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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 78, no. 2010: September 22, 1906

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4^4 RECORD AND GUIDE September 22, 1906 "ISaOJ" =H^^|^^^ '^SJ^QT "^^^^1 THE REALM OF BUILDING .f3i£S\, Description of the Marbridge Building. The new Marbridge Building, at the northeast corner of Broadivay and Sith st, and Nos. 66-74 West Soth st, will cover a plot measuring 17S.9 ft on Broadway, 150 ft on 34th st, 93 ft on 3oth st, covering an area of 2S,S00 sq ft. It will have eleven stories, together with a basement and sub-basement, and will be strictly flreproof and thoroughly flrst class in con¬ struction- Occupied by stores In the first story and basement and by lofts in the second to fourth stories, the other seven floors will be for offices. The facades will be of Italian Re¬ naissance design, in Bedford buff Indiana limestone, for the entire height, with cornice and balustrade of same material. The skeleton wall construction will be used with girders and steel columns carried on steel grillage resting on rock. The floor construction will be of reinforced concrete type, with a roof flnisbed with bard vitrlfled "Ohio" tile. Each offlce will be furnished with a porcelain lavatory and wil! have a tele¬ phone conduit extended to it for local and long distance ser¬ vice, with ample toilet rooms for men and women in each story. All halls and corridors, together with all toilet rooms will be finished with tile floors and marble wainscote or base. The stairways will be strictly fireproof, enclosed in flreproof terra cotta blocks, with self-closing fireproof doors on each floor. The service to upper stories will be by eleven high-speed hydraulic plunger elevators and two sidewalk lifts. A freight elevator will be furnished wdth a high-power auxiliary pump capable of lifting 10,000 lbs. Stores will have electric escala¬ tors running from basement to second story, this service being both up and down. Mail chutes will be provided by the main entrance on Broadway, also on 34th st. The building will be equipped with four B. & W. safety tubular boilers aggregat¬ ing 1,100 H. P. for power and using the exhaust steam for heating. The electric lighting service by four high-speed en¬ gines and dynamos. Stores are to be ventilated hy large ex¬ haust fans and blowers run by electric motors supplying tem¬ pered and filtered air. A vacuum sweeping plant will be pro¬ vided in all stores, Iqfts and offices. Also a pneumatic carrier plant will be provided for cash carrier. A complete fire ser¬ vice will be provided with three stand pipes having outlets on each story, equipped with 100 ft of standard flre bose on reel and thiee separate Siamese connections, one on the sidewalk on each front of the building- All stores and lofts will be pro¬ vided v/ith an automatic sprinkler system, having the piping concealed in the floors, the heads only being exposed on the ceiling. The sprinkler system will be supplied from 7.5,000 gallons of water In pressure tanks and 75,000 gallons In gravity tanks on roof. Tanks w-ill be connected not only with sprinkler system, but also witb tbe Croton mains by two high-power flre pumps connected automatically. The water used through¬ out the building Will be filtered. Owing to the depth of the boiler-room floor below the sewer level, all sewage from base¬ ment and sub-basement flxtures muII be drained into a sewei by an automatic sewage lift. The estimated cost of the edifice is $1,500,000- Wm. R. H- Martin Is owner; Townsend, Steinle & Haskell, architects, and Cbas. T. Wills, builder. Plans for Broadway and Exchange Place, BROADWAY.—The Knickerbocker Trust Company, owner of the northeast corner of Broadway and Exchange place, a plot 60x131 ft, on which now stands the southerly part of the Consolidated Exchange Building, has commissioned Messrs, Mc¬ Kim, Mead & White, 160 Sth av, to design plans for a high office building to be erected on the site. The property now extends along the northerly side of Exchange place to and in¬ cluding the corner of New st. The Knickerbocker Co- paid for the site, which contains S.371 square feet, about §200 a square foot, or $1,700,000. Work of demolishing the old exchange, it is said, will begin next spring. Tbe Exchange occupies the site under a ground lease, which has some extended time yet to run, so that the new Knickerbocker Building may have to be delayed for a time. Chas. T. Barney is president of the com¬ pany. Of course, no building contracts have been let. Steel Contract Let for Broadway-Cortlandt. BROADWAY.