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RECORD AND GUIDE





February 21, 1914





It is hoped that a standard central
heating and lighting plant can be estab¬
lished that will be standard for all State
institutions, with each part carefully
thought out and actual tests made in
reference to same, so that the State will
obtain the best form of construction,
and that the maintenance cost per year,
which is now running very high, can be
reduced.

Considerable study is also bemg given
to how to improve the present installa¬
tions, as a large number of the central
heating and power plants throughout
the State were installed about fifteen
years ago and are now commencing to
give out and will have to be replaced
within a few years. This of course is
a much harder problem than an entirely
new installation.

The plant at Sonyea will consist of
two alternating three-phase lighting
units, together with boilers, and as pro¬
posed will eventually provide heat and
light for the entire institution, and elim¬
inate a number of small, boilers located
throughout the institution. In general,
most of these plants are averaging from
1,000 to 3,000 h. p. capacity, the boilers
being of the water-tube type m units
from 300 to 500 h. p. each. The gen¬
erators are in general alternating cur¬
rent, three-phase, 60-cycle, and turbines
and generators are being installed.

Turbines to  Be  Installed.

One of the proposed schemes for
Letchworth Village contemplates the in¬
stallation of turbines throughout the
plant, both for circulating hot water
for heating, and boiler feed pumps, to¬
gether with generator unit. In this
plant all of the units will be in one
large room, and be directly under the
oversight of the engineer. One other
feature of all of these plants is that
each plant is being equipped with meas¬
uring instruments so that definite rec¬
ords can be kept of the coal consump¬
tion, water evaporation and power out¬
put, and it is proposed that continuous
records be kept in all State institutions
regarding their cost so that in designing
any future plants absolute records will
be available so as to determine the
proper size of each unit installed. With
these systems of records it will be pos¬
sible to raise the standard of the en¬
gineering work in connection with these
features so as to make it a standard
throughout the State for engineering
work. It can therefore be seen that a
decided policy is aimed at, which, if
carried out, will bring results which
have not been obtained before.





An Italian Palace in Place of Old Brick
Dwellings.

(Illustrated on page 357.)

These buildings on the corner of Lex¬
ington avenue and 25th street, were
originally a group of three and four-
story and basement dwellings, of the
same type as the adjoining buildings,
also shown in the picture. The corner
building had a mansard roof, forming
an attic.                                    •             .    ■

In altering the building, the slanting
roof was straightened out by removing
the cornice and putting an angle iron
construction over it, which enclosed the
mansard roof and made a foundation for
a perpendicular wall. Above this was
erected a tile roof, so that the building
was made 15 feet higher without con¬
flicting with any of the requirements of
the Building Code, and twenty feet
higher at the corner where the tower
was constructed. As the building now
stands, it is apparently seven stories
high, whereas formerly it was a four
story, basement and attic building.

The exterior of the building was stuc¬
coed; the first story (formerly the base¬
ment) and the second story were paneled
with marble, and an ornamental roof of
Spanish tile, with large projecting eaves
and cornice, completed the design, which
makes a modern Italian front out of old
nondescript brick buildings.

All the work was done without inter¬
fering with the tenants. The building
was designed by and was altered under
the supervision of Emery Roth, archi¬
tect.                                                  .





New Uptown Club House.
A noteworthy addition to the group
of fine club houses in this city will in a
few weeks be completed and ready for
use by its members. The building is
being erected for the Freundschaft So¬
ciety at 105-107 West S7th street, near
Sixth avenue, from plans by George &
Edward Blum, architects, of 505 Fifth
avenue. The building is six stories in
height and covers a plot 43x100.
_ The treatment _ of the facade is
simple. A granite base course is
succeeded by limestone to the sill
of the second _ story, from where
light colored brick, set off by terra
cotta, extends to the roof, the whole
surrounded by a pergola and roof gar-







Oeorge   £   Edward   Blum,   Architects.
THE   FREUNDSCHAFT   SOCIETY'S   CLUB
HOUSE.

den. _ A balcony runs the width of the
building on the second floor, and there
are three balconies on the third floor.
The building has a cellar and basement,
the former given over to machinery,
laundry, etc., and the basement con¬
taining the bowlinT-alleys with neces¬
sary locker-rooms, showers, etc., a bar¬
ber shop and circulating library.

