Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-10-07
From the Washington Constitution.
Perry & Brother Magnificent store

Perry & Brother agnificent store.
The magnificent establishment recent
ly erected at the corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Ninth street by Perry &
Brother for the service of their extensive
dry-goods business vies with the superb
stores Of northern cities, and opens new
era in the mercantile annals of Wash
ington. The new building is Of brick,
with brown-stone front handsomely or
namented. 1t rises high above the sur
rounding buildings, fronts On the avenue,
and runs parallel with Ninth street 81
feet, having besides handsome rcctan-
gular addition on the east of so feet in
length, which forms the ground floor of
the store into an l. figure, and is sur
mounted by handsome dome that serves
for light and ventilation.
The basement, approached from with
in, is handsomely fitted up, lighted with
vault lights of the most approved style,
and secured from dampncss by system
of drainage which is at once simple and
effectual. This story is useful in con-
nection with the wholesale department,
its rear being specially devoted to the
storing and display of oil cloths of yari-
GUS kinds and patterns.
The lower floor, which is entered d.
rectly from Pennsylvania avenue, is a
model of elegance ana neatncss. A
doorway of handsome finish, large win
dows of plate glass, floor of various
colored marbles, ceiling in fresco, shell
wing in beautiful woods handsomely var
nished and artistically arranged, and su-
perb gas arrangements are its principal
features. The cashiers department is
on this floor, and communicates by speak
ing tubes with the various departments
into which the establishment is divided
The rear of this floor is devoted to shawls,
mantillas, basques, 60, to which, as to
all the other subdivisions of tho business,
special class of clerks is attached.
The second floor is the carpet-room
for cheap and medium carpets, curtains,
&c. The windows in this and the other
stories are arranged with blinds, so fixed
as to vary the light or direct it to any
portion of the room. On the third floor
is stored the higher grade carpeting
while the fourth floor is intended for the
storage of surplus stock and as the car
pet-cutting and fitting room. Carpets
purchased of this firm are cut to suit any
room desired, and, if required, will be
made up.
Throughout the entire building water,
gas, and all the essentials for the comfort
and convenience Of customers and those
employed about the establishment have
been provided and arranged with q taste
and skill that only the talents of the best
artisans, coupled with the experience of
a capital merchant, could have availed
to produce.
The establishment itself corresponds
; Nth h, Il. buaiaing which contains it, and
the rules adopted for its government ex-
hibit plan for the government of an
extensive corps of assistants, and re-
gard for the interests of the customers
of the house and its clerks that is credit
able to the character of the firm.
The aim Of the establishment, as an
nounced by its proprietor, is not so much
to sell low as to furnish customers with
the best article that can possibly be pro-
duced for the price marked The stock
is very large, among it many goods man
ufactured especially for the firm, and
bearing their trade mark. Kid gloves
from Paris, sheeting from New England
linens from Irish looms, and fulled cloths
and linseys from Western Virginia are
among the goods to pass through the
manufacturing process especially to be
dealt out to the Washington city public
through the hands Of this enterprising
firm. They are credit to the city. and
well deserve the large trade that finds il
their tact, enterprise, and integrity as
surance of its increase and permanency