Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15
WILL COST MILLIONS
Building for New York Depart
ment of Education.
MANY DESIGNS SUBMITTED
Unoccupied Farms Throughout the
State.
GREAT DEMAND FOR LABORERs
Work Among the Immigrants at
Them Where Needed.
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald

Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
ALBANY, December L. 1907
The state of New York is to have a
beautiful new building at Albany for the
department of education, the regents OF the
university, the museum and laboratories of
natural history. and the state library, and
it will also contain an assembly hall for
conventions and similar gatherings. The
site is nearly opposite the capitol, long
narrow block on Washington avenue, go
by $40 feet in size, between that building
and All Saints Cathedral. The legisla-
ture has authorized an expenditure of
100000. The site cost 100000, which
leaves S3,6OO,OO0 for the building. The
design and plans were secured by compe-
tition Messrs. Palmer and Hornbostel of
New York are the architects and promise
to erect one of the most stately and beau
tiful buildings in the world.
The board of awards, which consists of
the governor, Gen. Andrew S. Draper
commissioner of education. who was for
merly president of the University of I'LL
nois, and other state officials, met in Au-
gust, 1906 and called for bids. All Amer
lean architects were invited to compete
and sixty-three designs were submitted
From these ten were selected as being
the most appropriate. They were sub
Buffalo and New York city, who were
asked to revise their plans and submit
specifications. Each of the ten received
an honorarium of $1,000. The first choice.
of course was accepted. The second
choice received an honorarium of $1,000
and the third $1,000. The competition was
in every way satisfactory and successful.
and the architects are now making a final
revision under the supervision of a board
consisting of the governor, the speaker of
the house. the commissioner of education,
DR.. Vanderveer regent of the university,
and the architect of the state.
New Building Described.
The main facade, So feet long, fronting
Washington avenue, directly opposite the
capitol, will be a colonnade of twenty
eight Corinthian columns, each column be-
ing sixty-fve feet high and six and a half
feet in diameter slightly larger than the
columns of the Madeleine in Paris The
wall of the building is sixteen feet behind
the front fate of the columns The en-
trance Is accented by huge staircase and
sculptured groups. The whole exterior is
to be built OF white Dover marble. The
width of the building is 80 feet, so that
1t will practically cover the entire block.
= The first fiopr will be devoted to offices
!, of the ADMINISTRATION and committee
l<Eooms, the s9cond> and third floors to the
Nstate library and the fourth floor to the
SSkste museym. On the first floor will be
kCated a spacious chamber for the board
OF regents of the university, elauorately
finished injmahogany. 1t will be of most
-df3nifed and stately character. and at the
-epposite lend or the building Will be an
audience hall running through two stories.
which Will seat 1000 people.
The Ehief point of interest on the second
fooIAnd O. the entire building is the CEN
ok hall, which will serve as a historical
museum for valuable manuscripts and
relics nov in possession of the state.
These include the records of the court
martial Of Maj Andre, several letters