the Board lish-Speaking Union, the Indianapolis Com• which appeared in the Indianapolis Times of Church Extension, Disciples of Christ mittee of Foreign Relations, the American during the 1930's and 40's. His silhouet, com• Church, in Indianapolis. Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and plete with pipe and stubby beard, became an Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism Indianapolis trademark, and Tony became fraternity. the friend of thousands. November Contracts The topic of Mr. Eldridge's speech will be Mr. Scherrer's death followed his wife's, announced at a later date. Josephine, by almost two years; their only son, Adolph Turner, died twenty-five years Up One Per Cent Other plans for the convention include the ago. He is survived by two cousins, Mrs. Producers' Council Annual Golf Outing and November contracts for future construc• Walter H. Biddlecombe of Indianapolis, and Banquet on Thursday, May 18th, a seminar tion in Indiana totalled $45,415,000, an in• Mrs. Robert W. Rockwood of Minneapolis. on Specifications for Friday morning and a crease of one per cent compared to Novem• discussion of architect's ethics for Friday ber, 1958, according to the F. W. Dodge Cor• afternoon. May 19th, and an outing to the poration. Indianapolis Motor Speedway following the A breakdown of contracts by the major ISA Business Meeting on Saturday, May 20th, Mechanical Code construction categories in November, com• to watch qualification trials for the 1980 Me• pared to the corresponding 1958 m o n t h, morial Day Race. Reprint Available showed: non-residential at $16,876,000, up 23 per cent; residential at $23,767,000, down 3 Additional information will be presented The Indiana State Board of Health has per cent: and heavy engineering at $4,772,000, in coming issues. announced that the 1960 reprint of Volume IV, down 31 per cent. Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning According to Dodge figures, the cumula• Rules and Regulations of the Administrative tive total of contracts for the first eleven Building Council, is now available. months of 1959 amounted to $773,660,000, up WAL Meeting 12 per cent compared to the corresponding There have been a few minor clarifica• period of 1958. Cumulative total of contracts The Women's Architectural League will tions in the code but no changes in the basic in the major construction categories showed hold a Valentine Card Party at the home of requirements. non-residential at $291,596,000, up 14 per cent Mrs. Donald Compton, 263 West 77th Street, Copies are available from the Adminis• residential at $339,762,000, up 33 per cent Indianapolis, on February 1st. trative Building Council, 1330 W. Michigan and heavy engineering at $142,302,000, down The party will include a dessert luncheon Street, Indianapolis. 22 per cent compared to the like 1958 period. starting at 12:00 Noon, EST.

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The handy pocket dictionary defines archi• He is also an agent for the Owner; he can, through general supervision compliance by tecture as the science and art of designing when he has been so directed, speak and act contractors with the contract requirements and constructing buildings or other struc• in his client's behalf regarding the project and to guard the Owner against defects and tures. An architect, then, is one who prac• undertaken, thereby lending his wisdom, his deficiencies in the work. He cannot, however, tices the science and art of designing struc• background, his technical advice to his client guarantee the performance of their con• tures. directly and effectively.. tracts.

