Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
TRADE BOARD PICKS
!. 8 LOCAL BUILDINGS
FOR MERIT AWARDS
Recognition to Be Given
Owners and Architects at
Meeting Wednesday. |
PROJECTS SELECTED
FOR EXCELLENT DESIGN
Action Is Taken in Line With |
Movement to Promote Beauty |
of Capital.

Eight local building projects of widely
varied character, completed during the
period running from January /. 1926,
to January l, 1928, have been selected
as subjects for awards for meritorious
design made biennially by the WASH
ington Board of Trade in the interest
OF encouraging architectural develop
ment here in keeping with the dignity
and beauty Of the National Capital.
Recognition is to be given to the
owners and architects of the eight prof.
ects selected as the most meritorious
of the 800 or more developments sub
mitted for examination during the past
year. Certificates of award are to be
awarded at the April meeting Of the
Wednesday evening at the willard
Hotel. Presentations are to be made
by Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, executive
officer of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
The program of awards is conducted
by the municipal arts committee of the
trade body. of which Appleton P. Clark
is chairman, and the selections were
made by jury of prominent architects.
Jury of Awards.
The jury consisted of Edward w.
Dom of this city, fellow of the
American Institute of Architects, a
past president of the local chapter of
the institute and formerly an official of
the institute, and G.. Corner Fenhagen
and William D. Lamdin, Baltimore
architects, prominent in activities of
the Baltimore chapter of the American
Institute of Architects.
The buildings or developments Sc
lected for awards, together with the
names of the owners and architects,
are announced by Chairman Clark as
follows:
The Carlton Hotel, Sixteenth and K
streets, owned by the Wardman Con-
struction Co., and designed by M.
MeSrobian. -
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation, Seventeenth and K streets,
owned by the association and designed
by Arthur B. Heaton.-
The Mullen Memorial Library of
Catholic University at Brookland.
owned by the university and designed
by Murphy e. Olrnstead. es's sss.s
The chapel, cloister and garden of
Fort Lincoln Cemetery on Bladensburg
road northeast, owned by the cemetery
organizations and designed by Horace
w. Peaslee.
Wesley Heights Development.
The residential development in Wes-
ley Heights as continued during the
biennial period, owned by w. G. & A.
N. Miller and designed by Gordon Mac
Neil.
The Reno Water Tower and other
municipal buildings, owned by the Dis
trict Government and designed by
Albert L. Harris. municipal architect.
A residence at 2425 Kalorar1a road,
owned by C. D. Drayton and designed
by T. J, D. Fuller.
A residence at Twenty-fourth street
and Wyoming avenue. owned by Justice
Edwin B. Parker of the German Mixed
Claims Commission and designed by
Wyeth & Sullivan.
For this biennial period the awards
were open to Developments in suburban
areas of the National Capital as well as
the District. and selections were made
after consideration Of architectural de-
signs, combination of materials, suit
ability of the structures to their sites
and purposes, landscaping, treatment of
rear yards, penthouSes and other fea-
lures.
Statements of Jury.
The jury made the following state
ments regarding the eight projects Sc
lected for awards:
Carlton Hotel-The design of this
building expresses dignity and elegance,
palatial in its aspect, and is approprt-
ate to its purpose of a high-class hotel
The treatment ofIthe space to the south
of the building as a tea garden is at
tractive. 49,
Young Wonnen's Christian Associa-
tion-This building is suitably treated
and is quite the opposite of the preced-
ing examples; the X. w. C.. A. carries
with it homelike feeling, which is
impaired by the simple treatment and
materials of the colonial style. The diff
ficulty of giving such character to a
large building has been happily over
come.
Mullen Memorial Library The ar
chitectura1. design Of this building I'M
mediately suggests itself as university
building: it is pleasing in proportion.
simple in outline, and the arcade IN
the second story forms a strong feature
and gives 1t distinction. The detail OF
the ornamentation is unusual and pleas
ing.
Lincoln Cemetery 70 clothe a build
ing for cemetery in an intellectually
beautiful and interesting design is some
thing of an achievement. This has been
accomplished in the nlortuary chapel
and oatacombs Of the Fort Lincoln Gem
etery. The receptacles for ashes are
skillfully placed in curved cloisters
which surround an Enclosed garden.
Reno Water Tower Named.
wesley Heights Development The
award in this case Is made for the gen.
eral appearance of the development, in
GLIDING not only well designed buildings,
but especially for the placing of the
houses and the taking advantage of nat
iral conditions. In some cases features
of the landscape which would have been
regarded as defects and covered up by
some developers have been converted
into interesting spots.
Reno Water Tower and Other Dis
trict Structures.-This is group award
embracing several buildings erected by
the District of Columbia from designs
by Mr.. Harris The R&1o Water Tower
ss:...;YessSss az object which is generally an
evesore into a beautiful figure on the
landscape. The colonial style has been
used effectively with refinement and
good taste In the several school, hospi-
tai, police station and other buildings.
Residence at 2425 Kalorama Road
We have here an illustation OF the
skillful adaptation to modern setting
Of the colonial stone farmhouse OF the
Pennsylvania type The building Is str1-
pie in outline and detail. but has q
honaelike charm which is shown also TO
advantage by the interior.
Residence at Twenty fourth Street
and wyoming Avenue. Here We have
another type of house. somewhat Tor
csssfll treatment Of q larger house.
THE design has quality of reserve and
refinement which Is entirely commence