NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

February, 1966 Vol. 10, No. 1

ANNUAL MEETING IN NEW YORK Opening the Society's 26th year was the Annual Meeting in New York, held January 27-30 at the Americana Hotel, fohn McAndrew with approximately 550 members and guests attending for a of Wellesley College, four day round of architectural history papers, tours and winner of the Society of receptions. General Chairman for the meeting was George Architectural Historians' B. Tatum, University of Pennsylvania, and the Local Chair­ Alice Davis Hitchcock man was James M. Fitch, Columbia University, to whom thanks are due for their carefully made arrangements and the many Book Award for his pleasures of the meeting. The meeting marked the end of Open Air Churches President H. Allen Brooks' term of office, one marked by a of Sixteenth-century vigorous growth in the Society, and we all owe a deep debt Mexico. of gratitude to Mr. Brooks for his many contributions to the Society as president! The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Business Meeting was held on January 27 , following the traditional milieu which produced these monuments. The analysis and luncheon. The following report is taken from Secretary description of the churches, based upon years of study of Adolf K. Placzek's minutes: President H. Allen Brooks the monuments and sites, is thorough in its discussion and called the meeting to order at 2 o'clock and welcomed the temperate in its conclusions. This is a work of architec­ members present. John M. Dickey submitted the Treasurer's tural history at its finest." Report which was accepted by the assembled membership. Mr. Brooks announced that the Annual Meeting in 1967 Robert Branner submitted the report of the Editor of the will be held in Cleveland, and that the 1968 meeting will Journal. He also announced that Thomas J . McCormick has be held in St. Louis. Alan Laing moved to extend the warm­ submitted his resignation as Book Review Editor, and that est sympathy of the Society to its senior member Turpin he has appointed Robert W. Berger of Brandeis University Bannister, now an invalid. The motion was seconded by as his successor. James C. Massey then submitted the Samuel Wilson, Jr., and unanimously carried. The Secretary report of the Editor of the Newsle tter. He announced that was instructed to convey the message. the Newsletter will continue to be published five times a George B. Tatum accepted the Presidency formally and year, and that a new double-column layout will be used extended the gratitude of the Society to the outgoing Presi­ starting this year. dent, H. Allen Brooks. Mr. Brooks, in closing the meeting, William Jordy, as chairman of the Nominating Committee, expressed his appreciation to his colleagues of the Execu­ then submitted the following nominations: President-George tive Committee, and, above all, to Mrs. Rosann S. Berry, B. Tatum,University of Pennsylvania; Vice President-Henry Executive Secretary. The meeting was adjourned at 2:30p.m. A. Millon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Secretary The first session for the reading of papers was on Thurs­ -Adolf K. Placzek, Columbia University ; Treasurer-John day morning and was devoted to the I C 0 N 0 GRAPH Y M. Dickey, Price & Dickey, Architects. Directors: David OF ARCHITECTURE: P R 0 B L EMS OF THE ORIGIN S. Gebhard, University of California, Santa Barbara; Stephen OF TYPES FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY W. Jacobs, Cornell Univers ity; Irving Lavin, New York Uni­ T 0 11 4 4 A. D. , under the Chairmanship of Fran.yois versity; Carroll L. V. Meeks, Yale University; Paul F. Bucher, Princeton University. Speakers were: Ella Marie Norton, University of Massachusetts; Earl Rosenthal, Uni­ K. Loeb, Berkeley, California, Labyrinth Enclosures from versity of Chicago. The nominations were accepted by the Pre-History to Ancient Greece; Homer A. Thompson, The membership without a dissenting vote. President Brooks Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University , The announced the formation of a new local chapter in Cleve land Hero Sanctuary as an Architectural Type in Ancient Greece,: to be called the Western Reserve Architectural Historians. John Ward-Perkins, British School at