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YOUNGSTOWN OHIO NEW ENGLAND

BY RALPH WALKER, F. A. I. A.

Two books have appeared recently which Learning, in New England, has had a long greatly add to an understanding of New background. England thinking and ways—"The Flowering In the New York Hernld-Tribitiie recently, of New England" by Van Wyck Brooks, and Lewis Gannett made this statement concern• "The Late George Apley" by John P. Mar- ing Waldo Frank—"A son of a private library quand. They sum up the nineteenth century. in a land which knows only public and circu• New England developed a peculiarly ro• lating libraries." This was not true of New mantic culture, considering that the New England, for the private library was universal Englander has had the reputation of being and generally quite large. Even in very early "close." Not only close in regard to money days and in more than one community this matters, but close-mouthed as well. But your would have been true—"Learning was omni• New Englanders are provincial in much the present. In a population wholly derived from same way that any people are who have pro• England, one counted the foreigners on a duced a good life of their own, and which they single hand: two Scotch gardeners, a hair- recognize as such, in that they are more happy cutter of nebulous antecedents, one Irishman, in their own home surroundings. the master of a spade. And the Irishman knew The New Englander readily appreciates the his Latin, like everyone else: He had learned feeling of George Apley who, while in Rome, his Horace at a hedge school and was always opined: "It seems to me that Mrs. Gardner has ready to lean on his spade and test a boy's brought back to us all that is really best of knowledge of the Quo me, Baccbe"** Rome and Italy and has considerately left the The learning and culture, however, has al• rest behind. A visit to her Fenway Palace really ways been based on that of Europe. It had, suffices to show one everything. The head of definitely, a classical background tinged with Aphrodite in our Museum is superior to any• an English point of view. thing I have seen in the Vatican. I also think Noah Webster, for example—"Already an that we have by far the better half of the so- elderly man, he had lived through the Revo• called Ludovici Throne. I wish the Coliseum lution; and, filled as he was with patriotic was situated in a more open space as is our fervour, he had not failed to note that, while Harvard Stadium, so that one could view its the Americans boasted of their freedom, proportions at a single glance. I have been, of nevertheless their arts, their dress, their cus• course, to see the grave of Keats, but that toms still aped the ways of the mother coun• burying ground does not seem to me as inter• try."* * esting as our own Granary burying ground While there was a serious attempt to de• which one can see so comfortably from the velop a purely American literature, those who upper windows of our own Athenjeum."* tried—Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, and Not only is your New Englander provincial Hawthorne—realized the constant difficulties in a homey way, but he is ostentatious only in which were encountered in the Colonial aspect so far as learning is concerned, and a belief of their efforts. such as the following seems well worth noting: Hawthorne exclaimed: "I want my place, "Who would have respected wealth in Boston my own place, my true place in the world, if wealth had not, in turn, respected learn- my proper sphere, my thing which Nature ing?"** intended me to perform when she fashioned It reminds me of a subject on which Hil- me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought dreth Meiere and Kimon Nicolaides did so all my lifetime."** beautiful a job—"The only reason for wealth And Samuel Ward in a paper on criticism is to aid in creating beauty, and the only way wrote: "Our first misfortune is, that there is to conserve wealth is through the creation of a reference to a standard from without, viz., beauty." England. As the spirit that dictates it is, from many causes, unfair and depreciating, a nat• *"Tbe Lite George Apley" published by E. P. Dn/toii •>»"jhc Flouering of Neu England" published by Little, Broun ural consequence has been to cause all our own

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PENCIL POINTS criticism to take the opposite ground, to over• storm. With but few exceptions the hitching praise that which is felt to be undervalued or posts have been removed from the curbs of invidiously regarded . . . Although all original these sidewalks, but here and there an iron literature comes from and refers to the heart ring set in the curbing is a silent reminder of of the people, it cannot, except in a rude age, the days of the horse, when a child might coast address itself to that people except through a down Mt. Vernon Street. The covered alley• class capable of receiving it. If great works ways and the lanes which lead from Mt. Ver• do not find such a class in their own age, they non toward Beacon Street are still extant, and wait time and their own influence create it .. . the property deeds still include their clauses We believe a conscious greatness, inseparable for the right to lead through these lanes one from critical literature, and such, therefore, or more cows for pasturage on the Common. we look for in this country—a literature and Such matters as these, of course, were curi• art based on thorough criticism, and thorough osities—like the purple windowpanes in some knowledge of what already exists in the of the Beacon Street houses—even in the early world."** seventies. But this was not so with the iron Nevertheless, there was a flowering of New scrapers on the Cape Ann granite steps. They England, and while the aroma was reminiscent stood alone on Beacon Hill as memorials to a of England, especially, it had a definite char• muddier Boston, a Boston of blacksmiths and acter of its own which came from the strongly cobblestones. The details of these bits of iron• expressed desire to make a culture native to work vary in design, and, if one observes them this land. closely, one may detect something of the spare grace of line which is so manifest in the door• In the world of architecture and the ap• ways and fagades above them."* plied arts, the Colonial spirit persisted until such time as materialism began its revival with "The spare grace of line"—an unusual and the greatly increased use of the machine. haunting phrase, and full of suggestions as to There was a post bellum protest, however, what design should be. It does mean simplicity, against a belief which has long since become but it does not mean poverty of thought; it so internationally strong in our modern world, does mean refinement and not brutality. In that utility has a supreme importance of its that phrase lie the fundamental possibilities own, and yet—"Utility lies at the bottom of of a beautiful architecture. No architecture our village architecture. The structure springs can continue with an utter disregard of grace from that. The simple edifice you see, created or depend wholly on spareness. The so-called out of white-pine boards, a mere casing of international style, with its frank ugly ap• shingles and clapboards, as it appears to its proach of materialism, stems from the same owner, who built it and lives in it, anything but disregard for human sensibilities that is found ugly or unpicturesquc. It fits him like a shell. in Nazi Germany. They are evidently blood Comfort, economy, use, a dry, warm cellar, brothers. a sweet, airy milk-room, a barn with its cellars The castor oil of materialism has been thor• and accommodations, all in the solidest style oughly sugar-coated with propaganda, but the —these matters make the study of the farmer. castor oil is still there, and this materialism I say that beauty must have an equal place has reached a sterility based on a dogma of in- with utility, if not the first place. Your farmer tellectualized ugliness. shirks architecture and landscape-gardening, To state that a belief in the desirability of with his one leg in the barn and his other in beauty is just sentimental nonsense, that our the kitchen, and the compost-heap in the whole job is to bring material welfare to our midst. And his highest ambition is to have a people, has the familiar ring of the constant patent-leather top to his carriage."** high-pitched oratory of poverty - stricken How modern all that sounds. Europe. There was fine architecture, however, and it New materials and new methods do not had a flavor of its own, and in the community necessarily aid the creation of beauty. It is of Boston, while it was growing away from its very evident, as one motors through New best traditions, still—"One can turn the clock England, that they have more recently aided back without great difficulty as one ascends in the creation of ugliness and squalor, that Mt. Vernon Street toward the State House, fundamentally the loss of a desire for beauty or turns left, through Louisburg Square, up dates from the conception of an overwhelm• the even steeper paths of Pinckney. ing materialism. "Here the brick sidewalks are still at such an "I saw it," Miss Peabody said, when she angle that several pedestrians each winter suf• walked into a tree and bruised her nose. "I fer from broken hips after an easterly sleet saw it, but I did not realize it."**

268 MAY 19 3 7 THE BOSTON SCENE

A REVIEW OF ITS TAVERNS AND ORDINARIES

BY HUBERT G. RIPLEY

Now the joys of the road are chiefly these; A hunger fit for the Kings of the seas, A thirst like that of the Thirsty Sword, And a jug of cider on the board; SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA IN 1891, when the American Institute of Architects held its 25 th Convention in Boston, cooking as a Fine Art was, generally speaking, in its infancy as far as the average eating place was concerned. There were, of course, notable exceptions at that time; Young's Hotel, the Parker House, Frank Locke's, Billy Park's, the Thorndike, the Point Shirley, for example. A few institutions such as these shed their genial warmth like the works of Richardson and McKim in the post-glacial period of American States. A two-story wooden structure, steep Architecture. hip roof, high chimneys, low rambling lean-to, While the present state of the Fine Arts in front door off center; it is the "Lafayette these United States may be a source of gratifi• House," 1784, Leon Pini, Prop. Look sharp or cation to many, the Art of Cooking has pro• you'll run by without seeing it. There's a small gressed literally by leaps and bounds, Terpsi• hanging sign in the front yard which will be chore and Gasteria joining hands in a merry helpful. romp around the festal board. The chef-de-garcons greeted us smilingly; For the benefit of those who may not be there was a delicate fragrance of onion soup familiar with the locale, we venture to submit, (a speciality de la maison) and toasted cheese for the consideration of the discriminating in the air. "Is there a bar, or do you serve at palate, a few places in and around Boston of the table?" we asked. "Both," he replied, and interest to the Antiquary and to the Student, ushered us into a tiny white pine room lined where good food, well cooked, and well served, with knife-edge sheathing (modern) and rows may be enjoyed amid pleasant surroundings. and rows of bottles. We felt at home imme• It is far from being a definitive survey of diately. gustatory possibilities of the region, as the The cuisine is French, with concessions to Earnest Seeker will doubtless discover for the New England palate, and the carte offers himself—or herself as the case may be. For a fairly wide choice in variety and price. No. errors of omission, indulgence is craved. 1 is a special luncheon at One Dollar; choice Let us begin in the outlying districts as the of soups, entree, assorted rolls, desserts, and traveler approaches Boston by motor—we will coffee. No. 6, the Lobster Dinner* (with a imagine the sustaining qualities of the matu• star) at Two Dollars Twenty-five, included tinal orange juice, partaken in Providence, hors d'ceuvres (anchovies, fresh crab meat, have waned—he suddenly feels hungry and canapes), onion soup, large lobster cooked in athirst. It is the noon hour in Foxboro and a variety of styles (Lafayette, Thermidor, Boston twenty-one miles away on Route 1. broiled, etc.), salad, dessert, and coffee. The Near the street, all by itself, is a pleasant old wine list is interesting in spots and, like almost house, where, tradition says, Lafayette was en• all wine lists, high in price. Apparently we tertained during his second visit to the United have not as yet become sufficiently wine-con-

