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CONTENTS PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS
FRoM WoRK BY
HERTS & TALLANT; KELSEY & CRET; LOUIS H. SULLIVAN
LETTERPRESS
PAC.6 CHURCH OF ST. GEREON, COLOGNE, GERMANY ...... Frontispiece
SANATORIA FOR CONSUMPTIVES ...... •...... The work of Scopes & Fr1t5lmaun 223
THE AMERICAN THEATER- XI. (THE END) ...... Clarence H. Blackall 232 . , .~ .• ·t1 THE NEW BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC ...... ;~.,
EDITORIAL COMMENT AND MISCELLANY ...... 239
PROGRAMME FOR HOSPITAL BUILDING COMPETITION ...... 244 EAST END, CHURCH OF ST. GEREON, COLOGNE, GERMANY. mt! !!!!!!!m! !!!! l •>l!>!!!!!!»>»>»>>»>»F»»>»>»>»>!»!!}>!!»!~ f!B ~~THE BRICKBVILDER I DEYOTED·TOTHE·INTERE5fJ·Of·ARCHITECTVRE:·IN MATERIAU·OfCLAY· OC~OBER ~ .._ VOL. t7 NO, tO 1908 --' t;: miE«<<<<<««<«««<<<<<<
Sanatoria for Consumptives.
THE WORK OF SCOPES & FEUSTMANN.
HE tuberculosis sanatorium and hospital work here In this cottage, beds can be wheeled directly from the T illustrated was developed by Scopes & Feust bedrooms to the porches. A still further advance was mann, primarily through professional association with made in cottages, K and L, where direct light was ob Dr. E. L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium tained for sitting rooms and bath rooms, the shading of at Saranac Lake, New York, and from the effort on the the south bedrooms by the porch roof being avoided by part of this firm to design a proper type for a cottage making the porch here a mere passage for connecting the sanatorium. sitting and sleeping porches. Another ad vance in the A circumstance of great importance in influencing the later type of cottage over the old one was made by pro planning of sanatoria and tuberculosis hospitals lies in viding windows in the clothes closets. A change in de the fact that about eight or nine years ago, physicians sign was made in type M, in order to reduce the cost of treating tubercular patients in sanatoriums· and health these cottages, which had been gradually increasing each
PLANS, RECEPTION HOSPITAL, SARANAC LAKE, N. Y.
resorts began more generally to advocate out-door sleep year. A more compact plan has been evolved, and the ing and, particularly in acute cases, rest out of doors in transoms over the main porch provide direct light for bed during the entire day. Prior to that time, patients the sitting room. Of the cottages shown in the "Evo confined to their beds were compelled to remain indoors lution of the Cottage," plans I, K, L, and M were de just at the time when the need of the tonic effect of out signed by Scopes & Feustmann. door air was greatest. Receptz(m Hospz'tal at Saranac Lake. While the hospi The complete development of the cottage type, from tal is a purely local institution, designed especially to the inception of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium to meet peculiar requirements, it has, nevertheless, certain the present time, can be seen in the "Evolution of the features which would naturally commend themselves to Cottage." (See page 224.) The first attempt to adapt those who have under consideration the erection of small the plan of the cottage to the requirements of the treat hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis, and more es ment now advocated (i.e., that no time be spent by the pecially may this hospital serve as something of a model pat\ent indoors except for meals) was made in the cot when it is known that its plans have stood the test of tage plan I, in which the doors to bedrooms and sitting competition, and that they have had the personal super rooms were made wide enough to wheel a bed through to vision of those who have been pioneers in this country in the porch. The inconvenience of this method has been the open-air treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. overcome in cottage J, designed by the late W. L. Coulter. The site is admirably adapted for the building, being 224 THE BRlCKBUILDER.
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sixty feet above Saranac Lake and commanding a good Eight rooms on the third floor are used for convales view of the surrounding country. cing patients who use the lower porches for their out One of the chief objects of this design was to intro door cure. duce as much sunlight as possible into the patients' The plumbing is separated from all corridors by two rooms and still retain good ample porch area. doors. The entrance is well placed, giving all patients Rooms ten feet by thirteen feet six inches have been the privacy which is desired. No provision is made for provided for twelve acute and eight convalescing internes' or doctors' quarters, because the hospital is patients. The twelve rooms for acute cases, which are visited daily by Saranac Lake physicians. confined to the first and second floors, open directly on L ean-tos and .Sitacks. To Dr.' Herbert M. King, to spacious, covered porches (one hundred square feet physician-in-chief at the Loomis Sanatorium, Liberty, being allowed each patient). Each room has two win N. Y., belongs the credit of evolving from the sugges dows, one of which is wide enough to admit a bed tion of an Adirondack lean-to, a type of structure being wheeled through. These windows give good ven admirably adapted to the housing of incipient cases of tilation, together with ample sunlight, which is one of tuberculosis of the poorer classes. T~ese were first used the chief points in designing a building of this nature. at the charitable Annex connected with the Loomis Sana- THE BRICKB U ILD E R. 225
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The infirmary patients' dining room and diet cold climate, and it is doubtful whether this system, pantry, bath and toilet rooms, linen rooms and maids' without further accommodations in substantial and closet, and locker room for patients' outer clothing make heated buildings, should be adopted in any but the up the balance of the second story. mildest climate. However, the possibilities of this In further reference to· the lockers, it may be of scheme of housing for low cost sanatoria may be seen interest to know that for obvious reasons it is not con from the accompanying illustrations of shack and lean-to sidered hygienic to place patients' clothing, except clean types. linen, in closets off their rooms, unless a window can be The Mary Lewis Reception Hospital, connected with provided for ventilating such closets. This is usually the Loomis Sanatorium, provides treatment for twenty expensive and complicates planning. The lockers are eight advanced or acute cases of tuberculosis in separate found to be perfectly satisfactory from the point of view rooms. This building was designed for a well-to-do class of the patient and gives the authorities better supervision of patients, and every care and comfort required by a over the clothing. tubercular invalid may be obtained here. There are a In the dining and living rooms, where a large number total of fourteen porches for the twenty-eight patients. of patients may congregate, special ventilation is pro These porches are so arranged as to afford any degree of vided, but in the balance of the institution only direct privacy, inasmuch as a patient can be wheeled in his bed heating and natural ventilation is used. to any porch on the building. As in the Reception Hos Each cottage contains accommodations for twelve pital at Saranac Lake, the same method of recessing the patients in two stories. Each two patients have their south porch has been adopted to obtain ample light in own porch directly connecting with their bedrooms. such patients' rooms as face on this porch. Light and The locker system for patients' clothing is also used in ventilation for all other rooms is obtained by separating the cottages. the porches. Sufficient north porch space has been pro It is proposed to enlarge the institution to its full vided for use in summer and for isolating patients. capacity (seventy to seventy-five patients) by the addition In the thi:cd story are located the kitchen and pantry, of shacks of the types adopted by the Department of internes' qua.Jters, examination and throat treatment Health, New York City, and the Michigan State Sana rooms, and a ~Small operating room for cases of surgical torium. It is the intention of the management to gradu tuberculosis. There is no patients' dining room, as ate patients from the infirmary in the administration all patients in this building are served in their rooms, building to the cottages, and from these cottages to the and when well enough to attend meals are transferred shacks, as their improved condition shall warrant less to the main sanatorium. supervision and attention. The building is lighted by electricity, has a vacuum Med£ca/ a11d Observation Pavilion. Adirondack Cot steam heating system and direct radiation, an hydraulic tage Srmatorium. The most recent work of Scopes & elevator, cold storage plant in basement, complete sys Fuestmann combines under one roof, for economical tem of call bells from rooms and porches, and local tele reasons, what is now considered to be two essential units phones in all parts of the building. in a cottage sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, TJze Vermont Sanator£um. The trustees of the Ver namely, reception and observation quarters and medical mont Sanatorium were familiar with Saranac methods administration. Newly arrived patients are placed in and desired a plant that would make it possible to adopt the observation quarters, located on the first floor, for a in every w~ the form of treatment advocated by Drs. period of ten days or two weeks, under the close super Trudeau, Botldwin, Brown, Kinghorn, Trembley, and vision of a trained nurse, and allowed no latitude as to others of the Saranac school. It was required to pro their own movements until their exact physical condition vide accommodations for sixty to seventy-five patients is ascertained. Here the patient receives first lessons in with present housing for thirty patients. All of these sel!