against the adoption of any plans, on the ground that the Board was illegally constituted, and therefore of no authority, it was

"Resolved: That the action of the said Harding and Gooch, in protesting and in attempting to nullify the competition, was unprofessional and prejudicial to the interests of the profession. "Further Resolved: That the said Harding and Gooch are severely censured for such unprofessional conduct. And

"Further Resolved: That the Secretary of the American Institute of Architects be instructed to report these resolutions to the Convention, and to forward a copy of these resolutions to Harding and Gooch, and to every member of the Institute."

The Quarterly Bulletin, authorized by the Board at last year's Convention, has been published by the Secretary regularly since Jan. 1, 1900, and has been found useful in sending out news of Institute affairs and in keeping the several Chapters informed of the transactions of other Chapters.

The compilation of current literature from architectural societies -titles has met favorable comment from abroad and from the libraries in this country, and there is now an index for nine months of the year of over 2,200 titles, of which only about one-half have been printed in the Bulletin because of the expense. The papers and periodicals sent for indexing have made a large increase in the library of the Institute.

As funds allow, it is proposed to increase the value of the Bulletin by republishing articles from foreign society publications.

The library is beginning to present a special interest in this class of literature. It is hoped to make it unique as possessing a complete file of all American architectural periodicals and, for the future, of all architectural society publications. Members are urged to assist in obtaining for the library all books relating specially to American architectural work.

The Institute has received from Mrs. R. M. Hunt a donation of platinotype photographs from the work of their past President, Richard M. Hunt.

It is suggested that drawings and pictures of architectural interest are needed for the adornment of the Octagon.

At the Convention of last year the Board was requested to ar range an exhibition of drawings in connection with this meeting, and has provided two: the Phoebe Hearst Competition Plans at the Cosmos Club, and a miscellaneous exhibit of drawings, among them rendered drawings for buildings at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, competition plans for the United States Custom-house at Baltimore, Mr. Cass Gilbert's New York Custom-house, the Newark building, the Washington Pumping-station, and others, besides a most interesting series of drawings by the late Thomas U. Walter for the Capitol and other buildings, obtained for this purpose by Secretary Brown, on view at the Octagon.

The Phoebe Hearst Competition Plans were selected both for the merit of the drawings, which show the methods of the French school of rendering, and for their interest as a study for grouping of buildings, in which latter sense they were expected to furnish an object-lesson in connection with the series of papers read before the Convention on this matter of effective grouping of buildings. And it was hoped that papers and exhibition together would serve to call the attention of Congress to the importance of a grouping of public buildings in Washington. To this end the Board has made the series of papers on this topic the principal feature of the present Convention.

In this connection the Board feels that the Institute should put itself on record as advocating a commission of experts, architects, landscape architects and sculptors recognized in those professions, and by the country at large, as of eminence in their several callings, to make or approve a plan for the future arrangement of such art features of the national capital. For this the time seems most fit, coinciding, as it does, with the hundredth anniversary of the Government's installation at Washington.

The Chapters of the Institute and numerous other art associations of the country having joined in a protest and recommendation in relation to the proposed additions to the President's House, the Directors ask that the Institute declare for the reference of this matter to the proposed Commission. And they further recommend that the final selection of a site for the Memorial Bridge and other contemplated structures in the National Capital be referred to this same Commission for study and combination in one artistic whole.

The report of the Educational Committee on change in the By-laws governing admission of Associates and fixing the date after which admission to this grade should be made dependent upon the possession of a college degree in architecture, or the result of an examination which might be prescribed by the Directors, was approved and the matter subsequently referred to a committee, as well as the question of election of Fellows for meritorious work for the art of architecture in design, literature or education.

Increased correspondence with foreign societies is reported, an enlarged exchange-list with societies and periodicals, a marked in crease in Associate membership, and a growing disposition on the part of architects of standing to become members.

The Institute has installed the publication of another periodical, and effected additions to its library and pictures. The zealous interest of members is besought to ensure a more rapid advancement for the future.

This résumé of the report of the Board of Directors indicates more clearly than would any attempt at a detailed report of the

proceedings and discussions, which last were short and few, the lines upon which the business of the Convention was despatched.

The Committee on President's Address, Mr. Warren, Chairman, reported favorably on all of its recommendations except that as to advertisements in the Bulletin, which is referred to the Board of Directors. The Bulletin is not intended to encroach upon the field of the technical journals, and is to deal with Association publications solely.

Progress was reported on the matter of coöperation, and the Committee continued. The changes proposed as to admissions were passed without the word "draughtsman." Elections to Fellowship, it was decided, shall be from the ranks of Associates and for notable work in the profession of architecture, either in practice, in the literature of the arts, or in a professorial capacity, and by vote in Convention, five ballots to prevent election. The Executive Committee will decide on admissions and regulate examinations for admission.

