Word: draughtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise money for unemployed draughtsmen, New York architects have held progressive cocktail parties, poker games, exhibited their hobbies. Chicago architects held a studio ball with a nude young woman, at $1 a look, as one sideshow (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Recently the decorous firm of Delano & Aldrich thought...
William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich specialize in Georgian mansions and clubhouses, at present the most depressed branch of the depressed profession of architecture. The firm's draughtsmen must not only draw but make models for their exacting clients. That gave Partner Delano an idea. Just back from Paris where he had been supervising the erection of the new U. S. Government Building fronting the Place de la Concorde, he set his idle apprentices to work designing dolls' houses. Last week with the Christmas season approaching genuine Delano & Aldrich doll houses were on sale...
...occasion was an effort by Chicago's architects to raise money for the 1,200 architects' draughtsmen whom Depression has stranded without work. Having read reports of the progressive cocktail parties, exhibitions of hobbies and other festivals by which Eastern architects were attempting to take care of their unemployed (TIME, Feb. 22; June 6), a committee of Chicago architects organized the affair, which was unofficially called a Féte Charrette. Survivors last week were still too disorganized to know just how much money had been raised beyond expenses...
Architect Hewlett, 64, has such a large bald head above his sparse frame that draughtsmen call him "The Great Dome." Like his predecessor he worked for a time in the office of the late famed Sanford White. He was born and still lives in Lawrence, L. I. For his ancestors was named the neighboring town of Hewlett. As architect he designed the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Albany, the Civil War Memorial in Philadelphia, the City Club of New York, the McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County...
...leisure of which U. S. architects have had so much lately was put to good use last week. In Manhattan, for the benefit of unemployed draughtsmen, a first Architects Hobby Show was held in Knoedler's Gallery, which usually devotes its chaste walls to the very expensive output of the French Impressionists. It cost $1 to see what famed architects do in their spare time...