—The Broadway-Cortlandt Co., Robert E. Dow¬ ling, president, has awarded the contract for supplying and erecting 14,000 tons of steel needed in the erection of the new 20 and 33-story office structure about to be built at Cortlandt, Church and Broadway, to the American Bridge Co., of 42 Broadway. V. J, Hedden & Sons Co,, No. 1 Madison av, is general contractor, and Francis H. Kimball, 71 Broadway, the architect. The cost of the building is estimated at $3,400,000. {See also issue of Sept. S, 1906.) Other large contracts ob¬ tained by the American Brldgre Co. recently were for 20,000 tons JQ^SY. of bridge construction required by tbe Harriman Co-, 1,500 tons of bridge work (or the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Chicago, 300 tons for the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., and 900 toiis for the Great Northern Railway. Lawyers Title Insurance & Trust Co. to Build on Broadway. BROADWAY.—That the large title insurance companies are concentrating on lower Broadway is becoming a noticeable fact. Following the completion of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company's new structure at Nos. 17G-17S Broadway, the Lawyers Title Insurance & Trust Co., of No. 37 Liberty st, is now to erect a handsome new building covering Nos. IGO to 164 Broadway, running through wilh a frontage at No. 6 Maiden lane. The number of stories, kinds of materials to be tised and estimaled cost of Lbe project have not yet been de¬ termined. Messrs. Clinton & Russell, of No, S2 Nassau st, bave been commissioned to design tbe structure. Of course no bulld- iLig contracts have been issued. Two New Public Libraries. 115TH ST,—Messrs, McKim, Mead &. White, 160 Sth av, are to design plans for two new Carnegie libraries, to be known as Nos. 32 and 37, one to be situated on the north side of 115th st, between 7tb and Sth avs, and the other on the north side of 124th st, between 5tb and Lenox avs. When plans are ready bids will be received by t-he architects. Churches. Joseph J, Jackson, 1123 Broadway, Manhattan, has com¬ pleted plans for a church, 70x125 ft, for the St. Casimus Polish Congregation to be erected at Terryvllle„ Conn,, at an estimated cost of $28,000. The Atlantic Avenue Chapel (Congregational), of Brooklyn, will be extensively remodeled hoth on interior and exterior. A new steeple will be erected, electric lights, Interior decorations, new pulpit, outside painting, etc. 1G4TH ST.—Plans have been completed by Bosworth & Hol¬ den, 1170 Broadway, for the 1-sty church, 34x9S ft, for St. Simon's Congregation, to be erected at 164th st and Sheridan av. Rev. R. J. Walker, 541 East IGSd st, is pastor. Finishing touches are being put on the new Columbia Uni¬ versity Chapel, St- Paul, on the college grounds facing Amster¬ dam av, and it is now expected by late fall the dedication -p^'Ill take place. The contractors now await the arrival of some interior carved woodwork from Italy. One of the special fea¬ tures of beauty of the chapel is the three chancel windows by John La Farge, which represents St. Paul preaching on Mars Hill. The structure was designed by Messrs. Howells & Stokes, 100 William st. Theatres. Messrs. Dodge & Morrison, S2 Wall st, Manhattan, are pre¬ paring plans for a theatre to cover an area of 120x125 ft, to be erected at Nos. 19G-19S West Madison st, Chicago, III., to cost about $.500,000- The Hyde & Behman Syndicate will be the owners- The Lincoln Theatre, Broadway and GGth st, just completed, will be opened on Tuesday, Oct- 30. This playhouse is equipped with a thick steel curtain, augmented' by a water curtain. In¬ stead of the usual asbestos curtain, the flrst of the kind to be introduced here. 44th ST.—Plans are now ready for the new Times Square Theatre, which the Stuyvesant Theatre Co., 209 West 42d st, is to erect at 111 to 121 West 44th st, on a plot 105x90 3-12 ft. The structure, which will be of Colonial design, will be among the flrst of its kind yet erected In this city since tbe revision of tbe laws governing tbe construction of theatres. There will be 4-stys, an exterior of terra cotla and light brick, felt and cement roof, American concrete steel floor filling, cop¬ per and lerra cotta cornices, bluestone coping, low pressure steam heat, etc. Daniel Bellasco is president; M. R. BImberg, vice- president; Benjamin Roder, secretary and treasurer, and B- K. Bimberg, a director- George Keister, 11 West 29th st, is archi¬ tect. No building contracts have yet been awarded. The esti¬ mated cost is $175,000. (See also issue June 16, 1906.) Mercantile. 5TH AV.—Additional stories are to be added to the two S and 11-sty buildings northeast corner Sth av and IGth st. Mrs. C. M, Butler, 73 Convent av, Is owner, and Henry Anderson, 1183 Broadway, architect. The buildings are tq 6e connected on the ground floor. No contracts yet Issued,