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Designed by Andrew J. Sauer 
building schemes which have re¬ 
ceived attention in this country 
during the past year. For ex¬ 
ample, there hangs before the en¬ 
trance to the gallery Messrs. 
Rankin, Kellogg & Crane’s de¬ 
sign, rendered by Prof. Cret, for 
the Government’s vast Agricul¬ 
tural Building, for whose exca¬ 
vation a space adjoining the Mall 
at Washington has already parted 
with a large area of its sod. A 
full-size model of a portion of the 
design is now being made on the 
site. The building will be the 
first addition to the noble group 
at Washington to be made since 
the promulgation of the Senate 
Commission’s Plan of 1902, and 
its location as finally fixed, estab¬ 
lishes the width of the new Mall 
for all time at 890 feet in con¬ 
formity with that splendid scheme 
for the improvement of the city. 
The McKinley Memorial at 
Canton, designed by Mr. Cass 
Gilbert and hung at one end of 
the gallery, is a dignified and se¬ 
verely simple Doric scheme well 
supported by broadened bases 
and related to its surroundings 
by means of such outreaching 
parts as terraces, balustrades and 
steps. The plan shows that the 
monument is to stand at the 
head of a broad straight avenue 
probably 2,000 feet long. 
Designs for institutional build¬ 
ings form a class the most im¬ 
portant of the exhibition. In 
awakening to the need of a new 
general plan to which all future 
Buildings shall conform with re¬ 
spect to design and location, the 
Johns Hopkins University has 
given occasion for an architect¬ 
ural competition. i he land to be occu¬ 
pied is in the extreme north of Baltimore 
City, and bears historic “Homewood”, one 
of the finest remaining examples of the 
Colonial manor-house. This landmark has 
been seriously taken into account in the de¬ 
sign of the new grounds made and exhibited 
by Messrs. Parker & Thomas. The score 
of buildings have been divided into a beau¬ 
tifully arranged administration group to which 
are formally appended academic buildings, 
such as laboratories and lecture halls. By 
means of a diagonal avenue nearly parallel¬ 
ing the old Colonial mansion, a large court 
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