Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — YOUNG ARCHITECT TOURING EUROPE [ARTICLE]

YOUNG ARCHITECT TOURING EUROPE

Alban Coen, Grandson of W. S. Coen and Mrs. J. M. Wasson Visits Many Sountries. IA. E. Ooen, who was d wn from Chicago over night, told <a reporter for The Republican of an interesting study and sight-seeing trip which his son, Alban* is making in Europe. Alban graduated from Pennsylvania University two years ago and worked for a year as an architect with a firm in Chicago. Last May, in company with Another young architect named Frank Venning, he started bn the trip they are now making. They went first to Glasgow, Scotland, where they purchased bicycles and on these went k distance of 2,200 miles through Scotland and England, visiting especially the cathedral towns. They then went to Frapce and employed the bicycles for considerable travel before selling them in Paris, where they spent tetween two and three months. There they mad a study of sketching and architecture. They then went to Stuttgart and Munich, and are at the latter place at this time. Their future plans are to visit Switzerland, Italy, including Rome and Venice and the island of Sicily. They will then go to Tunis and Algiers- in Africa. Thehce to Gibralter and through Spain. In March they expect to sail from Gibralter for home and Alban will engage in business as an architect, probably in Chicago. Jt is to better equip himself for his chosen business that he is studying architecture in foreign countries.