Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1910
Text by William Gray Purcell
for 1913

Job Date (in Parabiography): 1913

Litchfield Pavilion

Bandstand for a little town, and not until 1937, in Helsingfors, Finland, was any such structure to appear - a slab of concrete supported on a single center stem.

Mr. Elmslie did a distinguished piece of architectural thinking in developing this design and its expression is beautiful. It was too strong medicine for this little town, but even so, I think that they would not have seriously combated our architecture if we could have satisfied their thrifty Scandinavian instincts with respect to how much an architect's services were worth, and how necessary it was so spend some money to secure something that their town could be really proud of, so we lost the opportunity to build our forward looking monument in the public square.

research courtesy mark hammons