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PENCIL POINTS scious to render profitable to the inn-keeper dollar, dinners up to two dollars twenty-five. the serving of good wine at moderate cost to Welsh "Rarebits" at the Lafayette House are the customer. However, the Narragansett sixty cents, at the 1812 House sixty-five cents. Beer at 20c the bottle was as palatable as the The difference in price range is not startling coffee, curiously enough, was not. Mr. Pini, a and may be due to the differential in coefficient round-faced jovial man of generous girth, was used in the determination of food values. The formerly chef of the Old Woodcock Tavern vital point is, does one pronounce "rarebit" of savoury memory. He hails from Piedmont, rabbit? The Oxford Dictionary mentions and he told us that some day, when he got "rarebit," n. "Welsh rabbit," and calls "Rare• around to it, he was going to look up the his• bit" a pop. etym! (Fancy eating a pop. tory of his house in a book. ctym?) But we digress. Note that each special luncheon and dinner included "Beverage." This, unfortunately, does not mean a choice of light wines and malted beverages, as the un• wary stranger might suppose. You will either

have to "bring your own," which might cause lifted eyebrows, or go without. A few hundred yards further along toward Boston, at 680 Worcester Road, corner of Main Street, is the General Abner Wheeler House. Abner Wheeler was an officer in the old Framingham Artillery Company, just as

Fred Kendall, A.I.A., was an officer in the Framingham Fusileers a century and a half later. The older portions of the house date

from 1730. The old kitchen, now a part of one of the dining rooms, has been "restored" —just a wee bit arty—using all the old timbers Approaching Boston over the Worcester Turnpike, Route 9, as one reaches Framing-

ham Center, Seder's 1812 House stands high up on the right at Salem End Road. This is an historic spot first settled by a few liberal- minded families who left Salem in 1695 dur ing the witchcraft trials of the frightfully un• happy period. They named the place "Salem

End." A hundred years later, when Salem End had become an important way station between Worcester and Boston, the name was changed to Framingham Center. The land on which the house stands was purchased by John Fiske in 1812, but the building was not erected until five years later. The significance of the date that could be found. The ceiling beams look "1812" has proved to be a magnet to oodles as if they had been used for shoring during the of people, where "1817" might have failed to building of the mausoleum of Tut-Ankh- do so. Anyhow, it's a sturdy old house of the Amon, and go far to prove that termites ex• "four square" type, which shows the influ• isted amongst the early settlers. We did not ence of Asher Benjamin, both inside and out. meet Noble T. Jackson, under whose personal The whole first floor and the "Schoolroom" supervision the Inn is conducted, but we met addition provide generous accommodation for the lovely and gracious hostess in charge. The dinners, and next summer the great barn floor waitresses all look like the daughters of blame• will be added. The cuisine smacks of New less Nera;us and Doris; Galatia and comely England, and darn good it is too. Here the Hippothoe, Nisaca and rich-crowned Almede odors that greet one, hint of the ocean and and rosy-armed Eunice, to mention a few. sizzling sirloins. Whereas the specialties at Here there is no note of either "rarebit" or Pini's are onion soup and duckling, at Seiler's "rabbit" on the bill, and the menu card is %" it is clam chowder and boned pan-fired 7 shorter and 1 /s" narrower, but the food and chicken. Prices range about the same in all prices seem to be much the same as at the 1812 these wayside inns, a good luncheon at one House. There are a few private dining rooms,

270 MAY 19 3 7 most attractive, and a large glazed-in terrace seating one hundred and twenty-five or so. We did not sample the food, but the many diners all seemed happy and content. One is politely requested to allow time to cook food properly, and bridge luncheons and an oppor• tunity to play the game afterward will be gladly arranged if desired. The only "Bever• ages" obtainable are tea, coffee, chocolate, and ginger ale. Hartwell Farm (15 miles from Boston) lies between Concord and Lexington, Route 2. It is open every day in the year from 12 noon to 8 P.M. There is no sign to indicate its exact location, and as it is slightly off the main high• way on Virginia Road in Lincoln, it is easy to miss. The visitor will be well repaid for any amount of trouble taken or hardship endured in finding it. Nobody knows just how old the house is, but William Hartwell came to Con• cord in 1635 because "Boston was too

crowded" and the older portion probably dates from about that time. From what can be ob• served in the second-story frame, the original house was a story and a half or so and the pres• ent two-story structure is only a couple of centuries old. Jane Poor and Marion Fitch bought the place in December, 1924, and on April 19, 1925, just one hundred and fifty years after the battle of Lexington, served the public its first meal there under their distin• concentrating on a few references where good guished management. food-and-drink is the chief objective. The The place fairly pullulates with historic in• Hotel Somerset, the headquarters of the Con• terest and antiquarian lore. Paul Revere and vention, has a deservedly high reputation. an unknown British soldier who stuck his bay• M. Leon, maitre d'hotel, is a sensitive artist onet through the parlor window pane are both whose productions merit consideration, and mixed up in it. There's a sweet old-fashioned you'll find on the lower floor, just below the garden where the asphodels and the hiron- street level, a haven of refuge where the delles vie with one another, and you can take wearied traveler may obtain as good a Martini all the time you wish looking around before as may be found in many a mile. you sit down to chicken soup. That's what There are two attractive roof gardens near the bill says, and that's what you'll have, willy by, the Sheraton Roof, 91 Bay State Road, nilly. It's the sublimated essence of chicken and the Puritan Roof, 390 Commonwealth consomme; there never was and there never Avenue, next door. Across the street, a little will be a soup that equals it. Then comes fresh- way further in town (No. 333, to be exact), killed chicken fried in butter or tenderloin is the Lafayette Restaurant, where excellent steak, cole slaw, potatoes, corn pudding, a food may be had at a price which reflects its work of art, an epicurean dream, fresh vege• excellence. Reisman's murals, depicting atten• tables, waffles with pure maple syrup or pie uated officers of the Continental Army and with ice cream. Remember, everything save elongated great - great - grandmothers of the beef is raised on the farm, and, in addition, Daughters of the American Revolution, look the bread is baked in the brick oven and the down upon you from the walls. The menu in• vast jar of preserves is "the product of our cludes such items as Crepes Susette and Escar- own kitchen." How could one expend two gots Bourguignoiine. dollars or so to better advantage? If you pre• The Ritz Roof is a favorite place for those fer you can lunch or dine extremely well for whose purse strings are loosely tied — unex• about half the price. Here is the Ultima Thule celled food and Martini cocktail made with of New England Cooking at its best. imported House of Lords Gin. The Parker Within the city gates we will be more brief, House Roof is a delightful place with an ex-