-restraint, and is taught at first hand what will be were to be incipient cases of the working class, who required of him if he would regain health. After this could afford to pay about $7.00 per week for complete period of observation, the patient is housed in one of the treatment. cottages of the sanatorium, at such distance from the The sanatorium consists of an administration build administration building (i.e., dining hall, etc.) as is best ing, to which are connected the men's and women's suited to his physical condition. The medical adminis cottages, by means of covered ways protected on the tration, second floor, contains a waiting room, examina north side by storm sash. The main building contains tion rooms, drug room, clinical laboratory, X-ray room, medical and business administration, domestic arrange library, statistician's room, and private working room for ments and dining accommodations, small library and th_e- physician-in-chief. general living rooms, quarters for interne, and separate 'The problem of sanatoria for consumptives presents a coat rooms for men and women. very broad field for further study, and we may look for The second floor is mainly given over to the uses of some interesting solutions as the architectural profession an infirmary, as it is necessary in any institution for in becomes better acquainted with this special branch of cipient tuberculosis to prmvide accommodations for hospital designing. 232 THE BRICKBUILDER. The American Theater- XI. STAGE ACCESSORIES
BY CLARENCE H. BLACKALL
N the days of the stock theater company a great deal stage level. They should be about eight feet square, each I of scenery had to be carried all the time. In these room being well ventilated but not necessarily receiving days of traveling companies a theater is very apt to have daylight, and each room containing a ledge across one no scenery of its own at all, each company bringing every side for make-up and an enameled iron basin with hot thing it requires even down to the most minute proper and cold water. The dressing rooms are really the only ties. Consequently the modern theater has little need portion of the stage in which gas is required, the gas for a scene room and such a feature can be dispensed being used for heating the grease paint. For a theater in with entirely in emergency, though it is well to provide tending to accommodate average combination shows there a space 16 by 20 or 30 feet and not less than twenty-five should be not less than twenty individual dressing rooms feet in height, which will be termed a scene room and and the two supers' rooms should each be not less than will be used for all sorts of purposes. Then there should 15 by 35 feet. This nu_mber of rooms could take care of a be on the stage level a property room wherein are kept company numbering as high as two hundred. Some the miscellaneous objects which fit out the stage dressing. theaters like the New Amsterdam, New York, are able This should be at least 18 by 25 feet. There is required to take care of over six hundred actors. A well equipped also a stage manager's room which serves as a species of theater should also have two rooms used for wardrobes, office and is best arranged in close proximity to the each room being not less than 13 by 30 feet. It is usual also switchboard on the prompt side. For bringing the to arrange for a stage carpenter's room somewhere about scenery into the theater an opening is provided in the the building. It can usually be tucked in almost any rear wall, preferably on one side, being eight feet wide corner not otherwise available and is sometimes even put and not less than twenty-five feet high. This door up on the side of the rigging loft. It should be at least should be in several sections to slide up. If the stage twenty-five feet long and not less than twenty-five feet floor is not on the level of the ·adjoining street there high, so that scenes can be stood up. should be a large lift strong enough to take up three tons There is usually but one doorway be~ween the stage if necessary and finishing flush with the stage floor. and the auditorium, preferably on the prompt side. This This is for the introduction of steam engines, horses, etc. is furnished with fireproof door and is supposed to be In the space under the stage there should be arranged used only by the manager coming from t!w front of the the locker rooms for the stage men, lavatories for their house. The stage entrance is best placed on the rear use, and a waiting room which they can use when not and if the configuration of the land permits it is better employed on the stage, and there should also be a store to have the stage entrance through the basement so as to room for the electricians' supplies, fitted with work bench check any possibility of drafts from the door to the stage and lockers. No permanent obstruction can be placed floor. At the doorway there should be provided a small under the movable portion of stage, as it is never safe to closet or recess for the doorkeeper, fitted with letter box say where a trap may not be wanted. and key rack. Close to the stage door there should be "Green Room" is a term applied to a waiting room an elevator large enough to take up three trunks at once. reserved specially for the actors and actresses. In the In planning a stage it is a good idea to bear in mind old theaters and to-day in European ones this is quite that spectacular horse racing is not uncommonly repre a feature. Few American theater managers will give sented and to arrange so that a team can get a start the space required for this. It is, however, a very desir either in a side street or in a property room and dash at able function and one which should be included where full speed across the stage, either running out through practicable. a door into the street again or having plenl:y of space to Dressing rooms should be entirely away from the stage. bring up in the wings. A very admirable device which has been adopted· abroad There are a few American theaters which are provided is to enclose the stage with brick walls on all sides, out with a room to serve as a library, a place for study, and side of which runs on three sides a broad corridor serving where can be gathered the photographs, play bills, the encircling dressing rooms, access being had to the posters, etc., which in time become so interesting and stage through a single door on each side near the curtain valuable, but the unfortunate disappearance of the stock line. This, again, means an arrangement in plan which company and the migratory character of most of our takes up a great deal of room and costs money. It is, attractions hardly encourage any provision for such a however, usual to provide at least two dressing rooms on room. the stage level, each fitted with separate toilet and a closet In designing the finish and fixtures for the portion of and used exclusively by the stars. Then on the level a theater behind the curtain line, care must be taken to either immediately above or below the stage there should have everything of the most simple, durable, unbreak be two rooms for the chorus or the supernumeraries. Each able character. If a thing can be defaced or ruined It is room is fitted with a long bench on one side for make-up well nigh hopeless to expect it not to be. The dressing and with rows of wash basins in the center, preferably room floors are best covered with battle-ship linoleum, of enameled iron. Individual dressing rooms are usually glued to the constructive concrete filling. In the corri arranged in tiers at the sides of the stage and above the dors this would not answer, as both linoleum and con- (§ r "' ~ ~ .0 ...... i3 t:rj
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DETAIL OF LAFAYETTE AVENUE FACADE. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N Y HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS. THE BRICKBUILDER. VOL. 17, NO. 10. PLATE 122.
VIEW AT eORNER OF LAFAYETTE AVENUE AND ST FELIX STREET. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N Y HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS. THE BRICKBUILDER. PLATE 123. VOL. 17, NO. 10.
