Identifier: reviewofreviewsw31newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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uoted was adopted.Since that time the movement has advancedsurely, if slowly and with many vicissitudes.One plan after another has been considered andsupersedetl by a better. The legality of com-missions has been questioned and decided in thecourts, and their personnel changed. The Cham-ber of Commerce committeethen appointed has continuedto act, two additions beinglater made to its number. InINIarch, 1902, there was pre-pared under its direction abill to create a board of su-pervision, and this bill wasenacted into law by the Statelegislature. Under its provi-sions, the governor appointedMessrs. D. H. Burnham, JohnM. Carreie, and Arnold W.Brunner as such board.These gentlemen, whose rep-utation as architects is inter-national, prepared and sub-mitted, in August, 1903, aplan which seems destined tobe carried out in detail. FEATURES OF THE PROPOSEDSCHEME. Briefly stated, the plan isas follows : the four publicbuildings which are abso- THE GROUPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN CLEl/ELAND. 563
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