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VOL. 3 OCTOBER, 1959 NO. 6 New Architects The Indiana State Board of Registration for Architects recently announced the names The Indiana Architect is edited and published nionlhlv in Indianapolis by Don E. of seventeen applicants who successfully Gibson and Associates, 3637 North Meridian Street, P. O. Box 55594, Indianapolis passed the 1959 State Architects' Examina• 5, Indiana. Editorial and advertising policy is governed by the Public Relations tion. Committee, Indiana Society of An hitccls. John I). M

OCTOBER, 1959 Page 3 SOUTH BEND MEETING; distribute them to audiences after architec• tural lectures and film presentations; mail them to community leaders, local officials, newspaper editors and business men; or en• PUBLIC RELATIONS close them with your correspondence and in• voices. Small quantities of each of the pamphlets And STUDENT DESIGNS can be ordered from the Indiana Society of Architects, P. 0. Box 55594, Indianapolis 5, Indiana, at a cost of five cents per pamphlet. Public relations and student designs will be the main topics of interest at the first 1959- Larger quantities of the pamphlets (100 copies 60 ISA General Meeting next month in South Bend. To be held at Morris Inn on the campus or more) should be ordered directly from of the University of Notre Dame, the meeting will get under way Friday, November 20th, with a luncheon. the American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, Following the luncheon will be the regular he received his diploma before receiving his D. C, at a cost of $3.00 per 100 copies. meeting of the ISA Board of Directors and Master of Arts degree from the University an open business meeting. of Edinburgh. During this same period (from Friday evening a banquet will be held 1944 to 1950), he founded and taught at the Brochures Available honoring the winners of the annual student architectural school at Edinburgh. The Indiana Society still has a few Trien• architectural competition, to three of whom Mr. Brown is a Fellow of the Royal In• nial Awards Brochures (copies of which were the ISA will present award checks. The de• stitute of British Architects and the Royal In• mailed to each registered architect in the signs by the students will be on display corporation of Architects in Scotland. He is during the entire convention. a native of Durbin, Union of South Africa. state) available for use as a promotional aid. These can be ordered from the Society's On Saturday morning (according to the Executive office, P. 0. Box 55594, Indian• tentative schedule now being worked out), apolis 5. Cost is ten cents per copy. the thoughts of the delegates will turn to public relations, at the Great Lakes Region• al Seminar on Public Relations, which is being held in conjunction with the ISA Gen• Opens Office eral Meeting. Mr. Courtney E. Robinson, AIA, has an• Principals from Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio nounced the opening of his office for the and Indiana will participate in this portion general practice of architecture in Indiana, of the program, which is designed to aid Ohio, and Michigan. individual architects and their state societies The office will be located at 1924 St. Joe in promoting and maintaining better public Boulevard in Fort Wayne. relations. Mr. Elmer J. Manson (of Manson, Jack• son, Wilson & Kane, Architects, Lansing, AIA Work Survey Michigan), chairman of the Great Lakes Region Public Relations Committee, AIA, Mr. The American Institute of Architects has Robert Forsythe, AIA, of Canton Ohio, and completely revised procedures for its Cur• Mr. John Martindale (of Martindale & Dahl- rent Work Survey which reports on building gren. Fort Wayne, Indiana), chairman of the construction work on the drawing boards of ISA Public Relations Committee, will head the nation's architects. the discussion session. Mr. Forsythe will This account of building activity in the present a report on the "East Ohio Story." programming and design stage will enable R. GORDON BROWN, F.R.I.B.A. Fuller information concerning the Novem• economists and the building industry to ac• ber 20-21 meeting especially on the Public curately forecast the extent of building ac• Speaker for the banquet will be Mr. R. Relations Seminar, will be carried in the tivity months in advance. Gordon Brown, F.R.I.B.A., recently appoint• November issue. Results of the AIA Current Work Survey ed to the Notre Dame architectural staff. will henceforth be announced every three Professor Brown was for eight years, dean months instead of semi-annually as of the faculty of architecture at the Univer• Pamphlets Available previously. sity of Hong Kong and adviser to the British Four new public relations pamphlets writ• government for the redevelopment of the Under the new survey procedure the ten and produced by the American Institute of nearly 9,500 architectural and engineering island's central area. He designed Hong Architects now are available from the ISA Kong's new city hall, a twenty-four story firms in the U.S. which handle building con• Executive Office. hotel, two boys' schools and various other struction are being queried as to the firm's buildings and homes. These pamphlets are: size in terms of volume of business. From "THE MEANING OF ARCHITECTURE" this "universe" a random sample of about Recently Mr. Brown completed sketch de• "RESIDENTIAL DESIGN" 1,000 firms, representative of the total, will signs for the National Institute of Admini• be selected for the quarterly reports. stration to be erected in Vietnam by the U.S. "BUILDINGS FOR BUSINESS" government. In addition, he was the architect "FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT SCHOOL As a "by-product" of this survey, par• for the central government offices and sec• BUILDINGS" ticipating firms will be in a position to meas• retariat at Jesselton, North Borneo, com• These pamphlets have been designed for ure and evaluate input and output of design pleted in 1956. distribution to interested persons and prospec• work and compare their own volume with Before going to Hong Kong in 1950, Mr. tive clients. The AIA suggests numerous regional and national trends and averages. Brown served as head of the Architectural ways this distribution could be handled: Dis• AIA will announce the results of its first Association in London, the school from which play them prominently in reception rooms; Quarterly Current Work Survey early in 1960. Page 4 THE INDIANA ARCHITECT Concrete infforcements routine or