Since architecture is partially a science, He is the official interpreter of the con• The architect must check construction to practice an architect must undergo scien• ditions of the contract between the Owner schedules, report to his client on the progress tific or technical instruction, and must be and the Contractor, and the judge of its per• of the work, check and approve shop draw• judged competent to perform the scientific formance. ings, approve materials and equipment and or technical portion of the practice of archi• tests thereof, maintain accounts, change or• tecture. He is the representative of the profession ders, applications for payment, certificates joining together the construction industry with for payment, and provide administration and But since architecture is also an art, the the Owner in service to the public. ability of one aspiring to be known as an supervision. architect must transcend the basic and rudi• In the design and construction of a build• mentary lessons of applied technical skills. Upon completion of construction, the archi• ing, an architect does many things. Through He must be able to translate these basic consultation with his client, he first deter• tect makes a final inspection of the work, as• skills into habitable sculpture, structurally mines the requirements of the project, pre• sembles required guarantees with parties re• sound, efficiently organized and esthetically pares schematic design studies leading to a sponsible therefor, and issues the final cer• pleasing. His creation is a product of the recommended solution, and approximates the tificate for payment. arts, whether it be a home, a place of re• cost. ligious worship, a seat of learning, a com• mercial or public building, an industrial The architect's job does not end with a plant or an air-conditioned doghouse. Following this comes the basic design finished project, however. While the guaran• phase, in which the architect prepares in tees are still in effect for materials and writing the basic design and preliminary site, workmanship, he will make an additional in• The State can certify to an architects' floor plan, section and elevation drawings spection tour, reporting on any observable technical competence, by requiring that he and specifications based upon the accepted defects requiring correction by the con• submit to and pass an examination designed schematic soluiton. and covering in general, tractor. to test his technical ability. site work, materials, structure, mechanical systems and special equipment. He shall ad• Just as there are many, many operations The architect's professional society, the vise the client in greater detail of the approxi• an architect must perform for his clients, American Institute of Architect, can certify mate cost, including semi-detailed estimates there are many which he must not perform. to his professional ethics and his integrity by if necessary. For example, he cannot render professional extending to him the privileges of member• services without compensation. No service, ship, and the right to append A.I.A. to his All this must be done prior to the draft• whether oral, written or graphic, should be signature. ing of construction documents < w o r k i n g requested by an Owner, nor furnished by the drawings, detailed specifications, bidding in• architect, without prior assurance of ade• By his creations shall the architect's ar• formation, general conditions, special re• quate compensation. Nor can his fee be made tistic abilities be known. quirements, and proposal and contract forms) contingent upon the carrying out of the proj• detailing the design, kind, type, extend, loca• ect; if the construction of the building he The architect, then, is an artistic scien• tion and method of installation of the ma• designed is not undertaken, he must receive tist

Guide to Permissive Publicity and Advertising Practi

Newspaper and Radio and Newspaper, Magazine, Magazine Publicity Television Publicity and Television Adver

By AIA May f u rn i s h material con• May participate in radio May i)articipate where an endorsenj by the individual Architect is not Chapter and cerning participation in build• and TV programs as i)arl the participation is not to the d( Rejjfion ing projects but may not of chapter, region or na• Architects . . . where advertisemen" pay tribute to the profession. stimulate self - laudatory, ex• tional AIA activity. May aggerated or misleading pub• l)articipate as individual Photographs of architects may not! tising material except when spec licity. Architect if the program been obtained from the Institute, is in the best interest of space (or time) in own interest or chitectiu'al firm. May not advertise the profession. tectural firm in special editions or|

May initiate newspaper and May participate in interest of pull By the May participate in radio magazine publicity in the May purchase space or time in any individual public interest and for the and TV programs to bet• if the advertisement is in the intei good of the profession. gion or entire profession. arcHitect ter explain the profes• May encourage the use of Architect credits in news• sion. May purchase space in special editj papers by diplomatic press re• and magazines if there is no identif; lations. Architects or firms.

