During the Autumn of the past year a voting contest was proposed to the readers of The Brochure Series with the object of determining by the consensus of votes, which, in their opinion, were the Ten Most Beautiful Buildings now existing in the United States. The only condition imposed was that no reader should enter more than one list. A lively interest was taken in the contest, and over two hundred votes were received,—the voters being almost entirely either architects or professed students of architecture.
The following ten buildings, named in the order of preference, are those which received the greatest number of votes in this contest; and the appended percentages show approximately what proportion of the total number of votes each received:—
| I. | National Capitol, Washington. Hallet,
Thornton, Hadfield, Hoban, Latrobe, Bulfinch, Walter
and Clark, Architects. About 99%. |
| II. | Boston Public Library, Boston. McKim,
Mead & White, Architects. About 97%. |
| III. | Trinity Church, Boston. Gambrel & Richardson,
Architects. About 96%. |
| IV. | Congressional Library, Washington.
Smithmeyer, Peltz and Edward P. Casey, Architects.
About 75%. |
| V. | Columbia University Library, New York
City. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. About
70%. |
| VI. | Trinity Church, New York City. Richard
Upjohn, Architect. About 55%. |
| VII. | Madison Square Garden, New York City.
McKim, Mead & White, Architects. About 45%. |
| VIII. | St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
James Renwick, Architect. About 35%. |
| IX. | "Biltmore House," Biltmore, N.C. R. M.
Hunt, Architect. About 29%. |
| X. | City Hall, New York City. Mangin and
Macomb, Architects. About 29%. |