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VERNON 5T 1607 G-PARKER HOUSE ROOF TREMONTfi'BEACON ^HOTEL SOMERSET 4O0 COMMON WE ALT p 95-K1NG3 CHAPEL TREMONTfrSCHOOL 1749 227- CHARLES 5T. A.H.E, CHURCH CHARLES ST. 1607 H-THE 5M0RGANSB0RD 19 PROVINCE COURT g PURITAN ROOF 390 COMMONWEALTH 152 - HA NCOC K - MARSHA LL HO. MARSHALL JT. C.I764 239-PARK ST. CHURCH TREMONTO PARK 1609 1-OTTO'S BROAD ST. INN 166 BROAD ST. z LAFAYETTE RESTAURANT 335COM.AVE 170- 5TATE HOUJE-BULFINCH-BF.AC0N HILL 1795 243-PARKMAN MARKET CAMfle-NO GROVE 1610 J-THE DEN 6HUDSON ST. ° SHERATON ROOF 91 BAY STATE ROAD 171- HAR.RIS0N GRAY0TI3 HO.CAMbltltGE£-LYN5E 1795 26O-C0L. DAVID SEARS HO.42 BEACON ST. 1616 K-HGAR HUNG GUEY 21 TYLER. ST. £ MACK'S TAP 6'GRILLES DARTMOUTH ST. I65-BULFINCH3 OWN HO. BULFINCH PLACE 1799 262-BULFINCH BLD'tMASIGEK.HCIPITAL FRUIT JT 1616 L-DINTY MOORE'S 611 WASHINGTON ST. £ AMALFI RESTAURANT 6WESTLAND AVE. 194- SEARS HO. 65 M T.VERNON ST. C.IOOO 264 -W0MEN5 CITY CLUB 40BEACON ST. CIS 16 M-JACOB WiRTH'S 31 STUART ST. % B0RA5CHI CAFE Zl CORNING ST. 195- H0PPY3 SCHOOL 29 A. CHESTNUT ST C.I600 266-QUINCY MARKET 1626 N-ATHENS RESTAURANT 51 STUART 5T. £ THE SAMOVAR 65 WARRENTON ST. 207-5T. STEPHEN'S CHURCH HANOVER C-CLARK 1604 Z69-PARKMAN HO. 33 BEACON ST. 1626 O OLA'S 14 CARVER ST. ,2 GRUNDLACH'S HOFBRAU 43 STANHOPE O too IOOO J'O HALDEN-DEL NOTE-DOTTED LINE SHOWS OLD SHORE LINE • STAIf-IN-FFlTl—l — —I i——I I—II tended view of the Charles River Basin, bask• siders one is dealing with a masterpiece. Wines ing in a marvelous sunset—if you pick the and liquors are of the first quality and not ex• right day for it—where the aperitifs are not cessive in price. Try a bottle of Chablis Mou- too expensive. This is at the corner of School tonne with a Lobster Americainc. and Beacon Streets, opposite King's Chapel. THE VIKINGS: 442 Stuart Street, Swedish The Brunswick Sidewalk Cafe, corner Boyl- restaurant, cocktail room, dancing, modern• ston and Clarendon Streets, Copley Square, is istic bar. Good food, moderate prices, marvel• a delightful spot in which to watch the world ous smorgasbord. A most pleasant place, smil• go by and meditate on the motorbility of ing personnel, good cocktails, beer, and mundane affairs while chewing a filet mignon, aquavit. or sipping a glass of Dubonnet. There's also an THE RUSSIAN BEAR: 11 Newbury Street adjoining shoppe where one can sip, if one near the Public Garden. Russian food and chooses, lemon squash and cafe gelati spu- Russian personnel. Light wines and beers, manti. modest prices. A pleasant place to lunch or All the first-class hotels have good restau• dine. Caviare blemi, bortsch soup. rants, good bars, and fairly expensive food. MAC'S TAP AND GRILLE (Patrick Joseph The Copley Plaza, for example, has two—a MacGillicudy, Prop., for short, "Jerry"): modest little one near the Dartmouth Street Dartmouth Street near R.R. bridge, opposite entrance where the cocktails are thirty cents, the Backbay Station. The best draft beer in and the garish great Merry-Go-Round if one town. Minute steaks, chops, hot and cold sand• likes that sort of thing, what? wiches. Low prices. A good place for a quick "Taverns"—in reality bars where sandwiches snack. may be had and women are excluded—abound AMALFI RESTAURANT: 8 Westland Avenue, and are to be found in almost every block. rear of Symphony Hall. Reputed to be the Most of them have continuous radio service, best Italian Restaurant in town (which may honey songs, and horse racing results, but the or may not be an encomium). Good list of draft beer is fair and the bar whiskey atro• Italian wines and excellent scallopini. Mod• cious. Try the Bell in Hand for old time's sake erate prices. —Devonshire Street, near the Old State House JACOB WIRTH'S: 31 Stuart Street, between —and the State Street Tavern in the Exchange Tremont and Washington. One of the oldest Building, enter from Kilby Street, near State places in Boston, where one can ? ; a large Street. Personally, we prefer the bars in the slab of excellent hot roast beef, b jiled potato, first-class hotels and in especial the one in the bread and butter (5 5c); a seidel of beer Locke-Ober Restaurant in Winter Place where (10c); and a cheese cake (10c). Good plain Billy Kane holds court. Billy has savoir faire, German cooking, sanded tloors, and enormous a finesse, a master touch that gives an added steins. fillip to all he creates. ATHENS RESTAURANT: 51 Stuart Street, up The list of restaurants is a long one. In addi• one flight. Yes, you've guessed it, this is a Greek tion to these hotels of the first class, it in• place where you can get egg-lemon soup, cludes some in the Upper Middle Class as Kotopoulo yachni (peristyle of chicken), pil- worthy of consideration for one reason or an• aphi and baklava (honey-cake), with wonder• other. There are French, Italian, Russian, Ger• ful coffee made from the pulverized bean. The man, Swedish, Norwegian, Armenian, Japa• prices are extremely moderate and the food nese, Chinese, and Yankee. The list is empiri• good. Try a brochette of lamb with roasted cal and, as we began by stating, far from de• mushrooms and a cheese pie the second time finitive. you go, and, if you're looking for a surprise, THE WINTER PLACE TAVERN: formerly order a bottle of Greek wine. Frank Locke's, now the Locke-Ober Co., 3 NGAR HONG GUEY: 21 Tyler Street near Winter Place, off Winter Street between Wash• Washington. Wonderful Chinese food at as• ington and Tremont Streets, Men's cafe on tonishingly low prices. Try their sub-gum street floor, Ladies' dining room on second, chow mein, lobster Chinese style, shrimp soup, private dining rooms above. Dr. Fellows, the water chestnuts, pork with sweet-sour sauce, Antiquary, says here is found the best cooking little dishes of cold roast duck. They are a in town, and we agree with him. Nowhere is revelation while you are drinking tea, pot seafood cooked and served so perfectly, and after pot. their squab chicken en casserole would bring THE DEN: 6 Fludson Street, not far away. tears to the eyes of an immortal goddess. The The only place to go late at night or between carte du jour is moderately priced and the spe• three and four in the morning. The food is cialties are not unreasonable when one con- about the same, a little more fussy than Ngar

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PENCIL I' O I N T i Hong Gucy's. In all Chinese places, no matter far from Boraschi's. A moderate price Rus• what you order or how many people are in the sian restaurant, no license, closes early. Excel• party, the check is always about $2.00. lent food, well cooked and served in unpreten• OLA'S: 14 Carver Street, Norwegian. A tious surroundings. A really good tea-room. modest but good smorgasbord and good cook• MARIO'S: 69 Church Street, just off Stuart ing in pleasant surroundings, designed by Street near the Statler. A popular Italian place, Gorden Allen. No license. plaster stercotomy and garish decor on street THE SMORGASBORD: 19 Province Court floor but cosy upstairs. They serve an excel• near City Hall. Similar to the above—low lent 5 0c lunch which includes a Martini cock• prices and delicious rum pudding. tail! The wine is also good, likewise the veal. DURGIN & PARKS: 30 North Market Street, Ask to have Italo wait on you. near Faneuil Hall. This is another Boston In• STELLA RESTAURANT: 9 Fleet Street, in the stitution that has been in the same place for North End. If you should be taken with a generations. The waiters are brawny men (and seizure while visiting the Prado, you'll find women) with powerful voices who bellow out that place handy. The risotto is cheap and the orders. The meat and vegetables, pies and good, as also is the heavy red wine by the glass. shortcakes, good, fresh, and cheap. Grangou- GRUNDLACH'S HOFBRAU: 43 Stanhope sier would love the place. Street near Police Headquarters. This is a new ATWOOD'S UNION OYSTER HOUSE: 41 cafe, opened St. Catherine's day, where Union Street, also near Faneuil Hall, is per• Pscborrbmu and Dopfelbrau (2 5c a seidel) haps the oldest place in town specializing in with weiner-schnitzel and smierbraten may be seafood. We used to sit at the counter and obtained. Moderately uninteresting decor, tell 'em to open oysters 'til we told 'em to medium high prices. stop. An interesting place, worth visiting. On the South Shore in Cohasset, Hugo's on DINTY MOORE'S: Rear of 611 Washington the Wharf and Hugo's in the Pines serve de• Street, hard to find and you'll have to keep on licious lobster and wonderful fried clams. trying. A swanky modern place, spick and They also serve good beer, and the prices are span with murals like the covers on "Vogue"; moderate, especially on the Wharf. fairly good drinks and fairly high prices. They Willie North says that Smith's Tavern in specialize on cooking steaks and chops over a Gloucester is a good place and he ought to hickory wood fire. know because he's been going to Gloucester OTTO'S BROAD STREET INN: 166 Broad for years. The best eating place in Newbury- Street, near the Custom House. German, mod• port is a glorified lunch cart affair with a est prices, excellent cocktails, and a pleasant, thaumaturgical name, and is open all night. cosy, "1900" atmosphere. Maybe their pan• It is on the Turnpike just before you enter this cakes are as good as Maidcr's in Milwaukee; town. If you visit Portsmouth, New Hamp• I don't know, yet. shire, only 19 miles beyond Newburyport, try BORASCHI CAFE: 21 Corning Street, near Ham's Restaurant—you'll find the food good junction of Tremont Street and Shawmut there; and the town itself contains about the Avenue. Italian, medium prices. A pianist best examples of Early American that New plays all the time and suddenly your waiter England has to offer. When you're admiring bursts into "Sole Mio" and, wishing vaguely all the Whipple House (1638 c.) in Ipswich—a the while he'd stop and bring your dinner, rare jewel in the rich diadem of Essex County you're glad when the aria is over. They are —and feel the need of a cup of fragrant tea, enormously proud of their immaculate ask for the Burnham Tea Rooms. You'll be kitchens and pleased as punch when you ask captivated, not only by the food—which is ex• to visit them. The specialty here is veal ceptional—but also by the interior rooms. Mr. Romano, delicious; a thin slice of veal cooked Burnham is a sensitive artist, an authority on inside a thin omelet. Early Americana, and his restoration and re• THE SAMOVAR: 88 Warrenton Street, not productions are as fine as you'll see anywhere.

274 M A V 19 3 7 RECENT BOSTON ARCHITECTURE

A SURVEY FOR THE VISITING PROFESSIONAL

BY LEON KEACH

IT IS rather a source of pride, in this fair city between extremists, and postulate the exist• of the north-easterly provinces, that we are ence of an authentic intelligence whose de• not as rampantly faddish as many another, tachment enables it to cast a sceptical eye on tin' while we deny a seared intelligence or a both smug reactionary and fevered, vocifer• rundown condition brought on by too glori• ous rebel. ous a past. The implication, if any, points to I believe this to be essentially true as a state• a habit of evaluation in terms of such well ment of our more thoughtful architectural riddled constants as still obtain in an era of attitude. To be sure, the temptation to "shoot slithering variables. We know that a liberal the works" has never been very strong, for conservatism makes for sound footholds and commercial ventures employing showy archi• even progress, without dissipating too much tectural assistance have seldom come to Bos• steam on the whistle; that a sapient tradition• ton, and in recent years only as small retail alist can profit by the world accretion of ideas store fronts whose endlessly repeated cliches and keep his footholds, while the avowed or are in way of putting a test case up to the law incidental image breaker is out to make the of diminishing returns. lady or the tiger, somewhere beyond the last Of necessity I do not know the pattern of prop of human experience. We may even deny contributing factors which produced the the necessity for partnership in this contest buildings here portrayed; how far a client's

East Milton junior High SC/JOOI Ralph Harrington Doane, Architect

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PENCIL POINTS demands or a wallet's limitations dictated scheme and material. But they are fairly typi• cal of the best work in this immediate vicinity, not of the type whose sole purpose is to in• crease somebody's sales. They testify to a happy fraternity between local tradition and eclecticism; to a charming disregard for a na• tional style, and I think they show a reason• able continuity of treatment for the three main sinews of civilized living—home, school, and church. The story of New England house design has chapters best printed in invisible ink, when its native treasure house of inspiration blushed unseen amidst 19th century excrescences and the clumsy era of the early 20th. It is even impossible to claim an entire absence of fad- dishness in the speculative division, where the scars are still livid from a pest of casual English effects in seven-eighth inch half-timber and tortured, skintled bricks. The slogan was "every header a hat tree." In its upper reaches, house design in the Boston offices has had well over a decade of acutely intelligent handling, both in archaeo• logical re-creations of the Colonial, and in freer interpretations. These, and formal Geor• gian preponderate in examples throughout the metropolitan area, with English and French types next in order. The motive of the Italian villa flourished earlier in the century, and had some striking successes under Guy Lowell and others, but it is rare in new work. Spanish architecture has been left in the capable hands of Spain and California. And as to the "plan supreme," it is still in the burrowing stage like the seven-year locust. When it comes to the surface and flies the face of the sun may be darkened but the time is not yet.

