Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-04
Preparing for Construction OF
Three Public Buildings.
ENTIRE COST IS 5000, 900
TO House Departments Of State, JUS
tice and Commerce and Labor.
WILL OCCUPY FIVE BLOCKS
Located on Pennsylvania Avenue Be-
tween 14th and 18th Streets.
Designs Being Considered. .

Three commissions OF award aSseihpieu
at the office of Secretary MacVeagh thls
morning at 1920 o'clock. and. after re"
words of greeting from the Secretary. De-
gan the inspection and criticism OF the
competitive designs for the proposed
buildings fo- the Departments OF state
Justice and Commerce and Labor.
These three buildings will occupy flve
blocks south Of Pennsylvania avenue be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. The aggre-
gate cost authorized is $S.OOO.OGO. TWEEN
ty prominent American architects entered
each of the three competitions and they
have turned III :OO plans. many OF which
are three fee. by four feet in dimension
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 All un-
occupied room in the Treasury.
Architect for Each Building.
One architect for each of the three
buildings vii, be recommended by the
commission. and if the decision is ap-
proved the three who are designated will
be associated in the creation of a group
that should be harmonious and uneX-
celled.
The following persons comprise the
juries:
For the billding for the Department of
State-E. V. <eeler, 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 a
a architecture in Harvard University.
j. Il. Pope, who received a Columbia
scholarship and is a BeauX Arts man;
was the architect of the Lincoln Me-
mortal, the residence of John r. Nc
Lean and many other buildings.
Raymond r. Almirall of New York
city, formerly New York state archi-
tect.
Department of Justice.
For the building for the Department Of
Justice:
J. NJ. Carrere Of Carrere & Hastings of
New York, who were invited to enter the
and declined.
J. Milton Dyer, a prominent architect
of Cleveland. Ohio; architect Of several
important buildings and member of the
for the development Of civic
center for Cleveland.
Russell Clipston Sturgis, a Boston archi-
tect, who is said to have done consider
able creditable work.
n. G. Kicker. the head of the school of
architecture In the University OF Illinois.
Alexander r. TrOwbridge, Cornell, 30,
a Beaux Arts man in practice in New
York, who was for some years head of
the school OF architecture at Cornell.
Commerce and Labor.
For the building for the Department of
and Labor:
Pierce Anderson, who is a member OF
the firm Of u. H. Burnham d Co., ana
is the architect of the proposed city post
office in Washington.
d. Everett Waid, Columbia man who,
after considerable practice in Chicago,
had charge Of an Office in New York. and
was then a partner Of John Galen How
ard. He is chairman Of the committee
on competitions Of the New York Chap
ter of the American Institute, and passed
upon all the plans submitted to the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company, for
which company he has been consulting
architect for six years.
John B. Pine. 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, the
author of the History Of the Capitol
an authority on early federal architecture
and who has served frequently as a
Juror in government competitions.
Henry Bacon. a prominent member of
the American Institute of Architects. He
won the competition for the art galleries
and museum for Paramount Park, Phila-
delphia.