The Committee on Report of Board of Directors, Messrs. Day, Stone and Mundie, reported, among other matters, to the Convention a resolution to the effect that repugnance was felt by members to the anomaly of a member who had fallen under the censure of the Board of Directors remaining upon the list of the Institute as a Fellow in good standing. A vote was taken on this, with the result of thirty ayes against five, in a meeting of about fifty members.

Mr. Walter Cook's paper on "Progress in Design," read at the morning session of December 14, was of great interest and was listened to with marked attention by a full Convention. Buffalo was selected for the next Convention.

The President's remarks, in his opening address, on the question of censure by the Institute of acts of members which may be deemed unprofessional are of great weight in view of the subsequent action of the Convention on a case in point. His suggestion as to employment of legal counsel on both sides to argue such cases before the Judiciary Committee as a final court of appeal within the Institute is sound and practical, but it opens up, perhaps, a weary vista of possible litigious procedure. In this connection the Code for the conduct of Competitions, which was passed practically as presented, becomes of great interest to architects who are Institute men. Institute does not advocate Competitions, and this Code is intended to be advisory, not obligatory. This point was made clear in the form of its acceptance by the Convention.

The

The appointment of the two continuous Committees to confer with Congress was about the most generally important action of the Convention. These were : —

Messrs. Eames, Post, Gibson and Stone, on the matter of proposed addition to the White House, and

Messrs. Boring, Eames, Day, Post, Green, Hornblower and Glenn Brown, to recommend reference of all art matters to an Art Com

mission.

These Committees are continuous and have already actively entered upon their duties, in an effort which the country may surely hope is to lead to great and far-reaching results.

The officers for 1900 were reelected. The election of gentlemen to serve on the Board of Directors for the coming interval of three years resulted in the choice of J. M. Carrère, James W. McLaughlin, and R. Clipston Sturgis.

Some closing remarks by Mr. H. L. Warren expressed pleasure in the quality of papers read before the Convention, in the satisfactory character of arrangements, and in the delightful absence of excursions and junketing.

The important session of the evening of December 13th, held in the Lecture Hall of Columbian University, on the "Grouping of Government Buildings, Landscape and Statuary in Washington City" will, doubtless, bear fruit of great value to art and to the nation.

The introduction by Mr. Hornblower was a clear and concise statement of some vital points bearing upon this problem, and indication of the field in which the authors of the papers to follow must range. The text of these papers is printed elsewhere, and it is regrettable that they may not have the aid of the illustrations which added so greatly to their interest. The maps, projects, views, and details thrown upon the screen during the reading of papers seem, at least to us who saw them, almost an absolutely essential illumination of the text. And yet in the case of one paper of the following day, that on English Gardens," by Mr. Sturgis, well read, in the regrettable absence of the author because of illness, by Professor Warren, the paper seemed to suffice of itself without the reinforcement of the slides, which could not be found.

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With Mr. Walker's paper there was a good deal of extemporaneous interpolation which it is a pity to lose. One thing which he said in opening occurs to me, and it was in effect, that coming back from an absence of eighteen months among the cities of Europe, the conviction was unpleasantly forced upon him that both from the point-of-view of æsthetics and from that of utilitarianism, measurably, many, perhaps most, of our cities are yet to make.

Mr. Hornblower's paper, opening with a quotation from an old English traveller describing Pennsylvania Avenue in 1796 as practically a wood-road through the forest, with a couple of clearings where buildings were going up, went on to claim historical priority for the chief feature of Washington's plan, the radiating avenues. In relation to that plan, he suggested also that a slight rearrangement of chronology might have caused to appear upon it a great central railroad-station, with avenues radiating from it to shorten the lines

of travel. In the future determination of this problem, he deprecated the pushing back of such stations from the centre of population. He found recent plans for the improvement of the Mall in a sense fragmentary, and advocated further and more comprehensive study of conditions, and of the whole matter of parks and buildings, a study "not only with reference to architectural effect, nor as an exposition problem, but primarily with reference to the conduct of Government business."

In connection with this, he referred to the plan of Mr. James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, in reference to the site proposed for the Department of Justice, and alluded to a proposition, made some years ago by General Woodhull, to create a non-official board to determine sites for future buildings, as in the interests of prudence and economy.

Mr. Hornblower called attention to the advantages of grouping buildings as illustrated in some of our university towns of recent years.

He cited certain peculiar conditions existing in Washington, notably the fact that the streets of the city between building lines are the property of the Government, and instanced encroachments by private owners which have been unfortunately allowed to mar their intended beauty. He touched with some humor upon the unfortunate manner in which public statuary is allowed to invade parks and reservations, dwelling at some length upon the lack of consideration accorded in this matter to the question of scale with surroundings. He suggested the open spaces at the junction of Pennsylvania Avenue with intersecting streets as sites for sculpture, and the removal to these points of the important statues we now have. "The design of our early buildings was carefully considered," said the speaker, and he found a deterioration in later public work, and that we have enough examples of buildings which have evidently given opportunity to amateurs to carry out pet hobbies at the expense of the public."