Rome, Imperi al Mauso­ Richard N. Campen, the president, who was present, was lea and their Possible Influence on Early Christian Central introduced by Mr. Brooks. The August Tour, 1966, in Que­ Plan Buildings; Hans Buchwald, Harvard University, The bec has been arranged and Mr. Brooks so informed the Eastern and Western Influences on the Eleventh-Century membership. Archi lecture of the Veneto; W. Eugene Klein bauer, Univer­ Thomas J. McCormick then announced the Society of sity of California, Los Angeles, The Golden Octagon of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Antioch; Sumner McK . Crosby, Yale University, Th e Ptolo­ for the most distinguished book on architectural history by maeic System at St. Denis; Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Pratt Insti­ a North American author or on a North American subject tute, Heuretic Assumptions on the Origin of Greek Archi­ published in 1965. The prize went to John McAndrew, Wel­ tecture. lesley College, for Th e Op en-air Churches of Sixteenth­ After the Annual Business Meeting, Thursday afternoon century Mexico (Harvard University Press). The citation was given over to IT ALlAN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE reads as follows: " The firs t detailed study of a building ARCHITECTURE under the direction of John Coolidge, form wh ich has been called th e most dramatic American Harvard University. The speakers were: James Ackerman, architectural innovation be for e th e skyscraper, this work is Harvard University, Observations on Late Renaissance a model of architectural history in th e broadest sense. Uti­ Churches; Timothy Kitao, Rhode Island School of Design, liz ing his thorough knowledge of history, religion, econom­ Bernini's Church es; Robert Berger, Brandeis University, ics and sociology, the author successfully recreates th e Th e Motif of the Drum Without Dome; George L . Hersey, Yale University, Giuliano da Maiano and the Porta Capuana uptown, including the CBS Building and the Lincoln Center at Naples; Abraham Rogatnik, University of British Colum­ deve_lopment. Following both tours members enjoyed a re­ bia, The Piazza San Marco; Post-Napoleonic Metamorphoses. ceptwn at the Museum of Modern Art, and a showing of the In the evening a special program on CURRENT PRES­ Museum's collection of drawings by Mies van der Rohe. On ERVATION PROJECTS OF NATIONAL INTEREST was Sunday, the last day of the meeting, 80 members braved a presented at Columbia University in connection with the severe snowstorm to travel up the Hudson to see ''Lynd­ opening of an exhibit of Avery Library's new collection of hurst" and "Sunnyside," two important mid-nineteenth Louis Sullivan drawings, recently acquired from the Frank century preservation projects. Lloyd Wright Foundation. Chairman for the evening session SAH NEWS was William J . Murtagh, National Trust for Historic Preser­ NOMINATING COMMITTEE APPOINTED. Prof. vation, and the papers included: David C. Huntington, Smith Fran~oi s Bucher, a member of the Department of Art College, Olana: Frederick Church's World on High; J . C. and Archaeology at Princeton University, has been Harrington, National Park Service, Archaeological Contri­ appointed chairman of the SAH Nominating Committee butions to Historic Restoration; Randle B. Truett, National for 1966. Other members of the committee are: Marian Park Service, Ford's Theater: A Problem in Historic Inter­ Card Donnelly, Chicago; David Gebhard, University pretation; Edward J. Smits, Nassau County Historical Muse­ of Cali fern i a, Santa Barbara; Wi IIi am Jordy, Brown um, Old Bethpage: Planning a Village Restoration; John N . University; and Homer Thompson, Institute for Ad­ Pearce, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Lyndhurst: vanced Study, Princeton. Professor Bucher's com­ A. ] . Davis' Gothic Castle; Anna K. Cunningham, New York mittee wi II nominate the officers and six new directors State Education Department, Herkimer House; Palatine Ger­ man Mansion in the Mohawk Valley; Mary K. Raddant, Col­ for election at the annual meeting in Cleveland, January, 1967. SAH members who wish to suggest lege of Architecture, Cornell University, Organizing the the names of persons for consideration by the Nomi­ Rural Aesthetic. nating Committee may