Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-08-17

part of the town in which it is built Its chief
features are its numerous buttresses and towers,
and its lofty height. !, The wall of the lower story,
in which is inclosed ay-ground, is built of free
store, and the remainder Of brick, to be succeed.
Its ground dimensions are 125 feet by So The
CHURCHES will all be larger edifces. The outside
material of all will be free4stone. Frerch's hotel
will extend 70 feet on Chatham-st. and 1876 on
Frankfort and be : stories high Harris's Con-
gfess Sugar Refinery, in Duane-st. on the site of
the one lately burnt down, is building af the lar
gest dimensions, just completed. lts 95 l-2 feet
front BY so deep, and including the basement, 10
stories high IL az, the gables. The walls (of
brck) graduate from feet in thickness at the
basement to l6 inches al the caves.
A much larger number Of old buildings than u
sual are Being pulled down to clear the ground for
respectable and substantial new ones This ap-
pears to be fact refectng much COMMUNICATION
upon landlords. Though there are some Of these
gentlemen who suffer their houses to rot down in
the most beautiful avenues of the City, for the sake
of better rents than could be got, proportionaby,
on better edifices. The evidences are before us
that the body of them are not without an ambition
to see their premises, and in consequence their
town, indicating a march of improvement
fthe buildings awaiting their destruction or COLI
version into something else. one quite prominent
appears to he the Reservoir in East Thirteenth ST.
which served so we'll the Fire Department prior
to the introduction of the Croton water. While
tbo old apbo Racoryoir in, >b,np St iS
suspended in midway operations of being conver-
ted into porter house. as we are told. A diff
Guilty between the Manhattan Bank and the New
York Bible Society is existing in relation to this
Reservor-the. Manhattan Bank appearing to have
sold i to the Bible Society for site for its pro-
posed new building and the Bible Society ap
pearing to have sought to throw up the purchase
in consequence of having discovered a nuisance
in the rear of the said Reservoir. 49,. . !
The style of building at the present day, as con-
traslng with that of early amsterdam days, has
claim on our attention. but we can only briefly no.
tice ii. Those were days of fthatched roofs, wood
en- chimneys, and gable ends; also porches, dor
mer windows, and steeple-ridgepoes. Nova
days new face is worn by architecture. 1t has,
it may be said, begun de nou9, owning no connec-
ton, except to certain Roman and Catholic orders.
That new era has dawned in respect to the mate
rial for building the walls ofhouses which threatens
an extensive encroachment on the tile making bu-
siness. is truth to be learned simply by walk
through the Fifteenth Ward and parts adjacent
If we cannot ere many years boast an equality
E,r al, al OLE
and splendor, it will not be for want of munifi
cence and refinement of taste in our men who
build, from present appearances and our surety
in this is but little less in the enterprise and ge
MUS of those who WELD the trowel. The intro
ducton of iron material in building, as iron fronts
for the lower stories of stores-consisting of pill
lars and blinds--s crnakle in building growing
very common Buildings in which such fronts
are employed, should. without doubt have extra
firm partition walls to which the walls superin-
cumbent upon the iron fronts or pillars should be
extra firmly tied; and the gables of such build
ings forming the corners of blocks should be extra
solid The large building just erected on the cor
ner of Maiden Lane and Little Greene-st. extend
ing several stores, is an instance Of much neglect
in these particulars, if what we have perceived of
essentials in such buildings has been perceived "a
right In the event of a fire eating out the inside
of this building we do not know what would Sc
cure the walls from tumbling. While stone is SO
cheap, we feel surprise at so often seeing the
door and window lintels of new-built houses bro
ken-broken from every evidence of their too in
sufficient strength for sustaining the pressure i'm
posed upon them not previously cracked. Two,
if not more, might have been seen, before they
were covered over by cornices, in the walls of
the new building corner of Grand and Ludlow SITS.
A building (in part for stores, as was the one just
named } in Canal-st. south side, and few steps
west from Broadway, exhibited lintels of this ftail
order; being some four or five feet in length. not
exceeding, apparently, six inches in thickness,
through either two sides, resting on iron pillars,
by short hold, and sustaining the weight of the
wall of the building. they are now covered by a
massive cornice The building IS of compartive-
ly no consequence, but it illustrates the principle
or fact sought to be explained, to wit the too
much etoaomizing upon door-liniels. The en-
ployment OF the fiat arch in building has been at