Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-01

ries, approached at the rear corners by stair
ways. In 'front.' an Office and copying-room,
lO:4 by 1916 and 1l:6 by Is, connecting with
the hall by glass doors in one case, and
in the other cut off by rail, gate and desk.
The gallery above is faced with broad bal
cony, protected by iron railing. The archi-
lecture of the building is massive Egyptian
IN character, and presents plain front with
a heavy arched entrance-way in solid
masonry porch or vestibule and above, three
great arched double-windows with pillars of
masonry between, from which spring arches
with nodded cornices spanning each window.
The sides present precisely similar views,
with the arched spaces where windows would
be walled up and below, five double
windows, square-topped, on each side for the
basement story. The roof is hip, with a
dome with hip roof and side lights. The
specifications call for brick walls with
two-inch hollow space, the inner wall
being four inches thick and bound to the
outer wall with strap iron every other brick,
and headers every fifth course, and offsets of
substructure every other course Those for
exterior faces of superstructure to have dove
tail bond and colored with Venetian red, ex-
cept the third course above the water table.
Water table, window sills, door sill at main
entrance steps, buttresses, pier caps, arch to
entrance and pilaster bands to be of Penryn
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ing to be of Hoyst's combination rolled
wrought-iron beams and corrugated iron
arches. with beams anchored, the overlay to
be of concrete. Roof trusses of wrought
iron anchored to walls and oveIlaid with cor
rugated iron of riveted and soldered Joints.
Dome perpendicular sides and ceiling OF clear
story. Partitions in main floor to be of
Hoyst's patent iron lath. Stairways of
cast-iron with wrought-iron carriages.
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cast-iron with wrought-iron bar nut and cast
iron washers to build in wall. Clear story
sash of malleable iron-door frames and castings
on main floor to be of cast-iron andmain door
OF wrought iron. Window-frames, sills, etc.,
columns of basement story, cornice of main
entrance, entablature, cornice, ETC., of gall
vanized iron, with wrought-iron stays, etc.
All windows to have Clarke's noiseless self
coiling steel shutters with space for shut
ters to coil overtop. Estimated cost, S23, 900.
THE PLANS OF WILLIAM STOKES
Call for brick superstructure with stone
trimmings. The architecture is attractive.
1t is designed in the Renaissance style. 1t
calls for two stories forty by sixty feet. In
the center of the front facade a central tower
extends up to the roof Over the entrance
an ornamental portico with coupled iron col
umns. The exterior walls to be faced with
pressed brick. The roof covered with CORFU
gated iron-No. 20, B. w. G.-secured to
iron purlins supported by iron rafters, the
rafters and struts secured to cast-iron plate
supporting the skylight. The front entrance
steps and buttresses of granite. The founda-
tion walls to rest in fve-foot UNDER
pinning footings of hard-burned brick.
The basement walls to be 27 inches
thick to main-foor joist, thence with twenty
inch walls to the top. Ali windows and doors
to be properly arched, and there are to be in
verted arches below all openings. All ex-
ternal walls are to be hollow. One brick
from the internal face of the wall, binders to
be laid every three courses, and every third
brick in this course. All external window
frames to be of cast iron and granite sills. All
window shutters to be of corrugated iron
filed in with asbestos freproof filling. The
main entrance doors to be constructed in the
same manner. The portico columns to be of
cast iron. Cast iron balustrade, and all orna-
ments around the window frames. Cornice
of galvanized iron, and extending under the
first sheet of the roof covering and riveted to
the iron plate. All covering to lap not less
than eight and to be riveted every six inches.
The entrance is to be from the main facade
through the tower, which forms vestibule
in the basement. Thence from corridor by
stairway to the second story corridor, thence
to main hall. In main hall gallery on three
sides with a platform in one corner at the
foot of the stairs to the gallery for the Re-
corder's desk overlooking all the hall, and the
copying-room entrance. The copying.room
to be in front or on the plane of the gallery.
The plans show the basement story to be
longitudinally pierced by a seven-foot corri-
dor with the stairway and lavatory on the
right, and in their rear two Offices 13 by 20
and Is by 10. Opposite are two offices Is by
2S and 13 by 24:6, with two closets between.
The main hall of records by this plan would
be sc feet 3 inches by SO feet inches, with
a gallery on three full sides and partly
on fourth. The sub.basement will be
filled in with earth and covered with broken
rock five inches thick and over 3-inch layer
of concrete, and ON top an Oregon pine floor.
The main staircase in the corridor to be of
wood. The front presents a tower with
central double window over the portico, and
the main front a like window in each story
on either side the tower. On the level
of the gallery-hoor the front is recessed to the
back line of the tower and has on either side
a single window. The basement story has
two double windows on either side. The
cornices are plain, sufficiently overhung and
are in keeping with the style of the building.
Estimated cost s23, 900.