Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 50

g OCTOBER 14, 1928—PART 2. Barracks to Follow Architectural Style Army Housing Program to Be| Distinctively American, | Says Authority. PRACTICAL VIEW TAKEN Designers to Give Men Ad- vantage of Modggn Con- struction Experience. Styles of architecture predominant in @he sections in which they are to be lo- #ated will be followed generally in the mew buildings being erected at Army posts for the officers ané men, to re- gl.lc- the poor quarters which troops ve been forced to occupy since the World War. While cach section ‘will be treated to meet the special require- ments of the units to be quartered nevertheless every cffort is being made in the designing to make the buildings attractive and distinetively American from the various types of Colonial in the North and East to the Spanish ‘mission 12 the South and West For the most part. according to Licut Ool. Francis B. Wheaton., Quartermas- ter Corps, chief of the engineering di- wvition. construction service of that corps in an article on “The Architecture of the Army Post.” in_the current issue of the Quartermaster Review, the buildings particularly the barracks will be three stories because troops can be economi- «cally quartersd in this type. but at the afr stations where every effort must be made to keep the buildinzs generally lew, they will be of two stories Most in Colonial Area. “A great majority of the projects now provided for by the Congress will be in what we may call the Colonial area” says Col. Wheaton. “which in a general way will include all that part of the eountry not truly influenced by the work of the early Spaniards. In other words, the area in which Colonial architecture originated, and that into which it spread and developed and the remaining areas where its influence has been marked at least to a degree equal to that of any other style. | “When we review this field we find that the various colonists who started the first settlements, individualists to begin with. rapidly developed A more or Jess individual architecture suited to the particular climate and mode of life in each class. This is exemplified by the | simple but refined details of New Eng- land, the so-called Duich Colonial of New York and its vicinity. and the more opulent type found further south in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and | orgia. ‘80, in keeping with our Colonial tra- dition we can have a barrack in New England designed in the Colonial of that section and one in Virginia designed in the Colonial of that, both varied in character while of the same general style; moreover, with individual features indicative of historic buildings in each section. This is particularly well ex- emplified in the design for barracks at Fort Devens, Mass., which will at once | st to the trained eve the influence | the older buildings in the yard at Harvard and the barracks at Fort Leo- nard Wood, Md.. which were inspired by Doughoregan Manor, which has stood for many years near Ellicott City, and which was originally built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton. | Practical Tdeas Used. “It must not be supposed.” ‘Wheaton continues, “‘that practical col siderations have been neglected in se- lecting these various styles for use in different sections of the country. 1In fact, thess selections are eminently practical because the styles selected are | first and foremost those developed originally to take advantage to the greatest possible extent of local ma- terials and methods. We have therefore been able to gain architectural effect | coupled with economy, roofs covered with tile or slate; walls of brick or of stuceo on tile or of concrete, are each used because they are local products. In ether words, the most successful and truest design is that which takes the | means at hand and produces a satisfac- tory result.” Col. Wheaton says that in its incep- #ion it was wisely decided that the hous- ing program should. during its earlier years, be devoted primarily to the pro- vision of the necessary housing and hos- pitalization for the officers and men of the Army who had been, ever since the ‘World War, compelled to exist under wmost disheartening conditions in tempo~ rary buildings and tent camps. 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