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For weeks on evenings and Saturday afternoons members of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club have been donning smocks and overalls to paint and decorate their own club rooms at 1 Charette way. Incidentally, Charette way is the name city Council has approved for the hitherto unnamed alley which extends East in the middle of the block in Cecil way, between Liberty and Penn avenues. Councilman W. Y. English took up with city Council the naming of the alley in honor of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club.
DO OWN PAINTING
All painting and decorating work for the new club rooms is being done by the architects themselves. They started about three weeks ago and hope to complete the job by the end of this month. The date for the formal dedication and "housewarming" is to be announced later.
According to Charles M. Stotz, president, the club's new quarters will contain a large dining room, lounge room and a working room, where members will find facilities for making lithographs and etchings.
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A fine piece of work already executed by the members is the staircase leading from the entrance to the second floor. The walls are done in plaster stucco and there are two beautiful stained windows. To the right near the entrance they also built a niche in which there will be placed two sculptured figures representing the world's first architects.
The new club rooms represent the materialization of a 30 years' dream, Mr. Stotz said, and will prove a big factor in bringing Pittsburgh's architects more closely together in a social way. The club now has a membership of 140.