In regard to provisions for the Judiciary, he asked for a building combining dignity of character, ample dimensions and a position with reference to the convenience of the bar and judges, a building entirely independent of the Department of Justice, whose function is executive.

Mr. Hornblower expressed the hope that foreign nations may incline to house their embassies here in buildings which will echo somewhat the art traditions of their several countries.

He closed by again urging upon members, in dealing with this question of the distribution of buildings and statuary, to bear in mind the factor of scale in a treatment which need not bar individuality but ensure consonance, pointing to the Capitol and President's House as fit to be accepted as the governing features of such design.

The other papers, read by their authors, will be left to speak for themselves, with the remark that they constitute a most important addition to the literature of the profession, and will - if printed as public documents for general distribution, as it is said they will be— effect a great enlightenment of the nation, upon the broad question of the making of its Capital City.

That these discussions will aid greatly in bringing about an intelligent treatment of the whole question by the Congress has been the patriotic desire which has induced the American Institute of Architects to make them the central feature of the Convention of 1900.

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PLAN AND ELEVATIONS: HOUSE FOR THE CLARK ESTATE, RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 89TH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. MR. ERNEST FLAGG, ARCHITECT, NEW YORK, N. Y.

DETAIL OF CONSERVATORY IN SAME HOUSE.

IRON GATE AND MARQUISE TO SAME HOUse.

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NEW PARLIAMENT HALL, BERN, SWITZERLAND. PROF. HANS AUER, ARCHITECT.

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AMERICAN CONTROL OF THE CARRARA QUARRIES. Representatives of Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont arrived at Leghorn recently, and are closing a deal through Gastaldi & Co., of Genoa, representing Alex Konta, by which Senator Proctor takes over the entire Carrara quarries, which, with his Vermont possession, will give the Senator practical control of a large proportion of the marble output of the world. The Carrara quarries heretofore have been controlled by a large number of small owners, who have been constantly warring with each other. The consolidation, it is believed, will result not only in largely increasing the output of these important quarries, but will largely reduce the cost of production. Negotiations have been in progress in London, but it is understood that Senator Proctor quickly took up the scheme, which is now being completed. The price is understood to approximate $10,000,000.- Boston Herald.

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ARE TAPESTRIES FIXTURES ? Art circles are now divided on the question of tapestry. The decision just given in the Queen's Bench by Mr. Justice Byrne has furnished food for controversy. The dispute was as to the ownership of ten pieces of French tapestry which at the death of the late Mme. de Falbe were in the mansion-house at Luton Hoo, whereof she had been tenant for life. Three of these pieces were in the hall and fixed loosely. The other seven were in the drawingand "formed an essential feature of the decoration of the room." The Judge held that the three which were loosely placed belonged to the estate of the late Mme. de Falbe, but that the seven in the drawingroom, "from their position and importance, and the essential part they played in the decoration of the room, had been in effect annexed to the mansion-house, and passed with it to those interested in the settled estate. "The Judge's decision," remarked one of the leading art connoisseurs in Bond Street to a Daily Mail representative," will make owners of tapestry wonder whether it is theirs or not. It is the usual practice to hang French tapestries in this way. How are they to be hung to preserve the owner's rights?" Mr. Ascher Wertheimer, the expert on works of art, took a different view. "Each case must be judged according to its circumstances," he said, "but I should say the ruling of the Judge was absolutely just and logical. He differentiates between the loosely hung pieces and the fixed. "Take the case of Belvoir Castle. One of the great rooms there is furnished with tapestries illustrating the adventures of Don Quixote. They are an essential part of the general scheme of the room. It would be puerile to assert that these could be looked upon as movable chattels. They are part of the house. "In the late Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's dining-room at Waddesdon the other mural arrangements were made to take in the tapestries. These, surely, could only be regarded as part of the whole scheme and not as movables." - London Daily Mail.

WINE VS. FIRE. - Destructive forest fires have been the result of the four or five years' drought with which California has been visited. One of these took place near Wright's, a small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near San Francisco. It sprang from a small fire kindled by a rancher who was burning bush, and owing to the high wind, spread rapidly and irresistibly in the forest up the west slopes of the Coast Range. In the pathway of the flames were the ranch and the Mare Vista winery of E. E. Meyer, one of the largest wine-making establishments and vineyards in Santa Clara County. These seemed doomed to destruction, as it was impossible to stay the course of the fire. Every possible expedient was tried in the way of cutting down trees and digging trenches. The flames towering a hundred feet into the air, kept speeding on, and leaped over every break till they were close on the winery. Under ordinary conditions it would have been impossible to save the building, but men were posted upon the roof, who poured water on every portion. Mr. Meyer, Jr., hung by ropes from a window, and held the hose himself, while a stream of water was kept constantly playing upon his body. Suddenly the water gave out, through the falling of some large trees upon the pipe which supplied the reservoir. This became clogged, and Mr. Meyer saw but one course open to him, which was to attach the hose to the great vats of Zinfandel wine stored in the cellar. The valuable wine was rained upon the flames, and wherever it struck it acted like some fire-extinguishing chemical. The flame was smothered at once, and smoke of a peculiar color arose on all sides. The pine trees round about the cellar were all ablaze, and were throwing the flames towards the building-setting it afire in several places. The wine proved a far better extinguisher than water. It was young - the fermentation being hardly complete; it contained about one per cent of sugar, and was still quite warm. Four thousand gallons of this wine, retailing at fifty cents a quart when bottled - $8,000 worth in all- - was thrown upon the buildings, which, with the valuable machinery, worth many thousand dollars, were saved. Two pumps were kept going, each of which threw a one-inch stream. - Fire and Water.