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Page 6 THE INDIANA ARCHITECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION: INDIANAPOLIS' NEW CITY-COUNTY BUILDING

Heavy excavating machines in operation announced the start preliminary plans for a new downtown civic auditorium in Indianap• of construction for the new Indianapolis-Marion County Office Build• olis, cost of which has been estimated at $16,000,000. The orders to ing in . The machines, operated by the Ken• proceed followed many years of planning, and the Authority will neth Smock Trucking Company, recently began tearing out the now undertake an initial engineering study. Henry W. Manz is present parking lot to the North of the Courthouse, the site of the the Executive Secretary of the Indianapolis-Marion Building new building pictured above. Authority.

Following completion of the main building, the present Court• Not too many blocks away from the City-County construction house will be razed and an underground parking garage beneath site. Governor Handley and Lieutenant Governor Crawford Parker a landscaped park will be constructed in its place. joined with other State dignataries in laying the cornerstone for two other major public buildings in Indianapolis, the new State Office Architects for the new City-County Building are Allied Archi• Building and the Employment Security Building, both of which are tect-Engineers, Inc., a joint enterprize by several firms including under construction immediately west of the Statehouse. VVright-Porteous and Associates and Lennox, Matthews, Simmons and Ford, both of Indianapolis. Raymond Kastendieck and Associates, of Gary, and Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Inc., of Chicago, are architects for the The owner of the building will be the Indianapolis-Marion State Office Building, and Associated Indiana Architects, of India• Building Authority, which also has been directed to proceed with napolis, are the architects for the Employment Security Building. OCTOBER, 1959 Page 7 The Fellow. Mr. F. Halliburt Smith and Mrs. Smith, arrived in Indianapolis in early British Fellow, Student September to visit their son, Ambrose Smith, a chemist employed by P. R. Mallory Co. in Indianapolis. Their visit will end on Oc• Visit Indianapolis tober 15th, when they will take a two-week trip East prior to their departure from New York on October 27th. Indianapolis has been honored the past few months by the visits of two members of the While in Indianapolis, Mr. Smith attended British architectural field, one a retired Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture numerous meetings and luncheons held by and the other an architectural student at the Birmingham School of Architecture. members of the Indiana Society of Archi• tects. On Thursday, September 24, Mr. Smith was guest speaker for the Indianapolis Dis• trict business meeting, and earlier lunched at the Columbia Club with ISA President Charles Betts, Edward D. James, and Park Bryan of Spickelmier Industries, Mr. Smith's unofficial host and guide during his visit in Indianapolis. On October 8th, Mr. Smith was guest of honor at a luncheon in the Continental Hotel in Indianapolis. Among the ISA members present were the three Fellows of the Ameri• can Institute of Architecture from Indian• apolis, Mr. Edward D. Pierre, Mr. George C. Wright and Mr. Merrit Harrison. Other guests at the luncheon included Edward D. James, H. Roll McLaughlin, Don Compton, Howard White, Dick Lennox, Arthur Wup- per, and Tom Dorste, all members of the A.I.A., Park Bryan and Don Gibson. Mr. Smith, naturally, was afforded many George C. Wright, FAIA, F. Halliburt Smith, FRIBA, Merrit Harrison, FAIA, and Ed• opportunities to discuss British architecture