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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1908)
THE SITXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 190S. ARCHITECTS SCORE BRILL I ANT SUCCESS WITH EXHIBIT AMBITIOUS EFFORT OF PORTLAND ARCHITECTURAL, CLUB RECEIVES PUBLIC ATTENTION AND COMMENDATION WHICH WILL SPUR THEM ON " 1 Sialic EE 41 "J? , : . .... ...--y..!,, , , ,mrmii . MWMWMIUmi .'H''" fAI s. ... t. tit Blliiiiiiiiis I'"', 0f- frame building with full basement. In connection with the home la a three-acre tract, which can be used for the employ ment of the boys. The location of the building is elevated and one of the best In the neighborhood. It is a short dist ance north of the Montavflla carline. A. C. Kauts has started work on ern Pacific Railway, between East Sixth and East Seventh streets, to cost !5u0. It will be occupied as a factory for finished mill work. v "Work is prosressing: on the garage, of B. G. Running on Bast Oak street, be tween Second and Third, streets. It is being erected of brick, and will be 25x100, and cost J3000. Work has fcen started on a frame building for the Fast Side branch library, on the southeast corner of East Alder and East Eleventh streets, in advance of raising the money. It will be a tem porary structure, to be replaced with a permanent stone library when condi tions warrant the more pretentious structure. Architect Otto Klcemann has prepared plans for a new Catholic Church to be erected at Canby. Or. It will be 41x70, of frame construction and with a tower Eighth streets, will be occupied by Feb ruary 1. Until then the several Masonic lodges which will take quarters In the new building will remain In the Burk hard hall. The main hall In the building is now nearly completed, and is a beau tiful lodgeroom. The nnl.shlnc touches are being made in the different portions, including the building for a planing mill on the South- tiiinR for tie entrance to 'the upper floors mmmAm P ORTIjAND architects have attained distinct triumph during the last week with the exhibition of sketches and perspectives in the Museum of Art at Fifth and Taylor streets. It was an ambitious undertaking for so young an organization as the Portland Architect ural Club to make a display that would receive public attention and commenda tion, and the project was not launched without misgivings; but it is not too much to say that the club has surprised Itself, for the exhibition is not only an attractive one but it is entertaining and instructive to a high degree and reflects much credit on local draughtsmen. The Portland 'Architectural Club was founded two years ago, and is composed largely of the younger members of the profession, although a number of the old er lirms arc on its rolls. One of the chief purposes of the club from the be ginning was to provide the organiza tion necessary for a comparative study of architectural work. In promoting the present exhibit the club has gone a- step farther and invited the public to see the results reached by designers not only In Portland hut throughout the Northwest as well for the display . Is not exclusively of local work. Re sults have more than justified the en deavor, for the public has been im pressed as never before with the high standard of architecture followNI In this city. ThoFe who have visited the Museum of Art since Tuesday morn ing, when the display was thrown open, have seen the original conceptions of many of the modern fireproof steel and concrete office buildings erected in Portland, and which involved h large portion of the more than $f.000.i00 building expenditure during 197. They have also seen remarkable residence work, sketches of familiar scenes in this country and abroad, enlarged de tail studies and comprised in the col lection are not a few productions that can be classed as art without stretch ing a point. In its extent the exhibition has great ly surprised those who were most ac tive in the arrangements. The Port land architects, almost without excep tion, made contributions, and leading firms of other Pacific Coast cities are represented. Altogether 476 items are mentioned in the official catalogue, and other sketches were received too late to be tabulated. The display occu pies practically all of the available wall space of the three upper rooms of ih'e museum, and a large number of drawings are fastened to screens about the rooms. It is probable that no one who vlsi'ed the Museum during the week fal'ed to express surprise at the extent of the collection as well as its merit. Outside of a number of reproduc tions of celebrated structures of this country and Europe, the most conspic uous items of the display are the per spectives of Portland business and of fice blocks. The number and character of these, comprising such, structures as ihe Welis-F.nrgo. Corhett, Failing and Couch buildings, indicate the rapidity with which modern construc tion h-is developed In Portland during the last few years. Any showing that could have been made even three years ago would not have compared ' with tho present one. In dwellings, too, ' those recently constructed or now in contemplation are of better types than the majority of high-class homes built a few years ago. Besides these sketches, a wealth of detail work is shown, together with stained glass de signs and ornamentations that would do credit to the draughtsmen of anv city. Those who were instrumental in pro moting the exhibition feel grateful to the architects of other cities who have contributed. Firms of San Francisco, Seattle. Spokane. Taeoma and other cities have shown a cordial interest in the display and have helped Its suc cess by loaning their best efforts. This ou'.