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662,262. METALLIC SHINGLE.-Charles A. Galvin, Modesto, Cal.

662,264. ELEVATOR SAFETY APPLIANCE.-James G. Gracey and Alfred Gfeller, St. Louis, Mo. 662,285. COMBINATION-LOCK. William E. H. Morse and Oliver H. Bemis, Algona, Ia. 662,300. OPEN-DOOR LOCK. Harry J. Perkins, Grand Rapids, Mich.

662,310. WOOD-IMPREGNATING COMPOUND AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME. -Julius Rütgers, Berlin, Ger.

662,376. FLOOR. Edward Goehst, Chicago, Ill. 662,333. RULER.-Thomas C. Bassett, Cedar Rapids, Ia.

662,395-397. CENTRIFUGAL FAN OR PUMP.-Sam'l C. Davidson, Belfast, Ireland. 662.408. METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FROM LIME AND SAND. - Ladislaus Galecki, Paul Lopatin and John Lopatin, Warsaw, Russia.

BRICKS

662,436. Posг-HOLDER. - John M. Hibbard, Hel. wig, Mo.

662,458. FLOOR.- Oskar Nagel, New York, N. Y. 662,473. VENTILATING AND HEATING APPARATUS. -Anders G. Sö terlund, Stockholm, Sweden, and Fredrik W. Lönnbeck, Ekenäs, Russia.

662,503. WATER-FAUCET. -Richard H. W. Schmidt, Kansas City, Mo.

662,565. PORTABLE STAGING.-Jinkins W. Jones, Woburn, Miss.

652,571. SASH-LOCK. -Samuel C. Martin, Bellville, N. J.

662,597. FLOOR, SIDEWALK, OR THE LIKE.-Peter H. Jackson, San Francisco, Cal.

662,631-635. FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION.-William White, Philadelphia, Pa.

662,674. HYDRAULIC BRICK-PRESS. Julius J. Koch, St. Louis, Mo.

662,681. CUPBOARD-LATCH. George W. Sigley, Havana, Ill.

DETROIT, MICH.

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DETROIT, MICH.

CINCINNATI, 304 Main St.

BALTIMORE, 22 E. Lombard St. ST. Louis, 112 S. Fourth St.

PHILADELPHIA, 26 and 28 N. Fourth St.
SAN FRANCISCO, 117 and 119 Market St.

BUILDING PATENTS.

662,684. MACHINE FOR FORMING COMPOSITE BLOCKS. John Brower, Oakland, Cal. 662,711. CATCH-BASIN OR FRESH-AIR INLET. William H. Dewar, New York, N. Y.

662,808. FIREPROOF FLOOR CONSTRUCTION.Michael J. O'Meara, Philadelphia, Pa. 662,828. PIPE-JOINT.-William Shuey, Wellsburg, W. Va.

662,871. FIREPROOF STRUCTURE. - David Kilpatrick, Los Angeles, Cal.

662,883. HOT-AIR FURNACE.-Anders G. Söderlund, Stockholm, Sweden, and Fredrik W. Lönnbeck, Ekenäs, Russia.

BUILDING INTELLIGENCE.

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ADVANCE RUMORS.

Adel, Ia.- Architects Proudfoot & Bird have completed plans for the proposed court-house for Dallas County. It will be a three-story brick and stone structure; cost, $80,000.

Ames, Ia. - The executive council will recommend that the main building of the agricultural college which was burned recently be replaced temporarily by a building to cost about $20,000. A costly large modern structure will eventually be erected. Appleton, Wis.-The trustees of Lawrence University contemplate erecting a gymnasium at a cost of $15,000.

Ashland, Wis.-Anton Dohman, of Milwaukee, has prepared plans for a church for St. Peter's Catholic congregation. It will be of stone, 48' x 130', with steam heat; cost, $12,000. Bloomington, Ill.- William R. White will build a three-story brick store, office and flat building, 22' x 75', at 615 N, Main St.; cost, $10,000. Brooklyn, N. Y. - Com. Kearny of the Dept. of Public Buildings, Lighting and Supplies recommends a $500,000 bond issue for a new appellate court-house to be erected probably at Joralemon and Court Sts., adjoining the Municipal Court Building.

