Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-11
-Four Area Architects
Win Top Awards at
Silver Spring Dinner

Four area architects last night
won top honorS at the third BIZ
ennial architectural awards ban
quet, held in the Indian Spring
Country Club, Silver Spring.
Fourteen other entries won
honorable mention.
The competition was sponsor
cd by the County Commerce AS
ISOLATION of Montgomery County
and the Prince Georges County
Chamber of Commerce in CO.
operation with the Washington
Metropolitan Chapter. American
Institute of Architects.
Two top winners. Paul H. Kea
Of Hyattsville and Mcleod &
Ferrara, Eighteenth street NV,
received their awards for de-
signs Of six modernistic schools.
Mr.. Kea's winning design in
the public buildings category
was used for construction of the
Lewisdale (Md.) Elementary
School. The Mcleod & Ferrara
firm won with their design Of
the Salem Avenue Elementary
School, in Hagerstown. Both
schools are now in use.
First in Residences.
Grosvenor Chapman, District
architect, won first place in the
residence division with the de-
sign of a modernistic home at
7200 Pyle road, Bethesda. It is
owned by William L. McGovern.
The fourth top award went
to Arthur Kelsey of the District
for lis design of the new Be-
thesda MD library. The
building is owned by the county
Board Of Education.
Blair Lee III. private planning
conSultant and former executive
officer Of the National Capital
tanning Commission, was
guest speaker for the ITS per-
sons who attended the event.
Mr.. Lee called on officials of
the two counties to seek more
financial aid from Annapolis
and Washington for conStruc-
ton of urgently needed public
schools.
I'VE need their help" he
said, land they can give it to
us. Our taxes pour into the
State capital and Washington,
but come back to us in trickles. I"
The planning expert said a
study group of which he was a
member. recently examined new
~ constructed schools in the two
counties and found them with
very few frills and certainly
rot showing evidence Of extrava-
gence in the expenditure of
funds"
"You architects" he added.
"can take much Of the credit
for that"
Presentation Of the design
awards was made by Dana B.
Johannes, president Of tn e
Maryland Division, ALA.
Honorable Mention.
Honorable mention awards
went to architects v. T. H. Bien
for a residence on Persimmon
Tree road, Bradley Farms: Brown
& Wright for a residence at $685.
Macarthur boulevard; John S.
Samperton for home remodel
ing; Daumit & Sargent for re-
modelling Roth's Silver Spring
Theater; Mcleod & Ferrara for
design of Woodacres School in
Montgomery County and for the
Boulevard Baptist Church; Mr..
Kea for the SurrattSville MD
Elementary School: Johannes q
Murray for the Wyngate Ele-
mentary School in Montgomery
County, and the Howard Ger
man Offices in EaSton, Md. Ron
aid S. Senseman for design Of
the Travel Agency Offices in the
Southern Building, Fifteenth
street NV. All builders and
owners also received awards.
Charles H. Copeland, secretary
Of the Montgomery County Com
merce Association, was master
of ceremonies Among those
present were Hugo Brooks, pres
ident of the association; Harry
A. Boswell, jr., vice president OF
the National Real Estate Board,
and Leon Brown, president OF
the Metropolitan Washington
Chapter Of A. I. A.