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...architects and builders know James Alphonso Wetmore even if the general public never heard of him. From 1915 to 1934 he was Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. Since that title was abolished last February, he has held the same job as chairman of the Treasury's Board of Awards. Through his offices, which occupy nearly the entire top floor of the Treasury Building, have passed all the plans for all the buildings in the greatest building program in which the U. S. Government has ever indulged...
Acting Supervising Architect Wetmore is not and never was an architect. Born 71 years ago in Bath, N. Y., he became a court reporter in nearby Hornell. In 1883 he was a cattle buyer in Holland and Scotland. Two years later he was a stenographer in the Treasury at Washington, gradually becoming a more & more important cog in that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because...
...public lecture on "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing" will be given at the Harvard University School of City Planning this morning at 11 o'clock, by Henry Wright, of New York, N., Y., noted architect who assisted in the development of the model town of Radburn N. J., and the Buhl Foundation Housing Project of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wright holds the opinion that row houses in small units are preferable to struggle family houses for low-cost housing. He was in charge of the site planning of Radburn, the so-called "New Town for the Motor...
...Chapel was deserted except for special courses like that of Dr. Warren. In 1850, after a period of uneventful years, the "restoration," so-called, was effected by a Mr. Bryant, architect...
While one cannot blame an architect of 1850 for a so-called "restoration," when such things were unheard, of as applied to architecture in this country, yet it is unfortunate to continue the idea so many people have today--that Holden Chapel has been restored, and is, on the exterior at least, as it was in 1745. As a matter of fact, the building bears very little resemblance to the Chapel of 1745. In the first place, the doorway to the building, as seen in the Paul Revere engraving of Harvard, was on the West end and extended almost...