Above: Oratory of St. Thomas More, by Richard Shaw. Within youthful memory city house con• struction has almost ceased, but new apart• ment houses and reclaimed buildings, in

Below: Church of St. Theresa, by Maginnis and Walsh modish poor quarters, keep urban residential work alive. The apartments yield few distin• guished exteriors. Two large projects in slum clearance and group housing are now under construction in Cambridge and South Boston. The first of these is by a group of architects headed by Henry C. Robbins as Chief Architect with Chester Lindsay Churchill as Assistant Chief Architect. The second, known as the "Old Harbor Project," is headed by Joseph D. Leland and his partner Niels H. Larsen who are Chief Architect and Assistant Chief Archi• tect respectively. The list of associates on these

two projects includes a surprising number of talented practitioners. Such an array should turn out something pretty good if design

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MAY 19 3 7 ability means anything—as it sometimes does. In the all-important realm of higher educa• tion, no city could have a richer fund of ma• terial to show visiting architects. The out• standing contribution is Coolidge, Sheplcy, Bulfinch & Abbott's recent work at Harvard University, too diverse to particularize here. It is Georgian with spurs on, full flavored and reeking with intestinal fortitude, in a profu• sion to amaze the beholder. Nearby Radcliffe College for women carries out the same tradi• tion, and in Longfellow Hall the office of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn has produced a Geor• gian masterpiece and winner of the Parker Medal. On the southern edge of the city, Bos• ton College, by Maginnis & Walsh, exempli• fies expert control in unified planning, given a fresh start and a striking location. The mood is Gothic, as a logical expression of the college's sectarian character, and the prize-winning Science Building, here shown, is typical of its general excellence. Among private schools there is no finer ex• ample close to town than the new buildings of that 17th century institution, Roxbury Latin School (Perry, Shaw & Hepburn). Most of the important work among the preparatory schools lies outside of metropolitan Boston, such as Exeter Academy (Cram & Fergu• son) and Andover Academy (Guy Lowell, Charles Piatt, and Perry, Shaw & Hepburn). Public schools enjoy, inevitably, a quanti• tative superiority, and being circumscribed by the cry of "the most for the taxpayers' money," and the exigencies of the building code, they fare variously, depending on the architect's point of view or his will to win. His chief delight may lie in the collection of a commission, or he may envisage a school as properly and purely a machine for teaching, while another will struggle mightily to clothe the nudity of the machine in garments that are attractive to the eye. These definite local types faced the heritage, a few years back, of Newton City Hall—Allen & Collens, Architects lugubrious Romanesque buildings, and scores of "schools, just schools"; a fund of graceless structures just off the factory, but too amor• Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe—Perry, Shaw & Hepburn phous to claim relationship in the first fami• lies of Architecture. So in every case there has been improvement, and in not a few we see the miracle of excellent Georgian, Gothic, or freely handled buildings. The best work is usually found in the immediate suburban towns and cities, Newton being especially rich in meritorious school design.

The strength of Boston's ecclesiastical front is backed by such names as Allen, Collens & Harold B. Willis; Cram & Ferguson; Froh- man, Robb & Little; and Maginnis & Walsh.

279 PENCIL POINTS Having a field that is country-wide we find comparatively little of their work in this city. Fortunately there is the beautiful Lindsey Chapel, of the first-named firm, attached to Emmanuel Church and finished in 1925. In nearby Maiden the Immaculate Conception Church by Richard Shaw, herein illustrated, has received the Parker Medal for excellence, and the same architect has to his credit an unusual problem in the center of Boston's business district. This is the building shared jointly by the offices and plant of that cen• tury-old denominational publication, The Pilot, and the Oratory of St. Thomas More, the latter a chapel for prayer and liturgical use, seating one hundred and visited by one hundred thousand people a year. Here the architect deemed the use of traditional style inappropriate, and resorted to geometrical de• sign, with interlaces and a felicitous richness of color, modeling, and texture, to express the nature of the oratory. The exterior is designed with simplicity and freedom, giving a hint of the chapel's inner beauty at the deep recess of the entrance. The Georgian church, with its well defined rules of design, and consequent lack of any very astounding variety, has a number of recently completed examples from the office of Allen, Collens & Harold B. Willis. Those within the geographical scope of this

summary are to be found in Jamaica Plain, Lowell House, Harvard University Waltham, and Maiden. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch £5 Abbott, Architects Newest governmental structures are the Federal Building (Cram & Ferguson), a large parcel post headquarters (Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott), and the smaller but more generally interesting problem of the Newton City Hall and Memorial, completed in 1932 by Allen, Collens & Harold B. Willis. This building won the Parker Medal. Several post offices are of recent vintage, notably one in Cambridge, done by J. D. Leland & Co. and Charles R. Greco. In Boston's Fens we find a southerly district that lay open and boggy for years, along the Residence at Needham—Perry, Shaw & Hepburn course of Muddy River. Given the aspect of a charming belt of parkway by Olmsted Dean Donharn's Res/deuce, Harvard—Wm. T. Aldrich Brothers, the water course being disciplined and decorated with sedges and contiguous shrubs, this section, with its delicate founda• tion problems, developed into a major institu• tional center. So much so that Mayor Mans• field has sponsored a competition to find a more elegant name for the sluggish stream that still flows through amidships, unpiped and vaguely odorous. Although very little recent work has been done in this region of museums and schools, I feel constrained to mention the concentration of nationally famous medical

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MAY 19 3 7 Christian Science Publishing Company Building Chester Lindsay Churchill, Architect

St. Stephen's Church—Perry, Shaw ;J5 Hepburn

Swedish Church, West Roxbnry—Allen c3 Collens

Will:am T. Aldrich's Own Residence, Brookline Chapel in Cambridge by Cram end i'ergnson, Architects

St. Paul's Church, Dorchester—Mti'iinnis c5 Walsh

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PENCIL POINTS institutions near Harvard's medical school, and particularly the Boston Lying-in Hospital (Coolidge & Shattuck), recipient of a medal for excellence several years ago. Turning to the dignified hum and bustle of Boston we find little that is still hot off the griddle, though the Fourth Estate has two fairly recent contributions, in the Herald- Traveler Building (Henry Bailey Alden), and latterly the palatial headquarters of the Chris• tian Science Publishing Company (Chester Lindsay Churchill), where the Monitors come from. Residence at Gloucester Ad Jen, Parker, Clinch & Crimp We have never had an epidemic of super office buildings, with adjustable tops to be jacked up a notch or two on the threat of a higher rival. Such topless towers as obtain might well be of disappointing altitude to the callous cosmopolite, and none is post-depres• sion (if one may be permitted the "post"). Seventy-five Federal Street (Thomas M. James Co.) is the most recent. Bank work has been quiescent for a num• ber of years, as might be expected. In the late twenties and early thirties a number of small and interesting banks were completed, such as the New England Trust Company's Newbury Residence in Brookline—Little & Russell, Architects Street branch (Henry & Richmond). Back in 1926 the office of Ralph Harrington Lindsay Chapel, Neuhnry St.—Allen & Collens Doane produced a public garage, the Motor Mart, which won a prize and made a name for itself. Its picture is herewith appended for we have not yet seen a better building of the sort. The field of retail stores needs no pointing out. Rather, it calls for smoked glasses, par• ticularly among the small, blatant, ephemeral cases, of which there are scores. Some of our more interesting shops are housed in structures which do not bear inspection above the sign space, because they are as dowdy as the store front is "smart." Easily the leading group of very recent work, it has no peculiarly New

England character. Most of the better ex• amples are uptown, along Boylston Street and environs. The scope of these notes is as great as the treatment is brief, and many admirable build• ings must have been overlooked. Boston's architectural interest depends only partly on recent work, as will be quickly realized by visitors attending the A.I.A. convention next month. The first and second decades of this century, and the Colonial years, produced much that is neither functionally nor artisti• cally outmoded, as we see it. Even the 19th century had its high points, and it is my guess that several of them will endure as long as any• thing erected before or since.

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283 P r. N c i L POINT Edith C. Baker School, Brookline Kilham, Hopkins c5 Greeley, Architects