-of-town work has added to the public interest in the display and has especial educational value to the , architects themselves by bringing to gether the ideas of men in different cities. The exhibition will be continued to January IS, and will be open daily from 9:30 to 4:30 o'clock. It will also be. open from 7:30 to l. o'clock on Monday. Wednesday, Friday and Sat urday nights, for the benefit of those whose business will not give them op portunity to see it in the daytime. On the nights mentioned and Thurs day and Saturday afternoons ad mission will be free and at all other times a small charge will bo made. The committee in charge of the ex hibition ia composed of E. F. Lawrence, chairman; F. J. Berndt, president of the club; A. E. Doyle, Joseph Jacob berger and C. Ij. I.inde. Besides the diaxlav Itself, the club has done a crcd- Si'' V - Wi mnjjw'' mi NM . - r v.-, 4" i- 1 5 'Ma tea . WEflKH facing flast Bunistde street. It is not expected to have an elaborate dedica tion, but probably there will be a house warming when all the lodges are quar tered in the new structure. The cost is figured at $23,000, and the building is one of the most attractive on the East Side. MODERNIZE HOTEL BULKING Burkhard Block to Be Ucinodclcd for First-Class Hostelry. The Rjirkhard building on Bast Burn side street between Union and Grand avenues, is to be remodeled into a ilrst class hotel by the new owners. S. A. Arata. wiio recently purchased the prop erty for $135,000. The cost of the changes will be in the neighborhood of $10,000. Architect Otto Kleeman has been com missioned to prepare plans for the re modeling of the building. These changes will be confined to the two stories above the first floor. The hall at the west end on the third floor will be made into rooms. At the east end of the building the hall occupied by the Masonic lodges, which will vacate February 1, will be made the dining room of the new hoteL The entire upper portion will be over hauled. Walls will be rettnted and plumbing renewed. Work will start on these changes as soon as the architect has completed the plans. It is the inten tion to provide the East Side with another- -first-class hotel building. Tho Burkhard building was erected by Joseph Bnrkhard 14 years ago. who recently disposed of it to S. A. Arata. UNITE IN NEW DISTRICT Eiworth League Will -Hold Session at Sunnyside M. K. Church. A meeting is soon to be called for the purpose of organizing a Portland dis trict of the Epworth League. Rev. W. B. Hollingshead. presiding elder of the district, has the matter under advise ment now and will call a meeting as soon as .he can find time to do so. If will be held at the Sunnyside Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Dr. T. B. Ford is pastor, and represents Mves from all of the charges In the dib.rlot will be invited to attend. Owing to the alterations in the boundaries of the four districts com prising the Oregon Conference, a re organization of the Epworth League districts has also become necessary. Prior to the last annual conference, held in Portland in November, 1907. there was an Est and West Portland district, but Bishop Moore merged the two at this point, making one district, officially designated as Portland dis trict. There are a large number of charges, all of wnich have an Epworth League chapter. Sunnyside Chapter recently 4 lilt 4M J W - S- ik ltable work in the preparation of an artistic catalogue, with a cover design by J. M. Tanner and frontpiece by M. II. Whitehouse. It is the intention of the Architect ural Club to follow the present ex hibition with a similar one each year. By so doing it is hoped to interest still further architects In other cities and ultimately build up an architect ural league on the Pacific Coast. Such an organization has proved a great success in the East and it is probable that arrangements will be made for an exchange of work with the Eastern league. n XO STOPPAGE IN BUILDING Important Improvements Started on East Side. Architect C. C. Robbins is completing plans for the new edifice for the Cen tral Christian Church to be erected at the corner of East Twentieth and East Salmon streets. Excavation for the foundation is niaxlv oomoieted. Csin- xr- : . -v. ;-- JU:V V 1 5 extended an Invitation to the district chapters to meet and organize, and the invitation has been accepted. The date of the meeting has not been fixed. crete foundation will, be put in at once. The building is to be of concrete and stone or brick. It is to be of the old Mission style prevailing in Southern California. It will cover the quarter block at this corner and cost, when com pleted, about $40,000. - The Detention Home for the Juvenile Court, under construction in Center Ad dition. North Mount Tabor, is nearing completion. It Is a large two-story 100 feet high. Rev. Paul Springer is the priest In charge. FINISH THE MASONIC TEMPLE Handsome Edifice on East Bnrnside Ready February 1. The new Masonic building on the south east corner of -East Burnside and East NEW WEATHER PROPHET Albany Man Gives Western Oregon Monthly Forecasts for 1908. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 10. (To the Editor.) The following monthly weather forecast for 1908 is made especially for Portland and Western Oregon: January The temperature and rainfall of the month will be slightly above the average. Portland's temperature for the month, lowest 34 degrees; highest, 0 de grees. February The month will be warmer and damper than the average. Portland's temperature, lowest, 36; highest, 67 de grees. March will be pleasant. Portland's tem perature, lowest, 37 degrees; highest, 71 degrees. April will be warmer and dryer than or dinarily. - Portland's temperature for month, lowest. 3S; highest, 82 degrees. May will be warmer and damper than usual. Portland's weather, lowest tem perature. 45; highest, 95 degrees. June will be warmer than usual. Port land's temperature, lowest, SI: highest, 97 degrees; average for Portland, 62 degrees. July will be as usual. Portland's tem perature, lowest, 52; -highest, 96; average, 72 degrees. August will have some rain after the 15th. Portland's temperature, lowest, 61; highest, 96 degrees. September will have rain before the 10th. Portland's temperature, minimum, 46: maximum, 90 degrees. October will be pleasant up to the 25th. Portland's temperature, highest, 83; low est. 44 degrees. The remainder of the year as usual. JOHN HOOPER. RISER CAI.KVDARS HALF PRICE. Original photos. 248 Alder at. Custom-made shoes at foctory cost at Rosenthal's house-cleaning sale.
