The Washington times., 1911-01-04
BOARDS AT WORK
ON BUILDING PLANS
Commissions Meet to Select
Designs for New Federal
Structures.
THREE DEPARTMENTS
TO COST $S,OOO,OOO
Twenty Prominent American Archi-
tects Submit Two Hun
dred Plans.

An important step in the direction OF
providing new and commodious build
ings for the three great Departments
of State, Justice, and Commerce and La
Dor, was taken today at the Treasury
Department, when three commissions
of award on designs for the buildings
entered on their work
The three commissions assembled in
the office of Secretary MacVeagh at
1880 o'clock, and after a few words of
greeting from him and an explanation
of their duties, they entered on their
task. They were chosen for the purpose
of inspecting and criticising the compet-
five designs for the proposed buildings.
On the strength OF their verdicts, the
awards will be made to the successful
architects.
100000 Authorized.
The three buildings will occupy the
five blocks south of Pennsylvania ave-
nue, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets. Congress has authorized $780,
90 for them in the aggregate. Twenty
prominent American architects are in
each of tue three competitions. They
have submitted 200 plans, many of them
three by four feet.
One architect for each of the three
buildings will be recommended by the
commission. If the recommendations
are approved, the three who are desig-
mated will be associated in the expecta-
tion that they will create a harmonious
and ~unexcelled group of buildings.
The designs for the State and Justice
buildings have been placed in separate
rooms in the new National Museum, and
those for Commerce and Labor in an
unoccupied room in the Treasury.
, The commissions are:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
f. V. Seeler who is a practitioner in
Philadelphia, and who declined an in
vitation to enter the competition. He
is a teacher of architecture in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
John V. Van Pelt, who is a Beaux-
Arts man, for some time in charge Of
the School of Architecture at Cornell,
now in practice in New York. and a
teacher of architecture.
Herbert Langford Warren, who is
practitioner in Boston and teacher of
architecture in Harvard University
]. r. Pope, who received a Columbia
was the architect of the Lincoln Me-
mortal, the residence of John r. Nc
70 Lean, and many other creditable build
ings.
Raymond F. Almirall, of New York
city, formerly New York State archI-
tect. ....-
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
]. M. Carrere, of Carrere & Hastings,
nf hn faJ 70 apta
the competition and declined.
]. Milton Dyer. a prominent architect
Of Cleveland, Ohio; architect OF several
% important buildings, and a member of
the commission for the development OF
a civic center for Cleveland.
Russell Clipston Sturgis, a Boston
architect, who is said to have done con-
siderable creditable work.
n. c Kicker. the head OF the school
of architecture in the University OF
Illinois.
Alexander B. Trowbridge, Cornell
80. is a Beaux-Arts man in practice
in New York, who was for some years
head of the school of architecture at
Cornell.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND
LABOR.
Pierce Anderson. who is a member
of the fir mof D. H. Burnh am & Co.,
and is the architect of the proposed
City Postoffice in Washington.
d. Everett Waid, Columbia man
who, after considerable practice in
Chicago. had charge of George B.
. Post & Sons office in New York, and
was then a partner. of John Galen
Howard He Is chairman of the COM
mittee on competitions of the New
York Chapter of the American Insti-
tute, and passed upon all the plans
submitted to the Metropolitan Life In
surance company, for which company
he has been consulting architect for
six years.
John +. Pine, a controlling factor in
the selection Of architecture for Prince
ton, with whose affairs he is deeply en-
crossed.
!. Glenn Brown, secretary and treasurer
of the American Institute of Architects,
is the author of THE History of the
Capitol an authority on early Fed
eraI architecture, end has served fire.
quentlv as a juror in Government COM
petitions.
, Henry Eacon, a prominent member Of
ahe American Institute of Architects.
He won the competition for the art gal
leries and museum for Paramount Park,
Philadelphia.