that the Goshen Inn will be reckoned a classic, and the architects as courageous pioneers in still further advancing the art and crafts of building in brick. For the purpose for which the Goshen Inn was designed-a very modern and even "smart" version of the English roadside inn-the building cannot be denied to possess in a marked degree the two qualities most to be desired in this sort of a building-an appearance at one picturesque and cheerful. The terrace and porch, for al fresco meals, is most inviting, and the interiors are all carried out with a great deal of quaintness and charm. All the furniture and hangings were selected with a view of expressing the character of the inn, and of reflecting the informal vein of the architectural treatment. By way of carrying out in smaller superficial details the aspect of the English country inn the architects had a quaint swinging signboard painted by Mr. Everett Shinn. In mentioning this signboard comment should be made upon the interesting sign which Mr. Shinn painted for the architects to proclaim NEW YORK CITY HOUSE, 53 EAST 61ST STREET. Walker & Gillette, Architects. their own office. The sign is reproduced in color on the cover of this issue, and shows the painter in his happiest vein, depicting the spirit of the gay French painters of the time of the last three ACCEPTED DESIGN OF BANK BUILDING FOR THE UNION TRUST COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Walker & Gillette, Architects. reigning kings of France. Few of Mr. Shinn's achievements have been as successful as his revival of this epoch of art-not only in painting, but in his facile sketches in sanguine. At the time when Mr. Shinn painted the signboard for Walker & Gillette it was discussed in the daily papers as a protest against snobbishness in art, which, in a sense, it was. One side presents a picture of a nobleman of the time of Louis XVI. inspecting (accompanied by Madame la Marquise) a blue-print of a chateau, displayed by a businesslike, but rather apprehensive-looking, archi tect of the period. As a matter of historic fact, we do not recollect that reproduction by means of blue-printing was known at the time depicted by the costumes, but the whole conceit is so naive and joyous that we are not at all disposer to require literal details. After all, the blue-print is used here only as a symbol, and the "story" is very successfully told in graphic terms. The other side of the sign, which was painted as a hanging sign-board, to be viewed from either side, depicts the happy sequel of the first picture, and the culmination of the architect's labors, wherein he en BUILDING FOR THE TUXEDO STORES COMPANY, TUXEDO, N. Y. Walker & Gillette, Architects. PLAN OF BUILDING FOR THE TUXEDO STORES COMPANY, TUXEDO, N. Y. joys the approval of his noble client's in It is said that Mr. Shinn was inspired to paint this sign after hearing a lecture by Mr. George De Forest Brush, wherein that noted painter belittled commercialism, which he maintained was incompatible with art. Mr. Shinn, with quaint perversity, decided to do the most commercial piece of painting which he could think of to paint a sign. To a newspaper reporter he said: "It will have a |