Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-11-03
Harper 4 Turner's New Store.

Harper & Turner's New Store.
This newly-erected, elegant and
commodious building, at the corner
of Jefferson and Monroe streets, is
ornament to our public sqnare,
and the best evidence that has yet
been given of progress in the right
direction in architectural aspiration
in Mexico.
Its lower front is of iron Corinthian
composite, and its upper of St. Louis
pressed brick, braced with futed pi-
lasters upon five iron columns, and
pierced by five elegant windows three
feet one inch by eleven feet four inches,
filed with plate glass broken at the
top into brilliantly stained diamonds.
The entablature and cornice are of
wood in corresponding designs, the
former being also Corinthian, the
latter Eastlake, combined with that
style. The building occupies 40 feet
On Monroe street, and extends back
105 feet on Jefferson street, leaving a
20 foet alley in it's rear. The columns
in front are Is feet high, the corhice
is Z feet wide, and the whole heighth
within an inch or two of so feet.
The upper part of this building has
a heighth of IA feet, and is divided
into carpet and dressmaking rooms,
each 1924 feet, and 8 Offices, 15x18
feet, with an 5-foot passage, running
the whole length between them. The
Offices can be approached from out
side staircases at the East and rear,
and the carpet and other room by a
winding stairway in the back part of
the show room. The offices are all
superior; but the two on Monroe
street are the handsomest and best lit
and ventilated in the city.
The show room occupies the whole
Of the lower part of the building, has
a height of 16 feet, is lit by three
capaclous front windows composed
Of plate glass 72x163 inches, two
large zeal windows of similar material,
and four elevated and side-half win.
dews 2 feet l inch by 5 feet, and ap-
preached through two plate glass en-
frances 6 by 9 1-2 feet in the front,
surmounted by transoms of singular
beauty, and ear and side doors.
The door-plates 10 front are Of cast
iron, and measure 3x8 feet, and the
building is covered with a tin roof.
The ceiling of the show room rests
on six columns, extending from front
to rear in its center, and Is divided
into ID pannels, 1920 feet, which
are colored light blue and buff and
have frescoed borders. The walls
are covered with Japanese paper of a
recent and admirable style. The
inside wood work is painted in BIRDS
eye maple, the outside iron work in
grained walnut, and the entablature
and cornice in light stone color.
The show, carpet and d~ressmaklng
rooms of this building are occupied
by Messrs. Harper & Turner, whose
advertisement appears in another part
Of this paper, to which wi readers
are particularly directed. These
gentlemen have fitted up the show
room with shelving along the sides
and between the columns in the
centre, and placed counters in front.
These shelves are heavily laden on
the sides with wooden cotton, linen
and silk aud other attractive and
necessary fabricks, and along the
centre with notions and boots and
shoes, which the public are invited to
inspect as well as the building.
This fine structure was planned and
erected by H. D. Hunter, architect
and builder. James Geary laid the
brick, Fred. Rosenbury did the plas-
tering, Swan Bros. the painting,
Gill & Garrett put on the roof, J. F.
Llewellyn, agent for the St. Louis
Crystal Plate Company, furnished the
glass, and the iron work was cast by
the Aetna Iron Works, Quincy, Ills.