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HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS. THE BRICKBUILDER. PLATE 1.26. DETAIL OF FRONT ELEVATION. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N.Y. HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS. THE BRICKBUILDER. VOL. 17, NO . 10. PLATE 127 • .:JECTIO.N THRO. .2CT/07V THRo: SECTION THRo: CORNER PE.lJEST.l/L /MPOST LJ?IL.UST.CRS ·.OETAIL · O.F·.BALl7.5T.R.A.De· DETAILS OF EXTERIOR. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N.Y. HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS. THE BRICKBUILDER. VOL. 17, NO. 10. PLATE 128. >" z z >" .....l ::.:: 0 0 0::: vi vi 1- 3: m u 0 UJ 0 6 1- z H :i: (fl u ~ Q: -' :::::> <( < !!, ~ ,_· u z - z ~ ::3 a: -' 0.. 0 < .._ 1- 0 >" ~ -' ~ (/) < Lt.1 1- 1- Q: UJ Q UJ 0 <( I C) <( z >" .....l ::.:: 0 0 0:::m THE BRICKBUILDER. 2 33 crete would in a single season be ruined by dragging feet where can be stored the posters, bills, paste pots, trunks and boxes across them. Rock maple flooring one and various publicity adjuncts. This should be easy of and three eighths inches thick pasted to the constructive access from a rear street or passage, with separate floors will give the best service. The stairs if of con outside door. crete should have a granolithic surface and the edges of the treads protected by a steel nosing and a strip of The planning of a large theater, while a specialized safety tread. Sanitary bases of tile or cement should be problem, is one which can seldom be solved twice in used everywhere. All, passages, also all dressing rooms the same way. Only in the most general manner can the if the money holds out, should be sheathed at least three requirements be standardized. The very charm of the feet six inches high. Stairs should be made with wide problem lies in the great diversity of possible treat landings, remembering that cumbersome trunks and ments, and although it is preeminently an expert's work properties will be carelessly carried over them daily. in its practical details, such as sight lines, stage construc The wall plastering is best of Portland cement, with all tion, and ventilation, once these points are rightly corners rounded on a radius of not less than three inches. established the rest is simply a matter of good, bad, ur The doors should be built without panels, flush on both indifferent architectural design. Most of the American sides, like hospital doors, and glazing for all doors and theaters are indifferent. Some are so frankly bad as to windows should be with wire glass. Moldings are best be really quite hopeful as indicating only misdirected omitted entirely, using perfectly plain wood casings energy, while there is a small number, larger each year, of the narrowest possible dimensions. All doorways of good, well-designed theaters, thoroughly worthy of through which trunks are carried in any number should study, notwithstanding the commercial limitations. It be protected by steel angles on the edges. Walls and is not a problem which need be unreservedly turned over ceilings of corridors and dressing rooms should be to a specialist. It is the writer's opinion that a specialist enameled, and the woodwork varnished and left bright, cannot be a good architect in the complete sense of the neither shellac nor paint being most suitable for this term, and that in proportion as one narrows the scope of part of a theater. his practise to a single class or kind of building, so is he The worst kind of theater fire is one which starts on sure to narrow his ability to give even that problem the the stage during a performance and spreads like a flash best architectural solution. The architecture of a theater to the mass of suspended, highly inflammable scenery and should above all things be imaginative, and how can a rigging. In such a case the lives of the audience and of specialist let his imagination have free play ? The more the actors may depend upon the coolness of the men in the theater problem is studied and solved by competent the fly galleries, and whether they have the nerve to architects as a part of general professional practise, the stand by till the asbestos curtain is lowered and the higher will be the standard of art in our theaters, and blazing scenery dropped to the stage and smothered. It the less likely will it be that their design will be deliv is therefore highly important that there should be an ered to the mercy of a graduated stage carpenter or exterior fire escape for the sole benefit of the fly men, so scene builder. Garnier never was a theater expert, but easy of access that they can fight the fire so long as he managed to make the rest of the world sit up and there is any hope and be sure of getting out alive. think; while there are·several architects who do hardly A thoroughly well equipped theater should have a anything but theaters, who yearly grow less fit. The complete dust removing plant extended to all parts of theater is indeed a complicated problem, which unless the house with outlets and standpipes so arranged that started just right is so altogether wrong that the best with a fifty foot hose all parts of all floors and walls can architecture in the world' can only make its failure more be reached. Especially should such a system be put in lamentable; but its complications are not beyond the for the rigging loft, even if it is omitted everywhere comprehension of any well equipped architect who is else. The accumulation of dust on a gridiron and the willing to take the pains to inform himself, and these scenery battens is something which must be seen to be articles have been written in the hope of making a little apprec:iated, and which can be removed without damage more easy the practical study and elucidation of this most to the scenery only by the pneumatic process. fascinating problem. There should be provided a billroom about 12 by 24 THE END. The New Brooklyn Academy of Music HERTS & TALLANT, ARCHITECTS HE old Academy of Music, Brooklyn, was opened A competition for the selection of an architect was T to the public in 1859, and destroyed by fire in decided upon and Professor Laird of the University of November, 1903. It was the center of the civic life of Pennsylvania was engaged to serve as expert adviser to , the city and served as a rallying point for many of the the committee in preparing the program and Mr. Carrere great movements that have had such vital import in the and Mr. Mead of the firms of Carrere & Hastings and progress of American civilization. McKim, Mead & White respectively, consented to act Soon after the destruction of the old building, a com together with the advisor upon a jury of award which mittee of one hundred was organized, a corporation was was to pass upon the designs and plans submitted. Ten formed, public subscriptions were invited, and within a firms of architects were invited to enter a paid competi short time the site was purchased. tion. A preliminary program was prepared by the com- 234 THE BRICKBUILDER. VIEW TOWARDS STAGE, OPERA HOUSE. (Proscenium Arch had not been decorated at time photograph was taken.) VIEW FROM STAGE, OPERA HOUSE. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N. Y. THE BRICKBUILDER. 