" Can't Sign Buildings "

Henry Bacon was awarded the gold medal and highest honor of the American Institute of Architects--a tribute to his Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

President Harding presented the medal, after Mr. Bacon had been escorted to the Memorial by hundreds of artists and statesmen who walked along the lagoon under the light of torches.

Royal Cortiossoz, New York Tribune critic, spoke for the artists. He said that America has done more in architecture than in any other art. Despite that fact, architects are not famous. Buildings are not signed. Thus, men know of Whistler but not of Richardson who did the Trinity Church at Boston. Thus men know Sargent, but not McKim who did the Pennsylvania station in New York. Other great architects: Bulfinch, Latrobe, McComb, Pope, Platt, Hunt, French.

Bacon was described as " an embodied conscience." A classicist, who has made the " the classic idiom " his own, he designs with scrupulous care. The Lincoln Memorial is the culmination of his art.