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B ALTIMORE has been, for a number 
of years, absent from the list of 
cities holding annual architectural exhibi¬ 
tions. It has apparently depended upon its 
neighbors to summarize by means of a for¬ 
mal display the architectural undertakings 
of the year. But to the great fire of a 
year ago may be traced a change, an activity 
which has led architectural circles of the 
city into a closer and more useful union. It 
has led them to show their own fellow towns¬ 
men what the outside world is designing and 
building, and it is showing outsiders how 
Baltimore itself is being rehabilitated. The 
Baltimore Architectural Club comes to the 
front, joins forces with the Municipal Art 
Society of the city, and displays in the Pea¬ 
body Institute over four hundred and fifty 
drawings. Of the ninety-six exhibitors one- 
third are architects located in Baltimore, 
while the work now being executed in the 
city constitutes a like proportion of the total 
number of subjects shown. The urgent 
needs of commercial houses and banking in¬ 
stitutions left homeless by the fire has called 
forth many designs in solution of this sort 
of problem. Messrs. Baldwin & Penning¬ 
ton’s designs for “ The Baltimore Sun ” 
building and for several banks ; Parker & 
Thomas’s Baltimore Savings Bank (shown 
by a model) ; J. E. Sperry’s and York & 
Sawyer’s several premises for trust companies, 
and the warehouses designed by Messrs. 
Wyatt & Nolting, Ellicott & Emmert, and 
by Tormey & Leach, are the most impor¬ 
tant of these. Comparatively little country 
and suburban work is shown, but there are 
some interesting designs for houses at Roland 
Park, contributed by Ellicott & Emmert. 
The most important designs from other cities 
are those for the Engineering Societies’ Build¬ 
ing, in New York, being two competitive 
schemes, one by Palmer & Hornbostel, the 
other by Whitfield & King. There are also 
the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and 
Manhattan Bridge No. 3, both in New York, 
and from the office of Carrere & Hastings ; 
a custom house, by Babb Cook & Willard, 
for San Francisco, an office building fbf the 
H ouse of Representatives at Washington, 
D. C., and numerous Government designs 
for post-offices. A contribution of unusual 
historic interest is an original drawing of 
the United States Capitol, by Thos. U. 
Walter, the architect of the extensions to 
that building, made between 1851 and 
1 865. 
W HAT effect this new and varied architec¬ 
ture will have upon the physiognomy of 
Baltimore is interesting to speculate upon. 
Whether academic design will leave upon that 
very American city the stamp of cosmopoli¬ 
tan uniformity it has bestowed elsewhere, will 
depend largely upon local genius, imbued 
with the spirit of past traditions and the aim 
to enhance all the characteristics of Baltimore 
which are now beautiful and, being so, should 
be rendered permanent. In the haste of re¬ 
construction there is certainly reason to 
pause and put forth a yet untried effort to 
improve and beautify the city in a local and 
individual as well as dignified manner. The 
new architectural expression might begin 
near the exhibition itself, for outside the 
windows of the gallery is the most stately 
and thoroughly architectural civic center in 
America—Mount Vernon Place and the 
Monument. 
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