THE INDIANA ARCHITECT Page 8 architect who habitually flaunts the same from downtown areas areas and turning one• rules of professional conduct indicates he is All Dressed Up, time busy vehicular arteries into pedestrian far more interested in personal gain than in malls. Many U. S. cities are experimenting service to his clients. No Place to Go with his plan. An architect should be selected (1) by di• In the LIFF: article, he advocates the rect choice, on the basis of reputation, demon• Victor Gruen, prominent city planner and separation of living and working areas from strated ability, or ty consultation with for• architect, has warned that the "good life" traffic and transportation. He says that prop• mer clients of prospective architects; (2) being predicted for the future will bring with er planning should seek to preserve and re• consultation with younger architects who it "a vast traffic jam and a strangled com• establish recreaticnal areas and landscape. plex of cities" unless some urgently needed may give promise of developing a novel ap• It should also reorganize urban areas into nationwide master planning is taken care of proach to the project or with an architect compact pedestrian islands, surrounded by first. who may have demonstrated a sympathetic open space, within which public and private transportation can speedily move. understanding of the particular problem; Mr. Gruen observes in the year-end issue (3) consultation with building contractors con• of LIFE magazine devoted to leisure time, The fact that 90 per cent of the U. S. pop• cerning architects with whom they have that U. S. cities are already "littered with ulation will soon be engulfed by metropolitan worked; or (4) selection from a limited or ugliness and choked with automobiles." areas is not in itself an evil thing, Gruen as• open panel of architects by a Design Com• serts, provided those areas are "made once petition conducted under the rules of the AIA. He charges that American parks, schools, again a pleasant place to stroll, eat, shop, museums, municipal buildings and transpor• sightsee, enjoy cultural amenities and live." Whatever means of selection is used, it tation systems are "unattractive and poorly should not be based upon the presentation of maintanied." This has resulted, Gruen says, Only if these things are attended to first, free sketches made by the prospective archi• in the U. S. having "one of the lowest 'public Gruen says, "will our leisure time be worth tect (since these could not possibly apply to living standards' of Western nations." He living." Otherwise, he concludes, "we will the particular problems of the project being says that the situation stands to further de• spend our precious, hard-earned leisure with• undertaken) nor upon fee differences. It teriorate if the present haphazard pattern of in our own four walls, cut off from society by should be based upon the owner's careful urban centers "swallowing up" agricultural the foes we have created: murderous traffic, consideration of his own proposed project land continues unabated. and his decision as to which architect can be smog, disorder, blight and ugliness. We will of the most benefit to the project and to the Mr. Gruen has long been an exponent, be trapped in our suburban or city homes, Owner, himself. among other things, of eliminating traffic all dressed up with no place to go."

or Members of the American Institute of Architects

Brochures, Pamphlets, Speeches and Displays and Reprints, Etc. Panel Discussions Convention Booths May produce a brochure or pamphlet May speak to public May rent or buy and maintain booth fhe product covering facts about the firm and . . where service, community and space at conventions or association can use this medium in discussions t of fellow with potential clients, provided: It is educational groups to meetings making such space avail• mmercials) produced at the architect's own ex• better explain the pro• able. The display should, however, be pense; contains no advertisements; contains no exaggerated or self- fession but not to adver• in keeping with the general stan• in adver- laudatory statements; it's distribu• ission has tise his own professional dards of conduct of the architectural t tion is limited to persons with whom t purchase the architect has had previous per• availability. profession. A display by a Chapter, of the ar- sonal or professional contact or is |)n or archi- Region or the AIA precludes displays used in conjunction with an inter• Ims. view. by individual members, however. May rent or buy and maintain booth profession. May produce brochures, pamphlets, May through a Speakers' space at conventions or association 'e mediums etc., for purpose of enlightening pub• Bureau participate for meetings making such space avail• chapter, re- able. Display must be in the public lic about the services of an Archi• the express purpose of interest and for the good of the pro• •newspapers tect and the value of the profession. better explaining the fession and must not make identifi- cation of individual Architects or If individual profession to the public. firms.