2 35 mittee and their advisors, and submitted to the com peting architects who were invited to attend a meeting where the program was dis cussed in full, after which discussion and by consent of the competing architects a final program was drawn up. This program, complete and accurate in every detail, can well serve as a model for future competitions. In the three years required to ex ecute the work there have been practically no modifica tions either in the plans or specifications. Of the ten sets of draw ings submitted, those by Herts & Tallant were judged. the best, and they were se lected as architects for the building. Originally the fa~ade was D E T AIL O F CORNICE, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. designed for marble but it was afterwards redesigned to While the Paris Opera House and other build be executed in light color and ings of its type have a larger seating capacity brick and polychrome terra than the Brooklyn Academy'of Music, it has long cotta. The exquisite har since been demonstrated that all seatings over mony of the color scheme is three thousand are practically worthless, and so lost in the illustrations, but here the opera house has been laid out on the the detail which is the best lines of the standard American theater. spirit of the Italian Renais The concert hall is planned primarily for sance is easily apparent. chamber music and public lectures, and contains The building provides for the Frothingham organ which is one of the pre a variety of functions: edu mier instruments in the United States, a gift to cational, musical, dramatic, the institution by the Frothingham family in and social, so related that memory of their father. they form a single organism, The foyer extends along the entire Lafayette whose parts may be distinct avenue front of the building and has an area of or operated together. The plan is dividelf into four five thousand square feet. It has special carriage en principal part&: trances at both ends. The ball room or banquet hall which is accessible from both auditoriums is forty feet The Foyer and Ball Room Opera H ouse wide and one hundred and eighty feet long, and is prob Concert Hall ably the most characteristic and distinctive feature of the The Offices and Lecture Halls of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences building. Connected with the banquet hall, beneath the music gallery, at the west end, are the kitchens, service, Each of these divisions is, however, designed to serve and store rooms arranged in tiers of three stories. two or more purposes. Provision is made for the executive offices of the The building has a seating capacity of five thousand Broo~lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, lecture halls, persons divided as follows: rooms for experiments and demonstrations in electricity, Opera House 2200 chemistry, physics, photography, and studios for classes Concert Hall 1400 Banquet Hall . . . 600 in design and life. Thus is housed at once halls for Large Institute Lecture Hall 400 concerts, opera, drama, public lectures and meetings, and Four Lecture Halls each 100 the principal educational organizations of the Borough of The opera house will serve not only for grand opera, Brooklyn. but for large theatrical productions, oratorio, and sym It will be seen that the separation of the two audito phony concerts, also for political and educational meetings riums is complete, and that each distinctive function of of every description. With this in view every available the building is thoroughly isolated. The building is foot has been utilized, and every care taken in the ar surrounded by a series of open air fire exits and fire gal rang.ement for compactness of seating anQ. excellence of leries, which open directly on the adjacent streets. sight lines. To William DeLeftwich Dodge was entrusted the THE BRICKBUILDER. EXTERIOR DETAILS EXECUTED IN ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. entire mural decoration of the building, and here espe damper in each, which can be operated from below so that cially he bas shown himself at his best. the floor air at any special point can be altered without in The mechanical equipment of the building both as terrupting the audience. The foul air is exhausted from regards the stage and the heating and ventilating sys the upper part of the auditoriums by a corresponding sys tems is laid out along the same lines as the New Lyceum tem of fans, and discharged from a fan house at the front and Amsterdam theaters by the same architects, but of the building. shows a still further development in the matter of sim The electric lighting system shows special study in plicity and expediency. Particularly noticeable in con regard to all the minor details. The ordinary exit lights nection with the stage is the complete absence of the old are in this building replaced by illuminated signs sup system of pin rail sup plied by special batter port for the suspended ies so designed as to scenery. keep these lights burn The construction of ing for fifteen minutes the gridiron shows the after all other lights in final step in the modern the house have been revolution whereby this extinguished. portion of the building Special designs have is entirely constructed been made for the hard of steel ; not only the ware on the exit doors floor but also the whereby the simple sheaves and lines being pressing of the audi of this material. ence within serves to The building is draw the bolts of all heated throughout by the doors in the audi the indirect system. toriums so that it be The air is brought in comes impossible in from a central court case of panic for the where it is free from audience to amass at dust to an aperture two any one of these exits. hundred feet square, The exterior of the passed through remov building presents an able cheese cloth unusually interesting screens forty-six times example of polychro this area and forced matic architecture. The over steam coils on a charm of the color thermostatic control by scheme suggests an means of four large American moderniza comb . fans, into spe tion of the art of medi cially constructed eval Italy and rejuvena plenum chambers. tion of the "ideas of From these dampers the Lucca Della Robbia. air enters the main audi The basic and body toriums through mush tone is of cream in rooms under each of the two shades -light and seats, constructed with a DETAIL OF ENTRANCE DOORS, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. dark, the lighter tones THE BR I CKBUILDER. 237 - VIEW OF GRAND LOBBY. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN, N. Y. THE BRICKBUILDER. being used below and becoming heavier and richer as colors on plaster casts made from the molds of the terra they work up, encircling in green and yellow the five cotta, and in this way the architects and manufacturers majestic windows, topped by the splendid cornice. worked together to obtain the special shades needed for The ornamentation of the large entrance doors is of the desired effects. Sand-blasting was applied to special cream and yellow; the course above the doors is in green parts of the finished work so as to obtain the proper and burnt sienna. In the cornice the various com relation between such parts of the surface on which it mingled colors of blue, yellow, red, and sienna produce a was desired to retain the glaze and the others on which warm brown color effect. a dull finish was more effective. Set in the cornice are twenty-two full sized lions' This work has now ~tood for about a year and shows heads of life-like coloring and with tongues of red. little or no signs of fading. Should there be any In the background and between these lions' heads changes in the colors or should accumulated dirt mar the are distinctive panels of red and blue with sienna shad detail it will be a simple matter to retone the whole work. ing. Over each of the large doors and on each side As a matter of interest it should be stated that the VIEW TOWARDS STAGE, CONCERT HALL1 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. thereof