address Professor Bucher at Friday morning's subject was TOWARDS MODERN the office of the Society, Box 94, Media, Pa. To be ARCHITECTURE with a session on the period 1885-1915, considered by the committee, such suggestions must chaired by Edgar Kaufman, jr., Columbia University. The be received not later than April 15, 1966. speakers included: Arnold Lewis, College of Wooster, European Discovery of American Architecture, 1885-1895; The SAH Tour in Quebec City, August 18-21, 1966, will Leonard K. Eaton, University of Michigan, Richardson and feature tours of the Upper and Lower Town of the old sec­ Sullivan in Scandinavia; W. Winslow Shea, University of tion of Quebec, old suburbs along the Grande Allee, a tour North Carolina, The Function of Ornament in the Architec­ of the Isle of Orleans, and one to Neuville, according to Alan Gowans and A.J.H. Richardson, Chairmen. An exhi­ ture of Louis Sullivan; Robert Judson Clark, Princeton Uni­ bition of photographs of existing buildings and views of versity, Joseph Maria Olbrich and the Vienna Secession former buildings in the vicinity of Quebec City is planned. Building; George Collins, Columbia University, The Trans­ There will also be a display of original plans taken from fer of Thin Masonry Vaulting from Spain to America; H. Allen the files of a Quebec architectural firm, covering the years Brooks, University of Toronto, Frank Lloyd Wright: From 1840-1900. Andre Robitaille, Local Chairman in Quebec Barn to Prairie House. City, has announced that Louis Beaupre, Jacques de Blois, The topic for the Friday afternoon session, chaired by Paul Lafontaine, Jean Ritchot, and Gilles Vylandre will Carl Feiss, Washington, D. C., was DESIGN IN OPEN serve on his steering committee. Since the number attend­ SPACE. Papers included: Lester C. Walker, Jr., University of Georgia, Space Concepts in Pre-Columbian America; ing th~ tour on the buses must be held to seventy-five per­ sons, 1t will be necessary to limit guests of SAH members Moira Mathieson , Catalog of American Architectural Draw­ ~o one family member only; all other persons participating ings, "Chiswick," A Microcosm of the History of the Eng­ tn the tour must be members of the Society of Architectural lish Garden; Alex L. Murray, York University, Frederick Historians. Law Olmsted and Mount Royal Park, Montreal; Stanley Buder, At the end of 1965, SAH had 2,860 members, including Illinois Institute of Technology, The Model Town of Pullman, 487 who joined during the year. It is interesting to note Illinois; John L. Hancock, University of North Dakota, that the '!lembership ten years ago stood at only 884, less Kingsport, Tennessee: A Prototype Modern American than a thud of the present number. "New Town. " At the annual College Art Association- Society of Archi­ CHAPTERS tectural Historians banquet on Friday evening Jakob Rosen­ Cleveland A new Chapter of SAH has been organized in berg, Harvard University and National Gallery, was the Cleveland, and has been accepted into the Society by the speaker, and the CAA and SAH Book Awards were formally Board of Directors at their January meeting. The Western announced. Reserve Architectural Historians plan an active program of The Saturday morning papers concerned New York City, lectures and tours in the Cleveland area, and welcome new with a session chaired by James G. VanDerpool on DIVERSE members. For information: Henry H. Hawley, Secretary, ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS IN EVOLVING NEW YORK. c/o The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Speakers included: Agnes Addison Gilchrist, Mt. Vernon, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Membership is $3.00. President of N.Y., john McComb, Jr., Designer of Buildings in the Fed­ WRAH is Richard N. Campen, Vice President and Program eral Style; Jacob Landy, City University of New York, Chairman, Jack Large, Secretary-Treasurer, Henry Hawley. Minard Lafever's New York Architecture; Regina Kellerman, Several committee chairmen have been appointed: Robert Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York City, La­ C. Gaede, Preservation Committee, Mrs. Robert E. Schofield, Grange Terrace: The Question of Authorship; Winston Research Committee, and A. Benedict Schneider, By-Laws. Weisman, Pennsylvania