JANUARY, I960 PAGE 9 CONCERNING THE COVER: where? Yes, if there is an intensive drive to do so. 'Actually, the Circle ranks as one of LETTERS to the EDITOR the quietest intersections in the central mile- square area, ranking forty-second out of the (The Indiana Architect is always happy fifty intersections in vehicles per hour.» to print letters of interest from the member• The Circle ship. Letters to the Editor should be ad• Will retail business suffer? No one could dressed to The Indiana Architect, P. O. Box have watched the phenomenal growth of the 55594, Indianapolis 5, Indiana. As a Ma suburban shopping malls across the land Publishing of letters in this column does and believe business would languish on a not necessarily indicate concurrence in nor In Indianapolis many individuals, indi• downtown mall. approval of the thoughts expressed therein, vidually and collectively, are wrestling with Can the present tenants be served? With either by the editors and publishers or by the problem to build or not to build a mall, special vehicular access, they can be serv• and if to built, then where. the Indiana Society of Architects, its officers, iced as efficiently as they are today. The directors or members.) Most cities throughout this country have four streets radiating from the Circle might experienced a similar reawakening to the well be left open to the automobile. To the Editor: ages-old concept that the beauty and value Is there space for light and trees? In• The practice of architecture is a chal• of an area can be increased immeasurably deed, a magnificent ring of trees might bur• lenging activity, with many exciting prob• by the thoughtful inclusion of open space in geon, under which the old may rest and the lems and unlimited opportunities. This view• the master plan. In the suburbs, this re• young could play. awakening has given birth to shopping cen• point may sound unrealistic as we tackle the The Indianapolis District committee on ters built around an open center area and many ordinary chores of our profession. civic planning «an ISA sub-committee) has surrounded by acres of free parking. Nevertheless, whatever we attempt (whether agreed that very little additional design for it be a design based on a grand flight of It is only natural, therefore, for the civic a Monument Circle Mall is necessary or de• fancy or some routine service) it reminds one sirable. The design of this month's cover sug• leaders of the older metropolitan areas to of the old saying, "It's all architecture." ponder if perhaps they should not create their gests a radial pattern of paving in two ma• All our activities should be well within own downtown malls to enhance the rather terials, for example, blocks of granite and the bounds of the ethics of our profession— concealed beauty of their commercial estab• white marble. the unwritten ones as well as the AIA "Stan• lishments, to bring greater joy and sunshine This study also shows a suggested location dards of Professional Practice." I believe into the hearts and lives of those who daily for the tree ring, which might hug the perip• most of our members sincerely try to up• toil in the shadows of the great American hery of the present street. We must look grade the profession by their actions. The landmarks, skyscrapers. One other matter of again at Piazza San Marco in Venice, or question is, "What affect would it have on passing concern is the enticement of the Piazza Obliqua in Rome. the public if an architect tried to operate in money-spending public back to the downtown The concept then would be the monument the following manner?" stores and away from their more rural com• as a sculptural, approachable island in a petitors. First, assume a law is passed by the well-peopled plaza, not the present inaccess- Legislature legalizing a type of financing able island surrounded by an impregnable The question "To build or not to build a which makes it possible for the poorer com• moat of traffic. mall" will be settled by the leaders in civic munities to obtain schools. The law, as writ• government, commerce, merchant associa• (Cover design and article prepared for THE ten, has provisions which permit procedures tions, advisory commissions and pressure INDIANA ARCHITECT by the Indianapolis very detrimental to the architectural profes• groups. The deciding factor, however, will District, I.S.A., Committee on Civic Planning, sion and the entire building industry. It not be the dominant wish of any of these; a sub-committee of the Indiana Society's Com• makes possible the spending of unlimited mittee on Civic Planning.) it will be the voice of the citizens which amounts of tax dollars without requiring the will be heard and obeyed. safeguard of competitive bidding. The pro• viding of complete plans for a project is Accordingly, the architect in Indianapolis made very difficult, and, if they are pro• neither promotes nor discourages the creation Reservations Due for vided, the architect could expect no com• of a mall: it is a decision to be made by pensation for preliminary work or complete others. Lathing-Plastering Banquet services in many instances. But if there is to be a mall, then where At least one of our members believes should it be? There is no need to search for The Fifth Annual Architects' Banquet of a mall site, nor need the commercial advan• this law will open up new fields, so he de• the Lathing and Plastering Bureau of Indi• tages of one corner over another be debated. cides to promote projects on the basis of it. anapolis will be held Thursday, January 28th, The perfect site exists already, equipped with At an Indiana School Board Convention, he at the Atheneum in Indianapolis. Invitations an inimitable decor. takes a booth manned by attractive assistants have already been mailed to all Indianapolis to tell his story. Later, a Trustees' conven• Why have a mall in a narrow street or area architects. tion occurs and our architect comes back- vacant lot. when Monument Circle is the cen• One of the highlights of the banquet will again assisted by young ladies attired as San• ter of the Indianapolis universe, and has re• be the awarding of the Gold Trowel Award tas in shorts. mained so since the 1820's. to the architect designing the most out• Those in non-professional enterprises, such A mall need not be only for shoppers; standing structure completed in 1959 using as the manufacturers and distributors of should it not serve all the people who are lath and plaster. In addition to the award, school supplies and equipment, refrained drawn to the urban heart? It should. the winner will receive a cash prize of from the use of a sensational type attrac• $300.00, and two Honorable Mention Awards tion. Our member, however, felt his action Could it not be a civic space, too, with will be made. consistent with the best interests of our pro• reminders of War and Peace and God, side Judging of the entries received in the fession. Do you agree with him? Should we by side with the shops, the banks and the of• competition has already been completed, but actively support our Legislative Committee fices? It could. announcement of the winners is being with• in amending or abolishing this law? Can the motor traffic be handled else- held until the banquet presentation. ALFRED J. PORTEOUS