are cherub figures alternating in arrangement architectural terra cotta was furnished by the Atlantic with panels of ancient musical instruments. These are Terra Cotta Company, and that the architects acknowl in cream relief against a yellow background. In the edge their indebtedness to them for an enthusiastic lower bands of the cornice are sienna toned flowers; in cooperation. another section of the cornice the ornament is yellow The lettering in the brickwork was obtained by burn with sienna background. ing special tiles of brick-clay, upon each one of which a The broad strip of ornament which encircles each win raised letter had bee'U modeled. Owing to the fact that dow shows beauty in design and color scheme and great the letters had to be spaced at different distances, one delicacy in the modeling of its relief. This comprises from another in every individual case, the architects a rich tone of green against which are placed cream were obliged to lay out a full size detail of the entire white and yellow flowers and buds. lettering and from this detail the exact sizes of the tiles Unusual care was taken in the execution of this work were determined; there were no two tiles of the same to ins.ure the best possible results, both artistically and size. This work was executed by Sayre & Fisher Com practically. The color scheme was worked out in water pany, and is, as far as known, unique in execution. TH E B R ICKBUIL D E R . 2 39 bodies by pitiless scientists. But the hospital of our Editorial Comment and problem should be a thing of beauty, whose prominent features relate to sunshine and health, wherein unfortu Miscellany. nates become happy and regain health, where everything is immaculate as well as comfortable. This is the idea THE HOSPITAL BUILDING COMPETITION. of the modern hospital, and from the architectural stand NE of the most charming bits of secular architecture point it gains immensely in interesting possibilities by O in Europe is the little hospital of the Ceppo at giving it a light, joyous treatment. Pistoja. It was designed at a period when the Italian The French, with the happy characterization of their Renaissance was at its best, when ideals were high and race, call the public hospital the house of God. The art was simple and fresh in patients are His guests. its motifs; when choice of We hope the contestants materials, adaptation of the will approach this hospital work of the craftsman to problem not as if it called the artistic thought and a for a hard, matter of fact keen sense of the relative solution, but as an oppor fitness of things were all tunity to adorn a civic tale combined to produce those and to apply to it some exquisite masterpieces DETAIL BY NEVILLE & BAGGE, ARCHITECTS. real architecture. which have ever since been New York Architectural Terra Cotta Company, Makers. And just another sugges the joy of the connoisseur. tion would we offer regard It is so well proportioned as a design, the details are so ing detail. A diaper treatment is not the only way to appropriately considered both as decoration in mass and suggest the use of burnt clay materials, and because we in their relative values, and above all the materials are are using a material which lends itself to small pieces, used so knowingly that it has ranked for centuries as a geometrical pattern work is by no means indispensable classic example of the proper use of as indicating terra cotta. The P istoja burnt clay. Hospital has neither, nor has the In selecting the problem for THE marvelous terra cotta work of Pavia BRICKBUILDER competition we had and north Italy any use for oil cloth this Pistoja Hospital in mind. We designs in burnt clay. Such features do not wish to see medieval condi have a distinct, if limited, applica tions merely assumed and unintelli tion. Pistoja gains its effect by gently copied, but there is certainly broad, unbroken wall surfaces and a spirit in this building which seems shadows contrasted with condensed, singularly appropriate to hospital enriched, and strongly colored orna design, and no better standard could ment, and the lead is a most excel be suggested for the use of terra lent one to follow in studying our cotta. So we have asked for designs problem. for a hospital in burnt clay, and if THE BRICKBUILDER has du,ring the the bright minds which we hope will past few years published consider attack this problem can combine able material in the form of illustra twentieth century needs with the tions and ·articles which treat of decorative spirit and style which H ospital Plan and Design, and it is evolved the Pistoja Hospital, the re DETAIL BY WILLIAM H. GRUEN, likely that those intending to enter sults will certainly justify our hopes. ARCHITECT. this competition will find much of Be it understood, however, that the Winkle Terra Cotta Company, Makers. interest in the work presented. The last word is never uttered on matters following is a list of the numbers in of architecture. A building may be totally different in which the articles and illustrations are published : mass, scheme, color treatment, and detail from the 1900- November and December numbers. Ceppo Hospital while yet having all of its spirit. It 1902- March, May, June, and August numbers. is by no means needful nor desirable to copy the 1903 - February, May, June, July, August, Sep- Italian model, but rather to draw from it the feeling tember, and December numbers. of fitness in the use of the material, the frank, natural 1904-February, March, April, May, June, July, expression in design and perhaps suggestions in that and August numbers. most uncertain phase of modern work, the use of color. 1905- March and August numbers. A hospital has long been 1906-January num her. regarded and treated as a 1907 - April number. lugubrious problem, breath 1908-April and June ing miasma and germs, numbers. suggestive of night shade In connection with this and hellebore, where good list it should be stated that people die and autopsies DETAIL BY BARNET, HAYNES & BARNET, ARCHITECTS. the numbers cannot be sup are performed on their St. Louis Terra Cotta Company, Makers. plied, they being out of print. THE BRICKBUILDER. FIREPROOFING WORK IN THE NATIONAL ~1USEUM, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE BRICKBUILDER. A CORREC for September, 1907. Greater TION. New York, which Our attention presents about has been called to twenty-five per the fact that John cent of the total DETAIL BY ALBERT RANDOLPH ROSS, A. Tompkins, Zd, construction, ARCHITECT. was associated shows an increase Brick, Terra Cotta and Tile Company, Makers. DETAIL FOR RAILWA Y STATION, with Grosvenor of 14 per cent WATERBURY, CONN. Atterbury as ar over the same month last year. Twenty-eight cities McKim, Mead & White, Architects. show a gain of from 1 to 201 per cent and 17 show a loss South Amboy Terra Cotta Company, Makers. chitects for the house, 18 East of from 1 to 57 per cent. The principal increase occurs 75th street, illustrated on page 188 of THE BRICKB UILDER at: Birmingham, 137 per cent; Cleveland, 52; Denver, for September, and that Stowe Phelps was associated 113; Kansas City, 47; Louisville, 38; Milwaukee, 56; Mobile, 23; New with Mr. Atterbury Haven, 39 ; Paterson, as architects for the 201; Salt Lake City, houses, 105 and 107 51; St. Paul, 86; East 73d street, illus Syracuse, 7 5 ; W or trated on page 189 of cester, 39. The in the same issue of dications are that THE BRICKBUILDER. henceforth an in -Ens. crease in building RESTRICTING operations may be SKYSCRAPERS. expected, and, cur rent therewith, a The building code gradual increase in revision commission the price of building of New York City material. Parties has recommended a who contemplate the restriction to 350 feet erection of buildings as the maximum of any sort whatever height for future buildings in that will profit to the ex city. This limit is tent of from 10 to 20 to be permissible per cent by taking only for structures advantage of the facing on parks and present low prices plazas. On ordinary and starting opera- streets the limit is to tions at once. be 300 feet, and on streets only forty FIREPROOFING INTERIOR OF A CONFECTIONER'S SHOP, BOSTON. five feet in width the OF THE NATION A. B. Le Boutillier, Architect. AL MUSEUM, height cannot exceed Showing floor of pale green glaze tile, made by Grueby Faience Company. WASHINGTON. 