H ouse and Garden 
will harmonize with the wild and rank shrub¬ 
bery clamoring at their base. These sheer 
fronts of masonry, supporting the group of 
edifices of varying size and importance, 
descend the steep hillside to the river level, 
where there is a railroad and station, reached 
finally by a steep incline and an elevator. 
All of this is shown in a fine 
sectional view which reminds 
one of the picturesque and 
fanciful piles of the Middle 
Ages, as we remember them 
from the illustrations of 
Viollet-le-Duc. 
After leaving these two 
subjects, the drawings which 
constitute the rest of the ex¬ 
hibition have a more nearly 
equal interest, and they may 
be conveniently divided into 
groups, the first of which 
may be designated 
MONUMENTAL AND PUBLIC 
WORK. 
I nto this class come the two 
blueprints from freehand per¬ 
spective sketches of the new 
U nion Station at Washing¬ 
ton, a work designed by 
Messrs. D. H. Burnham & 
Co. They are rendered in a 
satisfactory and strictly archi¬ 
tectural manner in which the 
simple end is gained of pre¬ 
senting the imposing, ade¬ 
quate and well-conceived 
station without the distraction 
of anything which is not de¬ 
signed to be a part of its sur¬ 
roundings. The artist’s 
name is not given. Four 
competitive designs are shown 
by as many firms for the pro¬ 
posed Municipal Building, 
also to be built in Washing¬ 
ton. The authors are 
Messrs. Robert Stead; Marsh 
& Peter; Wood, Donn & 
Deming and Cope & Stew- 
ardson. The drawings of 
the last are here illustrated 
and show a design which is 
in general well proportioned and appears to 
provide an abundance of interior room with¬ 
out apparent sacrifice of light. The Festival 
Hall designed by Cass Gilbert to surmount 
the chateau-d'eau. at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exhibition is an appropriately florid and or¬ 
nate design of pleasing outlines and pro- 
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