ward D. Pierre, FAIA, (left to right), exchange introductions at a luncheon honoring the and to compare the architecture of his native visiting retired British architect. land with that which he found on this side of the Atlantic. Of greatest interest was his report on the "quantity surveyor" or specifi• cation writer employed by British architects. Operating as a separate and distinct pro• mi i fession in the British construction community, quantity surveyors draft the specifications for all construction projects in England, re• lieving the architect of this responsibility. In addition, these surveyors take off quantity estimates for suppliers and contractors and provide the architects with preliminary es• timates. For their services, the specification writ• ers receive a fee averaging 2V2% of the gen• eral contract value, a fee which is paid by the successful bidder. In operation, the archi• tect selects the specification writer, normally a writer with whom the architect regularly works and whose office is located near the architects. This practice has developed over the past forty years, and today the specifica• tion writers' profession is honorable, estab• lished and highly reliable. The normal architects' fee, in England, averages from 6 to lO'A , depending upon the size of the project. This is, of course, com• pletely separate from the Zh'o'/f paid to the "quantity surveyor. " Pressed for his views regarding Indian• apolis, Mr. Smith replied that in his impres• sion. Indianapolis is a fine city, finer per• haps than many of her residents realize. He Edward D. James. Howard White, Roll McLaughlin and visiting architectural student (Continued on Page 11) Norman J. Ridge, (left to right), discuss buildings of interest near Norman's home in England. THE INDIANA ARCHITECT Page 8 PART TWO OF A SERIES Our Architectural Heritage

This month we have deviated from our normal presentation of Gams, John A. Brink, Termor S. Cannon, Karl Henkel, J. E. Wood• important historical buildings in Indiana to a presentation slightly ward, Herbert Bass, E. O. Hunter, Everett I. Brown, N. K. Eldridge, less historical but, we hope, equally interesting. A. C. Bohlen, W. D. Parker and Merritt Harrison. Architects in the front row included Fritz Anderson, Guy Mahurn, L. A. DeMilt, Jr., The above picture of the Indiana Society of Architects assembled Charles E. Bacon, Wil iam MacLucas, Everett H. Crabb, Ewing H. for their Semi-Annual Convention on June 26, 1920, was made Miller, Robert Frost Daggett, Donald Graham, E. D. Pierre, Anton availbale to THE INDIANA ARCHITECT by John MacLucas, son Scherrer, Frederick Wallick and A. W. Gay. of one-time ISA member Wi liam MacLucas (fifth from left, sitting). Architects other than those pictured signed the photo, including Arrangements for the picture were made through Howard White, Norman H. Hill, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar F. Cook, Layton Allen, Wayne AIA and President of the 1960 Indianapolis Home Show. Mr. Mac• Kellogg, O. D. Bohlen, R. S. MacFall, Clarence T. Myers, Joseph Lucas (Junior) and Mr. White were fellow drafting students in Short- Owens and William O. Morck. ridge High School and have been friends for many years The picture Unfortunately we were unable to distinguish all the members itself was found in an attic trunk presumably where it had been placed represented (including the three lovely ladies in the center); and of following Mr. MacLucas' (Senior) death in 1923. course, we cannot guarantee that all the names given are correct. We were able to make out quite a few of the signatures beneath Perhaps our readers will be able to do better, and will fill in the the p'cture, including (standing) J. W. Gaddis, Herbert Foltz, W. H. blank faces.

