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Excerpt from The White Pine, Vol. 8: Series of Architectural Monographs, Designs for a Three Teacher Rural School With Teacher's Cottage to Be Built of White Pine Eighty-four sets of drawings were submitted in the competition, and, while none of the designs was highly imaginative in conception nor strikingly original in character, yet a fair average in plan and elevation was maintained, making the task of differentiation a not altogether agreeable or satisfying one to the Jury of Award, but making it a pleasure for the Jury to comment favorably upon several designs, which, in the process of selection, did not fall into the "Premiated" nor "Mention" classes. First Prize Design. Submitted by Antonio DiNardo and W. Frank Hitchens, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Architecture, being a three-dimensional subject, cannot be considered otherwise, and, therefore, it becomes not a question of plan or elevation, but a question of plan and elevation. This design had a well articulated plan which functioned admirably, and an elevation possessing the charm of light and shade and shadow. The "porch," both as a practical and as an aesthetic feature, is attractive. Second Prize Design. Submitted by William D. Foster, of New York, N. Y. As between the design placed first and that placed second, there was no great difference in merit. The ample sunlit corridor presents an attractive feature excelled by no competitor. The plan turns the most attractive elevation of the building away from the Village Green. The location of the play rooms and their correlation with the out-of-door play spaces and toilets, the location of the special rooms with respect to the class rooms, are admirable features of this fine open plan. The one-story teachers' cottage is attractive exteriorly, but not well studied as to plan, the living room being turned, necessarily, into a runway, interfering with its use as a center of social life. The kitchen is not any too well equipped with pantries or storage closets. Third Prize Design. Submitted by Chauncey F. Hudson, of Buffalo, N. Y. This plan fell into the interior corridor type, and so loses somewhat of the attractiveness of the first and second prize designs. Nor do the toilet and play rooms, as to arrangement, quite reach the standard set by those designs. The location of the special rooms-industrial arts and domestic science - is not as good as in the two preceding plans. The character of the exterior is rich in quiet, rural charm, lacking in too many of the designs submitted. Fourth Prize Design. Submitted by Robbins L. Conn, of New York, N. Y. Like the design placed third, a long interior corridor was introduced into this design. The relation of the play rooms and toilets to the special rooms is good, as is also the correlation of the library and of the teachers' room with the class rooms. Also, like the third prize design, the elevations adequately express that which is most characteristic of rural surroundings, a leisurely charm. First Mention. Submitted by Alfred Cookman Cass, of New York, N. Y. Second Mention. Submitted by David W. Carlson and Emil A. Lehti, of New York, N. Y. Of the designs to receive Mention, of which there were six, two seemed worthy of being given a definite place, and the Jury takes pleasure in according them this recognition. The First Mention is quite "academic" in design, that is, suggestive of the old "academies," yet rural in character; while the Second Mention has a decidedly free and picturesque quality. The interior toilet in connection with the teachers' room in this design is a blemish in the plan which a bit of practical surgery might remove. The setting of the "academic" design is attractive. Mentions. The four remaining designs to receive mention were submitted by William J. Mooney and Harold A. Rich, of Boston, Mass.; Charles 11. Dornbusch and Erick N. Kaeyer, New York, N. Y.; Leon H. Hoag, Bloomfield, N. J.; and Paul Hyde"