Country Homes for Research Laboratories

The following article will be of general interest because it illustrates the comparative ease with which a mansion can be converted to meet the requirements for a research laboratory or for educational purposes and because it typifies a movement, accelerated by wartime con ditions, for the utilization of idle estates. It will be of special interest to the members of Textile Research Institute because it describes the alterations, now underway, to our build ing at Princeton which will make it into a modern laboratory devoted to fundamental re search and to graduate training for textile scientists. The author, who is the Institute's building representative, has applied his expert knowledge and long experience in the design and maintenance of scientific laboratories to the planning and execution of the conversion task.