Architect and engineer . SUMMER HOME OF NICHOLAS, MONTENEGRO,Used as a distributing station for relief supplies by the American Red Cross. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 89. ITALIAN VILLA, NEAR FLORENCE,Used as a hospital by the American Red Cross during the World War. American Plan to Rebuild Reims REIMS, the thirteenth-century cathedral city of France, ruthlessly ruinedby Germany in the war, is to be reconstructed on the city-plan com-pleted by Mr. George B. Ford, an American architect and city-plan-nmg expert of New York. American writers immediately discover areciprocity of service to France f
Architect and engineer . SUMMER HOME OF NICHOLAS, MONTENEGRO,Used as a distributing station for relief supplies by the American Red Cross. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 89. ITALIAN VILLA, NEAR FLORENCE,Used as a hospital by the American Red Cross during the World War. American Plan to Rebuild Reims REIMS, the thirteenth-century cathedral city of France, ruthlessly ruinedby Germany in the war, is to be reconstructed on the city-plan com-pleted by Mr. George B. Ford, an American architect and city-plan-nmg expert of New York. American writers immediately discover areciprocity of service to France for that of LEnfants plans accepted morethan a century ago for Washington, our capital city. Mr. Ford reports that80,000 .people are now trying to live in Reims, where there are only 2 000 re-pairable houses for 30,000 persons; 9,000 out of 14,000 buildings were com-pletely destroyed; the mutilated Cathedral is under a temporary woodenroof protected by tar-paper. We find Mr. Fords own words regardino- hiscity-plan, as quoted by Mr. AVilliam L. Chenerv in the New York TunesBook Review and Magazine, most enlightening: Our problem was to design an industrial city whi
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