135 feet. Of course these are only recommendations, but they consider that On another page there is illustrated an especially people who are forced to live and do business on the lower fine example of fireproof construction in the New Na levels have right to a reasonable amount of light and air. tional Museum at Washington, Hornblower & Marshall, architects. The importance of safeguarding this build ing and its contents from destruction by fire has led BUILDING OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. to a careful consideration of the whole matter of fire According to official building statistics from forty proof construction, with the result that hollow terra five principal centers of construction, throughout the cotta blocks have been employed. Every part of the country, reported work has received by the A mer£can the closest scrutiny Contractor, New from the architects, York, building op government inspec erations for Sep tors, and the con tember, 1908, show tractors, with the an increase in the result that the aggregate of seven building is consid per cent as com ered to be abso pared with substan DETAIL BY J. K. JENSEN, ARCHITECT. lutely indestructi tially the same cities New Jersey Terra Cotta Company, Makers. ble by fire. The 242 THE BRICKBUILDER. contract for this work was executed by 0. W. Ketcham of Philadelphia. LONG SPAN FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION IN REINFORCED TERRA COTTA HOLLOW TILE. Here is a work- just issued by the National Fire proofing Company- which is an epitome of the most scientific methods employed in burnt clay fireproof con struction. It is a work which presents to the architect in a clear and comprehensive manner data which has to do with fireproof construction of all types of buildings. It is abundantly illustrated from important work which has been done, and the various types of construction and the sizes and shapes of the blocks employed, in addition to which there are valuable tables giv ing load capacity of different spans and other types of con struction. Fireproofing with economy in the use of struc tural steel is the keynote of DETAIL FOR A MANTEL. this work, which we are glad Lord & Hewlett, Architects. Conkling-Armstrong Terra to commend to our readers at Cotta Company, Makers. this period of our national de velopment when our fire loss DETAIL OF FRICK ANNEX BUILDING, PITTSBURG. is reaching the enormous sum of $250,000,000 annually. D. H. Burnham & Co., Archite<"ts. 750,000 enameled bricks made for this building by American Enameled IN GENERAL Brick Company. The terra cotta and faience employed in the new Brooklyn Academy of Music, much of which 1s m color, was manufactured by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company. The bricks used in the exterior of the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, were furnished by Sayre & Fisher Co. A pattern is worked into the wall by the use of header bricks with a lyre stamped on them. The te.rra cotta used in the new Gaiety Theater, 46th street and Broadway, New York, Herts & Tallant, architects, was furnished by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company. A rough finished white brick in Norman size, known as "Parkhurst Church" brick, was used in the fa«ade of the new Gaiety Theater, 46th street and Broadway, New York, Herts & Tallant, architects. These bricks are manufactured by Sayre & Fisher Co. The architects for the house 34 East 50th street, New York, illustrated on page 210 of THE BRICKBUILDER for September, were William Emerson and Boring & Tilton, associated. One hundred architects will probably be permitted to compete in designing the new Boston College, a Catholic institution to be erected at Chestnut Hill, one of the suburbs of the city. MANTEL, BY CARPENTER & CROCKER, ARCHITECTS. Charles Edward Choate, architect, formerly of Augusta, Facing around fireplace of dull glazed faience, made by Hartford Ga., has removed his office to 629 Candler Bldg., Faience Company. Atlanta, Ga. THE BRICKBUILDER. Electus D. Litchfield, architect, New York, has withdrawn from membership in the firm of Lord & Hewlett, and has en tered into co-partnership with Tracy & Swartwout, the new firm name being Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield, offices 244 Fifth avenue, New York. The Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York will be held in the building of the Ameri can Fine Arts Society, 215 West 57th street, January 31 to February 20 inclu sive. Exhibition hours, Sundays, 12 M. ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH WORKS, ELGIN, ILL. to 6 P.M. Week days, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M - Patton & Miller and Frank Abbott, Architects. 8 to 10 P.M . Last day for return of entry Entire group roofed with Ludowici-Celadon Company " French A" Tiles. new Anacostia Bridge will be thrown open to the public December 1. ... Work on the Carnegie Institution Build ing at 16th and P streets, N. W., is pro gressing rapidly and is expected to be ready for occupancy July 1, 1909.... The new home of Perry Belmont has given much dignity to th~ triangle bounded by New Hampshire avenue, 18th and R streets. . . . Mr. Edson Bradley's house on Dupont Circle is being elaborately remodeled and now ranks among the im portant residences of the capital. - . . A HOUSE FOR SENATOR G'. S. NIXON, RENO, NEV. large residence is being erected for Mr. Roofed with Red Roman Special Tile made by Cincinnati Roofing Tile and Terra Cotta A. M. Lothrop (of Woodward & Lothrop Company. Co.) on the heights overlooking Washing- ton city on the south, and Rock Creek val slips, December 26. Last days for the reception of ley, Connecticut avenue bridge, and the hills to the north. exhibits, January 14 and 15, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Annual WANTED - American of 29 married, with nine years all dinner, Friday, January 29, 7 P.M. League reception, around experience in Chicago offices seeks p ermanent position Saturday, January 30, 3 to 6 P.M. Exhibits discharged or interest in business with Architect in West or Southwest, Monday, February 22. where integrity and conscientious efforts will be appreciated. Good designer, practical, up to date, systematic, well educated Arthur H. Ebeling and refined. Address, "Chicago," care of THE BRICK has opened an office BUILDE R. for the practise of ar INDOORS AND OUT. I have a complete file of perfect chitecture in the copies of INDOORS AND OUT (the 27 numbers issued) Marquette building, which I will deliver to any address in the United States for $10.00. Money must accompany order. Address, I. G&. 