In Chicago

In Chicago was held last week the 38th annual exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Exhibition League. Many famed architects displayed designs: James Gamble Rogers, builder of the Harkness Memorial at Yale, showed a group for the AEtna Life Insurance Co., Hartford--an interesting study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects --Bertram G. Goodhue. He was represented by his design of St. Thomas's Church, Manhattan. "Not surpassed by the best work of the Middle Ages," critics have said of this building. "The great reredos at Winchester does not sing in greater ecstasy than the marble symphony which he has built in the chancel of St. Thomas's."

Architect Goodhue, with his partner, Ralph Adams Cram, revolutionized ecclesiastical architecture in the U. S. He gave his life to Gothic. The austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought--these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned for his 55th birthday, Apr. 25, 1924. On that day, the National Academy of Sciences at Washington was to be dedicated. Two days before the dedication, Mr. Goodhue died.