Word: architects
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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...
...Graduate architects he employed by the carload. With the great building program of the New Deal well under way, there were nearly 1,700 of them hunched over draughting boards in the Supervising Architect's office. That fact has been the latest plaint of private architects against the Administration. It was a New Deal promise in April of 1934 that all Public Works projects costing over $60,000 would be awarded to private architects. Last month President Ralph Thomas Walker of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects charged that this was not being done, sent official...
...Acting Supervising Architect, Mr. Wetmore exerted practically no influence in the design of Federal buildings. He boasts that he never accepted so much as a cigar (and he is passionately addicted to them) from a contractor or competing architect. "Recently," he rumbled, "I had to send back a gallon can of New Orleans molasses that was a gift from a builder. Good molasses...
...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...