MAY 19 3 7 NO. NAME DATE LOCATION NO. NAME DATE LOCATION 1780 881 Hancock St., Dorchester Chart Showing Location About Boston 01 1720 Cor. Washington & Oakland Sts., 151 OLD HOUSE IN DORCHESTER DAN iELL HOUSE Wellesley Farms 153 GEN. SYLVANUS THAYER BIRTHPLACE 1785 Braintree 68 HOBART-OSGOOD PARSONAGE 1722 The Common, Cohasset 164 ARTEMAS WARD, JR., HOUSE 1785 Central Ave. cor. Concord St., 65 JOHN CREHORE HOUSE 1724 Brush Hill Rd., Milton Weston of Examples of •7 REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON PARSONAGE 1724 145 Main St., Maiden 155 LAW OFFICE OF ARTEMAS WARD, JR., 88 READ HOUSE 1725 55 Brattle St., Cambridge AND ISAAC FISKE 1785 Central Ave., Weston 69 WADSWORTH HOUSE 1726 Harvard Sq., Cambridge 156 NATHAN HAGAR HOUSE 1786 North Ave. cor. Church St., Weston 70 GENERAL WM. BRATTLE HOUSE 1727 42 Brattle St., Cambridge 167 PAUL REVERE FARMHOUSE 1786 91 Neponset St., Canton 71 MAJOR HENRY VASSAL HOUSE 1727 94 Brattle St., Cambridge 159 FIRST PARISH CHURCH 1787 Canton Ave., Milton Center EARLY 'AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE 78 JABEZ WILDER HOUSE 1728 Main St., South Hingham 160 CAPT. ISAAC TUCKER HOUSE 1789 Randolph Ave., Milton 74 SAMUEL JAMES HOUSE 1729 King St., Cohasset 161 SWAMPSCOTT CLUB 1789 892 Humphrey St., Swampscott 75 HAMMOND HOUSE 1730 Hammond, Beacon, & Orchard Sts., 168 CAPT. ISAAC HULL HOUSE 1789 43 High St., Medford Sq., Medford [Data Originally Compiled by Robert P. Bellows, Architect) Newton Also the Fine Houses 76 GODDARD HOUSE 1730 Cor. Cottage & Warren Sts., Nos. 49 & 57 Brookline 163 SHADY HILL 1790 180 Irving St., Cambridge 77 KENRICK HOUSE 1732 286 Waverley Ave., Newton 164 DANA HOUSE 1791 Heath St., Brookline As Chronologically Listed for the Committee of Education, 78 VASSALL-ADAMS MANSION- 1732 Adams St. near Newport Ave., 165 BELLINGHAM-CARY HOUSE 1791 31 Parker St., Chelsea Quincy 166 LYMAN HOUSE 1793 Beaver St., Waltham Open 9-5 Except Sundays— 167 TOWN POUND 1794 Dover Boston Society of Architects 25 Cts. 168 THOMAS PIERCE HOUSE 1795 761 Adams St., Dorchester 79 SAM IEL E\ERETT HOUSE 1732 98 Adams St., Milton 169 SAMUEL HAVEN HOUSE 1795 Cor. High & Ames Sts., Dedham 80 E. H. ROBBINS HOUSE 1734 Brush Hill Rd. cor. Smith Rd., 178 DUNSTER BOOKSHOP HOUSE 1795 80 South St., Cambridge Prepared by Emergency Planning and Research Bureau, Inc. Milton 175 STEPHEN MILLER HOUSE 1798 Hillside St., Milton -1 ROYALL HOUSE AND SLAVE QUARTERS 1733 George St., Medford 176 DANA TUCKER HOUSE 1798 Brush Hill Rd., cor. Dana Ave., 182 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. Week Days Except Fri. 2-5— Milton 25 Cts. 177 JOSEPH VOSE HOUSE 1798 Vose's Lane, Milton 82 CAPT. ENOCH LOVELL'S HOUSE 1738 926 Commercial St., Weymouth 178 WILLIAM B. CREHORE HOUSE 1798 Canton Ave., Milton (List abridged for May, 19)7, issue of PENCIL POINTS,) 88 SAMUEL NEWELL HOUSE 1740 Clyde St., Brookline 179 A. FRENCH HOUSE 1798 Hillside St., Milton 84 JOSEPH GOOCH HOUSE 1740 833 Adams St., Milton 180 GARDNER COTTAGE 1798 594 Adams St., Milton 7 Waterhouse St., Cambridge 181 SHANNON HOUSE 749 Center St., Newton 85 WATERHOVSE HOUSE 1740 1798 Smith St., Dover 188 ISAAC COOK HOUSE 85 Goddard Ave., Brookline NAME DATE LOCATION 86 DRAPER SMITH HOUSE 1741 1798 xo. 473 Auburn St., Auburndale 183 RAND HOUSE Boston Road, Lynn 87 BOURNE HOUSE 1742 1798 495 Adams St., Milton 184 DERBY-OSBORN BARN- 562 Main St., Watertown 1 BARNARD CAPEN HOUSE 1636 Hillside St. 89 GOV. DANIEL HUTCHINSON HOUSE 1743 1798 Harvard Yard, Cambridge 185 THOMAS LEE HOUSE 158 Brattle St., Cambridge 8 FAIRBANKS HOUSE 1636 Cor. East St. & Eastern Ave., 90 HOLD EN CHAPEL 1744 1799 Dedham 91 SHIRLEY EUSTIS HOUSE 1746 33 Shirley St., Roxbury 187 GOVERNOR GORE MANSION AND COACH HOUSE 8 GEORGE Bl.ANI HARD HOUSE 1637 Bradbury Ave., Medford Open Sundays—25 Cts. 1799 Gore St.. Watertown The Common, Cohasset 188 GILLARD HOUSE 48 Riverside Ave., Medford 4 DF.*NE WINTHROP HOUSE 1637 40 Shirley St., Winthrop 92 FIRST PARISH MEETING HOUSE 1747 1800 Open Tues., Wed. & Fri., 2 to 93 OLD PARSONAGE 1747 62 Central St., rear 64 Central St., 189 AMOS HOLBROOK HOUSE 1800 203 Adams St., Milton 5—10 Cts. Stoncham 190 MAJOR SAMUEL WINN HOUSE 1800 Elm Sq. cor. Winn St., Wakefield Haven St., Dover 191 BROOKS HOUSE 87 Grove St., West Medford S JOHN HUMPHREY HOUSE 1637 99 Paradise Rd., Swampscott 94 CHICKERING GLASSETT HOUSE 1747 1800 6 PEREZ LINCOLN HOUSE 1640 Just East of Cushing Hotel, 96 LORIKG HOUSE 1682 Spring St., Hull 198 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE 1800 19 North Beacon St., Brighton Hingham 97 PARSON GAY HOUSE 1750 North St., Hingham 193 COPELAND HOUSE 1800 696 Commercial St., Weymouth 196 ROBERT PIERCE HOUSE 1640 24 Oakton Ave., Dorchester 98 BAURY HOUSE 1750 2349 Washington St., AMOS LYON HOUSE 1800 17 Crescent St., Wellesley Farms • Newton Lower Falls 800 WORT HEN HOUSE 69 Rutherford Ave., Charlestown 8 BIRD-SAWYER HOUSE 1640 41 Humphreys St., Dorchester 180V Eliot Sq., Roxbury 801 STATE PRISON Charlestown 9 RuOGLES HOUSE 1641 79 Elm St., Quincy 99 DILLAwAY HOUSE 1750 1801 Cor. Revere Parkway & Hillside 802 NORFOLK HOTEL 19 Court St., Dedham 10 IRONWORKS HOUSE 1636 287 Central St., Saugus 100 GREENE HOUSE 1750 1801 Restored. Open by Appointment Ave., Revere 204 THAYER HOUSE 1802 618 High St., Dedham Saugus Center 805 ASA WEBB-COWING HOUSE 75 Commercial St., Weymouth 11 OLD ORDINARY 1650 Lincoln St., Hingham 101 ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 1750 1803 Daily 2 to 5, April 19 to Nov. 1 108 LOAM MI BALDWIN HOMESTEAD 1750 Elm St. near Main St., Woburn 806 FIRST CHURCH ROXBURY 1804 Eliot Square, Roxbury —25 Cts. 108 Cot. JAMES HARTSHORNE HOUSE 1750 41 Church St., Wakefield 809 DOWSE-QUINCY HOUSE 1804 High St. beyond Chestnut, Dedham Rocky Nook, East St., Hingham 818 STOUGHTON HALL Harvard Yard, Cambridge 12 BLAKE HOUSE 1650 Near Edw. Everett Sq., Dorchester 105 GORHAM LINCOLN HOUSE 1751 1805 Open by Appointment 106 NATHANIEL BOBBINS HOUSE 1752 7S0 Canton Ave., Milton 813 REV. DR. FIELD MANSION 1805 Central Ave., 2nd House W. of Concord St., Weston Fiske St., Weston II JONATHAN WADE HOUSE 1650 13 Bradlee Rd., Medford 107 DR. WOODWARD HOUSE 1753 Central Ave., Weston 819 NEW NORTH CHURCH Hingham 14 "SCOTCH" BOARDMAN HOUSE 1651 Howard St., Saugus 108 GOLDEN BALL TAVERN- 1753 1806 362 Adams St., Milton 823 EDWARD EVERETT HOUSE 16 Harvard St., Charlestown 15 COOPER AUSTIN HOUSE 1657 21 Linnaean St., Cambridge 109 NATHAN BABIOCK HOUSE 1753 1806 Main St., Hingham 828 OAKLEY 410 Belmont St., Watertown M WAY-IRELAND-PRATT HOUSE 1660 481 Washington Ave., Chelsea 110 SHUTE HOUSE 1754 1807 South Side Central Ave. facing 230 ASA GRAY HOUSE 88 Garden St., Cambridge 17 ROGER CLAP HOUSE 1660 Willow Crt. off Boston St., Dorcb. 111 OLD JONES TAVERN 1755 1807 19 A. B. BROWN HOUSE 1663 568 Main St., Watertown Common, Weston 281 JOSEPH MOULTON HOUSE 1808 397 Boston St., Lynn so (ikNERAi. LINCOLN'S HOUSE 1667 North St., Hingham 118 FULLER HOUSE 1755 Strawberry Hill, Dover 233 SECOND CHURCH, DORCHESTER 1808 Cor. Washington & Centre Sts., Cor. Center & South Sts., Dorchester 21 THE ELMS 1675 Left of Library, Main St., Hull 118 LOBING-GREENOUGH HOUSE 1758 Jamaica Plain 884 BILLY GRAY HOUSE 22 Larch Rd., Cambridge 88 OLD FORT 1675 In Town Cemetery, Hingham 1808 835 A LITTLE HOUSE 15 Appian Way, Cambridge 23 PETER TUFTS HOUSE 1677 Riverside Ave., near Spring St., Closed in Summer 1808 .Medford 114 VASSALL-CRAIGIE LONGFELLOW HOUSE 1759 loj Brattle St., Cambridge 236 WIIITTEMORE-ROBBINS MANSION AND COACH HOUSE Behind Robbins Library, Arlington 84 CUSHINC. HOMESTEAD 1679 East St., near Weir River, Hingham Saturdays 2-4 1809 159 Brattle St., Cambridge 838 JACKSON HOUSE 527 Washington St., Newton 25 STURTEVANT HOUSE 1680 61 Brooks Ave., Newtonville 116 JUDGE JOSEPH LEE HOUSE 1760 1809 840 CUPOLA FROM BOYLSTON MARKET Now on Calvary M. E. Church, 20 JASON RUSSEI. HOUSE 1680 7 Jason St., Arlington 116 PETE* CLARKE-UNDERWOOD 1809 Open Afternoons Except Sun. FARMHOUSE 1760 Common St.. Belmont Mass. Ave., Arlington & Mon., April to Oct. 117 ELM WOOD 1760 Cor. Mt. Auburn St. & Elmwood 241 COMMANDANT'S HOUSE 1809 Chelsea St., Charlestown Navy Yard Ave., Cambridge 246 TIMOTHY WELLINGTON HOUSE 86 Pleasant St., Arlington 27 HARRINGTON HOUSE 1680 Wellesley St., near (Jlcn Rd., Weston 1811 175 Brattle St., Cambridge 248 BENJAMIN GODDARD HOUSE 48 Buckminster Rd., Brookline 28 EDWARD DEVOTION HOUSE 1680 347 Harvard St., Brookline 118 FAYERWEATHER HOUSE 1760 1811 Saturdays 2-5—10 Cts. 119 BOYLSTON LEE HOUSE 1760 017 Boylston St., Ilrookline 250 COCK HORSE TEA ROOM 1811 56 Brattle St.. Cambridge 15 Plympton St., Cambridge 251 HOUSE NEAR JAIL 67 Washington St., Charlestown 29 NICHOLS HOUSE 1680 King St., One Mile from Cohasset 180 APTHOBP HOUSE 1761 1811 Garden St., Cambridge 858 HOLWORTHY HALL Harvard Yard. Cambridge 30 ROBERT TUCKER HOUSE 1681 Brush Hill Rd. at Fairmount Ave., 121 CHRIST CHUECH 1761 1812 Milton 188 HICKS HOUSE 1762 Boylston St. cor. South St., 853 POWDER HOUSE 1812 781 Canton Ave., Milton 254 ST. MARY'S CHURCH 31 "ROSENEATH" 1681 Well Back from Main St., Hingham Cambridge 1813 Concord St., Newton Lower Falls High St., Dedham 255 UNIVERSITY HALL Harvard Yard. Cambridge 32 JOHN ADAMS BIRTHPLACE 1681 189 Franklin St., Quincy 183 L"NITARIAX CHURCH 1763 1813 25 Cts. D.A.R. 184 HOLLIS HALL 1763 Harvard Yard, Cambridge 256 CUPOLA OF COURT HOUSE 1814 East Cambridge EBENEZER TUCKER HOUSE 1031 Canton Ave., Milton 857 JOHN GIBBONS HOUSE Highland St.. Milton S3 "OLD SHIP" 1681 Meeting House. Main St., Hingham 185 1764 1815 Sundays 9-12:30 126 SAMUEL DEXTER BURGESS HOUSE 1765 High St., Dedham 258 HASTINGS HOUSE 1815 Beach St., cor. Eustis St., Revere BENJAMIN WADSWORTH HOUSE 088 Canton Ave., Milton 859 J. II. PERKINS-AGASSIZ COTTAGE Nahant 34 WOODWARD FARMHOUSE 1681 238 Woodward St., 127 1765 1815 Newton Highlands 128 MARSHALL JONES HOUSE 1765 South Side of Central Ave., Weston 263 DERBY ACADEMY 1818 Main St.. Hingham 266 GEN. MOSES WHITNEY HOUSE 126 Adams St., Milton 35 ROGER SUMNER HOUSE 1684 Brush Hill Rd. cor. Robbins St., 189 POWDER HOUSE 1766 Ames St., Dedham 1820 Milton 130 HAIVARD HALL 1766 Harvard Yard, Cambridge 269 A. KENNEDY HOUSE 1820 Hillside St., cor. Harland St., Milton Cor. High & Woburn Sts., 870 HOUSE AND DOORWAY 488 River St., Hyde Park 37 BEALE HOUSE 1690 Opp. N. Cohasset Sta.. Hingham 181 GOVERNOR JONATHAN BROOKS HOUSE 1766 1820 West Medford 271 CORDIS ST. HOUSES 21 & 32 Cordis St., Charlestown 88 QUINCY THAXTER HOUSE 1695 South St., Hingham 1820 Haven St.. Dover 278 DANA-FELTON-PEABODY S. E. cor. Harvard Yard, Cambridge 39 WILLIAM H. HILL HOUSE 1696 West Side of Wellesley St., Weston 183 GEORGE E. CHICKERING HOUSE 1767 1820 Goddard Ave., Bioonlme PHILBRICK HOUSE 204 Walnut St.. Brookline 41 OLD POUND 1700 High St., Westwood 134 JOHN GODDARD HOUSE 1767 874 1821 Dedham St., Dover ALLIN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH High St., Dedham 42 PIIINEAS UPHAM HOUSE 1703 25S Upham St.. Melrose 135 EBENEZER Kn HARDS HOUSE 1769 275 1821 DR. JOSIAH NOYES HOUSE Noyes St. orT Central Ave., Needham 43 JOHN FENNO HOUSE 1704 Randolph St., Canton 137 COL. JOSIAH QUINCY HOUSE 1770 Gould St. off end of Elm Ave., 276 1822 from Hancock St., Quincy CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH STEEPLE The Common, Cohasset 44 DOROTHY QUINCY HOUSE 1706 Bridge St. near Hancock St., Quincy 878 1824 9-5 Daily, May to Nov.—25 Cts. 188 "SUFFOLK RESOLVES" HOUSE 1774 3* Adams St., Milton 880 HEWS HOUSE 1824 Central Ave., ncrth side, Weston Hemlock Gorge Reservation, 45 MANASSAH TUCKER HOUSE 1707 Canton Ave. & Robbins St., Milton 139 TABER HOUSE 1774 64 Bartlett St., Rcxbury 281 FlELDSTONE BUILDING 1824 785 Sycamore St., Somerville Boylston St., Wellesley 47 OLD POWDER HOUSE 1710 Broadway & College Ave., Somervillc 140 JOHN TUFTS FARMHOUSE 1775 478 Somerville Ave. Somerville BUNKER HILL MONUMENT Monument Square, Charlestown 50 SAMUEL TUCKER HOUSE 1713 Randolph Ave., Milton 111 SAMUEL TUFTS HOUSE 1775 283 1825 Rear of 384 Savin Hill Ave., 51 COUNT RUMFOKD BIRTHPLACE 1714 Elm St. near Main St., Woburn 148 REVOLUTIONARY BARRACK HOUSE 1775 Daily 9-5—10 Cts. Dorchester PETERS HOUSE OR ELMS COTTAGE 810 South St., Forest Hills, 52 UNION OYSTER HOUSE 1715 41 Union St., Boston 885 1798 54 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS BIRTHPLACE 1716 Franklin St., cor. Presidents Ave., 148 MADAM BELCHER HOUSE 1776 401 Adams St., Milton Jamaica Plain Quincy 145 CARYL PARSONAGE 1777 Dedham St., Dover 286 MEADE HOUSE 1825 28 Adams St.. Charlestown Week Days 10 12, 2-5—25 Cts. 147 WINTHROP SQUARE HOUSES 1780 14, 16, 22, 23, 21, and 20 Common 387 Pl'DDINGSTONE PRISON 1825 199 Ruggles St.. Roxbury 55 CHUBBOCK-PRATT HOUSE 1720 Main St., South Hingham St., Charlestown 290 COOK COTTAGE 1827 85 Cottage St.. Brookline 18. 33, 57, 71, 111, 119 Main St., FIRST M. E. MEETING HOUSE Summer St.. Newton Upper Falls 56 MASSACHUSETTS HALL 1720 Harvard Yard, Cambridge 148 MAIN STREET HOUSES 1780 291 1827 57 TOWNSEND HOUSE 1720 Central Ave. cor. Nehoiden St., Charlestown 292 STONE COURT HOUSE 1827 Dedham Needham 149 HENLEY STREET HOUSE 1780 62 Henley St., Charlestown 293 STONE TEMPLE 1828 Opp. City Hall, Quincy 58 CUSHINC. PLACE 1720 Spring St., Hull 150 WASHINGTON STREET HOUSES 1780 2066, 8068, and 2180 Washington 894 OTIS PETTEE HOUSE "SUNNYSIDE" 1828 877 Elliot St.. Newton Upper Falls 59 GOULD-WEBSTER HOMESTEAD 1720 880 Lebanon St., Maiden St., Roxbury 295 CHARLES TUCKER HOUSE 1829 991 Canton Ave., Milton CO JOSEPH LYNDE FARM 1720 Cor. Main St. & Fells Ave., Melrose Also 16 Madison St., nearby 296 JOSEPH M. HOWE HOUSE 1830 697 Randolph Ave., Milton N C U. V/ E L L PROGRAM