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JANUARY, 1960 PAGE 11 INDIANAPOLIS-MARION COUNTY ISA Civic SUBCOMMITTEE Reynolds Jury Evans Woollen, III, AIA, Chairman Planning Committee Edward D. Pierre, FAIA, Immediate Past Selected Chairman, Advisor

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101 SOUTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET Good Low-Cost Electric Service to More MELROSE 2 -1474 Than 700 Communities in 69 Counties In Indiana JANUARY, 1960 Page 1.3 one corner of the house; note the hand-made moldings and the gutters built as an integral Our Architectural Heritage part of the roof. However, by 1954, when the present owner, Mrs. Herbert R. Hill, inherited the house from her father, its fourth owner, the entire structure had been tragically neglected. The only occupants were ground hogs, raccoons, and a vixen and her cubs nested beneath the rotting front porch. The yard was a riot of Damask roses, berry brambles, undiscip• lined lilacs, and drooping cedars fighting for their lives amongst the honeysuckle and hop vines.

As an artist and a devoted student of In• diana history, Mrs. Hill recognized the rarity of the Greek Revival architecture, and en• listed the aid of Edward D. James, AIA, of Indianapolis, in the completely sympathetic and authentic restoration. Today, Rosewell once again is a proud home for its loving owners. The original structure has been carefully and completely restored, and a modern extension, carefully designed and executed so as to be in keeping with the original house, has been added at the Rosewell's classic lines date back to the early 1830's; one of Indiana's outstanding exam• back. Two new fireplaces have been added ples of Greek Revival architecture, the home for many years was sadly neglected. along with hot-water heating, modern plumb• ing and electric wiring, and a combination new-old kitchen complete with brick floors. One of the new fireplaces, in the dining Rosewell Restored room, supports a mantle which several years ago was removed from Grouseland, William Near Fountaintown, in northern Shelby oldest habitable buildings in central Indiana. Henry Harrison's home during his tenure as Hand-hewn timber was used throughout the County, stands a beautiful Greek Revival Governor of the Indiana Territory; Grouse- home, built originally between 1830 and 1835 house: beams are of beech, the floors of ash, land was built in 1805 at Vincennes. This par• and only recently restored. and the ceilings and all interior and exterior ticular mantle had graced the Council Cham• In 1830, the original owners, Daniel and walls of tulip poplar. The square-head cut ber at Grouseland, wherein treaty negotia• Barbara Copple, patented 1,200 acres of new nails were forged on the site, and used only tions were conducted with the Indians that land twenty-two miles from the young state where they would not show. Bricks were capital of Indiana and began clearing land hand-made from clay, and mud or clay mor- resulted in white possession of the Northwest tor was used to bind the bricks. for their first temporary home, a log cabin. Territory. Carefully they set aside and dried tulip pop• The original three-room structure, com• In the barnyard back of the home stands lar, beech and ash with which to built the plete with sleeping loft, was heated by three the original sixty foot square barn; at the fireplaces, and until its recent restoration, spacious home they would need for their entrance to the barnyard is the stone-lined growing family. contained no central heating, electricity or dug well, thirty-five feet deep, crowned by a A few years later, an itinerant craftsman running water. But the craftsmanship of its stone well-head and sheltered by an open arrived and undertook construction of the builder remains in abundant evidence. The well-house with classic pillars. classic structure which today is one of the accompanying picture shows a close-up of

With exterior siding removed, the interior View of construction details of the orig• Rosewell's new modern wing was de• walls of tulip poplar are visible from both inal structure, taken during restoration work. signed to blend completely with the original sides. Note the detailing and craftsmanship Note wood ceiling; the house contained no design, as shown near the completion of in the roofline and guttering. plaster. construction. THE INDIANA ARCHITECT Page 14 Inferior of room shows how TEE-BLOK makes for an excepfionally aflracfive ceiling

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