Brownsville, Pa.-The Monongahela National Bank is having plans prepared for a brick and stone bank building. It will be two stories in height and its dimensions will be 24' x 60'; cost, $15,000. Cedar Rapids, Ia. - Architects Dieman & Fiske are preparing plans for a six-story hotel, 60' x 150', for Jeff Phillips, proprietor of the Pullman House. Charlotte, N. C.-The Chadwick Manufacturing Co. which was recently incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000 will erect a large cotton factory.

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(Advance Rumors Continued.) Chattanooga, Tenn.-The city has passed an order appropriating $5,000 annually for the maintenance of a free public library, which action will secure a donation of $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a library building.

Chicago, Ill.-William G. Krieg has prepared plans for a three-story and basement brick apartmenthouse to be erected at the terminal of the NorthWestern Elevated Road; cost, $28,000.

Architect Howard Shaw has drawn plans for a seven-story addition, 75' x 100', to be built to the seven-story building of R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co. in Plymouth Pl., near Polk St.; cost, $100.000. Chilton, Wis. - The Chilton Maltirg Co. will erect a malt-house to cost $100,000.

Cleveland, O. Architect Paul Matzinger has drawn plans for an apartment house to be erected on Clark Ave. for F. C. Goodman. It will be a two-story, 45 x 215' brick structure containing 12 suites; cost, $19,000.

E. J. Schneider has prepared plans for the police station and patrol barn to be built on Pearl St.; cost, about $20,000.

Columbus, O.-Architect J. A. Jones is preparing plans for a two-story apartment-house, 45' x 225', to be erected on N. High St. for William Turpie; cost, $12,000.

M. V. Mitchell will erect a two-story brick store and apartment building, 25' x 80', on S. High St., after plans by Architect D. Riebel.

Council Bluffs, Ia.-The Warehouse Construction Co. contemplate the erection of a four-story warehouse, 90' 120', to be erected at S. Main St. and Severance Ave. The structure will be used as a transfer house by the Emokie-Shugart Co. Des Moines, Ia.-Smith & Gutterson, of this city, have been selected architects for the three new buildings to be erected at Mason City for the Sons of Veterans' military academy.

Detroit, Mich.- Kastler & Hunter have prepared plans for a $10,000 brick and stone double residence for Harcus & Lang to be built on Palmer Ave. Geo. Mason has prepared plans for a fine summer residence for David Carter, of this city. Mortimer L. Smith & Son have prepared plans for a $12,000 residence for Dr. Edwin Lodge.

St. Ann's French Roman Catholic Church will be Improved internally and decorated at a cost of $15,000.

Louis Kamper has completed plans for a fiffe residence for Col. F. J. Hecker.

Dubuque, Ia.- The Sisters of Mt. St. Joseph's will erect a $50,000 annex to their present structure on W. Locust St.

East St. Louis, Ill.-R. A. Richeson will build a two-story brick store and office building, 50' x 100', at 231-233 Collinsville St., after plans by Architects L. Pfeiffenberger & Son; cost, $12,000. Ellicott City, Md.-The Maryland Hotel Sani

tarium Co. will build a sanitarium here. It will be a four-story stone and frame structure, 40′ x 80', with a wing, 40' x 60'; cost, $50,000.

BUILDING INTELLIGENCE.

(Advance Rumors Continued.) Evanston, Ill.-Mrs. Wm. S. Scott will erect a flat building, 41' x 75', with six apartments at Orrington Ave. and Clark St., after plans by Architect Myron Hunt; cost, $18,000,

Everett, Wash.-Chas. Bebb, architect, of Seattle, will drawn plans for a theatre for the Everett Improvement Co.; cost, $50,000. Faribault, Minn. - The State Board recommenda the appropriation of $180,000 for the erection of a new building at the feeble-minded school. Fitchburg, Mass.-The Sisters of Faithful Companions have had plans prepared for a convent to cost $75,900.

Hull, Mass.-A committee of the Catholic citizens has purchased the Nash estate at Stony Beach and it is proposed soon to erect a church on the property.

Indianapolis, Ind. - Vonnegut & Bohn have finished plans for a brick business building to be erected opposite the State-house for R. Kirschbaum; cost, $45,000.

C. A. Schroder will erect a business building at Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts., after plans drawn by Architect D. A. Bohlen & Sons. It will be a sixstory and basement, 65' x 108, rough stone and gray brick building; cost, $60,000.

Ithaca, N. Y.-The Board of Trustees of Cornell University have awarded Driscoll Bros. the contract for building the new medical college on Cornell campus. The building will cost $125,000, and will be the prettiest on the campus. It will nearly complete the large quadrangle of university buildings.

Lemars, Ia.-The plans of Kinney & Detweiler, architects, Austin, Minn., have been adopted for the Plymouth County court-house. It will be twostory and basement, and will cost $75,000. Lincoln, Neb.-The regents of the State university contemplate erecting a building for the department of physics, to cost $50,000.