PENCIL POINTS-'SUNTILE" ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION

For the Design of

A DOCTOR'S RESIDENCE

Authorized by Sponsored by Reinhold Publishing Corporation The Cambridge Tile Mfg. Company Publishers of PENCIL POINTS LockJand Station 330 W. 42nd Street, New York Cincinnati, Ohio

Conducted by RUSSELL F. WHITEHEAD, A.I.A., Professional Adviser KENNETH REID, P.C.R., Associate Professional Adviser

THE AWARDS THE JUDGES Reinhold Publishing Corporation agrees to Hubert Burnham, F.A.I.A. Chicago pay, immediately after the Judgment, the fol• D. K. Este Fisher, Jr., A.I.A. Baltimore lowing Prizes in Cash: Addison B. LeBoutillier, A.I.A. Boston For Design Placed First $1000.00 " Second 400.00 Robert Rodes McGoodwin, F.A.I.A. Third 200.00 Philadelphia Fourth 100.00 Edgar I. Williams, A.I.A. New York M Designs Mentioned—12— each $50.00 600.00 THE COMPETITORS, REINHOLD PUBLISHING Total Prizes $2300.00 CORPORATION, and THE CAMBRIDGE TILE The above Prizes are net—no further draw• MFG. COMPANY agree that the Judges have ings will be required of any competitor as a sole and complete authority to make the condition of receiving an award. awards and that their decisions shall be final.

ALL ARCHITECTS, DRAFTSMEN, AND DESIGNERS ARE ELIGIBLE AND ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE

A Competitor may submit any number of solutions of the Problem. All designs entered by any competitor are eligible for Prizes.

NOTE: Under a ruling by The A'.I.A. Committee on Competi• tions, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS does not oppose participancy of its Members in this Competition.

