New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-18
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE.

THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE.
Lying Just beneath tie surface Of the Arcn'
tectural Leagues exhibition az the Fine Arts BUM
ing there is one sign Of the times when y pe''
haps more suggestive and more important thah a.!
other We refer TO the indication or rad''a
change IN the taste Of contemporary arcnects Sa'
Of their patrons. as regards architecture" s"~
Merely TO count the number OF designs oaseu y,
yiouslv on the teaching and influence Of the Eeo'
des Beaux-Arts is 20 be impressed with tne =.
creasing weight Of French Academic IDEAS amoa'
our architects but the matter becomes sun m'''
interesting when. we have hinied aoo'e s-
looks beneath the surface. when one considers '-'
exhibition IN the light ~ some Of us predecessor
Architecturally. the United States has N 'ne "a.
twenty-five years. passed Through one pnas0
taste after another. each phase being ciearF ,"'
oven violently differentiated from the one JUS "
hind f. The heavy Romanesque style WHICH s e.,
free NAV TO the genius Of Richardson was c U.".
waited nv scores Of devoted followers. untA Wv
ideas Of the Italian Renaissance were adSp'e.
American conditions with consummate arr " ~
Kim Mead & White. 70 be adapted IN 'He" ~,
by other architects with art far less cons ui 80.
In the designing OF country houses the syIe - -,
early Colonial dwellings has been revived a, -.
time and Ar others the old French manor-hoOs'
have been our examples or We nave 'ih
hullders Of Tudor days. Within the last ie" 80.
have been achieving some very interesting -
through the application OF ideas promuiga'eu -" =.
Though It is stll We believe. an open q'es 18th
N whether such IDEAS aye IN harmony or ho' ~,
the genius OF this country. Il is undeniaoe ,
the late Richard " Hunt put them TO noO.e IA
and that several CT the younger men, 'a'e 80
Hastings Howard and Cauldwell. Ernest :, N.
have also designed buildings so fine as 10 p ,.,o
question of the American genius temper az" -s,ssd
the background. These men have almost 30, me
us that this question does not matter To.U,s
present exhibition OF the Archtectur" 49,
gives us pause. , q, the
Like a devastating bosom. the influence o,s
Eeole des Beaux-Arts appears 10 have s"NF .s,s.
the land The student who jots down IN NE - a,
logue the numbers ~ those designs whlch 10
that influence will presently tire or tn7 o. marc
sneak from sad experience. II 70 were ~ ,h,uss
physical fatigue Of recording numerous s o Q,
we would rejoice But Il Is a meh'"' "a the
Classifying the diyagations Of medoo'"' -, the
hitter end These norid facades al ia'' a, con-
snertator TO flight and his eye mas 'epO a.. NJ
temptation OF the simple little poss, Gov.
James X Taylor has been deslghihe ~. .hsrning
eminent or OF Mr.. II. Marsha" ming in
house FOR Mr. Kuhnhardt-a ouliuNs - Of ire
IT'S chaste lines ard restul surfaces :, Colonial
minor Italian vlas-or such specimens ,,,,,csl Sc
asontation as the Building for me -, ran-
cietv OF Kings County by Messts' "S -,ansoa
ford and Mr. GeorEe Froemans suou' :, rrench
for Mr. ToNhall Ke'ne. In the "e'e md deco
roofs and windows OF French doo'"I sss,sss which
rations we turn 10 the Storage wac, o. the vein
Messrs Covell and Smith have des'e" .ome dap
OF the crenellated Gothic OF itais' aessrtS
eerouslv near 70 admiring It beyond "'