Identifier: electricrailwayr17amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s, the American Instituteof Mining Engineers and the Engineers Club. The only limita-tion connected with the gift was that it should be devoted to $1,050,000 to the Engineering Societies building and $450,000to the club building. The site for the Engineering Societies building is onWest Thirty-ninth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.The frontage covers five city lots, the total front being 125feet. The area occupied by the building itself is 115 feet by90 feet. In order that there should be no obstruction in thematter of light and air the committee purchased for its protec-tion a large four-story private house of restricted height ad-jacent to the site on the east. In the preparation of the planssix architects of high reputation were invited to participate.The unanimous choice of the committee awarded the work ofpreparing the plans to Herbert D. Hale of Boston and HenryG. Morse of New York. The contract for the construction ofthe building was awarded to Wells Brothers Company on
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Engineering Societies Building—Entrance Hall. the erecting of a building, the associations interested purchas-ing the land. At first it was proposed to erect one building on Fortiethstreet, where the Engineers Club had already purchased thesite, which should serve the purposes of all the organizationsinterested. Owing to difficulties involved in the purchase ofsuch land as would be necessary and in combining under oneroof the social and technical functions exercised by theseorganizations, it was decided to erect two separate buildings.one for the club on Fortieth street and one for the threeprofessional societies on Thirty-ninth street, with means ofconnection between the two. A joint committee of the sev-eral associations was given in charge the acceptance of thegift and the erection of the buildings, and that committee withsome changes has remained in active existence up to thepresent time. The gift was divided by the allotment of July 17, 1905, and the cornerstone was laid by Mrs

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