By DON E. GIBSON

The Passing Se en . . . ISA Exsecutive Secretary For obscure reasons which defy logical Furniture for the offices has been selected greater success.) explanations, the editor of a trade or pro• and ordered—but naturally we had to have fessional publication, or the Executive Secre• the very latest in office furnishings, so we * * * tary of the group publishing such a magazine, picked a line that didn't go into production Turning from the immediate problem of is expected—nay, commanded—to set forth on until October 1. Sidman Office Furniture in facilities, we would like to impress firmly paper, under his own byline, his pressing Indianapolis is supplying PREDICTA, cre• in your minds the dates of November 20 and thoughts of the hour. ated by the Imperial Desk Company in 21, the dates of the ISA General Meeting in For several years, this editor and E. S. Evansville. Featuring walnut-grained solid South Bend. Details of this meeting appaar rolled into one successfully fought off the re• molded plastic tops, panels and drawer elsewhere in this issue, but we wish to under• sponsibility for such commentary; however, fronts, the modular groupings make an ex• line the Public Relations Seminar. Every we now find such such expression a valuable tremely attractive, medium-priced line of of• architect, indeed the architectural profession aid. fice furniture. Delivery, however, is not ex• itself, is in great need of improving relations pected until early November. Herman Miller with the general public; this seminar, conse• quently, should be of vital interest to each On the first day of the month, the Indiana chairs, supplied by Business Furniture Com• ISA member. Fuller details and registration Society took physical possession of its office pany in Indianapolis, were selected for the conference and reception areas. cards will be sent to the membership, so space in the Wabash Fire and Casualty circle and reserve the dates. building in Indianapolis, and with this space In the office equipment field, we are in a * * * in its present confused condition, it is diffi• little better shape. Typewriters, mimeograph Our visiting British Fellow, Mr. F. Halli- cult to have any pressing thoughts other than (Gestetner) equipment, copying machine burt Smith, paid a high tribute to Hoosier those concerning the office itself. (Thermo-Fax) and addressing machine (El• hospitality in his remarks to the Indianapolis Last week, Hatfield Paint Company liott) already are in use, enabling the office District meeting late last month. As a result showed up to install their GUARD heavy- force to send out the first general mailing oi this hospitality and the thoughtful consider• from the new office. (This mailing was a re• duty vinyl wall covering upon one wall in the ation of his host (including District Presi• quest for magazine material; though your reception room, affording your secretary and dent Fran Schroeder), Mr. Smith has now editor is gratified by the response received, his staff one beautiful wall at which to stare become a tea drinker, foregoing his favorite he hopes future mailings will meet with when our minds become blank. English beverage, coffee. OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 9 SPEAKING OF ©M^^DOLOTYS IF DURABILITY IS A QUALITY YOU DESIRE

