Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — MEMORIAL BUILDING TO AMERICAN INDIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEMORIAL BUILDING TO AMERICAN INDIAN

THE next two years will be devoted by Andrew Carnegie’s architect, Alfred Kelsey of Philadelphia, to the preparation of plans for the magnificent memorial Indian building to be erected in Washington by the steel magnate and other philanthropists. Mr. Kelsey announced that he would visit Indian settlements, from the Isthmus of Panama to Alaska, in Bearch of Ideas. The ancient art, traditions and habits of the aborigines will be’ minutely studied and as far as possible Will be symbolized In architectural designs. A broacf flight of steps leading to a wide platform will form a spacious approach, in the center of which will be an equestrian statno of an Indian with uplifted hand, In token of peace and friendship. On each side towers will stand in which a collection of old, soft-toned mission bells will hang, gathered from several states.