Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-06-22
An Explosion From stamm.


Editor Morning Journal.
We had supposed that the idea of
creating a public sentiment in favor
of the architecture 60 or our Pueblo
Indians as applied to our university
buildings had been abandoned, and
that the board Of regents would now
proceed to erect the future buildings
in style that would not cause euss
word to involuntarily escape from the
lips of the average Albuquerquean
every time he went upon the hill and
gazed upon that idiotic attempt to
construct our university buildings so
that the stranger within our gates
would surely "sit up and take notice, -
and if he happened to be news
paper man go home ana write col
umns about primeval New Mexico and
her style of architecture. 1t seems,
however, that this committee on sem
timent Is still Mt work as Is evidenced
by the article from Artist Imhoff in
your issue of the 2lst He says you
cannot please everyone That Is
truism familiar TO all, but he seems
to be ignorant of the fact that 80
per cent OF the people of this city
and territory were thoroughly dis
gusted and mystified when they saw
how the territorial money had been
spent upon the present construction.
He also says get your ideas from
the highest possible architectural
and artistic authority Well now,
wouldn't that XIII you dead 2" why
hadn't we thought of that before?
Here is an asset that we must inn
mediately take advantage of by ex-
tensively advertising that in our
Pueblo style of architecture, we
have something that as far eclipscs
all the magnificent architectural af-
fects of the orient and the occident
as the sun outshines Halley's comet
| have sudden inspiration Mr.. Ed
itor. How would this do? I'll get
up n new form of deed for the Ter
race addition and put clause in that
all future buildings must conform, in
general, to the one that DIR. right
built opposite the university. PER-
haps IL would be well to allow few
structures to be built with the long
low lines" he suggests, and which in
our artistic ignorance we have here
tofore called 4 row Of dobies' Let
us send at once Q strong intluentlhl
delegation to Washington and sur
prise congress with request for an
other appropriation to remodel the
building so as to conform
city of Isleta and which Will
not be grossly inappropriate" -ridic-
ulous and BIZARRE" as our present
building win surely be.
Come to think of It, there is some
thing in our remarkable landscape
effects here" that makes structure
like our court house very much out
of place. How much more artistic
il our court house was built out Of
tcronies. one story, with the long
low effects
No, Mr., lmhoff you are off on the
wrong foot They are not saving the
primitive wilderness of the northwest
SO that the globe trotters and hunters
can have place to GO to for picnics
and to hunt grizzly bears, and we oi
New Mexico are not particularly ca
tering in our architecture and meth
ods to the seekers after gee strings
and novelties but think we have "A
country that viii stand the test of in
tense modern development and see
nothing in our glorious landscape ef-
fects that precludes the advisability
OF building beautiful. modern private
and public buildings. Advertising
ones town and country is all right
but there Is wide difference be-
tween legitimate publicity and no.
toriety, and New Mexico does neither
seek nor need the Sunday supplement
methods to make herself known,
NJ. =. STAMM.