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Page 10 THE INDIANA ARCHITECT architecture (of which they have very little Visiting Britishers in England) and to gain an insight into our Indianapolis District design and construction techniques. Norman (Continued from Page 8) reported that he was quite impressed with has been especially impressed by the quan• the speed with which a building is started and Holds Meeting tity of valuable downtown property assigned completed in this country, and that the most to parks and open places and the almost noticeable difference between our cities was complete freedom from any foreign influence, the concentration in this country on develop• And Theatre Party especially British or French. ing the area adjacent to but outside the city The Indianapolis District held its regular While in the United States vacationing. proper, while in England the concentration September dinner-business meeting Thurs• Mr. Smith is studying housing trends, par• was upon the central city. day, September 24th, with F. Halliburt Smith, ticularly in the fields of mass housing and In addition, far greater emphasis is placed visiting British architect, as special guest and housing for the aged. upon preserving, restoring and maintaining speaker. The other British architectural visitor, old structures in England, and in more se• Fran Schroeder, District president, an• Norman Ridge, is starting his professional lective blending of the new with the old. nounced that the Mayor's Mall committee career, in contrast to Mr. Smith's retirement. Norman feels that Americans excel in the included a representative from the architec• A native of Dudley, Worchestershire, Eng• use of materials, especially wood: in Eng• tural profession, Evans Woollen III, AIA. land, Norman is a fifth-year student at the land the main construction materials for Working with Evans will be Ed Pierre, Ray Birmingham School of Architecture receiving residences are brick and aluminum, while Ogle, Don Perry and Ken Woods. The ques• practical field experience at the firm of Ed• concrete is the favorite material for com• tion of creating a pedestrian mall in down• ward D. James and Associates in Indian• mercial and industrial construction. town Indianapolis is a subject of wide inter• apolis. Norman was one of a large number Howard White, an associate in the James' est in Indianapolis, and it was felt the Indi• of students to write to firms in the United firm and also president of the Indianapolis anapolis district should take an active part States requesting summer experience here, Home Show, recently returned from a Euro• in the planning of such a program. but was the only one to receive a definite pean vacation-study trip, and H. Roll Mc• In another community endeavor. Presi• commitment. Laughlin, another associate in the firm, dent Schroeder announced that a committee The main purpose of his trip to the leaves for a similar trip through England of Indianapolis district members, including United States was to study contemporary and other European countries next spring. John Kelly as chairman. Art Broecker, Al Porteous and Hank Meier, were designing a new choral shelter for the Indianapolis Christ• mas Committee. AIA Outlines Reynolds In his remarks to the group, Mr. Smith praised Indianapolis for our interest in our property and the care given to our homes, Award Regulations the very evident pride of ownership, and the creation of an independent architecture, de• The American Institute of Architects has ministered by The American Institute of void of foreign influence. announced regulations for the Fourth Annual Architects. $25,00a R. S. Reynolds Memorial Award for In addition to the $25,000 honorary pay• For their first social meeting of the year, significant use of aluminum in architecture. ment, the recipient also receives an appro• the Indianapolis District members and their These regulations emphasize the creative priate sculptured piece especially created wives met for cocktails and dinner at the and architectural value of the structure se• by a prominent contemporary artist. Lincoln Hotel on October 10th, then ad• lected to receive the Reynolds Award. The 1959 Award was conferred on the firm journed to the Indiana Theatre for a stage, "This international award is conferred of Yuncken, Freeman Brothers, Griffiths & play, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," annually on an architect who designed a Simpson of Melbourne, Australia for the starring Joan Blondell. About forty architects significant work of architecture, in the crea• Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. The and wives braved a miserable downpour for tion of which aluminum has been an impor• sculpture they received was designed by the most enjoyable evening. tant contributing factor," Edmund R. Purves, Seymour Lipton. Executive Director of the AIA said. Seven Belgian architects won the 1958 Prime consideration will be given to the Reynolds Award for the Transportation Pa• creative value of the architect's contribution vilion at the Brussels World's Fair and the Women's League to the use of aluminum and its potential in• 1957 Reynolds Award was conferred on fluence on the architecture of our times, Mr. three Spanish architects for a building in Meets Purves said. Barcelona. Under the regulations, an architect may The AIA said nominations for the 1960 The Women's Architectural League of In• be nominated for the Reynolds Award by Reynolds Award would be accepted until De• diana held their first regular monthly meet• anyone — including himself or his firm. cember 7, 1959. ing of the year on Monday, October 5th. Nomination forms can be obtained from the Architects practicing in any nation are Hostess for the morning affair was Mrs. AIA in Washington, D. C. (1735 New York eligible. Membership in a professional so• Richard G. Pierce, 701 E. 81st Street, in In• Avenue, N. W.) ciety is not required. dianapolis. The program was high-lighted by The Reynolds Award Jury selected by the Programs giving details of the Award a talk on the "Romance of the Glass Fiber AIA, will give preference to works of archi• will be sent by the AIA to each one of the Industry," given by Robert L. Boone, of the tecture completed during the last three years. 13,000 members of the Institute as well as Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. But the Jury may acknowledge earlier work to foreign architectural societies. Nomination The next regular monthly meeting will be if it desires. forms will be included with the programs. 10:00 A.M., Monday, November 2nd, at the The Award, which may be given for any The Award with the honorarium and the home of Mrs. Howard S. Garns, 453 Devon type of structure, was established three years sculptured piece will be formally presented Court, Indianapolis. The speaker will be Mrs. ago by Reynolds Metals Company in memory at the annual convention of the AIA in San Henry J. Graham, presenting a program on of the founder, R. S. Reynolds, Sr. It is ad• Francisco in the spring of 1960. "Thailand." OCTOBER, 1959 Page 11 Architects and Architecture in Indiana

