Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-02

received from each firm and all plans that
are not in absolute conformation with the
rules of the competition will be summarily
rejected. The cost of the whole group OF
buildings is to be about 81, 135, 900.
The plans received will be considered by
a board of award which includes Mr..
Charles F. McKim, member of the park
commission; Mr. Bernard r. Green. super
intendent of the Congressional Library and
Prof. Percy Ash of the George Washington
University. The board was established
Jointly by the George Washington Memorial
Society and the George Washington Uni
versty. The architects invited to compete
are Hornblower & Marshall of this city,
Delano & Aldrich. Hale & Morse. George b.
Post and William A. Boring. all of New
York, and Parker & Thomas of Boston and
Baltimore.
Explanation Of Designs.
The new university buildings are to be
erected on the old Van Ness property, 18th
and c streets northwest, which has been
purchased by the university for this pur-
pose. The architects who have been in
vited to submit designs have been inform
ed that In making their plans they must
consider that the group of buildings which
Is to be erected from their present drawings
must be so planned as to admit future ad-
ditlons to the institution, and the new
buildings must be arranged to admit addi-
tons without spelling the uniformity or
artistic arrangement of the group.
The architects are left free to use their
own judgment as to the arrangement and
grouping of the buildings. They are at lib
erty to plan for separate buildings or semi
detached structures. and the frontages,
campus arrangements, ETC., are left entire
ly to their discretion.
There will be thirteen buildings in the
group for which plans must be sub
mitted. These include a memorial hall.
to be used the administration build
ing. to cost 100000; an alumni hall. to
M. hall fay. 1nrrv r,nly los n
diplomacy. to cost $15O,0OO; hall for class
rooms and professors offices. to be known
as Corcoran Hall, to cost $125, 900; hall
for the school of architecture. to cost
$50 600, and eight dormitory buildings, to
be separate or in block, to cost $150,000.
The figures given herewith representing
the cost of the buildings desired are mere
ly approximate. All of the buildings are to
be of fireproof construction and the esti-
mates of the cost are to include everything
necessary to render them fit for occupancy,
mural paintings and furniture alone ex-
cepted. Each architect is furnished with a
plat of the site for the buildings and a plat
showing the plans of the park commission
for the Identification of the city, which are
to be considered in the general scheme and
arrangement of the university group. The
board of award, in preparing the program
for the competition. reached the conclusion
that the needs Of the university VIII be
best served by group of three-story build
ings, the dormitories only to be four stories
| Edcn pullQiES VIII nave a Soo"ceiociaSii@s
Regarded as Most Important.
The most important structure of the
group is to be the memorial hall or admin
istration building. In this building the
architects will plan a hall for the reception
of the George Washington memorial, and 1t
is on this portion of the group that they
are to be allowed the greatest freedom In
the matter of arrangement and construc-
t~,I~f Iaxaf a
form of tablets or sculpture The area OF
the hall and the disposition of the memorial
are to be left entirely to the Judgment or
the competitor. with the exception that the
hall must be on the main moor OF the
building
On this first floor also will be a large
amphitheater for lectures, concerts and In
ternational boards of arbitration. 1t is de-
sired that this hall shall have a seating ca
pacitv for not less than 1,5GO people In the
auditorium and the gallery on the second
floor, and that the stage shall be large
enough to seat comfortably $50 people. In
addition TO these large halls the first floor
of the administration building Will also con-
tain offices for the trustees, the president
and secretary Of the university. and room
to be used as meeting place for the uni
yersity council
The offices of the president and secretary
are to have vaults and toilet rooms con-
nected with them, and there are also to be
three smaller rooms on this floor. two of
which are to be provided with private toilet
rooms. The offices of the registrar and
treasurer of the institution and accommo-
dations for the Office forces of these two
officials are to be provided in the basement
of the administration building. There will
also be a lecture room and several smaller
Office rooms in this building.
The Alumni Building.
Next in Importance to the memorial hall
is the alumni building In the basement OF
this structure provision is to be made for
reading room, with an area OF 1900 square
feet. or three smaller reading rooms, with
the combined area of 1000 square feet. A
room O.. the same area in the basement Will
be set aside for billiards, and here also Will
be the trophy room, two committee rooms
and an Office and cloak room. dining
room, with an area of 5000 square feet will
be the principal room on the main moor OF
the alumni building.
The program for the competition states
that if desired this arrangement may be SO
modified as to give a large dining hall, ex-
tending through two stories, with an area
of 5000 square feet. and a smaller dining
room communicating with It, with an area
of 1900 square feet. Three reading rooms
or parlors and appropriate serving rooms
and pantries. the latter provided with con-
yenient service stairs to the Kitchen and
kitchen pantries, are provided for the main
floor also. On the second floor will be To-
Gated chambers for the students. The COM
petitors are requested to provide for as
many chambers as possible on this floor,
each to have an area Of 300 square feet.
The kitchens, etc, are to be placed in the
endorsement.
Law, Politics and Diplomacy.
A library and two lecture rooms will be
provided for the main floor OF the hall of
law. politics and diplomacy. The library is
to have an area of 1900 square feet. and is
TO extend through two stories. The lecture
rooms are to have an area of 1900 square
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