The Philadelphia Architectural Exhibition 
portions and is shown by a line and wash 
drawing. The central portion is here repro¬ 
duced. Mr. Edgar V. Seeler’s sketches of 
the entrance and vestibule of the new build¬ 
ing he is erecting in Boston for the Penn 
Mutual Life Insurance Company show a 
well-managed treatment ot an entrance feat¬ 
ure some of whose width may be given over 
to ornament. A new Custom House tor 
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Providence, Rhode Island, 
is an interesting and classic 
scheme of three stories, 
designed by Mr. Chester 
H. Aldrich and Messrs. 
Carrere & Hastings, Asso¬ 
ciated. There are two de¬ 
signs of armories, one of 
which is the accepted 
scheme by Messrs. Lord 
& Hewlett for the Second 
Battalion of Naval Militia, 
New York. The vertical 
end of the vast steel roof 
is well treated and adjusted 
to the principal features of 
the facade. The other 
armory design is tor Troop 
C of Brooklyn and is bv 
Pilcher & Taichau. The 
perspective sutlers from 
the trying point ot view 
from which it has been 
drawn. 
A group of five Car¬ 
negie Libraries for New 
York City is exhibited by 
Messrs. Lord & Hewlett, 
together with the plans 
for each of the structures. 
These designs, of which 
the Llushing Branch is the 
best, well provide the 
necessary accommodation 
at a limited cost, and they 
avoid a monotony which 
might easily occur in a sys¬ 
tem of buildings scattered 
over a city, where the con¬ 
ditions of one building 
nearly repeat those of 
another. Mr. James 
Knox Taylor, the Super¬ 
vising Architect of the 
United States Treasury, exhibits a number 
of designs of United States Post Offices and 
Custom Houses, also the Government Build¬ 
ing and the Lish Commission Building for 
the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition. Messrs. 
Rankin & Kellogg exhibit their accepted de¬ 
sign in a competition for Camden County 
Court-house ; and quite successful attempts 
to give individuality to public buildings in 
