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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...
Three models have been produced to date: a four-room, red brick Georgian house with green slate roof and green shutters; a white stucco town house with a blue door arched with brick; a pink brick house with a shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even...
...GEORGIAN HOUSE-Frank Swinnerton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Comedy of English village life, by England's most pedestrian essayist...
...little man. Before the bus reached Washington, a 20-mi. trip, Dr. Baker alighted. Nearby was a funpark where W. &. J. students take their pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled, fell by a stream near the highway. In the night a wind & rain storm beat down on "Quail Hill...
...building is six stories high, all but the ground floor being used for students' rooms. The building can accommodate 55 men and five tutors, two of whom will be resident tutors. The students rooms are arranged in 23 double suites and nine single suites. The building is in the Georgian style of architecture, and is predominantly brick and white limestone...