0., Davenport, Iowa. care THE BRICKBUILDER. Manufacturers' cata logue and samples solicited. Water Color Studies The Twin City 210 Fine Reproductions in Color of Original Water Colors 1\y Brick Company of St. French and English Artists, in Four Portfolios Paul is introducing into the market a ENGLISH CATHEDRAL SCENES Painted by W. W . Collins, R.I. ____ ----- 60 plates, $2.00 new brick of beauti FRENCH CATHEDRAL SCENES ful texture which Painted by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S. __ ___ 60 plates, $2.00 they have designated VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS Painted by Renei Binet. ______60 plates, $2.00 as "Rustic Moss VENICE Face." These bricks Painted by Regina! Barratt, A.R. W.S, ___ 30 plates, $1.50 have been used for Four portfolios sent prepaid on receipt of $7.00 three mantels in the Published by M. A. VINSON Officers' Club House, 205-206 Caxton Building CLEVELAND, OHIO DETAIL BY LOUIS CURTISS, Vancouver Barracks, ARCHITECT. Washington (State). WANTED by M.A.Vinson, numbers of" Brickbuilder" listed Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, as follows: Vol. 7, No.8, Aug., 1898; Vol. 8, No.4, Apr.,1899. Makers. At Washington the 2 44 THE BR I CKBUIL D E R . m g~~~~€'~~~~m'~£\m'~~»B~~~~~~~~~~~~~~m~m ~ ~ m Competition for a Hospital Building. ~ m ~ ~ First Prize, $500. Second Prize, $200. Third Prize, $100. ~ ~~ COMPETITION CLOSES JANUARY 16 1909. ~j ~~ . ~ ~ m ~ i m PROGRAMME. ~W~ ~~ T HE problem is a Hospital Building. The location may be assumed in any American city of about 30,000 inhabitants. The lot con- "' ~~ tains about five acres and has a frontage of 300 feet on the main avenue, leading to the city, which runs east and west. The part of m'\;1 ~ 71 ~l\'i the lot on which the buildmg is to be placed is practically level. m ~~ It is to be a block hospital with three floors above the basement. The height of the first and second stories is to be not less than 12 ~ ~ feet. No one floor above the basement is to contain more than 1o,coo square feet, exclusive of sun rooms and approaches. The length of ~ m the structure, including sun rooms and approaches, cannot exceed 160 feet. ~ m The following should be provided for in the plan : ~ IJ,"~ Two ten bed wards for each sex in the Medical Department; two ten bed wards for each sex in the Surgical Department ; and in con- lr~ ~~ nection with each of these wards two one bed rooms. Two ten bed wards for each sex in the Children's Department., A Maternity Depart- ~ I~ ment to accommodate six patients, two of which are to be in private rooms, and in conjunction with this department a delivery room and ~~ §;!J baby room. ~<;!l ~ In conjunction with the wards there should be provided service rooms or diet kitchens, nurses utility rooms, linen rooms, broom and ~J ~71 medicine closets, clothing rooms and toilet rooms. ~<;!l ~ In addition to the private rooms provided for in connection with the open wards there should be at least eight private rooms for single ~J it!~~~ patientsOperating and accident rooms, with their adjuncts of anresthetic, sterilizing, bandage, instrument, nurses' work room, reception, and raJ~~~ ~<;!l recovery rooms, also surgeons' dressing room and X-ray room. ~ U~ Single bed rooms for at least twenty nurses ; nurses' parlor; suite for superintendent and head nurse ; bed room for two internes; f2>:~ i'f'il~ reception room for patients; laboratory; drug room; cooking class room; kitchens; store rooms; laundry; bed rooms for fourteen i!J~ ~~ domestics- four being males; dining room for staff and nurses ; dining room for domestics; toilet rooms; small out-patients department; ~~ lbP~ autopsy room; boiler room; fan room, and such other features as may suggest themselves to the designer. ~ 1\':411 The exterior of the building is to be designed entirely in Arcl;Iitectural Terra Cotta, employing colored terra cotta in at least portions 00 ~ of the walls. ~~ ~ The following points will be considered in judging the designs: !Y~ ~~ A. Frank and logical expression of the prescribed material. t~ ~ B. Rational and logical treatment of the exterior. ~ ~ C. Excellence of plan, . ~if'! ~ In awartiing the prizes the intelligence shown in the constructive use of terra cotta and the development or modification of style, by tfjl ~~ reason of the material, will be taken largely into consideration. ~ ~~;~ It mtr.;t be borne m mind that one of the chief objects of this competition is to encourage the study of the use of Architectural Terra ~ ~J911 Cotta. There is no limitation of cost, but the designs must be suitable for the character of the building and for the material in which it is to ~] ~ be executed. r@ m ORA WINGS REQUIRED. ~ ~~ On one sheet, at the top, the front elevation drawn at a scale of 8 feet to the inch. In the title of this elevation state which point of the ~ f~ compass it faces. On the same sheet, below the front elevation, the four floor plans drawn at a scale of 16 feet to the inch. ~~;[Jl ~ On a second sheet, at the top, the elevation of secondary importance drawn at a scale of 16 feet to the inch; immediately below half ~~ ~ inch scale details of the most interesting features of the design. The details should indicate in a general manner the jointmg of the terra cotta ~~(J! ~1,'11 a!Jd the sizes of the blocks. The color scheme is to be indicated either by a key or a series of notes printed on the same sheet with the fl 1\;llcl( secondary elevation and details, at a size which will permit of two thirds reduction. 1,1. t~ The size ot each sheet (there are to be but two) shall be exactly 36 inches by 24 inches. Strong border lines are to be drawn on both m ~«JJ sheets one inch from edges, giving a space inside the border lines 22 inches by 34 inches. The sheets are not to be mounted. ~ ~~~ All drawings are to be in black ink without wash or color, except that the walls on the plans and in the sections may be blacked-in or ,., );\;!] ~ cross-hatched. N ~~u Graphic scales to be on all drawings. ~m~ ~~ Every set of drawings is to be signed by a nom de plume or device, and accompanying same is to be a sealed envelope with the 11om ~ 1.\.lt:J tb plume on the exterior and containing the true name and address of the contestant. q.l< ~~~ The drawings are to be delivered flat at the office of THE BRIC KBU ILDER, 85 Water Street, Boston, Mass., charges prepaid, on or ~~~~ ~ before January 16, 1909. ~ ~m Drawings submitted in this competition must be at owner's risk from the time they are sent until returned although reasenable care ~ will be exercised in their handling and keeping. ' ~!:5('2 );\;!]~ The prize drawings are to become the property of THE BRICKBUI LDER, and the right is reserved to publish or exhibit any or all of N ,;, ~he others. Those who wish their drawings returned may have them by enclosing in the sealed envelopes containing their names, ten cents &!1'2 m >J ~0 m stamps. ~~ The designs wUI be judged by three or five well-known members of the architectural profession. ~ 00 For the design placed first In this competition there will be given a prize of $500. ~ 00 For the design placed second a prize of $200. II;~ ral~' For the design placed third a prize of $100. ~ We are enabled to offer prizes of the above-mentioned amounts largely through the liberality of the terra cotta manufacturers who are m represented in the advertising columns of THE BRIC KB UILDER. m I~ This competition is open to everyone. t~ I . I ~~~~~€'c~m~m~gm~€'~~~~~~B~~~~~~»B~~m~~~m INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS JEWETTVILLE PRESSED TERRA C01TA CO. AND TERRA· COTTA COo MMJuiiJcturen of PAVING BRICK CO. (INCORPORATED) MANUFACTURER8 0P AR.CIIITECTUR.AL BUFFALO. N. Y. •• OR.NAMENTAL MAKERS OF ARCHITECTURAL TER.RA COITA TERRA-COTTA MIJIII Office MJd Worb IMPERVIOUS 5801 to 6815 MANCIIBSTBR A VBNVa RED FRONT BRICK. ST. LOUIS, MO. IN ALL CGLGRS. Modem Plut. Uaequalled Shipping Fadlidel. ESTABLISHED 184!5. New Jersey Terra=Cotta Co. WINKLE TERRA=COTTA CO. THE IIAIIUFACTUIIKII. OP Muufactunrw of Kreischer Brick Mfg. Co. Architectural Jlr(bitt(tural MANUFACTURER8 OF THE VERY FINEST QUALITY OF Terra-Cotta Ttrra-£otta Pront Brick IN ALL COLORS. KARL MATHIASEN President VARIOUS COLORS Office, Rooms 50Z, 503, Ceatury Buildiug F'ire Brick and Clay Retorts Office, 108 Fulton St. Works, Perth Amboy, N. ]. 