Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-27
Improve PennsylvaNa Avenue.

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 To visitors who come to Washing ton on their next summers vacation Pennsylvania avenue, the broad, thoroughfare betwean the Treasury Department and the i. United States Capitol, will be a different looking street, especially near the Treasury Department. Some old landmarks |, that have flanked the broad surface of this historical avenue down which many presidents have gone on their way to the Capitol on their inaugur- ation, will have disappeared, and in several new buildings that are to be- come the homes of government de-
 Ipartments. The State Department will occupy one of the buildings; the Departments of Commerce and La Dor, another, and the Department of Justice the third
 Specifically the buildings will oc- cupy all of the land bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, and Mail and Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. In other words the site for the new buildings extends south from Penn sylvania avenue to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
 In order that the general scheme of architecture of the buildings may conform with the suggestions that have been made for the Identification , of the south side of the avenue from ! the Treasury building to the Capitol | provision has been made for an ex- ] pert commission to award who will report on the relative merits of de- | xgns for the buildings. No an- nouncement, however, has as yet been made as to who will be selected as
 members of the commission, al- though the Secretary of the Treas |ury, together with the supervising architect of the Treasury have se- ! lected a number of architects, design CTS and others from whom selec- ton will be made.
 Cost of Buildings.
 The limit of cost fixed for the Department of Justice is $1,900,00O; for the Department of State $2,200,000 and for the Department of Commerce and Labor, $3,650,0O0. The building for the Departments of state and 1 justice will each be three stories and ]! basement, while that of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor will be five stories and basement.
 To obtain the best designs for the l buildings, three limited competit ons l for the selection of architects for the buildings have been inaugurated. Architects from New York, Washing
 ton, D. C.. Buffalo, San Francisco Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Balti-
 more, St. Louis, Omaha and Colum- bus, Ohio, have been- asked to furnish
 bids as we'll as plans.
 The competition will close Decem-
 Der 30, 1910. The program limits the
 height of the exterior orders to forty.
 five feet, including columns and en-
 tablature. The style of architecture
 adopted must be in keeping with tho
 best existing work in Washington
 and the designs must be executed by
 the regular office force of each com
 petition. The primary object of tn
 competition Is the selection O. aI
 architect, and not the des gns q. frs
 arbnli ted as the c-catn"s e thu
 three accepted designs mus; modit. and re-study their pl ne until the
 form a harmonious competition. As part of the requirements an nounced by the Treasury under tn
 competition, the following is neces , sary:
 The building for the Departmen , ,of State must contain offices for tn l Secretary. three ass. .tant secretar 5 ies, directors of consul service I counsellor and solicitox bureaus : accounts. rolls and III zfy, citizer q ship, appointments. relation
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