1 he Architectural Exhibition in Philadelphia 
COTTAGE, POCONO MANOR 
Walter Smedley, Architect 
projects for that end. A Recreation Park 
and Pier on the Delaware River, at the 
Johnson Street End of the Southern Boule¬ 
vard, is the subject by which Mr. Andrew 
J. Sauer has won the 1905 prize. His scheme 
consists of a large square plaza shortly re¬ 
moved from the shore by the railroad tracks. 
These are crossed by an elevated avenue 
carried on a bridge. I hus another park 
directly on the shore is reached. Boats are 
to land at its edge and find wdrarfage about a 
T-shaped pier projecting upon the river. 
So much is there of especial interest from 
the point of view of design. 1 he presenta¬ 
tion of these ideas is no less interesting 
than their conception. The steps the archi¬ 
tect takes to show them are still confined, 
with few exceptions, to drawings in the flat, 
owing to the expense of plaster or any other 
sort of models introducing the third dimen¬ 
sion. One of the most beautiful drawings 
we have ever seen, is Mr. Bertram G. Good¬ 
hue’s, illustrating the new chapel to be built 
at West Point. It is done by pen and bears 
a delicate application of conventional color. 
The viewpoint is on the hillside from which 
the building springs, and the lofty transept 
reaching high above the tumbling rocks and 
shrubbery, is one of those accidental views 
of architecture in which she appears at her 
best. No less impressive than this drawing 
is the large water color of the West Point 
group viewed imaginatively from the river. 
A poetic and medieval air the buildings 
assume as they rear a majestic outline high 
above the Hudson, and the low color key 
af the drawing gives them a peculiar mys¬ 
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tery and charm. A wintry street scene in 
Philadelphia has given Mr. John J. Dull 
occasion to throw a group of skyscrapers into 
picturesque relief by means of a freely drawn 
and w T ell colored work in oil. 
A certain breadth of treatment is noticeable 
in many of the color perspectives, and it 
gives to the exhibition considerable clarity 
and effectiveness. This conventional man¬ 
ner appears to great advantage in Mr. Jules 
Guerin's drawing of the Festival Hall at St. 
Louis, viewed from over the waters of the 
basin. And it is proved entirely legitimate 
for the architectural subject by the broad 
and luminous perspectives which bear the 
initials of Birch Burdette Long. 1 hese are 
of park bridges and railway stations in and 
around New York. I he surroundings of 
the architecture have been kept flat and free 
from detail so that the eye travels at once 
to the focus and object of the drawing. 
Several street views rendered with a view to 
explaining Messrs. Reed & Stem’s New 
York Central Terminal scheme contain 
more detail than the drawings already 
mentioned, but are none the less effective 
owing to the close relation of the several 
color tones. 
The catalogue of the exhibition contains 
not only excellent illustrations, but much 
information upon the architectural life of 
Philadelphia. It is prefaced by a paper 
entitled: “The Utility of Exhibitions,” writ¬ 
ten by Prof. Cret, and “Notes of the Year,” 
by Prof. Osborne. The editors were Messrs. 
Wm. S. Vaux and Richard Erskine. 
R. W. 
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