Art: Platt

To design the National Gallery of Art, for which Congress recently donated a site, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have selected Charles Adams Platt. Mr. Platt contemplates a two-story structure of granite to house the nation's $5,000,000 art collection.

Besides many residences of high merit, Mr. Platt designed a dining and bathing pavilion for Charles M. Schwab at Richmond Beach Park.

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