Washington sentinel., 1853-10-12

New PIANO FORTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
who are familiar with some twenty or thirty
piano forte warehouses in the southern section
OF the city, will come at once to the conclusion
that there is nothing ,leao or novel in our cap.
ton, but this is not so. 1t will be seen, by a
card in our advertising. columns, that our fel.
low-citizen, Mr.. Jonas Chickering, whose fame
as manufacturer Of piano fortes is world wide,
and whose old and extensive establishment on
Washington street was totally DESTROYED by fire
about year since, has taken the Masonic Tenn.
pie, fremont street, and converted it into a
splendid, spacious, convenient, and elegant
mart for the sale Of his celebrated instruments.
He has expended upwards Of $4,000 to effect
the change, and the work reflects lasting credit
on his good taste in the detail. The old Tenn
pie is now modern Temple, hereafter to be
devoted to musical purposes. Persons most
familiar with the locality will hardly recognise
it. in its present condition. On entering the
front door, a wide and spacious stairway leads
directly up in front, landing near the centre of
the old hall. Over this stairway is ceiling
in oak panel work Over the entrance way is
business Office, with small private rooms to
the right and left. Still higher (the locality of
the old gallery is the private room of Mr..
Chickerng where the immense operations Of
his whole establishment will be originated, for
the hands of his numerous artizans. From this
point he has view, from oval portfolios, of
his entire suit of rooms On the right and left
of the stairway are two splendid drawing rooms,
each 20 by %, carpeted, and the walls covered
with beautiful satin paper, and otherwise fur.
nished and fitted in excellent good taste.
At the head of the great stairway two ponder.
Gus doors open into the great ware-room, which
is GO by forty feet in dimensions. The floor is
covered with neat Brussels carpet the long
windows upholstered with heavy green damask
curtains, fringed the walls covered with q rich
and elegant gold and satin finished paper, in
large panels, with piasters between each panel,
on which there are figures emblematic of as.
tronomy architecture, sculpture, painting, mu.
sic, &c, with gothic arch from plaster to pi.
laster, formed of flowers in gay tints, true to
nature, lying in masses. Over this is broad
frieze, entirely around the hall, on which there
are mass of figures emblematic of all the arts;
the whole combined is chastely elegant This
paper was manufactured in Paris, and imported
expressly for this room. The whole suit of
rooms are to be lighted with gas from chandel.
iers. The finish throughout is in the gothic
STYLE and in keeping with the external archi.
lecture Of the building
This is model establishment, and the most
splendid in the country for similar purpose.
1t must be seen to be duly appreciated and
after to-day the numerous friends and patrons
Of Mr.. c. will have an opportunity to see it in
perfection. The site is one of the most desira.
Bile that could be found, being remote from the
noise of fremont stseet, with southern aspect
on Temple Place, which is private way and
little frequented by carriages.
The reputation which Mr. Chickering has
earned, as a manufacturer, needs no praise from
us. An experience Of thirty years of unintcr.
rupted labor and trial in one vocation has en-
abled him to reach as near perfection in his
beautiful art as is possible for one mind to
achieve. The extensive sale of his instruments
throughout the broad extent Of this country, in
England, France, the Continent, the East and
West Indies, fully attests to this fact.
Mr.. Chickering's establishment has always
been the headquarters for musical intelligence,
and all artistes Of celebrity seek his presence
on arrival in the metropolis where warm and
friendly reception is sure to greet them.
We congratulate Mr.. Chickering on his fu.
turc prospects in his new Temple Long may
he preside over it, which, we venture to assert,
will meet with hearty response from his hosts
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