on the BROCHURE lists--seem to me in the highest degree significant and encouraging. And the public libraries, St. John's Cathedral and the Phebe Hearst competition are further evidence in the same direction. [Illustration: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK CITY] A word might also be said for certain buildings which found no place on either the "First" or "Second" list, but which competent critics might assign to one or the other list in preference to some that appear on them. There is for instance, Mr. Richardson's Woburn Library, which some consider his most beautiful work next to Trinity Church; the new State Capitols of Minnesota and Rhode Island (the latter not quite finished); the Treasury Building and White House at Washington; the Temple Emmanuel; the Metropolitan Life Building; Metropolitan Club and Cornelius Vanderbilt's residence in New York; the University group at Charlottesville, Va.; the Omaha Exposition and the Dewey Arch. [Illustration: PLATE VII MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY] But the task assigned me was the discussion of the BROCHURE lists, not of other possible lists; and I close with the suggestion that a vote every ten or every five years would afford a most valuable and interesting gauge of the movements of taste and of the progress of architecture in the United States. [Illustration: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK CITY] The following list names, in order of preference, those ten buildings which received the highest number of votes _after_ the first ten named in the list given on page 3. I. CORCORAN ART GALLERY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Ernest Flagg, Architect. II. HOUSE OF W. K. VANDERBILT, NEW YORK CITY. Richard M. Hunt, Architect. III. FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. Charles B. Atwood, Architect. IV. NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL, ALBANY, N.Y. H. H. Richardson and others, Architects. V. HOTEL PONCE DE LEON, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. Messrs. Carrère and Hastings, Architects. VI. COURT HOUSE AND JAIL, PITTSBURGH, PA. H. H. Richardson, Architect. VII. CENTURY CLUB, NEW YORK CITY. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. VIII. STATE CAPITOL, HARTFORD, CONN. H. H. Richardson, Architect. IX. AMERICAN SURETY BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY. Bruce Price, Architect. X. UNIVERSITY CLUB, NEW YORK CITY. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. * * * * * In 1885, fourteen years ago, the readers of _The American Architect_ (Boston) were invited to name, by a consensus of votes, their choice of the then most beautiful buildings in America. The voting resulted in a list of the following ten buildings:-- I. TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON. Gambrill & Richardson, Architects. II. UNITED STATES CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. Hallet, Thornton, Hadfield, Hoban, Latrobe, Bulfinch, Walter and Clark, Architects. III. HOUSE OF W. K. VANDERBILT, NEW YORK. R. M. Hunt, Architect. IV. TRINITY CHURCH, NEW YORK. Richard Upjohn, Architect.