New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-24
PROMINENT YEW BUILDINGS.

Among the principal now buildings commenced
or completed during the year 1906 were the following
French Thcater, West Fourcenth-st-Buidcr, D. Il.
Person stories high rs feet front. us deep built o.
brick; completed June 4. 1910
Harnonih Club House. Forty-sccondst-.Eidtz
Gillespie builders Go feet hgh - 'front.' TO- uS S c
petod September IL built Of brick, with part Of Dorce'
T5Tner Brothers Block Observation-Disclosures front aud
Sides 60 feet gh ll6 feet 'front.' built by Moore BY
sgish svnecogue Thirty-ninthst-C Cochran builder
u feet high 90 feet front n deep completed September
'Metrrnofan savings Bank Thrdavc and Seventies.
VIM la mbeer builder; A. feet front 70 deep brick ana
marble The building Is substantially built and no com
bushlo material Is used whcSc stono OF IRON couId 10
sic8iSay Concert Hall Fourteontha-Mlo Edit
builder; g feet high 70 front 200 deep maIefia DI'A
Iorilard Fire Insurance. Building No. l1- Bf0aaWay
GO feet high front Cs deep biick with marble front
Nm r. Aslor, clearinghouse block, West Thirty fourth.
ST. houses each "a feet high. Is 'front.' % deep brown
Union Dime Savings Bank, 800 Canast OF feet front,
81 deep white marble 'front.' mansard iooi cohuuc'eu m
VIC Go lTai Colcge school Of Mines Ffethst ard
Fourhave 90 feet high, 81 front i2s high Of brick com
Knckcrbocier Ice Company Stables q fcot high 100
American Jockey Club House corner Madison ave and
Tweny-sxtlst: Leonard W. Jerome owner 20 feet ~ s
80 front, 70 docpi marble iron inalfd ROOF S1npetg'
Dec S. tho walls IL aud - Inches tmck building 'uO
stantia and ornamental .,.,
Aemnnia Clubiousc, East Sixteenth 81 70 feeJ en-
81 front, llC deep; completed Dec Is. 49,,
New-lork Museum rear OF ili5 and Las broadway
John Barnard builder. $500,
Jewish Synagogue Temple Emanuel. corner OF flith,
ave and Forty -thrdst Marc Eidl buildcri external
walls Of Ohio stone; not yet Completed VIII cost sOoo
Catholic Orphan Asylum, fiitysccOnd II. .
Pixies Opera House IightaNc.i tween twenty III lU
and Twenty fourth ss Auds3 Bros builders. % feet
/ frOua 100 deep; not completed
German Hospital FOurtlatC. Gud Seventy seNcithri
commenced I'm August. feet 'front.' l67 deep with two
wings each 81 feet, In depth TINS VIII De ore 81 o mos
substantial asWcll as ornamental, buildings in the CITY
Among the fine churches not enumerated above hiD -
Thdnas's Church. IIftlavc and Ffiylhird 81 an clc
giant stone church ThiftyfOurtl.i, between Broad
way and Scven'h-ave; churches Nos aud East twenty
nf st. Nos ij9 70 igJ West Thirty ninth st. and corner
OF Thirty .fOurtst and Parfave
AMENDMENT OE THE HUILpGN9 ACT.
An act passed IN May last differed from tho laws pre-
ylOusly IN force IN the following particulars:
Fiyg. The liuitH within which wooden buldngs hc
prohibited arc extended O. q point 100 feet north ~
flghtvsxth 81 and extending from the East % tho
prohibition DO extended as 10 embrace the oAtfe
island
Seootd. All public buildings now required 20 hayo
extra facilities for escape In case Of fire or accident
Thid. AL buildings above twOstOTrs, or q fcct IN
hight except dwelling houses schOOhouse and churches
must have frCpro0f shutters upon every window not
opening upon street which shutters must be- closed rt
night Rnd all trapd0ors for elevators must be kept
closed when the elevator isnOt ~ use As 10 buildings
erected az the date Of the passage OF the act this pro-
vision cannot be enforced until the courts decide certain
! questions ~ 20 tl.e right OF such enforcement
Fourth. All stcJmhOat-hOusc- ferry houses, or other
structures abuttug upon any pier or bulkhcldi must be
constructed in such manner directed by the Supei
tendcnt % buildings Those erected during The year are
only permitted when covered with corrugated Iron.
rms All plans for construction alteration must DO
approved by the Building Department