Marion, Ind.-B. L. French is preparing plans for a three-story brick, stone and terra-cotta lodge building to be erected for the Lodge of Odd Fellows; cost, $30,000.

Milford, Mass.- At a special town meeting held recently $15,000 was appropriated to complete the town-hall building.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Architect O. C. Uehling has prepared plans for a brick machine shop, 50' x 150', to be erected for the William Bayley & Sons Co. on Greenbush St.; cost, $30,000.

Minneapolis, Minn.-L. A. Lamoreaux, architect, is preparing plans for rebuilding the building on the southeast corner of 7th and Nicollet Aves. The interior will be rearranged for a department-store. The entire front and side walls will be of buff cream brick. It is 55' x 110', and will be made five stories; cost, $25,000.

Muscatine, Ia. - The Masonic lodge contemplate erecting a masonic temple, 60 x 140', and six stories in height. The fifth and sixth floors will be used for lodge purposes and the stories beneath will be devoted to mercantile uses; cost, about $60,000. Newport, R. I. - Mrs. John Nicholas Brown will erect a new building to the memory of her late husband, for the Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Pawtucket, R. I.-Architects Sanders & Thornton have prepared plans for a handsome new church to be built on the present site of St. Paul's Church. It will be a stone structure built in architectural style of fifteenth century English Gothic. Richmond, Va.-Geo. Arents, of New York City, is to build a large theatre, modern in every detail, near the Jefferson Hotel.

San Francisco, Cal.-Architect Bernard's revised plans for the projected University of California buildings have been accepted by the regents. They contemplate an expenditure of about $10,000,000. Seattle, Wash.-Architects Thompson & Thompson have prepared plans for a three-story brick flat and store building, 60 x 111', to be erected at 1st and Virginia Sts.; cost, $20,000.

Sleepy Eye, Minn.-A. F. Gauger, architect, St. Paul, is preparing plans for a store to be erected here for M. M. Radl. It will be 25' x 50', two stories and basement pressed and ornamental brick and cut stone; cost, $8,000.

Spokane, Wash. - The Academy of Holy Names is completing arrangements for the erection of an $80,000 addition to the academy.

St. Paul, Minn. - Architect E. J. Donohue is preparing plans for a parochial residence to be erected for Rev. Fr. O'Neil, pastor of St. Michael's Church. It will be a two-story, 38 x 42, brick structure, with cut-stone trimmings; cost, $6,500. Waterloo, Ia. - Kinney & Detweiler, architects, of Austin, Minn., furnished successful plans for the court-house and jail; cost, $110,000. Ypsilante, Mich.-E. C. Van Leyen, of Detroit, is preparing plans for a twelve-room school-house for the Board of Education.

ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. Athol, Mass. — Alterations to 2-st'y fr. dwell., 24' 41, steam heat; $6,000; o., L. S. Starrett; a., H. M. Francis, Fitchburg.

Jersey City, N. J.-Henderson and York Sts., alteration to bk. lodge-rooms; $10,000; o., United Elks; a., R. W. Sailer.

Millbrook, N. Y.-Alteration to 2-st'y fr. dwell.; $15,000; o., Mrs. Miles Standish, 289 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City; a., Little & O'Connor, 18 W. 34th St. New York, N. Y.-Sixth Ave., Eighteenth and Nine

BUILDING INTELLIGENCE.

(Alterations and Additions Continued.) teenth Sts., Siegel-Cooper building, gallery extended; $5,000; o., Siegel-Cooper Co.; a., De Lemos & Cordes, Fulton Building, Fulton & Nassau Sts.; b., Snare & Triest, 39 Cortlandt St.

Philadelphia, Pa.- Race St., Nos. 1026-28, third & fourth story addition to factory, 28 x 164'; $7,600; o., H. E. & D. G. Yarnall; b., Joseph Bird.

Fourth St., nr. Lehigh Ave., remodel one-st'y building into five-st'y factory, 43′ x 206'; $40,000; o., Joseph H. Bromley; b., William Steele & Sons. Torresdale, Pa. - Grant Ave. and Bristol Pike, interior alterations & two-st'y fr. addition, 17' x 40'; $10,000; o., Mrs. Middleton; b., William F. Ingram; a., Joseph M. Huston.

APARTMENT-HOUSES.

Cambridge, Mass.-Inman St., No. 28, three-st'y fr. aparts., 52 x 72, hot water heat; $15,000; o. & b., Geo. Chaplin; a., C. H. Bartlett. Chicago, Ill. - Lake Ave., Nos. 4167-73, three-st'y bk. apart., 86 x 135; $60,000; o., B. F. George; 8., L. M. Mitchell; b., Leafgreen Bros., Chamber of Commerce Building.

