Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
MELLON TO CONFER
WITH ARCHITECTS
Simon to Report on Archives
Buildings Inspected in
Europe.

Another important step in the public
building program here is expected to
be made tomorrow, when Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon goes into confer
ence with his Board of Architectural
Consultants, including Louis A. Simon
of the Treasury Department, who has
just returned from Europe with a re-
port on the archives buildings of the
Old World
John Wesley Pope of New York City,
who has been added to the board since
it last met, will collaborate with Treas
ury Department architects in planning
the Archives Building.
Another change in the board, it was
learned yesterday, has been the election
of G. c. ZantZinger of Philadelphia, of
the firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary,
to take the place of the late Milton B.
Medary of the same firm. Mr.. zant-
Finger will carry on the work of Mr.
Medary, in. designing the Department of
Justice Building on the site of Center
Market.
Mellon Has Suggestions.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has
suggestions of his own concerning the
triangle, in the area bounded by Penn
| sylvania avenue, Fifteenth street and
the Mall, which he will present to the
Board of Architectural Consultants
| when 1t meets at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning at the Treasury.
| Among the vitality important questions
TO be considered by the Board of Archi-
tectural Consultants during this session
Is the plan for the Archives Building.
In the triangle model it was seen that
the Archives Building lowered so much
further over the tops of the other build
ings that 1t appeared to some persons
TO be out OF harmony with the general
architectural plan. 1t is known that
some moderation in the original plan OF
the building will be considered.
"Shelr' Included in Plans.
The archives building is to be erected
in the square Immediately west of Cen
ter Market, bounded by Ninth and
Tenth streets, B street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The plans call for a
large central structure surrounded by
shell, or outside building, the use OF
which has not as yet been designated
Plans for several buildings will be pre-
sented by members of the Board OF
Architectural ConSultantS, in such form
that they can be used as a basis for the
Treasury Department to estimate the
probable cost.
Representative Elliott of Indiana,
Chairman of the House public buildings
and grounds committee. and Senator
Reyes of New Hampshire, Chairman of
the Senate committee on public build
lngs and grounds, recently announced
they favored increase in the appropria-
lions for public buildings, both in the
National Capital and throughout the
country. 1t is expected that this legis-
lation will be introduced early in the
new regular session of Congress in De-
cember.
Funds Expected Soon.
AS Congress previously has gone on
record in favor of an expansion of the
public building program here, by au-
thorizing the purchase of all land In
the Federal triangle, it Is anticipated
that funds to carry forward the pro-
gram will be forthcoming at the next
session.
The members Of the Board of Archi-
tectural Consultants will bring with
them from their Offices plans which
they have been developing for the
buildings and it is expected they will
be In shape to turn over to the Treas
ury Department, at least In their pre-
liminary form,
, The architects and the buildings they
Mr.. Zantzinger and Mr.. Simon, men,
toned above, are as follows:
E. H. Bennett of Chicago, chairman
Of the board, who is making plans fol-
| architectural landscaping; Louis Ayers
. OF New York, whose plans for the De-
. partment of Commerce, now are vel
under way in construction of this huge
building, between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth B and E streets; Arthur Brown
jr., OF San Francisco, who will bring
! plans for the Department OF Labor, te
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