Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — Public Building Architecture. [ARTICLE]

Public Building Architecture.

«It is nn unfortunates circumstance that the concept of “architecture,” to most persons, is limited to libraries, art galleries and other public buildings. These they feel, are “architecture;” and “architecture,” to fulfill the most popular conception of it, must have Greek columns, and be executed in stone, on a scale niore or less grand, and at an expenditure. of equally conspicuous scale. So far as this general popular estimate goes, it is an excellent and highly desirable thing. The people of every town and city, the people even of every village, should be keenly interested in the architectural merit of every publie building which is being erected with city funds. They should demand the highest order of architectural merit and should come to learn some intelligent discrimination between architectural merit and financial expenditure.' The library, for example, In a neighboring town may have cost several thousand dollars more to build than the library in one’s own town, but it may not be necessarily better architecturally—Exchange.