Sheridan Drive, Nos. 1680-82, and Windsor Ave., Nos. 1407-9, 2 three-st'y bk. aparts., 54' x 62 & 49' x 55'; $35,000; o., E. & B. A. Waller; a., Huehl & Schmid; b., A. J. Koch & Co., 2088 Lexington Ave. Rokeby St., No. 1157, and Dakin St., No. 1455, three-st'y bk. apart., 50 x 111'; $20,000; o., J. B. Waller; a., Huehl & Schmid; b., H. D. Moreland, Reaper Block.

Drexel Boulevard, Nos. 4640-42, four-st'y bk. apart., 44' x 109'; $40,000; o., Charles E. Bartley; a., A. Foster; b., J. W. Snyder, 3818 Langley Ave. New York, N. Y.-E. One Hundred and Twentyfourth St., nr. Broadway, 2 seven-st'y bk. & st. flats, 52 x 90'; $10,000; o. & a., Jno. Caggiano, 508 W. 147th St.

E. Third St., Nos. 50-52, six-st'y & base. bk. flat, 37 6" 85' 1"; $40,000; o.. Nieberg Bros., 133 Crosby St.; a., M. Bernstein, 245 Broadway.

Westchester Ave., cor. Bergen Ave., five-st'y bk. flat, 94 x 107 x irregular; $65,000; o., Thomas D. Malcom, Melrose Ave. & 153d St.; a., Harry C. Howell, 138th St. & Brook Ave.

Yonkers, N. Y.-Nepperham Ave., Nos. 211-213, fourst'y bk. flat, 50 x 64'; $20,000; o., Oliver Scott; a., Wm. F. Schuyler.

EDUCATIONAL.

Chicago, Ill.-W. Harrison St., Nos. 221-229, threest'y bk. school, 74' x 106'; $50,000; o., Board of Education; a., W. B. Mundie; b., August Krevis, 92 Evergreen St.

Normal Ave., Nos. 8019-29, two-st'y bk. school, 82/ x 181'; $90,000; o., Board of Education; a., W. B. Mundie; b., Alfred Anderson, 6945 Union Ave.

Union Ave., Nos. 10045-59, three-st'y bk. school, 81 105'; $45,000; o., Board of Education; a., W. B. Mundie; b., John F. Muldoon, 4419 Vincennes Ave.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-4st'y bk. & st. college building, 44' x 226'; $100,000; o., Vassar College; b., Dodge & Devanney, Pittsfield, Mass.; a., Allen & Vance, Boston, Mass.

FACTORIES.

New York, N. Y.-Eighty-second St., nr. Avenue B, three st'y bk. factory & store, 81' 6" x 119' 7'' & 130' 5'; $100,000; o., Yorkville Independent Hygeia Ice Co., 981 Madison Ave.; a., Louis Brown, 41 Union Sq.

Philadelphia, Pa. - Erie Ave., No. 607, one-st'y bk. ice machine house, 20 x 43'; $6,800; o., Albert Wolf; b., John Kramer's Sons.

Summerdale Station, P. & R. R. R., two-st'y bk. & yellow-pine finishing factory, 42' x 370'; $35,200; 0., Wolff Process Leather Co.; a., Stearns & Castor.

HOTELS.

New York, N. Y.-Broadway, Nos. 1266-1268, sixteenst'y & base. bk. & st. hotel, 32' x 75' & 85'; $250,000; o., Mary L. George, 843 Garden St., Hoboken; a., H. J. Hardenburgh, 10 W. 23d St.

HOUSES.

Boston, Mass. Williams St., Nos. 59-63, 3 bk. dwells., 19 x 23 x 55, stoves; $18,000; o., Sarah Silberstein; b., M. & B. Silberstein; a., F. A. Norcross.

Kempton St., Nos. 21-31, 6 bk. dwells., 21' x 47', flat roofs, stoves; $40,000; o., a. & b., B. J. Connelly. Sutherland Road, nr. Chestnut Hill Ave., bk. dwell., 40' x 40', flat roof, hot water; $12,000; o., a. & b., W. H. Andrews.

Bower St., nr. Humbolt Ave., 2 bk. dwells., 22' x 50', flat roofs, stoves; $14,000; o., John McWeeney; b., M. J. Gilmore; a., T. L. Connelly.

Waumbeck St., cor. Harold St., 24-st'y fr. dwell., 30 x 36', pitch roof, furnace; $5,000; o., T. H. Shea; a., S. Rantin & Son.

Strathmore St., No. 114, 2-st'y fr. dwell., 28' x 36' x 40', pitch roof, furnace; $9,000; o., a. & b., Edw. L. Rogers.

Erie St., cor. Elmo St., 4 bk. dwells., 20' x 43; flat roofs, stoves; $25,000; o. & b., Geo. M. Fernald, a., E. R. Fernald.

St. Alphonsus St., nr. Allegheny St., fr. dwell., 27' x 57, pitch roof, furnace; $5,500; o., Catherine Nyland; a., S. Rantin & Son.