Closing date for entry of designs in this Competition, 8 P. M., local Standard time, June yth, uffif

This is an open Competition — no preliminary registration is required

339 PENCIL POINTS PROGRAM PENCIL POINTS ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION — (Continued)

THE PROBLEM: MANDATORY

A PHYSICIAN, in general practice "some• vited to be one of a convivial gathering of where" in the United States, turns to the the doctor's men friends, the occasion being architectural profession to (study his needs one of relaxation and good clean fun. and those of his family in the way of a new When looking over the house during these residence which will include doctor's office scouting trips the architect observes that Dr. accommodations. He is convinced that an and Mrs. X have separate bedrooms, each with architect could best interpret his housing re• a bath. He sees what he takes to be a guest quirements, just as he in turn could best diag• room and is told that the reason for its am• nose the architect's physical ailments. ple proportions is that the married son with The doctor owns a rectangular lot in a resi• his wife and infant daughter occupy this dential community. It has a frontage to the room on periodic visits to the homestead. east of 80 feet on a wide avenue and a depth The doctor's office quarters are seen to be of 150 feet. A 12-foot wide paved alley, at a makeshift and to interfere with the prac• the rear of the property, runs north and south tical workings of the menage. Patients and through the block. The land is practically guests cannot seem to find their way around level. The usual services such as water, gas, and the waiting room offers little privacy for electricity, sewer, etc., are available. anyone concerned. The doctor's present con• The physician's income is derived mainly sultation office and laboratory was originally from patients on his own economic and social a Library. In discussing the new residence the level — a group that might fairly be de• thought occurs that it might be good planning scribed as "middle class." His family is on to anticipate the doctor's future retirement intimate terms with many others in the neigh• and subsequent sale of the house to persons borhood, with whom they exchange hospi• who would convert the office space into liv• tality frequently. This friendly habit, inci• ing quarters. dentally, becomes for the doctor an effective In the course of these several opportunities antidote for the fatigue resulting from his to observe and question his clients, the archi• strenuous duties in the consulting-operating tect discovers that both the Doctor and his room and in making his round of calls. He wife have a cultivated and intelligent taste and his wife have reached a time in their lives for color in the interiors of their home. Fur• when they want their home to provide as thermore, it is their belief that tile has been many of the niceties of modern living as can too sparingly used in the design of domes• be obtained within their building budget. tic interiors. The bathrooms and kitchens, of They frown, however, upon the substitution course — but why could not an imaginative of gadgets and trick equipment for good plan• and understanding designer find other appro• ning. priate places in which to make use of its The doctor gives this much information to good qualities? the architect at their first interview and, act• As was agreed upon in the first interview, ing upon his wife's suggestion, invites him to the architect is given complete freedom by dine with his family two or three times before his client in the matter of style, design, build• starting his study of the design of the new ing materials, and methods of construction. residence. The number and size of the rooms and At the first dinner the architect is seated porches, with necessary circulations and ac• between the hostess and the doctor's resident cessories and their arrangement, are left to nurse. He notes that the meal is served by a the judgment of the designer, and he is given maid, who evidently is both cook and wait• carte blanche in the use of colors in the tile ress. On another occasion the architect finds design. The only limit imposed is that the total himself in the midst of a gay group of eight area of the ground floor of the residence, in• persons and is asked to join in an after-dinner side the exterior walls, shall not exceed 1200 bridge game. On yet another evening he is in- square feet, exclusive of the area of the garage.

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MAY 19 3 7 PROGRAM PENCIL POINTS ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION— (Continued)

CONSIDERATIONS OF THE JURY OF possible the colors, form, and pattern AWARD: of the tile design in some portion of 1. The ingenuity shown in the develop• the residence. This drawing to occupy ment of the plans to fit the require• an area on the sheet of not less than ments of the problem and the site and 144 square inches or more than 160 the architectural merit of the design as square inches. Remembering that these a whole. drawings will be somewhat reduced when published in full color, the au• 2. The intelligence and judgment shown thor of the design should make allow• in apportioning tile areas and the skill ances for the reduction to assure pleas• with which they are designed. ing results. 3. Practicability of construction and in• 4. Detail of Tile Designs: One drawing, stallation. either elevation or plan, at scale of %" Excellence of delineation and equals l'-0" showing the use of tile in composition of the drawings some part of the house not shown by will not have undue weight the rendered perspective. with the Jury. 5. Plot Plan to show the location of house COMPUTATION OF FLOOR AREA: and garage on the lot. This plan may Mandatory. Measurements of enclosed spaces be shown in conjunction with the to be taken from the inside of exterior walls scale house plans, the 1/16" scale dia• with no deductions for partitions. Open gram, or at a smaller scale if desired. porches or partly enclosed porches shall be 6. Separate Single Line Diagram of counted at 50% of their actual area. Entirely ground floor plan at 1/16" scale show• enclosed sun porches shall be counted at their ing the method of figuring the inside full area. total floor area. Designs found, upon checking, to exceed 7. The drawings shall bear the title, "De• 1200 sq. ft. total for the ground floor area sign for a Doctor's Residence" with of the residence (exclusive of garage) will not the sub-title, PENCIL POINTS-SUNTILE be considered. Architectural Competition, and shall be PRESENTATION DRAWINGS: Manda• signed with a device or nom de plume. tory. There shall be but one drawing for each The general geographic location as• design which shall be rendered on a single sumed by the designer shall be noted on sheet of mounted white paper or illustration the drawing. board, trimmed to exactly 25" x 36" in size, COMMUNICATIONS: Mandatory. No with a single border drawn Vi" from the top, queries will be answered, as this is an open sides, and bottom. Upon this sheet shall be competition. Contestants shall not communi• drawn the subjects enumerated below. The cate with the Professional Adviser or the sheet shall be composed with its long dimen• Members of the Jury; except anonymously sion vertical. and in writing. 1. Plans of each floor of the Residence at ANONYMITY OF DRAWINGS: Manda• the scale of equals l'-O". The use tory. The drawings submitted shall contain of each room or space must be indi• no identifying mark other than a device or cated and dimensions set out in nu• nom de plume. Each drawing shall be accom• merals. The walls and partitions are to panied by a plain, opaque, sealed envelope be solid black. Lettering should be large bearing the same device or nom de plume as and clear enough to allow for reduc• the drawing and containing the true name tion to one-quarter size when pub• and complete address of the contestant. The lished. envelopes will be opened by the Professional 2. Elevations of two principal facades at Adviser in the presence of the Jury after the the scale of equals l'-0" with story awards have been made and the Competition heights marked. closed. 3. Perspective: One drawing, in two DELIVERY OF DRAWINGS: Mandatory. point perspective, rendered in Color, in Each drawing shall, together with the en• any medium that seems suitable to the velope, be enclosed in a sealed wrapper. This competitor, showing as correctly as shall be wrapped for delivery in an outer

341 PENCIL POINTS PROGRAM PENCIL POINTS ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION— (Continued) cover. Drawing must be suitably protected at Yama Farms Inn, Catskill Mountains, New and addressed to Russell F. Whitehead, PENCIL York, on June 17th, 1937. Their deliberations PoiNTS-Suntile Competition, 330 West 42nd will continue for as many days as are neces• Street, New York, N. Y. All drawings shall sary to give fair and careful consideration of be delivered to the office of PENCIL POINTS the submitted designs. (Reinhold Publishing Corporation) , 330 West ANNOUNCEMENT OF TELE AWARDS: 42nd Street, New York, N. Y., or shipped on Each competitor will receive by mail the or before 8 P. M. (local standard time), Mon• names of the winners of the Prizes and Men• day, June 7, 1937, via United States mail or tions, as soon after the awards as possible. Railway Express. Drawings will be accepted The announcement will be published in the at any time before the close of the Competi• July, 1937, issue of PENCIL POINTS for gen• tion. They will be fully insured from the hour eral information. Checks will be sent to the of their receipt. Prize and Mention winners the day following Drawings submitted in this Competition the Awards. are at the competitor's risk. Reasonable care REPORT OF THE JURY: The August is• will be exercised, however, in their handling, sue of PENCIL POINTS will contain the full safe-keeping, and packaging for return. jury report, illustrated with facsimile repro• EXAMINATION OF DESIGNS: The Pro• ductions in color of the winning designs and fessional Advisers will examine the designs other meritorious designs selected by the Jury. and records of their receipt to ascertain THE PRIZE DESIGNS: The designs awarded whether they comply with the requirements. Prizes and Mentions are to become the prop• Any designs which in the opinion of the Pro• erty of Reinhold Publishing Corporation, fessional Advisers do not adhere to the spirit who, with the Sponsors, reserves any and all of the Program or violate the instructions rights of exhibition and publication to any clearly intended as mandatory will be set aside or all of the designs not premiated. In all pub• as not subject to awards. The Professional Ad• licity the name and address of the designer visers alone will have access to the drawings will be used. until they are placed before the Judges. No drawing, whenever received, will be shown or RETURN OF DRAWINGS: Non-premi- made public until after the Awards of the ated designs which are not reserved for exhi• Jury. bition or publication will be returned within a reasonable time to the competitors, postage JUDGMENT: The Jury of Award will meet and $50.00 insurance prepaid.

NOTICE TO COMPETITORS

ANY Architect, Draftsman or Designer who has any difficulty in securing a sheet of mounted white paper or illustration board of the size called for by the mandatory require• ments of the foregoing Program will be pro• vided by PENCIL POINTS with a mount of Whatman's or some similar brand of paper, Hot Pressed trimmed to exact size of 25" x 36" for $1.50. This price includes the mounted paper, shipped prepaid in a container suitable for remailing the finished design. Address your remittance to F. J. Armeit, c/o PENCIL POINTS, 330 West 42nd Street, New York.

