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Show Plate XXXVI. Exposition building, containing an exhibition-room and lecture-room for the Larkin Co. at the Jamestown Exhibition. Executed in wood and plaster. Plate XXXVI. Browne's Book-Store. A long, narrow room in a down-town building con- verted into a book-store. The walls and ceiling were re-formed, and alcoves with chairs and tables provided for the convenience of customers. The panels and wallsareof stained cream-colored plaster, the woodwork of gray oak, the floors of ivory- colored magnesite. with lines of brass inlay; the light fixtures of ivory glass and brass. The ceiling was given a slight pitch from sides to center. The alcove beneath the balcony at end is the """"children's corner."""" Plate XXXVII. City d welling of Fred. C. Robie, Woodlawn Ave. and 57th St., Chicago. `909. A city dwelling with a south front, built of slender brown bricks, with stonetrimmings. Roofs tiled, with copper cornices. A single room type, similar to Tomek, Coonley and Thomas houses, well open to the south, with balcony and enclosed garden. Sleeping-rooms added in belvedere. Garage connected to house, with servants'- rooms over. No excavation except for heater and coal. A highly developed working out of organic relation between exterior and interior-clean, sweeping lines and low proportions preserving openess and airiness of feature and arrangement throughout. Plate XXXVIII. """"Horse Shoe Inn,"""" Estes Park, Colorado. A summer hotel or """"inn"""" on a pine-clad slope of the Colorado mountains. To be built of undressed lum- ber: the walls sided with wide boards put on horizontally. with battens: stained. The chimneys worked out in rough. flat field stones. Plate XxX1X. Suburban residence for Mr. Clark, Peoria, Illinois. Perspective and ground plan. 1900. The dining-room dropped below the living-room, and covered porch above, so that both are reached directly from it by a short flight of stairs. From this side is the outlook over the city and the river. Service is arranged to this porch so that it may be used as a dining-room in summer. It is also connected with the bed-room floor, and may be used as a sleeping porch. Plate XLa. Workmen's cottages for Mr. E. C. Wailer, Chicago, Illinois. Two stories each and basement. Plate XLb. Suburban cottage for Miss Grace Fuller, Glencoe, Illinois. Plate XLI. Pettit Memorial Chapel, Belvidere, Illinois. A small inexpensive burial chapel at Belvidere. Illinois. A simple, not unhomelike room for services, with shelter at rear and sides to accommodate people wait- ing for cars. A memorial tablet and modest fountain characterize it as a memorial to Mr. P&tit Plate XLII. River Forest Tennis Club, River Forest, Illinois. 1906. A simple wooden building set up on posts, built to house the River Forest Tennis Club. Located and planned to afford an outlook over the tennis courts and a good dancing floor, with comfortable ingle nooks. The walls are of wide boards laid on horizontally, joints covered with battens, |