Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-31

on the east and west, and Exchange and
Tenth streets ON the south and north. The
building is to be three stories and base
ment. The general design of the exterior
is modern adaptation of the renais-
sance. The material used is Minnesota
| brick and stone. The basement walls
are of broken limestone: The first belt
of the superstructure is of brown stone
from Fond du Lac. The walls are to be
of red pressed brick from Red Wing, with
trimmings of Frontenac sand stone. The
cornice will be of sand stone. The slop-
ing portions of the roof will be covered
with slate and the fiat parts with tin.
The cutters, ETC., will be of copper. From
the center of the building will rise tow
er of graceful proportions IT'S feet
in height. On the first floor halls Is feet
in width run each wav through the
building, merging in the center in a ro-
tunda thirty feet in diameter. Tessel-
ated pavements are to be laid throughout
the halls and corridors. Stairways will
lead up to the second floor from sew
eral directions, affording means of speedy
ingress and egress. ALI stairways will be
of iron, as also the joists, etc., and the
partition walls, well and everything con-
nected with the interior construction
will be made as nearly fire proof as pos
sible. The interior will be finished in
natural woods, which will give it pleas
ing as well as rich appearance. 1t will be
heated partly by steam and partly by hot
water. The steam heating apparatus will
be located in a separate building, con-
nected with the capitol by tunnel The
work is being done in most substantial
manner, and completed it will be struc-
ture of which no Minnesotian
need be ashamed, though the
impression is already becoming very
general that mistake has been made in
not providing for larger and more elab-
crate building-more in keeping with the
mammoth business blocks and costly resi-
dence structures yearly springing into ex-
istence in the capital and commercial city
of the state, and with the important po-
sition occupied by Minnesota as the En-
pire state of the Northwest. Mr.. L. s.
Burlington is the architect The building
Will cost $25O,OOO
UPTOWN ENGINE HOUSE.
A very fine engine house has been add
ed to the fire department on Sibley ave-
nue., which will be accepted and ready
for occupancy on or about the 1st of
February. Its dimensions are 26x70 feet,
and Will be the finest now owned by the
city. A new feature will be adopted,
that of having the men sleep On the same
floor as that used for the fire apparatus.
This, it is thought, will allow the men to
get to their posts quicker than were they
sleeping upstairs, as has been the GUS
tom. The upper floor will be used and
| fitted up as reading room, with few
spare bed rooms partitioned off to be
| used by those who should chance to be
placed on the sick-list The stalls, three
in number, will be on the sides of the
engine and hose carriage. The building
will be occupied by Engine Ne. S, and
hose carriage. 1t is estimated to cost
$4,000. This has been the one thing
needful in this locality for some time,
and those living in the neighborhood
| welcome it heartily.
MRS. BRADEN,
corner of Seventh and Olive streets, has
put up block of five stores, 81 by 1OC
feet, three stories in height, of red brick,
at cost of 100000.