The Indiana Architect is always in• terested in publishing the best work of state architects. If any Indiana regis• tered architect wishes his work published, he should send an 8 by 10 black and white glossy print, either a photo of the work or a rendering. It should be ac• companied with descriptive matter such as location, function, time of comple• tion, estimated cost, area, materials used, etc. All data should be name stamped and dated. The magazine reserves the right to accept or reject any material submitted.

Wright-Porteous Design New Church

George Caleb Wright. William Caleb Wright, Alfred J. Porteous announce the change of name of their organization from Vonnegut, Wright & Porteous, Inc., to WRIGHT, PORTEOUS & ASSOCIATES, INC. School Addition By O, A, Ttslow Shown is a proposed Methodist Church de• signed by WRIGHT, PORTEOUS and ASSO• A split-level addition to the Danville Cen• The addition joins together two buildings CIATES, INC. The relation of the areas is ter Township High School, in Danville. In• of the old Canterbury College, formerly Cen• based primarily on the Sanctuary occupying diana, was designed by Indianapolis architect tral Normal College. Housed in the new area the central dominating position. The Chapel 0. A. Tislow to connect two existing school are facilities for industrial arts, home eco• and Administrative unit are to the left of structures with two different floor levels to nomics, a library, five classrooms, adminis• the Narthex with the Fellowship Hall and join. trative offices, band and vocal music rooms, Educational Facilities on the right. The problem of a fifteen-foot grade dif• bookkeeping and typing facilities, and science classrooms and laboratory. Structural steel, The design gives a freedom which permits ferential between East and West ends of the wall-bearing masonry with brick veneer and the logical answering of all requirements. proposed addition was solved by erecting a curtain walls were utilized in the $320,000 This, along with the truthfulness with which two story building and partial basement with the life and program of this congregation is grade level access. Ramps and stairs made addition. The cubic foot cost was $3.98 per expressed, aid in determining the appearance up for the building floor level differences. cu. ft. of their new building.

The firm also has announced that C. Charles Lowe, Jr. has been made a member of the firm. He has been active in the field of architect e re in Indianapolis for the last ten years and has been associated with this office since 1955.

Mr. Loew's application for Corporate Membership in the American Institute of Architects and the Indiana Society of Archi• tects has been received by ISA Membership Chairman Harry Cooler, of Indianapolis, and Girl's Dorm Designed By Walter Scholer currently is being processed for presentation to the ISA Board at it.s November 29th the F. A. Wilhelm Construction Company of meeting. A new girl's dormitory at Ball State Teachers' College in Muncie presently is un• Indianapolis. Comprising 136,000 square feet, In addition to the general practice of der construction and scheduled for comple• the halls (pictured above) provide living ac• architecture in its own name, this office is tion prior to the start of the 1960-61 school comodations for girls only; meals will be year. one of the two which comprise ALLIED provided in the adjacent Woodworth Hall. ARCHITECT-ENGINEERS, INC. which has The 310-room DeHority Residence Halls designed the new City-County Building in ad• for Women was designed by Waller Scholer The low and successful bid for the con• dition to many other large Government and Associates of Lafayette and contracts for struction of the project was $2,022,989. or projects. general construction were let May 27th to approximately $14.80 per square foot.

