The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-08
THE MUSIC HALL.
Description of the Building aa
Planned.

Flanned.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Cincinnati Music Hall held
at the Board of Trade Rooms yesterday
evening Secretary julius Dexter sub.
mitted his annual report, from which the
following is taken:
"rhe contracts awarded, the bids al
ready received for some portions of the
work yet unlet, and an estimate on one
part only, make the total cost of the
building between $22S, 900 and $229, 900.
The aggregate of the subscriptions, the
stock and the proceedings of the sale OF
the old buildings, is a little over $3.50 000.
After fair allowance for shrinkage in
collecting the subscriptions, the Trus-
tees believe their fund is sufficient to
finish the building as planned, and to
pay for heating apparatus, seats, chan
deiiers, aud for all extras, incidentals
and contingencies.
+ "Tne Music Hall would not be COM
plete without an organ, but the fund is
not adequate TO that expense. An organ
such as would be in Keeping with the
hail, will cost from $25, 900 to $40, 900. Mr..
Springer has generously headed with
$4,000 subscription list Tor the pur-
chase OF an organ, and q committee was,
some time ago, appointed to solicit the
necessary additional means. The sub
scriptions reached some $4,000, when
an incorporation was made of the sui
scribers into the Cincinnati Music Hall
Organ Socisty, and such society will Sc
cure the organ, and agree with the Music
Hall Association upon terms for placing
it in the hall, and for its use when there.
"The building OF the hall is expected
now to proceed to completion without
iurther delay or interruption. The
Trustees desire to have the hall ready
for the May Musical Festival of 1878,
and will push the work with all neces-
sary energy to that end.
placed in the middle OF the lot. The Elm
street sidewalk is widened to "a feet,
while the first step of the hall is 70 feet
from the inner edge OF the sidewalk.
The front approach is by stone steps to a
stone platform II teet wide, and extend.
ing along the whole front except where
interrupted by two towers. Between
these towers, 5 do0rways, IL feet 4
inches wide, give access 10 the grand
vestbule, 4G by LIZ feet and Al feet nigh,
broken by a gallery at the height of 81
feet inches, running around it SO as to
leave well hole 80 by 6S feet. Above
this vestibule is small hall 40 by liz
feet and 80 feet high. Back OF the vesti-
bule is the Main Hall, liz feet broad by
1872 feet long. The floor slopes down.
ward from the vesLibule 10 within about
80 feet OF the stage with grade of in
30. The stage space will BE- 112 by 5t
feet, Of which the organ will probably
cover 81 by 30 ieet. A gallery runs
along both sides and over narrow por.
~ .Nf In hn1
a height Of Il feet 8 inches from the
floor, with second rear gallery above
the first.
"Along each side of the vestibule and
of the Main Hall runs an eighteen-toot
corridor, unDroken by any steps, and
having Independent exits. The vesti.
bule opens into this corridor with arched
doorways, and the hall with ordinary
but wide doors. Carried alongside OF
these corridors at each corner Of the
building run stairway corridors for the
necessary distances. Tue stairs are all
straight, built of iron and stone. Those
at the rear are 8, and those at the front
nearly II feet wide, or 8 inches wider
than the main entrance To Pixies Hail.
These stairways have also their own di-
rect exits, so that there are 8 dourways
in the front. In the rear of the build
ing, on the ground noor, are z rooms ~
by 27 feet, and above them, and over the
Corridors are 2 similar rooms, and 2
27 by 20 leet 6 inches. Back OF me organ
space is q passage on both floors IL by
81 feet.
"In the front towers are eight rooms,
fourteen feet three inches by nineteen
feet five inches. The TWO on the ground
floor are Intended as ticket offices. In
the front of the building are also two
rooms in the first and two in the second
story, over the corridors, thirty-one feet
six inches by twenty.six feet eight
inches. The pinnacle Of the front gable
is one hundred and fifty feet from the
ground, but over the Main Hall the apex
of the roof is some thirty feet lower.
The front OF the building will be laid IN
stock and especially nodded brick with
a sunken joint"