Show 1 PARTHENON P Will WillBE ILL BE ERECTED TO SCALE S Tennessee Will Give United Unite d States Exact Replica of Great Temple NASHVILLE Ten Tenn Oct 6 Within G.-Within Within l la n a year ear the United States will have the only exact to the the Inch InCh reproduction of or the pt Athenian Parthenon the Parthenon Par Par- t thenon henon at Regensburg being an adaptation adaptation adapts tion ilea of ot the great temple That masterpiece master muter piece at Athena Athens conceived and aDd built by Phidias the sculptor the architect architect archi archi- and Pericles the statesman Is be be- be ing tag reconstructed here In a more enduring endurIng enduring endur endur- ing form torm than was the original When Tennessee's Tennesee's centennial was celebrated cele cele- by an international exposition twenty four years ago the directors o of ot the fete tete built In temporary form II a replica a of or the Parthenon It was built to house I the art exhibit of that exposition Nashville W people considered ns It t a P partial gratification or of their ambition fo foP to make i their city as the Athens Athena of the South This temporary structure erected hastIly hastily hast hast- ily and with a comparatively small amount of mone money left much to be desired in the execution of ot the delicate ornamentatIon ornamentation tation and the great number of statues which had to be reconstructed from the Inadequate drawings then In to existence Yet the general effect of the cream col- col lored bred staff structure with brilliant colors In t the f frieze and gables cables e so overshadowed l all I the other buildings that h when the ex exposition ex- ex position SI was over the r people I demanded ft dim Us Its preservation e lo and It ft became e a shrine to the residents and visitors of ot Nashville Three years ago aero disintegration had progressed to such an extent that the building had to be closed It was as finally decided to tv erect a permanent permanent permanent per per- manent replica of ot the Athenian temple using using- the method known as the Surface developed by John Early Early Ear Ear- ly of Washington Washington ln t D. D C. C who was entrusted en en- en- en t trusted I with that part of t tt t the Ow work There still remained the question of ot the red background of ot the and gables cables the blue of ot the as agreed upon by the majority of authorities on I Greek architecture To merely apply pigments pig ments meats to the surface of ot these cement casts would have Involved the same periodical expense of ot renewing the colors as It would have on marbre marble which it had been decided not to use About that time George Georg-e Julian sculptor was va making experiments pe i in the production of t a durable material 1 other t than han the costly stone and bronze realIzIng realizing real real- izing izing- that not until the sculptors sculptor's work can be successfully reproduced In less expensive yet et durable materials will sculpture become a truly democratic art Ha Ill secured a synthetic stone which not only poured out could he be marts made of or Tv 1 d any color was commissioned by the Nashville park board to to reconstruct that figure of ot the great temple and then to reproduce them In this artificial rl stone Whether the original Parthenon had an open roof root or whether there was some structural arrangement with side aide lights masked by the cornice has never been determined The Nashville Parthenon will have a flat nat skylight following following- the slope of ot the roof root and so flO arranged as to obtain th the heat best nn light lIehr within ik c 06 where an art museum will be loc t tev ev eventually fIl r Probably the exterior of ot the bull will be completed by the autumn of ot 19 Erected In Centennial park this P a thenon of ot the new world will Americans an opportunity of viewing afford exact replica at one place that require months of travel to find In In museums mUseum and nd elsewhere In Europe Europe i. |