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OCTOBER, 1959 Page 13 Educational—School building in 1960 will increase about 3 per cent to more than $3.2 Architectural Forum Predicts billion. Public school construction suffered a severe relapse in 1959, and the outlook is for only a small recovery—about 4 per cent. Record Year in *60 Private school building will amount to about $550 million per year. U.S. construction expenditures will reach ting gains in the construction of nonresi• Industrial—The two-year decline in fac• a record total of more than $55 billion in 1960, dential buildings of all kinds. tory building is over. The 1959 total will be the professional building Architectural Forum Private construction is expected to gain only about $2.3 billion (15 per cent less than said today. more in 1960 than publicly financed construc• last year), but a strong upturn is under way. "Although this may be only 1.5 per cent tion, revising a recent trend. This trend saw Next year it should top $2.7 billion, a 17 per above 1959," Forum reported in its annual public construction increase eightfold from cent jump—higher than the forecast of any building forecast, "it is more impressive than 1946 to a projected $16.4 billion in 1960, pri• other important category of construction. it looks, for 1959 will be an exceptionally big vate construction only fourfold to $39.3 bil• Hospital — The building of private hos• year for building." lion. Next year public construction will be pitals, convalescent homes, laboratories and Construction expenditures this year will up only Vs per cent, private almost 2 per clinical structures fell off slightly in 1959, cent. probability reach $54.9 billion—a jump of 11.8 but holds promise of a mild revival in 1960. per cent above 1958, three-and-one-half times By major categories of construction It is expected to increase 5 per cent to $600 the average increase of the past few years grouped as to type, here is Forum's 1960 million, 1958's level. Publicly financed build• and more than twice the most optimistic pre• forecast: ings of this sort will increase 15 per cent this dictions. 1960 will be the sixteenth year in a year and 6 per cent in 1960—to $475 million. NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS row which building activity has expanded. Together public and private buildings in this Commercial — Privately financed office The leveling off of total construction next category will total almost $1.1 billion in 1960, buildings, warehouses, stores, restaurants year. Forum said, will result mainly from about 5 per cent over this year. and garages, comprising the biggest category the same factors which swelled the 1959 Religious — The building of churches, of nonresidential building, will increase 7.6 volume—but in reverse. A decline in house temples and related facilities has risen al• per cent in 1960 to about $4.3 billion. A small building during 1960 seems "inevitable," and most 14 per cent this year and is expected highway construction will do well to hold its amount of public building of this kind will to climb another 2 per cent next year when own. At the same time, there will be off-set• raise the total to $4.6 billion. religious building will reach $1 billion for the first time. Public administration and service—Belt tightening by the federal government and many local governments indicates a substan• tial 13 per cent drop next year. The 1960 total will be $250 million, excluding public "commercial" building. Other nonresidential — In this catch-all classification are such privately financed projects as post office buildings, comfort and fire stations, zoo buildings, veterinary hos• pitals, animal havens and pounds, boat- MODERNIZES houses, greenhouses, transportation termin• als, and such publicly financed projects as KEY CONTROL transportation terminals, boiler and central heating plants, greenhouses, crematoriums and is a low-cost invest• and grain elevators. The private portion is ment thnt pays for itself expected to increase about 9 per cent to around $250 million next year, but the public in a short time. ARISTOCRAT WALL CABINET Dimensions: sector will decline about 5 per cent to $210 Telkee will . . . 27" high, 13" wide, Y^g" deep. million. Together, they will total $460 mil• Capacity: IfxMSO keys. lion in 1960, a shade above 1959. .save on replacement cost.s for Also availublc lullij recessed. locks bccau.se better dupiicate Write for dimi'nsions. RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS keys can be cut. Add complete Apartments—Private apartment construc• security to all key.s. Control unlimited number of keys, and tion will be $3.5 billion next year, up about make any key available in seconds. Savings in time alone are worth the price of o Telkee Siplem. 23 per cent. Public housing will account for $450 million. Together, private and public FREK BOOKLET: Write today for the complete story of Telkee apartment building will rise 16 per cent to Systems. Ask for free booklet: "The Key To The Whole Thing." almost $4 billion in 1960. Address Dept. A-g Houses—The number of privately financed one-and two-family houses will probably drop 11 per cent in 1960. Expenditures in 1960 J The MOORE KEY CONTROL® Systems ($13.5 billion) will drop off less—about 6 per P. O. MOORE, INC. cent—because of carry-over of work begun A SUBSIDIARY OF SUNROC CORPORATION, GLEN RIDDLE, PA. in 1959 and a trend to bigger, more expensive Represented in Indiana by houses. Publicly financed housing of the one- and-two family size dropped sharply in 1959, C & H SALES CO. and will probably drop next year, accounting for roughly $125 million of construction.

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