this purpose are those of
Greece and Italy, and the headquarters of the school are established at
Rome rather than at Athens, because of the greater amount of material
there at hand of use to the modern student not only in the art of
architecture itself, but in that of mural painting and in the decorative
arts, including architectural sculpture.

The school was formally opened under the charge of Mr. Austin W. Lord,
as secretary, on the first of November last, in temporary quarters in
the upper story of the Palazzo Torlonia, on the southwest corner of the
Via dei Condotti and the Via Bocca di Leone, between the Corso and the
Piazza di Spagna; but a permanent home has now been secured in the
building known as the Casino dell'Aurora, occupying a part of the
grounds formerly belonging to the Villa Ludovisi. This building is
situated upon an isolated plot of ground, raised fifteen or twenty feet
above the surrounding streets, and comprising about eighty thousand
square feet, which is the size of the enclosed space in Gramercy Park in
the city of New York. It is on the Pincian Hill, not far from the French
Academy in the Villa Medici. The building contains about thirty rooms;
some of these are decorated with well-known frescoes, among which is the
Aurora of Guercino. The grounds, which were laid out by Lenotre, are
well covered with trees and shrubs, and afford ample space for the
erection of additional one story buildings, should such be required at
any time for workrooms or studios.

Personal.

Mr. A. L. Nicholson, formerly with Davis & Von Storch, architects,
Scranton, Pa., has accepted a position with De Lemos & Cordes, Fulton
Building, Fulton and Nassau Streets, New York.

Mr. Dwight H. Perkins, of the firm of Perkins & Selby, Marshall Field
Building, Chicago, opened a new office on May 1 at 1107 Steinway Hall
Building, Chicago.

Mr. Myron H. Hunt, recently returned from an extended trip abroad, has
gone into the office of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in Chicago.

Mr. F. N. Reed, who has distinguished himself in the Rotch Scholarship
competition, having been given second place each time in the last three
years, is now with Cabot, Everett & Mead of Boston.

Brochure Series Competition No. 1.

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Program: The Henry F. Miller Piano Company of Boston, with the idea of
turning the attention of designers to the problem of artistic piano
cases, has placed in the hands of publishers of THE