House and Garden 
characteristic of his free method of sketching. 
Mr. Laboureur, of Pittsburgh, exhibited 
a number of charming drawings in various 
mediums, all of which have an action and 
movement which architects so seldom secure. 
Local engineers were interested in the 
bridge drawings submitted by Architects 
Palmer & Hornbostel. Those engineers 
who have designed most of the bridges around 
Pittsburgh, have jealously kept their bridges 
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free from the influence of an architectural 
thought, as though the element of design 
should not enter the construction of a 
bridge. Henry Hornbostel, the versatile 
architect, has shown that a bridge de¬ 
signed from an architect’s point of view is 
the most satisfactory from every point of 
view. 
One class of exhibits which interested 
many of the visitors, was that of modern 
dwellings. Those contributed by the 
“Ladies’ Home Journal” take a high rank. 
Will Bradley’s houses for $i,ooo and 
$1,500 show a keen appreciation of color 
and simple outline which is very satisfying 
in the house, but does not seem altogether 
comfortable in its furniture which is often 
stiff and formal. Mr. Bradley’s weakness 
seems to be vertical high-backed chairs. 
Interesting photographs of local houses 
were those of B. F. Jones, by Rutan & 
Russell; W. B. Schiller, by McClure & 
Spahr; A. J. Wurts, by T. E. Billquist; 
Walter Mellor, by Beezer Bros.; David 
Rooney, by Allison & Allison, and a frame 
1 s containing photographs of houses in 
w Q Pittsburgh and Sewickley, by Alden & 
os Harlow. The latter architects also exhib- 
o ited a water-color of Mr. F. T. F. Love- 
r£ joy’s house which is a consistent and 
2 intelligent piece of modern English 
j Renaissance. 
2 1 he Chicago Architectural Club was 
~ represented by several elevations of a city 
o house on a boulevard, apparently sub- 
< mitted in competition. These designs 
smack strongly of Frank Lloyd Wright 
- and Louis H. Sullivan, or what has be- 
~ come known as the “Chicago School” of 
- rational design. Mr. N. Max Dunning, 
the newly-elected president of the Archi¬ 
tectural League of America, had three 
pen and ink drawings of Italian garden 
scenes, the rendering of which is a notable 
improvement on the author’s previous work. 
One of the most interesting office buildings 
in the city of Pittsburgh was illustrated by 
a photograph, which, however, did not do 
justice to the color scheme of the building. 
The Bessemer building by Grosvenor Atter- 
bury, of New York, is the first commercial 
building in the city which really expresses the 
character and spirit of the iron city. ' 1 
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