The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-10-15

FINE BUILDING INPRovBMENTs.-On III,
aOuth eide Of = street north, between Thir
tcenih Hrd Fourteenth streets west, Messrs
log erected a magnificent Gve.story building
| including alarge basement. The side and rear
walls are composed OF brick, and the front
wall T Ge ,soys ssg ,sSt I0n
and the basement and first or main floors laid
off suitable for hTst.class storerooms, of which
there will be two on each floor 20 feet front
running back the entire depth OF the building.
The three upper stories will be fitted up suit.
able for offices and sleeping apartments. The
ceiling of the basement has a pitch of IL feet,
stories IL feet, and that OF the NTH or upper
story 10 feet 0 inches, thereby giving excellent
ventilation to the entire building. There will
be halls running through the centre of the
building on each and every floor 10 feet In
width, through which there will DO continuing
stairs leading from the main entrance to the
upper story. The hall on the naia noor will
ter, under which Is a basement with Is foot
ceiling, and the principal story Will be GOV.
cred with dome about y feet to the eye q
lantern finished with great tsste and beauty,
for the lighting Of this spacious apartment.
There have been placed under the pavement
large vaults for the storage OF fuel, &c. A
| tiue 30-foot alley runs In the rear, which will
give every facility for receiving and deliver.
ing goods. The entire building will be heated
by large furnaces, and every room supplied
| with water, (hot and cold and gas; All am
pie number OF water closets, wardFobcs, bath
rooms, and everything will be COMPLETED on
the most modern plan without regard to cost
or labor. Owing to the lateness OF the season
the building OF the rotunda will necessarily
be postponed until next season, but the main
SV tSe middle w OF pepeember When co
II done according to the plat laid down, 1t will
be second to no mercantile house in the Dis
trlct, and will cost In the neighborhood OF
10000.
This fine piece of architecture 10 being OK.
| ceuted by John y. Hardness, esq.i the brick
work BY MI $; j. RisSsi sarP.sn'srs, Mes ,,nn
work by Bartlett & Co, of baltimore Cit
| This street bids fair to be one of the greatest
business streets in the District, the Metro
politan street railway passing direct through
/ II from Fifth to Fourteenth street, via the
General Post Oflce and the Patent ONCE
also offering every facility TO the travelling
| community from Capitol Hill TO the First
| ward, and there is every prospect OF having
| the track extended to Uniontown across the
Eastern Branch, which will afford the neces.
| sary accommodations to persons reading In
East Washington, who may wish TO transact
business In tho northern and western portion
Of the city
west. Mr.. William Sleek, merchant tailor, Is
having constructed = fine fouT.story pressed
brick front building, with imposing IRON trim
mings, II will be 20 by so feet, and consist Of
II well-yentilated rooms, the ceiling Of the
first story having pitch Of u feet, the second
10 feet inches, and the third and fourth ofect
Q inches On the first or main iloor there will
be a store.room Is by 10 feet, with side hall
leading to the other portions OF the building,
which will be used for dwelling purposes, MIR.
Sleek proposes to have 1t finished ON the most
modern plan, with coal bins under the pave
ment, wat.r.Closets, water and gas, marble
NANTES, &C, and when completed 1t will cost
tlo, 900. Contractor and builder. Mr.. +. Roth.
Mr.. Roth has just eompleteG two;story
residence for MIR. Charles Me dcs, on Third
| street, between Pennsylvania and Missouri
| avenues. 1t Ia composed of brick, the frort
being of pressed brick, with appropriate trim
mings. 1t is 20 by 40 feet, and embraces large
and neatly finished rooms, with all of the
necessary ARRANGEMENTS TO make It both de.
sirable and comfortable home.