Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-22
THIRD STREET STORES,

Three New Ones On East Third Street-B
Presley's and H. Greve's Buildings
Handsome Additions to Our Prominen
Business Street.
The new building being erected at Nos. Z:
and "A East Third street, by Bartlett Presley
Esq, as 1t approaches completion, begins te
show handsome design and substantial con
struction. The front, above the iron bant
resting on the iron columns of the first story
is OF st. Louis pressed brick, trimmed with
Ohio blue sandstone. With the latter the
front will be highly ornamented-window
caps, morions and projecting pilasters being
OF nicely cut stone, and the morions and
pilasters being topped with Ionic and Corin-
THAN capitals. The building occupies space
of AZ feet inches by rs feet inches, with a
rear projection for the store offices. The
walls are 20 inches, and rise to the hight of
four stories. The cornice will be of zinc and
galvanized iron, in neat design, correspond
ing to the stone ornamentation of the front
and will be finished on top with cast iron
railing. The extreme hight of the front above
the sidewalk will be ~ feet. No. 70 is being
finished fer B. Presley & Co.'s fruit store, and
No. "a will probably be occupied by E. F.
Hamilton, now of Jackson street. The whole
front of No. rs can be thrown open in the
summer and fall fruit season, and the cellar
has been finished for keeping fruit in summer
or winter. 1t is lined with brick at the front.
has double brick wall at the rear and is made
moisture proof by concrete floor. The sec
ond and third stories are being elegantly fin.
ished for offices and are divided into eight con.
Venient suites of three rooms each. They are
to be reached by handsome, wide oak stairs
and a twelve-foot hallway on each floor. and
besides the front or rear windows of each
1a f,r,-t J;,-l4 aI
by sixteen-foot skylight and light-shaft.
which is utilized for the rooms by the parti.
tons next to the shaft being mostly of glass
The third story will be held to finish as NAV
be desired, for hall or lodge room. Ventila.
ton appears to be well secured by the plans
and the office floors are literally provided with
closets and modern conveniences. furnace
in and mainly intended for the fruit cellar
will also heat part of the second and third
floors. The contractors are Taylor & Craig
and the architect is Mr.. G. Wirth.
Presley's old building, torn away last
spring for erection of the new one, was in its
days the best building on Third street, and
the new one will match well with the i'm
proved style of building which is shown in
the new blocks on that street.
HERMAN GREvE's NEW BUILDING.
This building, going up at No. 76 East
Third street, adjoining Presley's, and taking
the place of the familiar old blue stone front.
which was torn down last spring, will be four
stories high and the cap of the cornice will
be seventy-five feet above the sidewalk. 1t oc.
cupies ground space of twenty-five feet nv
seventy-seven feet, and is being built for some
one business house to occupy it from base
ment floor to roof. 1t will be provided with a
goods elevator and other modern conveniences
aud will be strongly built and thoroughly fin
ished throughout. Its special feature is that
the whole front, except iron columns at either
side of the front entrance, will be of cut Ka
sofa stone. The ornamental and Training
work will be richly carved and the plain sur.
faces will have fine bush-ham-
mered finish. The first story front
will be characterized by rich double glass
doors and large plate glass windows. The
carved caps and pilasters of the front will pro.
ject eight inches flom the plain surface of the
wall, and the general appearance of the front
will be massive. The style is designated as
Neo-Grec.- The architect is Mr.. A. M. Rad