On the ground floor are the main
lobby, office and cloak-rooms, in rear of
which is the grillroom and "bar. The
rear part of the entire building is used
for service, the service stairs, elevator,
pantry, kitchens, etc., being there. A
lounging-room flanks either side of the
entrance in front.

On the second floor is the ballroom
with a lounging-room and on the mezza-
nine_ floor, above the ballroom, is the
music gallery and ladies' dressing
rooms. The main ballroom will be
twenty-four feet in height and have a
portable stage.

On the third floor are the cardrooms
and lounging-room. The fourth floor
contains the billiard-rooms, board room
and private cardrooms and the fifth
floor a library.

In the pergolas on the roof is a roof
garden, with kitchen in the rear. The
mechanical features of the building com¬
prise a modern heating and ventilating
plant, refrigerator plant, electric call
outfits, house telephones, vacuum clean¬
ing facilities, etc.





"The architects have embodied in this
building everything to make it a model
of comfort and luxury.

The structure is strictly fireproof and
is being erected under the supervision
of the architects by Jacob A. Zimmer¬
man, general contractor, SOS Fifth ave¬
nue. New York City.





Large Garage For Upper East Side.

Horace Greeley Knapp, 111 Broad¬
way, is preparing preliminary plans for
a large reinforced concrete garage to
be constructed on the upper East Side
above 72d street, east of Third avenue.
The name of the owner and further de¬
tails are withheld for the present.

Walter   Haefeli   Selected  Architect.

Walter Haefeli, 17 Madison avenue,
has been selected architect for the six¬
teen-story store and loft building which
the Aeon Realty Company, Sumner
Gerard, president, 60 Broadway, is to
erect at 40 to 46 East 31st street, at a
cost of $500,000.





Building  For  Druggists'  Syndicate.

The American Druggists' Syndicate,
H. Loewe, 205 Borden avenue. Long
Island City, in charge, is having plans
prepared privately and will take esti¬
mates on the general contract about
March 15, for a six-story reinforced
concrete warehouse, 140x95 and 40x50
feet, to be erected on Borden and Van
Alst avenues and Third street. Long
Island City.





Activity on Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn.

James S. Maher, architect, 431 West
14th street, Manhattan, is completing
plans for four apartment houses for the
Grant S. Kelley Realty Company, to be
constructed on the block bounded by
Bedford avenue. Linden Boulevard and
Martense street, Brooklyn. Estimates
will be taken the coming week.

New Apartment for Hyman S. CrystaL
George & Edward Blum, architects,
SOS Fifth avenue, are preparing prelim¬
inary plans for a high-class twelve-story
apartment house to be built at 156 to
160 East 79th street. The owner is Hy¬
man S. Crystal, of 47 West street, a
builder. The operation will cost about
•?3S0,000 according to the architect's pre¬
liminary estimate.

To Build at Cooper and Academy
Streets.

The Post Avenue Construction Com¬
pany, John J. Dowling, secretary, Sher¬
man and Isham avenues, will shortly
improve the northeast corner of Cooper
and Academy streets, in the Dyckman
section, with apartment houses. The plot
recently purchased by the company
measured 100x100 feet. Further details
are yet indefinite.





46th Street Pier Contract Awarded.

Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Corpora¬
tion, 331 Madison avenue, receive'd the
contract this week to erect the pier at
the foot of West 46th street for the De¬
partment of Docks and Ferries, Pier A,
foot of Battery place. North River. The
foundation will be of stone and wood
piling 150x100 feet in size. Plans for
the shed covering have not yet been pre¬
pared.   The estimated cost is $2,000,000.





Robert W. Goelet Selects Architects.

Warren & Wetmore, 70 East 4Sth
street, were selected as architects this
week for the store and ofiice building,
ten stories, which Robert W. Goelet, 9
West 17th street, is to erect on the large
plot, fronting 65.4 feet on Fifth avenue
and 141.6 feet in West 37th street, the
southwest corner. The store and basement
have already been leased to the Mark
Cross Company (leather goods), now at
210 Fifth avenue, for a long term of
years. It is said that work will begin
within a few days, so that the building
may be ready for occupancy by next
fall. The. general contract has not been
awarded.