Evening star., 1938-01-09
JURY TO SELECT
BEST BUILDINGS
Board of Trade Unit, Formed
Prior to 1903, to Vote
on February1.
BY JOHN H. Cassidy. Jr.

BY JOHN H. Cassidy, Jr.
A Jury Of three prominent archi-
tects will get together some time after
noon. February l, to select what II
believes to be the best Examples of
good architecture and its accessories
constructed in Washington and its
adjacent suburbs in Maryland and
Virginia during the last two years.
This will be the next to the last
step In an activity which the Com
mittee on Municipal Art of the Board
Of Trade has carried on since 1924
in its efforts to bring about a better
appreciation Of good architecture In
Washington and vicinity.
The final step will be the awarding
Of engraved certificates Of merit to
the owners and architects or designers
Of the buildings, signs and landscaping
gardens deemed especially meritorious
by the jury OF award.
Entries Received.
The committee even now is accept
ing submissions from owners, archi-
tects, builders and others, and before
the deadline, February /, somewhere
between 800 and 500 entries are ex-
pected to be filed 1t is not necessary
that the person making an entry be
directly associated with the subject Of
the submission.
Authorization of these awards every
two years was made in 1919, but the
| first awards were not made until
November, 1924, when the selection
was made from the buildings erected
during the three years prior TO jan
uary /, 1923.
| Among the structures selected for
the initial awards were the addition
to The Evening Star Building, the
Hamilton Hotel, the Horner Building
and the Fort Lincoln Cemetery Lodge.
At this time medals were presented
to the winning owners, architects and
builders, instead of certificates Of
merit, as at present
The awards Of 1924 and 1925 went
for the interior of the chapel at Trim
| ity College, the interior Of Sacred
Heart Church, Frederic Delano's
home, at 2244 street; the Wash
ington Loan g. Trust Co. Building, at
Seventeen and G streets NV: q store
at 1925 Connecticut avenue NV, the
Foxhall Village development and gas
station at Second street and MaSsa-
chusetts avenue NV.
| Other Winners.
In 1929 the Carlton Hotel, Seven
teenth and K streets NV; Mullen
Library at Catholic University and the
Wesley Heights development received
recognition of the awards jury.
Awards will be made this year TO
the owners and architects or designers
Of the following:
Buildings of all classes completed
between January /. 1886, and Janu-
ary /, 1898, as deemed of especially
meritorious design.
Signs erected in that period which
are deemed by the jury to accomplish
the purposes of advertisement, with
especial artistic effect. and the avoid
ance of dertiment to the adjacent
architectural design.
Lahdscaping gardens, arrangement
of rear or interior yards or courts, gen.
eral plan of subdivisions deemed espe-
cially meritorious. The submissions
under this classification are not limited
as to date Of completion, but they
shall not have previously been awarded
a board certificate of merit.
| Each submission must state the 10
cation and street number of the prop
erty, name and address of owner. ar
chitect or designer, landscape architect
or signmaker and be accompanied by
photographs illustrating the subject.
First mention of this unit Of the
Board Of Trade in the records was in
1908, when S. H. Kaufman, one-time
president of The Evening Star News
paper Co., was chairman.
| A report made in 1906, when George
A. Totten, jr., was chairman, shows
that the committee recommended care
full consideration Of the water front
development and more beautiful
water troughs."
For many years the committee urged
establishment of municipal art COM
mission. Subsequently. the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion was set up.
Mr.. Coe Chairman.
Theodore I. Coe is chairman Of the
committee and r. M. Kaufman, lit
erary editor Of The Star, is vice chair
man. Leon Chatelain is secretary.
The committee recently adopted a
resolution commencing The Star "for
its service to the public in support Of
widespread interest In and apprecia-
ton of art" in making available the
4s reproductions Of noteworthy paint
ings by world-famous artists.
THE fidelity Of the reproductions to
the originals represents high stand
ard in color printing and makes these
pictures Of especial interest and value
to students and all who enjoy works
Of art OF unquestioned merit. and the
committee has been gratified to note
the widespread attention these repro
ductions have attracted and the extent
to which they have been used by teach
ers and others to illustrate talks on