The Washington times., 1907-06-16
ARCHITECTS MEET
IN COMPETITIONS,
FOR GOVERNMENT
Submit Plans For
100000 Home For
American Republics.
Eight Named by Board
to Receive Bonus of
$1,000 Each.

The competition Of American archi-
tects for the acceptance OF designs for
the new million dollar home Of the In
ternationai Bureau of American Re
publics, to be erected in Van Ness Park.
In Washington, and for the award Of
prizes amounting to 5000. which closed
promptly ar ? o'clock yesterday after
noon, was probably the biggest compe-
tition OF architects ever held in this
country.
Aside from the eight architects select
ed by the government board OF the
Bureau of Republics, of which Secretary
Root is president ex oficio. each TO re-
ceiVe a bonus of $1,000 there were ISJ
other architects throughout the country
who registered in the open competition.
Plans were submitted by each OF the
eight architects nominated. and there
were sixty other sets of designs re-
ceived from the architects at large The
following architects We're elected by the
competing architects to act with -Secre-
tary Root and Director Barrett as
Judges Of the design, all being members
Of New York firms: Charles McKim, Of
McKim, Meade & White, OF which firm
Stanford White was a member and
Henry Hornbostel, of Palmer & Horn
hostel; Austin w. Lord. of Lord *
Hewlett.
Contest Formally Closed.
Only the mere formality Of closing the
contest was gone through with yester-
day. The designs are numbered 10
correspond with the architects number.
and the designers name is carefully
held secret from the judges. It will not
be known who submitted plans till after
the award has been made. The design
judged most suitable for the building
will be decided the winner and the archi-
tect win receive s., 900, If he entered the
open competition.
II the winner is one of the eight who
were specially invited. he will receive
only the bonus Of $1,000, which each OF
the other seven viii receive The archi-
tects Of the two designs adjUdged next
best, viii receive awards OF $1,000 and
$1,000, respectively, but the bureau will
have right only to the winning design.
The designs VIII be seen only by the
I'VE Judges. special room has been
set aside in the CorcOran Art Gallery
Tor their display, and the meetings Of
the board, which viii continue Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, 1t Is hoped
- that the award can be made by June
-, and that the actual construction Of
the building can be put under way by
July l.
Two Washington Firms
The eight firms Of architects who were
invited to submit plans for the bonus
OF $1,000 each. including two Washing
ton firms. were:
Carrere & Hastings. % East Forty
first street. New York.
Eames & Young, Lincoln Trust build
ing, ST. louis.
Cass Gilbert. II East Twcnty-fourth
street. New York.
HornblOwer & Marshall 1916 II street.
Washington.
Thomas r. KimbalI, McCague build
ing Omaha
Peabody & stearns. 50 State street,
Boston
Whitfield & King. 100 Fifth avenue.
New York
Wood. Dom & Deming, sos Seven
teenth street, Washington
The Washington architects who regis
tered in the open competition. all of
whom are believed 10 have submitted
plans. were:
Appleton p. Clark, jr., COS F street
northwest: Richard G. Deacon, 1893
Twenty-secOnd street northwest: Fred
erick Fletcher, Small building: Thomas
west. Arthur W. Hall POI Second street
northeast; 3. Stanley Simmons. g31 F
street northwest; George Oakley TOtten.
sos Seventeenth street northwest; Vogt
a Morrill,, Corcoran building; James II.
Warner 600 Thirteenth street northwest;
Wagner & Williams, 1880 F street north
west