State University, The Commercial T?e first program of the WRAH was held on February 13, Style in New York City; Edward Teitelman, Danbury, Con­ w1th a talk on the Cleveland architect Milton Dyer, given necticut, Philadelphia Romantic Eclectics in New York by Norman Magden. City Circa 1900; Geoffrey Platt, Landmarks Preservation Philadelphia On March 17, at 8 p .m. , Adolf Placzek, Co­ Commission, New York City, Legal Aid to Preservation in lumbia University, will present a program on architectural New York City. books to SAH-Philadelphia at the University of Pennsyl­ Two specially arranged architectural tours were pre­ vania's Furness Building of the Graduate School of Fine sented on Saturday afternoon. The first went downtown to Arts. Mr. Placzek's discussion will be on "The Connois­ visit key monuments of the past, including Trinity Church, seurship of Books - Modern Architecture Classics. '' St. Pauls Chapel, the mid 19th century cast iron commercial Future plans for the Philadelphia Chapter include a talk buildings now threatened by a crosstown expressway, and (April 15) and tour (Aprill6) of Victorian Churches in Phila­ Louis Sullivan's Condict Building, among others. The delphia by James Van Trump, and tours to Washington as second tour concerned itself with contemporary landmarks guests of the Thornton Society (May 21), and to Chester County in June. Announcements will be sent to members, been arranged by the National Trust for Historic Pre serva­ and for information and membership address Moira Mathieson, tion, 815 - 17th Street, Washington, D.C.: March 11-12: 20 W. Montgomery Avenue, Ardmore, Pa. Annual dues are National Trust Regional Conference in Austin, Texas, Co­ $2.50. sponsored by local agencies, including AlA chapter. March Chicago On February 17, Robert L. Scranton, University of 19- 20: Regional Preservation Conference in Tallahassee Chicago, spoke on ''Kenchreai, Port of Ancient Corinth.'' and Monticello, Florida, co-sponsored by local agencies. For membership ($2.00) address Joseph Benson, Municipal May 29-June 3: Regional Preservation Conference in Hous­ Reference Librarian , Room 1005 City Hall, Chicago, Ill. ton, Texas, co-sponsored by local agnecies. June 13-24: Southern California A new chapter has been organized in National Trust as co-sponsor with the Catholic University Southern California, with the fall meeting devoted to the of America a "Field Seminar on American Traditions," the important and now threatened Dodge House, by Irving Gill, second annual seminar, which will concentrate this year on with a talk and movie by Esther McCoy, a tour of the house , the "post-Revolutionary period." June 19- July 29: eighth and an exhibit, "Our Vanishing City." Officers for the new annual "Seminar for Historical Adminis trators," Williams­ chapter are Randell L. Makinson, President, and Jay D. burg, Va. October 6- 9 : Annual Meeting in Philadelphia Frierman , Secretary-Treasurer; members of the Board include with Pennsylvania study tour to follow the meeting. Robert D. Winter, Anthony Thormin and Carleton M. Winslow. U.S. Post Office Department The Postmaster General has Interested SAH members may write Randell L. Makinson, announced that Frank Lloyd Wright has been selected for 1336 Spazier Avenue, Glendale, California. The Chapter representation on a new 2¢ regular issue stamp of the cur­ will have its permanent office in the David B. Gamble House rent prominent Americans series, and that it will be issued (by Architects Greene and Greene), No. 4 Westmoreland at Spring Green, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1966. A fine honor Place, Pasadena, California. for a great American architect, the first to be so recognized ORGANIZATIONS on a postage stamp. National Council on the Humanities On January 27th , Presi­ NEWS OF MEMBERS dent Johnson announced the appointment of twenty-six mem­ William Howard Adams has been appointed Associate bers to the National Council on the Humanities created by Director of the Arts Councils of America . . . David B. Chase Congress last year. The Council will function as an advi­ is now with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington ... sory board to Dr. Henry Allen Moe, current Chairman of the The American Association for State and Local History