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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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