Evening star., 1937-08-28
POPE, ARCHITECT,
D|ES|NNEW YORK
Mellon Art Gallery One of
Last Projects on Which
He Worked.
By the Associated Press.

oy kIlc hsoOClhtSu f2cco.
NEW YORK, August 2s-John
Russell Pope, often called the dean of
American architects, died last night
after an operation. He was SO.
Pope, who was president of the
American Academy at Rome and the
designer of the new Mellon art gall
lery in Washington, became i'll at his
Summer home in Newport, r. T., early
In August and was brought to the
Harkness Pavilion Medical Center
here for treatment, said an announce
ment from his Office.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Sadie Jones Of Wilmington,
N. c., and Newport r. l.; q daughter,
Miss Jane London Pope, and a sister,
Mrs. Robert H. Patchin Of New York.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at the Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church at Newport, R. I.
Burial will be in the family plot at a
Newport cemetery. The burial services
will be private.
BY curious coincidence, the
founder of the Mellon gallery, one of
the last projects upon which Pope ex-
pended his widely famous ability, died
only Thursday night. He was Andrew
w. Mellon, the former Secretary of the
Treasury and Ambassador to the Court
Of St. James.
Designed Memorial Shaft.
Only 26 days ago-on August IA
great white shaft of granite, designed
by Pope, was dedicated with brilliant
ceremony in Montfaucon, France, on
the soil of Lorraine, to commemorate
the victory of the American 1st Army
in the Meuse- -Argonne offensive.
In January Of 1882 he was commits
stoned to design new gallery to the
British Museum to house the famous
Elgin marbles.
The honors that had come to Pope
formed long scroll reaching down
through the years.
Won League Medal.
He held the Architectural League
Medal of Honor 1916), the Gold
Medal of Honor of the New York
Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects, the Medal Jean Leclaire
Institute of France. He was cheva-
lier of the (French) Legion of Honor,
member of the American Academy in
Rome, the Academy of Arts and Let
ters, the Institute of Arts and Letters,
the International Congress of Archi-
tects.
He was born in New York City on
April "a 1874, and was a descendant
OF John Pope of Dorchester, Mass. He
was educated at the College of the
and held honorary degrees from Yale,
Columbia and Syracuse Universities.
He was architect for these projects,
among others:
Scottish Rite Temple, Washington,
D. c.; Plattsburgh City Hall, Mac
Donough Memorials, Lincoln Me-
mortal, Hodgenville, KY; Richmond
(Va) Terminal Station, addition to
Metropolitan Museum, New York;
Constitution Hall, D. A. r. and Ar
chives Buildings. Washington; me-
mortal tomb of William B. Leeds. New
York; Congregational Church, Colum-
bus, Ohio; residence of Ogden Mills,
Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt and
others, Baltimore Museum of Art,
Syracuse Memorial Hospital, University
Baptist Church, Baltimore; additions
to British Museum and Tate Gallery,
London; Frick Museum, New York:
National Gallery, Washington; United
States Government Offices, London.
Selected for Memorial Work.
FOR the Roosevelt Memorial, New York
and Washington.
The architects plan for a massive
memorial to Thomas jefferson in
Washington, D. c., was the storm
center of controversy in the Ma
tional Capital early this year.
Destined to rise from the Tidal
Basin, which f1ushes Washington
Channel and the Potomac River, the
big Graeco-Roman temple would
have elbowed into tnsignif1cance the
grove OF Towering japanese cherry
trees which are Washington's proud
est boast in the Spring and which
via" liuIlolcu Ol tllOuSduQS OF COur-
lists.
Civic leaders, business men and
art lovers joined forces in protesting
to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Commission, headed by Representa-
tive John J. Boylan, Democrat, of
New York, which had approved Popes
plans. The House Library Commit
tee reconsidered its Endorsement and
advised its indefinite postponement.
A powerful argument against the
memorial project was the discovery,
late IN the day, that the jefferson
Memorial would cost ultimately $12,-
100000. With the editing OF an item
OF s5oo,o0o for preliminary costs, from
the deficiency appropriations bill, the
memorial was shelved.