has National Council on the Humanities and Chairman of the presented an Award of Merit to SAH member Ambrose C . National Endowment for the Humanities. (Dr. Moe will be Cramer, Rockport, Maine ... Henry Darbee has been ap­ succeeded in July of 1966 by Dr. Barnaby Keeney, who is pointed Executive Secretary of the Connecticut Historical serving in his final year as President of Brown University.) Commission ... Robert L. Elgin, Coombs and Elgin, Archi­ The members appointed by the President come from the tects, Engineers and Surveyors, Box 365, St. James, Mo., ranks of university presidents, faculty members, heads of is assembling a set of the White Pine Monographs, and professional societies, leadership in business, labor, re­ wishes to hear from other members who may also have dupli­ ligion and journalism, and include Gustave 0. Arlt, Council cates to trade ... Agnes A. Gilchrist is President of the of Graduate Schools in the U.S.; Robert Goheen, Princeton Landmarks and Historical Society of Mt. Vernon, N .Y., and University; Emil W. Haury, Arizona State Museum; Adelaide is working on a proposal for historic district zoning in Mt. Hill, Boston University; John W. Leston, Superintendent of Vernon ... Two SAH members are among the three recipients Public Schools, Atlanta; Robert M. Lumiansky, University of the 1965 Kaufmann International Design Awards, given of Pennsylvania; G. William Miller, Textron, Inc.; John annually by the Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation of Pittsburgh Courtney Murray, S. J., Woodstock College; Meredith Wi llson , -Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lewis Mumford ... Bunji Koba­ conductor and composer; Germaine Bree, Institute for Re­ yashi, Nihon University, Tokyo, has published a long illus­ search in the Humanities; John Ehle, writer; Emily Genauer, trated article on historic preservation in the United States New York Herald Tribune; Emmette S. Redford, University in the Japanese magazine, Kentiku, for January, 1964 ... of Texas; Barnaby Keeney, Brown University; David Mason, Philadelphia architect Henry Magaziner is President of the University of Montana; James C. O'Brien, United Steel­ Maxwell House Committee, formed to preserve a notable mid- workers of America; Ieoh Ming Pei, architect; Robert Spike, 19th century mansion in Germantown ... Architect Joseph J. University of Chicago; Edmund Ball, Ball Brothers Company; Oshiver, an SAH member who moved from New York City to Kenneth Clark, City College of New York; Gerald F. Else, Kansas City in 1963, has been elected Secretary of the Kan­ University of Michigan; Robert Bower, Bureau of Social sas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Science Research; Paul Horgan , Wesleyan University; A.W. An attempt is being made by other SAH members and Mr. Levi, Washington University; Soia Mentschikoff, University Oshiver to start a local SAH chapter in the Kansas City of Chicago; and Charles Odegaard, University of Washington. Community ... Charles E. Peterson of Philadelphia has been The National Endowment for the Humanities, under which commissioned by UNESCO to make a long range development the Council will function, can make available fellowships, and preservation study of Easter Island . .. Earl H. Reed, grants-in-aid, loans and other support to persons and non­ profit institutions for study, research and training, publica­ tions and conferences. Members of Congress who were Mr. fohn R e ed principally concerned with the enactment of the law creating Fugard, F . A . l.A., the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities are (left) presents Senator Ernest Gruening (Alaska), Senators Jacob J avits the Gold Medal (New York), Wayne Morse (Oregon), Claiborne Pell (Rhode of the Chicago Island), Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas), and Congressmen Chapte r o f Th e John E. Fogarty (Rhode Island), Mrs. Edith Green (Oregon), William Moorhead (Pennsylvania), Adam C. Powell (New Ameri can Insti­ York), and Frank Thompson, Jr. (New Jersey). tute of Architects, Thornton Society Washington's Thornton Society met at the to Mr. Earl H. Smithsonian Institution on December 6 under the chairman­ Reed, F.A. l.A. ship of Richard H. Howland to view three films , and to hear plans for future