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M A Y 19 3 7 1937 LEBRUN SCHOLARSHIP

THE LeBrun Scholarship Committee this the tier. The balcony as shown on Mr. Du- year awarded the Scholarship to Mathew Brul's design darkens the inner line of tables Lapota of Maywood, Illinois, for an original, on the main floor and cuts the room up un• able, and courageous solution of the problem, pleasantly. The design is, however, commended which was the design of a College Library. for independent analysis of the program. The winning and first three Honorable Men• Second Honorable Mention was awarded to tion designs are presented herewith. J. Victor Keyes. Mr. Keyes' design was com• The Jury felt that Mr. Lapota's plan was mended for the very beautiful character of compact, with the parts generally well dis• the exterior, especially on the score of the posed. The opening of reading rooms into the pleasing scale and choice of style for the use garden was especially commended. The eleva• intended. Mr. Keyes' plan, however, was found tion is dignified and interesting, although per• not up to the elevations. The relation of the haps somewhat severe, but the design is on the cataloging room, librarian's office, and cata• whole a conscientious and praiseworthy effort. log is too scattered, and the long, narrow form First Honorable Mention was awarded to of the delivery room would not be pleasing. Raoul L. DuBrul. The Jury characterized his Third Honorable Mention went to Harry design as a beautifully presented rendu of a Greenburg. His design was commended for dignified and interesting solution, in which the original thinking out of the problem and for relation of stack rooms, reading rooms, de• an interesting plan ably presented. livery desk, and cataloging room were espe• cially commended. The program did not con• The plans for a college library designed by Ma/hew La• template reading tables on the level of the sec• pota of Maywood, Illinois, winner of the 19)7 LeBrun ond tier of stacks, but merely a gallery to serve Traveling ScJjolarsbip Competition Prize of $1,400

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Above are the elevation, cross section, and some plans of the u inning design by La pot a. Below is a perspective of this design for a College Library in LeBrun Scholarship Competition

7'Ac /»/<#// perspective of the design by Raoul L. DuBrnl of East Rockau ay, Long Islam/, which receii e

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Plans ami perspectives of Second Honorable Mention (above) by Victor Keyes of Washing/on, /). C, and Third Honorable Mention (bclou ) by Harry Greenburg of Brooklyn, N. Y., in the 19)7 LeBrim Scholarship Competition

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join in extending a cordial welcome to the distinguished delegates and members com• ing from all parts of the country to the

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS' CONVENTION in Boston, June 1-4, 1937

and invite their interest in the progress of Design as applied to the products of the New England Area

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A page from an old catalogue of the Bridgeport Brass Company showing "Lambeth's Improved Fly-Fan" made by this Company about 1890. It was operated by a large clock spring and had to be wound up every twenty minutes

On succeeding pages are shown some of the more recent efforts of New England Manufacturers to make their industrial products attractive as well as useful

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MAY 26 19 3 7 The Ninth Annual Art Week in Boston, held this year from April 26 to May 2, in• cluded for the second successive time a New England Industrial Art Exhibition. The whole show was arranged by the Committee of Industrial and Civic Art of the Boston Chamber of Commerce as part of an effort to create greater public interest in art in all its forms, both pure and applied. The Indus• trial section was shown in the galleries of Jordan Marsh Company along with a large collection of paintings by New England art• ists and attracted much attention among a public that is developing a dawning con• sciousness that good design has a place in the utilitarian objects encountered in daily life as well as in the fine arts. Gold Medals provided by Edward R. Mitton, President of Jordan Marsh Com• pany, were awarded in three classes. The Electric Range at the right, designed by Alcott, Thotter # Marsh, and made by the Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company, received the Medal in Group "B"—Products luu itig Utility in the Home. The Plaza Model Electric Clock below, designed by Paul G. Darrot and entered by Scth Thomas Clocks, was awarded the Medal for Group "C"—Products having Decorative Value

PENCIL 27 POINTS

Above is a modem bleached dinette group, entered in the Industrial Art Exhibition by the Hey wood-Wakefield Company in Group "B." On the table is an After Dinner Coffee Serv• ice by the Paul Revere Pottery. Below is shown an Electric Buffet Warming Oven designed by Charles Arcularius and entered by the Chase Brass and Copper Company—a well-de• signed item in polished metal with wood handles that excited much public admiration

M A Y 28 19 3 7 En fries in the 1937 New England Industrial Art Exhibition Held at Jordan Marsh Company's Store, Boston, April 26-May 2

GROUP "A"

Products having U/ilif) in Business or Industry

Mitton Medal to Cube Steak Machine by Cube Steak Ma• chine Co., Boston Honorable Mention to Globetrotter Clock by Warren Tele- chron Co., Ashland, Mass. Pyraloid Screw Drivers by Forsberg Mfg. Co., Bridgeport. Conn. Marine Searchlight by Carpenter Mfg. Co., Boston Motor Control by Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Boston "Round Top" fence by American Chain Link Fence Co.. Medford, Mass. Eureka Shokpruf hand lamp by Frank W. Morse Co., Boston Ash Tray and Tobacco Jar by Paul Revere Pottery School, Boston Shoe Repair Machine by Duplicate Parts Co., Boston Manifold Register by American Register Co., Boston Here is a typical house of today—Stained with Cabot s Creosote Stains. Architect: GROUP"B" Evans, Moore if Woodbridge of New York Products having Utility in the Home Milton Medal to Crawford Electric Range by Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., Boston Honorable Mention to Gas Range by Florence Stove Co., Stains that Architects Gardner, Mass. Bed Tray by R. R. Scheibe, Somerville, Mass. have used for half a century Tea Set by Paul Revere Pottery School, Boston Dressing Case by Knight Leather Products Co., Boston In 1882, Samuel Cabot, Inc., received its first Eye Bath by Colt Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn. order from an architect for a brand new product Place Lights by Ohlson Metal Products Co., Waltham, —Cabot's Creosote Shingle Stain. Constantly im• Mass. proved since that time, Cabot's has been the first- Warming Oven by Chase Brass & Copper Co., Waterbury, Conn. choice stain of leading architects for more than Mustard Dispenser by A. S. Campbell Co., Boston half a century ... It is specified chiefly for two Picnic Basket by American Can Co., Boston Dinette Set by Western Chair Co., Boston reasons—first, the beauty of its clear texture re• Oil Burner by Carlson Brothers, Boston vealing colors; and, second, its wood preservative Combination Range by White-Warner Co., Taunton, Mass. value, based on its vehicle of pure creosote, the Crib Mattress by Rose Derry Co., Boston "Stylis" Numeral Clock by New Haven Clock Co. best wood preservative known . . . For color card Panel Desk Set by Seymour Products Co., Seymour, Conn. and full information, write Samuel Cabot, Inc.. Dinette Group by Heywood-Wakefield Co., Gardner, Mass. Reversibra Slip by Boston Royal Petticoat Co. 1293 Oliver Bldg., Boston, Mass. Range by Oscar G. Thomas Co., Taunton, Mass. "Advisor" Clock by Warren Telechron Co., Ashland, Mass. Duplex Mattress by Antiseptic Mattress Co., Lynn, Mass. Cabot's GROUP "C" CREOSOTE SHINGLE Products having Decorative Value in the Home Mitton Medal to "Plaza" Clock by Seth Thomas Clocks Honorable Mention to Woven Materials by Cheney Stains Brothers, Manchester, Conn. Book Ends by Seymour Products Co., Seymour, Conn. WELCOME, ARCHITECTS • Scrap Basket by R. R. Scheibe, Somerville, Mass. Coffee Service by Paul Revere Pottery School, Boston . . . from • New England manufacturer wh« has enjoyed Cottage Set by Royal Curtain Mfg. Co., Boston doing business with you since 1882. Best wishes for the success Console Set by Ohlson Metal Products Co., Waltham, Mass. of your convention here in Boeton. Shower Curtain by Arthur L. Ellis Co., Boston "Tribute" Clock by Warren Telechron Co., Ashland, Mass. Wall Papers by Thomas Strahan Co., Chelsea, Mass. Wall Papers by Stamford Wall Paper Co., Stamford, Conn. Manufacturing Chemitti Greeting Cards by Rust Craft Publishing Co., Boston

PENCIL 29 POINTS The objects shown on these two facing pages were not entered in the Neiv England Indus trial Art Exhibition but are included here since they have a distinct design interest. At the left and directly across the page art- two groups of kitchen utensils designed for the Washburn Company of Worcester, Mass., by Henry Dreyfuss of New York. The simple and unusual forms he gave to the bandies of these implements found im• mediate and continued public favor which led to a truly remarkable increase in sales

M A Y 19 5 7 At the bottom of the pair of pages you arc now impeding are two fine examples of modern clock design, not entered in the re• cent show but produced by one of the suc• cessful exhibitors—Seth Thomas Clocks of Thomaston, Conn. At the left, the Sunset model has a polished copper-plated face with raised markers and hands of polished brass. The base is also of polished brass. On this page, the Phoenix model has a face of solid brass, finished in gun metal with brushed gold-plate modern markers, hands, and feet "The Globetrotter," a clock entered in the show at Jordan Marsh's by the Warren Telechron Company, was given an Honorable Mention in Group "A"—Products having Utility in Business or Industry. From it you can tell what time it is in any part of the world. Beloiv is a group of improved Thermos Bottles, not in the show but designed for the American Thermos Bottle Co., of Norivicb, by Henry Dreyfuss

MAY 32 19 3 7 The Jonas Clark Mansion, Middl Built in 1814.

Three items included in Group "A" at Jordan Marsh's —A Cube Steak Machine which won the Medal in this class for the Cube Steak Machine Company, the Eureka Slwkprnf Hand Lamp entered by I-rank W. Morse MARBLE Company, and a Marine Searchlight by the Carpenter Mfg. Co. which might also serve for lighting grounds M ADETHE DIFFERENCE The Chevron model clock, made by Seth T/jomas Clocks, was not exhibited but is interesting in design. It has Added to the better appearance are the a walnut case, simple in form, relieved by silvered metal better structural values resulting from the inlays and a silvered dial with black numerals and crystal use of Vermont Marble.

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PENCIL 33 POINTS A simple and attractive motor control case, made by the Boston plant of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, was included in Group "A." At its right is shown a distinctive elec• tric fan designed and made by the General IIIectric Company at Bridgeport, Conn. The G. E. Hot point Portable Mixer below is also a good example of the application of design to useful objects for the home. Neither of the General Electric products shown here was exhibited at Jordan Marsh's but the "Cello-Sen it" dispenser for mustard, ketchup, etc., won an Honor• able Mention for the A. S. Campbell Company, its makers. Made with two kinds of glass

MAY 34 19 3 7