Newcastle Road, nr. Faneuil St., 24-st'y fr. dwell., 26 x 29' x 40', pitch roof, furnace; $6,000; o., Brooks Walker; b., P. R. Park; a., G. E. Parsons.

Wenham St., nr. Walk Hill St., 2-st'y fr. dwell., 23′ x 40 x 55', pitch roof, furnace; $5,500; o., M. A. Haley; b., J. A. Haley; a., E. R. Chapman.

Kinross Road, No. 17, 24-st'y fr. dwell., 24' x 41', pitch roof, furnace; $8,000; o., a. & b., Edward L. Rogers.

Dorchester Ave, and Mayfield St., 2 fr, dwells.,

31' x 54', flat roof, hot water; $16,000; o., T. Casey; b., E. R. McLane; a., W. H. Smith.

Alpha Road, No. 9, 24-st'y fr. dwell.. 28 x 36', pitch roof, furnace; $5,000; o. & b., J. M. E. Morrill; a., Geo. L. Cook.

Falcon St., Nos. 61-65, 3 fr. dwells., 23' x 51', flat roofs, hot water; $15,000; o., a. & b., J. Q. A. Hanson and A. N. Rogers.

Chase St., Ward 20, 2-st'y fr. dwell., 25' x 45', pitch roof, furnace; $5,500; o., Charlotte Powell; a., F. G. Powell.

Gold St., nr. B St., 2 fr. dwells., 25' x 45', stoves; $9,000; o., a. & b., Daly Bros.

Francis St., nr. Huntington Ave., 3 fr. dwells., 26' x 60', pitch roofs, furnaces; $20,000; o., a. & b., J. C. Spillane.

Center St., nr. Day St., fr. dwell., 25 x 50', flat roof, furnace; $4,500; o., John Caskil; a., S. Rantin & Son.

Armandine St., nr. Milton Ave., fr. dwell., 27' x 55', flat roof, furnace; $5,000; o., Mary Dowe; b., David Dowe; a., D. Campbell.

Brockton, Mass.- Samuel Ave., two-st'y dwell., 40 52, furnace; $5,000; o., Fred R. French; b., C. H. Cross; a., T. M. Clark, Boston. Brooklyn, N., Y.-E. Fourteenth St., nr. Beverly Road, two-st'y & attic fr. dwell., 31' 6" x 50', shingle roof, steam; $9,000; o., Dean Alvord; a., J. J. Petit. Ditmas Ave., cor. E. 18th St., two-st'y & attic fr. dwell., 28 x 48', shingle roof, steam; $8,000; o., G. W. Egbert, 126 E. 19th St.; a., J. Martin, 48 Coney Island Ave.

Prospect Pl., nr. Kingston Ave., 10 three-st'y bk. dwells., 20 x 48', gravel roofs; $55,000; o., Eli H. Bishop, 647 Putnam Ave.; a., A. S. Hedman, 371 Fulton St.

Beverly Road, cor. E. 14th St., two-st'y & attic fr. dwell., 37' 3" x 45', shingle roof, steam; $9,000; o., Dean Alvord, Albemarle Road & E. 15th St.; a., a., J. J. Petit, 186 Remsen St.

Church Ave., cor. E. 15th St., two-st'y & attic fr. dwell., 24' x 34', shingle roof; $7,000; o., Dean Alvord, Albemarle & Marlborough Roads; a., J. J. Petit, 186 Remsen St.

Chicago, Ill. Drexel Ave., Nos. 5639-47, 5 two-st'y bk. dwells., 17' x 60'; $25.000; o., P. F. Byrne; a., P. Hale; b., G. Tiemann, 825 W. 65th St. Germantown, Pa.- Leeman St., nr. Wissahickon St.. 2-st'y st. dwell., 31' x 40': $10,000; b., William F. Ingham; a., Joseph M. Huston.

Mt. Vernon, N. Y.- Prospect and Claremont Aves., two 2--st'y fr. dwells., 33' x 50'; $20,000; o., George Hayes, 71 Eighth Ave., New York City; a., Frank Marion Wright, 503 Fifth Ave.

Newton, Mass.- Hunnewell Ave., two-st'y dwell., 32 x 32', furnace; $6,000; o., W. O. Evans; b., E. N. Hutchins; a., Gay & Proctor.

Arlington St., two-st'y dwell., 36' x 41', furnace; $6,000; o., L. S. Hanson; b., Charles S. Hanson. Rutherford, N. J.-Ridge Road, 2-st'y fr. dwell.; $5,000; o., Jos. S. Jantzen; a., Hubert Drosser, 93 Nassau St.

Somerville, Mass.- Benton Road and Gibbens St., two-st'y dwell., 28 x 50', pitch roof, furnace; $5,200; o., a. & b., Belding Bros. Waterwitch Park, N. J.-Highlands of the Navesink, 2-st'y fr. dwell.; $5,000; o., Mrs. C. Poillon; a., Charles Rich, 35 Nassau St.

Yonkers, N. Y.-E. Seventeenth St., bet. Beverly