meetings and tours. Dr. Howland also an­ Photo Vic Gorecki nounced the intended formation of a SAH chapter in Washing­ ton , which would concentrate on programs of scholarly arc hi­ Chicago architect and preservationist, has received the tectural his tory papers . Their first meeting, to be held at Gold Medal of the Chicago Chapter AlA for his efforts on the Smithsonian Institution, will be on April 16, with a pro­ behalf of the historic preservation and the Historic Ameri­ gram of "Architecture at the Smithsonian." can Buildings Survey. The inscription reads -"To Earl H. National Trust The following meetings and cours es have Reed, F AlA, for his distinguished service to the Chicago Chapter and the architectural profession as an architect, in the field of architectural history. A graduate student or educator, and historian." . . . W. Caldwell Smith, AlA, archi­ retired architectural historian desired. Beach cottage pro­ tect has opened his own office in Atlanta, Georgia, at 374 vided near excellent recreational facilities. Apply Educa­ East Paces Ferry Road, N.E. tion Director, Plimoth Plantation, P .O. Box 1620, Plymouth , PUBLICATIONS Mass. 02362, giving educational and/ or employment back­ New Booklets of Architectural History Interest: ground. Compensation arranged. David Gebhard and Robert Winter. A Guide to Architecture COURSES AND GRANTS in South ern California. Los Angeles, 1965, 164 p. Avail­ The New York State Historical Association has an­ able : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Publication De­ nounced that its 19th annual Seminars on American Culture partment, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif., will be presented in Cooperstown, New York, between $1.50 plus . 25 handling. July 3-8 and 9-16, 1966. Each week three morning courses Rudd, J . William. Historic American Buildings Survey and three afternoon courses will be offered from a curric­ Records of Buildings in Ch icago and Nearby Illinois Areas. ulum ranging from American vernacular dance to art con­ Chicago, 1966. Available: Prairie School Press, 117 Fir servation, from the faking and forging of antiques to Ameri­ Street, Park Forest, Ill. , $1.50. Illustrated list of records can folk life in the 19th century, from the production of of 307 historic buildings in Chicago area now in HABS. books and booklets to a study of biography. As a special Largely devoted to the work of the ''Chicago'' and' 'Prairie'' feature, there will be three workshops presented in spinning School Architects. and weaving, wood carving, and tin painting. Seminarians Samuel Wilson, Jr. The Battle of New Orleans · Plantation may attend workshop sessions in lieu of the regular courses. Houses on the Battlefield of New Orleans. New Orleans, Full details are contained in a Seminar brochure, which 1965, 96 p. Available: Louisiana Landmarks Society, 203 may be procured by writing to Frederick L. Rath, Jr., Vice Gallier Hall, St. Charles Street, at Lafayette, New Orleans, Director, New York State Historical Association, Coopers­ La. 70130; $1 plus $. 30 mailing. town, N.Y. 13326. Edinburgh · An Architectural Guide, Edinburgh, 1964, 52 p. HISTORIC PRESERVATION published by Edinburgh Architectural Association, 31 Al­ Washington Monument Wilbur H. Hunter, Director of Balti­ bany Street, Edinburgh, at 6s. more's Peale Museum writes that the Washington Monument, "The Architecture of Purcell and Elms lie. " Reprinted from designed by Robert Mills and built 1815-1842 has been Western Architect January 1913, January 1915, and July opened to the public as a branch of the Peale Museum, and 1915, with an introduction by David Gebhard. Park Forest, a museum established in the vaulted room at the base. A Ill., 1966. Available: Prairie School Press, 117 Fir Street, medal has been struck on the occasion in both bronze finish Park Forest, Ill. $4.00 paper, $6.50 cloth. and silver. Glasgow at a Glance - An Architectural Handbook, Andrew U.S. Capitol The AlA recently issued a call for the pres­ McLaren Young and A.M. Doak, Editors. Glasgow 1965, ervation of the nation's Capitol. In a prepared statement, 110 p. Published by Collins, 144 Cathedral Street, Glas­ it offered the urgent reminder that "If the Capitol continues gow, at 8s6d. to expand it will rapidly lose all resemblance