The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-04
A MODEL WAREHOUSE.
Description Of Messrs. T. W. Wagener &
Co.'s contemplated New and Commodi-
GUS Place of Business.
Ncws and Courier.

GUS Place Of Business.
Ncws and Courier.
The property southwest corner of East
Bay and Queen street, together with the
property next south on East Bay and the
three adjoining buildings to the rear on
Queen street have been purchased by Capt.
I. w. Wagener, and workmen are now
busily engaged in taking down these
several buildings to make way for a
structure that, for convenience and ele-
gance in design, will be unexcelled in
the South. The building which We are
about to describe is intedend for the
large and growing merchandise business
of AIessrs. T. w. Wagner & Go. Mr..
Wagner hes contracted with Mr..
R. P. Southland for the erection of the
building, which will be commenced dur
ing next week and pushed forward for
completion end occupation by the 1st of
January, 1850.
TIE BUILDING
is to be of the style of architecture known
as the Victoria Gothic, in common use in
London, New York and Boston, and of
imposing grandeur and proportion. The
building is to be three stories in height,
GO feet from the ground to the roof, hav-
ing q frontage Of 67l feet on East Bay,
continued BY q round corner (similar to
the one of the Carolina Bank on Broad
and East Bay) running into Queen street,
and continuing to the depth of FOG feet.
To the back or rear it runs out to an l.
shape, which will be 79 feet wide by G6
in depth. The building will be three
stories high from the front to the depth
of 15O feet, and the remaining Sc feet re-
duced to two stories. 1t will be con-
structed of brick. The front will b. Of
pressed brick plain and moulded, laid to
ornamental patterns, to be made by the
Peerless Brick Company, Philadelphia.
The first story will be 16 feet in the
clear, the second Is feet and the third l3
feet.
The building on East Bay will be en-
tered by four large segmental arched
doors, S by 14 feet, ornamented at the
top with transom lights; the second and
third stories front will have each FIVE
large ornamented windows. The front
on East Bay toward the roof is designed
in three portions, the center portion being
higher than the two sides and projecting
little beyond them. This will be rich
ly ornamented. The round corner which
turns Queen street will be twelve feet
front, and this will be the most ornamen-
tai and attractive face of the building.
A large scgmental arched door with glass
side lights will take up all this space, and
this door will be the entrance to the Off
ces. Over the entrance at the second
story will be projecting balcony to be
ornamented in taste and elegance, and
to form the imposing feature of the de.
sign the windows to the third story will
correspond with the front, crowned with
ornamental cornices, and the whole is to
be finished with n flagstaff twenty feet
high. On the Queen street side the
building will be rough-cast. Toward
East Bay there will be four large win
dows and then a large door. From this
door, which will be near the center of the
side, there will be six small air windows,
and at the end OF the building another
large door. The second and third stories
to the side will each have ten large win
dows.
THE INTERIOR
of the building will be one large open
space. The second and third floors and
the roof will be supported by row of
iron columns twelve feet apart, running
the entire length of the building. The
first floor will have a storage capacity of
twelve hundred tons, the second about
one thousand tons and, the third about
nine hundred tons. There will also be
cellar of from six to seven feet clear I'm.
der the building. The goods, wares and
merchandise will be transferred from one
floor to the other by means of elevators.
One of these elevators will be situated at
the front of the store on East Bay, and
the other to the rear of the store near the
Queen street door; the latter will be a
steam elevator with a hosting capacity
of two tons. There will be located
in the cellar refrigerators for the keep
ing of cheese, butter, &C., in summer
seasons.
THE OFFICES
will be entered from the round corner
door, and will be located on the first
floor on the Queen street side. First we
enter the sample room, dimensions y by
20; from this the business Office of same
dimensions, and from this latter Capt.
Wagener's private office, room ten feet
square. These offices will be separated
one from the other by a fancy panel rail-
ing, which will render them easy of COM
munication, one with the other, and
with the store. In the business Office,
there will be freproof vault four by six
feet.
In the rear of the private office will be
staircase running to the second floor,
and from thence to che third, aud this
will be the only stairway to the building.
When this structure is completed it will
be an ornament to the city. This build
ing is of the model plan now adopted in
the large growing cities of the great
West and in New York and London, and
it promises to be an enduring monument
to the thrift and enterprise of the firm for
whom it is built.
GREW TIE WooD FOR HIS COFFIN
A remarkable story is told of the late
Capt. Stone, of Moundsville, who was