The New York herald., 1875-12-28
THE RACKET CLUB HOUSE.
DESCRIPTION or THE NEW BUILDING AT SIXTH
AVENUE AND TwEETY-sIxTH STREET
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AVENUE AND TwENTY-sIxTH STREET.
Prom the World of Dec 27.l
The Racket Club Building a. the corner Of Sixth
avenue and Twenty-sxth street. wiz be completed
about May l. Tie lot on which the club house stands
Is on The northeast corner or Twentysxih and
sixth avenue with frontage oi "a feet the avenue
and running 100 feet down the street. The shorter
eide upon the avenue front divided into stores the
corner store being feet and the others IA feet
eacn, and al running back depth Of 62 feet Below
these shops are basement rooms accessible by broad
sareases from the Sidewalk and also adapted for bus
ness purposes The remaining depth OF the lot the
basement and store floors is taken up by two little
dwellings. The height OF the basement story Of the
stores is fe inches, and OF the store above IA feet
inches THIS height divided into three parts for the
dwellings gives kitchen ceiling feet inches n
height a parlor ceiling feet inches and chamber
story feet III inches IN the clear These dwellings are
entirely private With separate entrance, and apart
from the club house proper Furnace rooms and coal
vaults Nh mp the remainder OF the basement story
The club entrance proper is by porch the rwen-
sixth side OF the building. passage, teet
inches wide cut OF rom the stores on one side and
the dwelling on the other leads to the main staircase,
lit may be taken here and the visitor arrive
directly at the club rooms on the third floor above.
Up the grand staircase the man hail ls reached. The
whole Of this floor given up entirely TO bachelors
apartments or these there are eight or nine SUITS
each sun consisting Of paror or sitting room bed
room, anteroom and a bathroom, with ample closet
rooms Eacn set Of rooms has outer windows, manly
the and street. and the parlor IN each case
averages IA by 10 feet with the bedroom connecting by
large sliding doors. Up another light and the racket
club reached A billiard room, 23 BY 80
feet hes between the open CLUB rooms the side
ant the dressing rooms on the other From the dress
ing the club members have 70 the racket
courts above. These courts are large chambers with
4 cement door and brick walls The stairs from the
dressing rooms lead directly TO the gymnasium long
room, 2s feet n height. Passing through this,
a well lighted passage along the Twenty-s1th street
front two small doors bV when the
racket court floors carried The courts are TWO IN
number and Of equal sizethirtyone feel sx inches by
sixty three feet The brick walls carried up twenty
eight eet and finished of perfectly plumb ana
smooth Above these the roof Is carried Up N Truss
and tie rod construction. The gh n the court oD-
aned ny large skyights, occupying about twothiras q
the each court ~ The gymnasium Is q
bowling alley with two
lhe courts the servants rooms for those 10
the employ Of the club and engaged about the house
Another feature II The running track Ihis makes the
circuit Of racket courts occupies the roof
Twenty times around make mile. The track is about
i've aud ends space against the outer walls on
ale one side ana the slantng tmbers the other
The Of the building is less novel than the
4ntsror The mater al used in the walls from TOP 10
bottom is common hard North River brick, selected
for Uniformity Of color. The stories have iron columns,
with the opening spanned by iron girders and hat
arches Beyond this all the openings are spanned by
semicircuar arches in brick the stone lntels sup
porting the small tympanui1 over each opening Is Of
blue stone, roughly dressed, and the ympani are in
turn filed in with herring bone brick work The gen.
era plan Is gain relief for the faces Of the building
by throwing them into buttresses and bays Eight or
these bays hl up the Twentysixth street front and SIX
tbe Sixth facade on the long street elevation
Jour OF bay windows carried up through three
stories These open interiory into the bachelors par
lors and shaped IN plan, SIX feet wide and three
feet N projection, a1ording view up and down the
thoroushare
These bay windows butt above under a corridor three
feet WIDE running along the Twenty sixth street front
The cornice is il series of bold iron openwork
brackets with overhang Of FIVE feet eight inches.
These feet apart anu between them the win
lighting and the
The club house has been built BY A. 3 Thorp, prom
iDent member OF the New York Racket Club, who will !
occupy II when completed The president Of the club
is Mr. Travers and the membership includes number
Of young OF the city The cost Or the whole will
reach $3.50 600 and a. the present rate of progress VIII
he ready for club uses above stated about May