119 East 23d Street, New York Leola. New York and Matawan, N.J. Cllelte•=~i. ST. LOUIS, MO. Works: KAEISCHERVILLE, S. J, Tel., 5360.5361 Gramercy OFFICE: WORKS: COLUMBUS BRICK & co~':t':':.us, KilTANNING BRICK 226 FIFTH AVENUE 401 VERNON AVENUE TERRA-COTTA CO. Manufacturers of BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN BOROUGH OF QUEENS AND FIRE ClAy co. PLAIN and ORNAMENTAL BRICK PITTSBURG, PA. A t Cray, Buff and Speckled Manufacturers of HIOH O~ADE f::r:on 4: Co. • NEW YORK Plake 4: Co., Inc. : : ~aw Yor:o~l!~ O. W. Ketchum • • • Pbll•delpbia FACE BRICK J. ~. Pitcairn 4: Co. • • Pittsburg ARCHITECTURAL TER·RA COTTA S. S. Kimbell Brick Co. • • Chicago AGENCIES: Johnson 4: Jackson • • • ninneapolls New York, Pfotenhauer-Nesbit Co., St. James Building. P. B. Holmes 6: Co. • • • Detroit Boston, Fiske « Co., Inc., 161 Devonshire Street, Seiple Soo.s • • • • Atlanta Phlladelpbia and Baltimore, COMPANY Tbe Masons' Supply Co. • Cleveland 0. W. Ketcham, Builders' Exchange. Tba noore 4: Handley Hardware Co. • Birmingham Bu_ffalo, John H. Black, Builders' Exchange, Jobn H. Black • • • • Balfalo Cluc:ago, Thomas Moulding Co., Chamber of Commerce Bldlt: ~.· !·. ~ eyer 6: c.o. • • • lndianapoli.< S~. Louie,. Illinois Supply and Construction PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: "' ...... 8ff1 • • Cincinnati co: Prederlck H. ncDonald • • Orand Rapid• Cmci~nati, A. R. Raff, REAL ESTATE TRUST BLDG., BROAD and CHESTNUT STS. Tbe National Pre.ssed Brick Co. • • St.Louis Detroot, F. B. Holmes « Co., 307 Hammond Buildin >:". Sunderland Bros. Co. • • • Omaha Atlanta, Oa., S.:iples Sons, Empire Building, Ohio Mining and HYDRAULIC-PRESS BRICK CO. Manufacturing Co. MAIN OFACE, ST. LOUIS, MO. Makers of the THE NO~THWESTE~N SHAWNEE BRICK TER~A-COTTA CO. A strictly high-grade front britk, in varions colors and BRANOII ,.AOTOitii!S sb apes. ---CHICAGO·--- Washington, D. C. Minneapolis, Minn. ACENCIKS: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, 111. New York, Pfotenhauer-Nesbit Co., Newark, N. J,, Cook « Oenung Co.; New Haven, The Howard Co • MAIIUFACTUIIEIIa OF HIGH-GIIADE Cleveland, Ohio Brazil, Ind Boston, Waldo Bros.; Baltimore and York, Pa., E. w: Spangler~.Jr.; Pblladeiphia, S. B. Dobbs· Chicago Architectural Terra-Cotta Zanesville, Oblo Menomonie, Wis. Thomas moulding Co.; Cincinnati, Moores-:Coney eo' Omaha, Nebraska Kansas City, Mo. T<;~ledo, Toledo Builders' SupJ>IY Co_.; Detroit, c. H: Lttde Co.; Adanta, WORKS, SOUTH AMBOY, N, ol. MADE ONLY BY The lronclay SAYRE & FISHER CO. '\~~~~~ Maaufacturera of THE .-i - _-/;.# ·( Brick Co. 2. f•R:~:~l~:D ~ The c:l:::u~ Face Fine Pressed Front Brick 11 :se.LF.:eL~ · Brick c Varloaa Colors, botb Plain and Molded. SOUTH AMBOY ~ ltwaahes - ) 0• ~• own ra"&:.4' "V COLUMBUS • • OHIO. Superior Enameled Brick, Hard Building Brick, TERRA-COTTA CO. t:Jaique Ia Character, Composition and Color. Fire Brick, and Hollow Brick FOR. EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR t:JSES. for Fireproofing Purposes. .lAMES R. SAYRE, .JR., A 00., Agents II. Y. OFFICK • 1&0 NASSAU 8T. Write for Cataloa No. a. • 281 BroadwaJo New Yorll OltJ, I Enmlnatlon of the official tests recently VITRIFIED TWIN CITY BRICK C05 made by the New York Building Department Manufacturers of proves that for UreprooUng purposes noth• Artistic Front Brick log Is equal to Terra Cotta; the latest schedule AMERICAN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA of rates en forced by the Insurance Companies shows that Terra Cotta Is so considered by OUR SPECIALS Tha" MAHOGAIIY " The " AUTUMN LEAF " them, aec:urlng very lowest rates. s Tha" RUSTIC MOSS " The " GOLDEN ROD " ACENCII!S ROOFINC TILE New York and Boston • • • • Plake & Company MANUFACTUR.D BY Philadelphia, Baltimore ud Washlnet;on, D. C.: S. B. Dobbs Henry Maurer & Son San Fnulclsco, Cal. • • Pacific .Buildon' Supply Company THE CINCINNATI ROOFING AND Portland, Ore. • , • • • • A. J. Capron MANUPACTURBRS OP Butte, Mont. • • • • . • Otto C. Stoelker Wlnnlpe&, Man. • • ..Uaip Brick, Tile & Lumber Company TERRA COTTA COMPANY Duluth, Minn. • • Paine & Nlxoll Company Minneapolis, Mimi. • • • , Asa Paine Terra.. Cotta Fireproof Building Materials Factory: Winton Place, Ohio Omaha, Neb. • • Swlder!AJld Broe. Company Des Moines, Iowa • • 1. D "!'. Hall .ClO East 23d St., New York Cl&y. Offices: Mitchell A1e. and B. &0. S. W. Ry., Cincinnati, Ohio c;nclnnatl, 0. , • ]. B. Ridgway "WESTERN" Terra Cott~ MEDIUM PRICED LUDOWICI =CELADON VITRIFIED and IMPERVIOUS Hollow Tile FACING BRICK h•s been so long and successfully COMPANY used as a fireproof protection for Sold at prices midway between common backs We offer the very highest l"ades of Terra lng and mechanically perfect pressed Brick. the structural members of large Cotta Rooftnc Tiles In all the standard and Capacity 75,000,000 yearly. buildings that the value of this many apeclal designs. In c:olor we furnish full, matt or aaad• WESTERN BRICK COMPANY material for structural purposes blasted £lazes, and natural red or slipped red DANVIllE, IU.. has been overlooked. We have ware. Write for Catalogue recently published a book en Our four large factorle.s provide adequate facUlties for prompt service, whatever the titled magnitude of the operation. Agencies at all central polata. Oar own AMERICAN fireproof Houses of offices Ia- Enameled Brick and Tile Co. I Madison Avenue, New York Terra Cotta Hollow Tile CWC!tiO NEW YORK Worb: Soutb Rlvu, fl. J, and ENAMELED BRICK How to Build Them CLEVELAND BRANCH OPPICBS which anyone interested in resi· Boston, Philadelphia, Washlncton, Baltimore, WASHINtiTON Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Plttsbur&• dence construction will find ex Richmond, Montreal, Can., Havana, Cuba, Sidney, N. S. w. tremely veJuable. If you have NEW ORLEANS DENVER Send for catalosrue wltb color abeet, -..ctaa lltepee not seen a copy a.sk for one. end petent apeclllcatl.... , BLUE RIDCE National Fire-Proofing R. 6uastavino Co. ENAMELED . BRICK CO. Specialists in the construction of MANUFACTURERS OF THE "BLUE RIDCE" Company Large Masonry Domes and Arches Muufactur.. of in rough pressed and glazed tile ENAMELED BRICK Terra Cotta Hollow Tile PRUDENTIAL NEWARK, N.J. NBW YORK OPPICB: BOSTON OPPICB: IIUILDING. A.OBNCIBS: Contracton fo• Pall« Bulld/116 Old Soutb Bulld/IIJ GOSTON: WALDO BR.OS., 10:1 Milk Street. I· HILADELPHIA: 0. W. KETCHAAl,l4 S, 7th Street. R· OUA.STA. VINO, Pre•ldellt N;.OW YORK: R.OBT. C. MARTIN &: SON, 156 5th Avenue. fireproof Construction WM,B.BLODOBTT, Tr.uanw A.B.ROBSh~~ CHICAGO, Commercial Nat'IBank Bldg. PITISBU~O, fulton Building TIFFANY NEW YO~K. flatiron Building CABOT'S PHILADELPHIA, Land Title Building. ENAMELED BRICK BOSTON, Old South Building Brick Waterproofing MINNEAPOLIS, Lumber Exchange A COMPLBTB AND PBRMA.NBNI' COMPANY, ST. LOUIS, Victoria Building WA.TERPROOPINO POR. BRICK· CENERAL OFFICES: WASHINGTON, Colorado Building WORK AND SANDSTONB I 202 Chamber of Commerce, SAN fRANCISCO, Monadnock Building SAMUEL CABOT ,Sole lnnfacturer CHICACO. LOS ANGELES, Union Trust Building BOSTON, MASS. WORKS: CINCINNATI, Union Trust Building Cabot's Shingle Btama. ~-allcathiDC aa4 LONDON, tNGLAND, 27 Chancery Lane Deafening Quilt. Candenre MOMENCE, ILL WoOd. Prcnrvati~ ii THE BARTA PRESS, BOSTON t?RE.J'H A/R·I.JV7'.)//(.I? L.L'CTV.e.e ·HAL£. tf