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THE ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION 
IN PHILADELPHIA 
T HE T-Square Club’s exhibition this year 
is not equal to preceding ones. There 
seems to have been no difficulty in getting 
plenty of drawings to cover the walls. The 
catalogue enlists 259. But the visitors who go 
to see these in the galleries ot the Art Club 
in Philadelphia, find a number of subjects 
already made familiar by their appearance in 
architectural journals, and, in some cases, in 
other exhibitions. For monumental buildings 
there are many designs, for residences few 
less; gardens are shown by photographs as 
they have been executed, or else prefigured 
by drawings; decorative work, as it might be 
carried out, is portrayed by skilful colorists; 
while amid ambitious projects ot the universi¬ 
ties, are the charming sketches of traveling 
scholars, wandering fancy free in the byways 
of Europe. Yet from the point of view of 
new and current work, the collection, as a 
whole, falls somewhat below the standard 
heretofore set by the T-Square Club. 
In such a broad comparison of several 
hundred drawings, with an equal number 
exhibited a year ago, many exceptions must 
be made, and we make them unreservedly. 
Mr. Cass Gilbert’s drawings for the bine 
Arts Buildings at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition would make any exhibition nota¬ 
ble which contained them. The two large 
elevations, rendered in light and mellow 
tones by Messrs. Kaiser, Carson, Johnson 
and Githens, occupy a prominent place, and 
have for their immediate neighbor, the vigor¬ 
ously colored perspective drawing of the 
main entrance of that building. Mr. Ernest 
Flagg’s well-known designs for the Naval 
Academy at Annapolis have been given a 
place ot honor, and likewise Mr. J. H. 
Freedlander’s drawings in line and wash of 
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer 
Soldiers at Johnson City, Tenn. The bold 
scheme ot roofing, as displayed in several ele¬ 
vations, has provoked much comment. Near 
the entrance to the gallery is an imposing 
rendering of the late campanile at Venice, 
measured and drawn by Mr. H. L. Duhring, 
Jr., holder of the John Stewardson Travel¬ 
ing Scholarship for 1897. Near this are the 
prize designs in the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
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