to the original A major study of historic preservation in the United building.'' Under consideration now is an extension to the States, prepared under the auspices of the United States West Front, which would obscure the last of the original Conference of Mayors with a grant from the Ford Foundation exterior walls. "If reconstruction is structurally neces­ ha s been published as a 230 page handsomely illustrated sary," comments the AIA, "it should be carried out in strict book titled Wi th Heritage So Rich. The first copy has been accordance with the present design." presented to President Johnson, and will serve as the basis Acropolis From the New York Times, January 26, 1966: for new legislation in the preservation field to be introduced "An expert in the preservation of antiquities appealed to· in Congress at this session. Copies of the book will soon day for international cooperation in protecting Athen ' s be available at book stores or through the National Trust 2 ,400-year-old Acropolis from decay. Dr. Harold J. Plender­ for Historic Preservation. Following an introduction by leith, director of the International Center for the Study of Mrs . Lyndon Johnson, are chapters by Sidney Hyman , the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Christopher Tunnard (SAH) Wa lter Muir Whitehill, George based in Rome, said in an interview today that the problem Z abriskie, Carl Feiss (SAH), Helen D. Bullock, Richard H. on the conservation of the Parthenon and other marble monu­ Howland (SAH) and Robert R. Garvey, Jr. The committee's ments of the Acropolis, was too much for any single nation important recommendations, which may chart the future to handle alone. Dr. Plenderleith's office is a unit of course of preservation in the United States, include: 1) a UNESCO. Dr. Plenderleith recommended the establishment comprehensive statement of national policy to guide th e of an international panel of experts to study the problems activities and programs of all fe deral agencies; 2) th e es­ of the Acropolis , prescribe remedies and to seek financing tablishment of an Adv isory Co un cil on Historic Preservation from such international organizations as UNESCO. " to provide leadership and guidance for the direction of inter· agency actions and to provide liaison with state and local PRESERVATION RECORD governments, public and private groups and th e general pu b­ Lost: Victor Horta's art nouveau masterwork, the lic; 3) a greatly expanded National Register program to in · Maison deu Peuple of 1896 in Brussels has ven tory and to catalogue communities, areas, structures, been demolished. sites and o bjects; a federal program of as sistance to states Damaged: U.S. San Francisco Mint, one of San Francisco's and localities for companion programs; and a strong federal key historic buildings has been thoughtlessly public information program ba sed on the material in th e damaged by the General Services Administra­ Registe r; 4) added authority and sufficient funds for federal tion by the crude hacking away at the decora­ acquisition of threaten ed buildin gs and sites of national tive stonework and moldings for "safety" historic importance, and expansion of th e urban ren ewal reasons, despite pleas from the AlA Northern program to permit local non-cash con tri butions to include California Chapter. acquisition of histori c buildings on the National Registe r, Discovered: Remains of houses dating to 8000 B.C. have both within and outside th e project area; 5) provis ion for been discovered in Wyoming by an expedition federal loans and grants and other financial aid to facilities sponsored by the National Geographic Society and expansion of state and local program s of historic pre s · and Harvard University. The houses, near ervation; 6) federal financial aid to and through th e Nation al Guernsey , Wyoming, were built some 10,000 T rust fo r Historic Pres ervation to assist private interest years ago and are the oldest known hous es in and activity in the pres erv ation field, for educational pur· the Americas, according to J.O. Brew, project poses and for direct assistan ce to private property holders. director. POSITION OPEN EDITOR: James C. Massey Summer employment opportunity for competent researcher 206 Gulph Creek Rd. , Radnor, Pa.