Show Public Building Architecture It Is Is an unfortunate circumstance that the concept of ar architecture to I most persons Is limited to libraries art galleries and other public build build- ings lags These they feel are architecture architecture ture and architecture to to- fulfill to-fulfill fulfill the most popular conception of It must have Greek columns and be executed In stone on a scale more or less grand and at an expenditure of equally conspicuous conspicuous con con- scale So far as this general popular estimate estimate esti est mate goes It Is an nn excellent and highly highly high high- ly Iy desirable thing The people of every town and city the people even of every village should be keenly In Interested Interested In In- In the architectural merit of every public building which Is being erected with city funds They should demand the highest order of architectural architectural architectural archi archi- merit and should come to learn some intelligent discrimination between architectural merit and financial financial fi financial fi- fi expenditure The library for example In a n neighboring town may have co cost t several thom thousand and dollars more to build than the library In ones one's own town but it may riot not be necessarily necessarily necessarily better architecturally Ex Ex change |