The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-10

~. Y. Corr. 3. y. Chronicle.


and sixty feet above the street, and between
these two points are ten floors cut up into
lawyers offices. To the top Of Its famous
tall tower, measuring from the sub-cellar, Is
two hundred aud eigbty-five feet. Diagonally
across from the Morse building 10 an i'm
mense structure just undergoing completion,
which has height Of one hundred aud fifty
feet, exclusive of the height of Its four great
towers, which though low are broad and will
contain many roonA. This 10 "Temple
Court" aud is owned by Eugene Kelly, the
Irish banker. IL fills the space on Beekman
street between Nassau street and Theater al
ley. IL Includes six stories beneath the cor
nices. The towers add four stories aud rise
one story above the three-story Mansard adj
dition which Is between them. The third
corner OF Beekman and Nassau streets Is oc-
cupied by the Vanderbilt building, which Is
eight stories In height. The fourth corner
contains the ruins Of the big barn from
which o. ID. Potter drew annually fifty per
fore the fire as the World building. II cost
$4,000, paid an average Of $4,000 a year,
aud was insured for the amount Of It's cost.
TOWERING STRUCTURES.
Now that IL Ia down tile lordly buildings
beyond IL exhibit TO the eye whatever of
grandeur there Ii in their appearance. As
they are five times as high as the width Of
the street they wall In, they had not been
seen to good advantage before. All are of
brick, except the Vanderbilt building, which
10 Of brown stone and ranks with the others
only because Its owner, the railroad mag
nate, was permitted TO put three-storv
building on top Of The walls Of what was
originally we'll .proportioned, fair-looking.
fve-story house. II looks cheap and makes
the fremen uneasy. Its neighbors. and in-
deed nearly all The new big buildings, arr
built like forts. But for this 1t is said that
the fire that destroyed Potter's building
might have swept \ section Of the city.
These great ediiices contain no other wood
than the door, window-frames, and the
floors of the apartments, aud the boards Of
these floors rest on cement, which, in turn,
hides arches Of brick that are fitted between
heavy iren girden. Even the laths are Of
iron. The walls themselves are of enor-
nous thickness, and gain added strength
from the ribs that rise above the foundation
piers, like bastions, 10 merge gradually into
the walls a. they rise. The Tribune build
Ing 10 the most pretentious and the least at
tractive looking. II IL not more than one
hundred and twenty-five feet wide. II is of
red snd black brick and granite. The Morse
building Is Of Philadelphia brick and terra
Gotta, with slender line of black brick here
and there. The Kelly building Is Of brick,
scanlliy but Hastily trimmed with sandstone
ashlers and terra Gotta panels. A few blocks
away, In Rose street, opposite the old Reyo-
lu.ionary British prison, 10 atremendous and
absolutely plain, square, rough brick house,
unreleved except by granite lintels, rising
one hundred and fifty feet into the air, and
putting miles OF New York's most ancient
and smallest houses to The blush. 1t Ia de-
signed for printers and publishers, and built
by George Munro, VI Seaside Library and
dime-novel fame.
ID. o. MILLs's BUILDING.
The largest office building In the world Is
the one that ID. o. Mills twho has, 1believe,
a joint residence here and In San Francisco)
10 putting up on Broad street, Wall street,
and Exchange place. II Is one hundred and
nfty-fve feet high, and contains nine stories
insome parts and ten stories In Others. Its
Broad street front Ii one hundred and sixty
three feet In length. II 10 the shape Of an
oid-fashioned tin coffee.pot, the Wall.street
wing representing the spout Of the pot. The
main building on Broad street 10 In three
sectionI. A court cuts the front In two, and
the back rises one story above the two sepa-
rated sections. IL Ii by all odds the hand.
soonest Of the big buildings, and Is said to be
going to cost a round million. II, too, is a
brick building, trimmed with alternate
courses Of Belleville gray stone exqusit+ly
carved, terra Gotta nodded In rich designs,
and banda Of plain store. II Is 10 be built
90 that, n the architect expressed IL, "you
can set fire to thirty barrels Of petroleum In
one room without endangering any one o.
anything In the other three hundred and
thrty-two rooms In the building
THREE HUNDRED FEET IN AIR.
But the Mills building 10 to be left in the
shade Of the new Produce Exchange build
Ing, now In course Of construction on Broad.
way, Beaver, aud Stcne streets, by which an.
cient Market field street has been closed, torn
down, and buried. This, we are told, will
have frontage OF three hundred and eight
feet, and Ia to be three hundred feet high.
Trinity church steeple, which ranks tenth or
ninth among the marvels Of mans handi-
work In that direction, 10 but two hundred
and ninety-seven feet In height. or course
only the tower of the Produce Exchange
building will reach that altitude, but the
main structure itself will be over two hun
bred feet IN height. AT present only the ba.
sis Of this ID fnished--the piling In the
swamp bottom, the transverse timbes, and
above these the inverted arches Of brick
which connect and strengthen the bottoms or
the great piers that are TO support the build
Ing
Opposite, on the other side oil the bowling
Green, Cyrus w. Field has torn down the
old Washington Hotel, 30 called because the
Father Of his Country once sojourned there
after CORVALLIS had found IL necessary to
ivd board elsewhere. Its place IL to be
taken by . pile two hundred feet high, .
square brick building without beauty or dis
tinctive architectural style, for Office uses
like the rest.
In Fifty-ninth street to-day, facing the
Seventh avenue entrance To Central Park,
saw fat-house or apartment building eleven
stories high. II was so much too tall for Its
width that II looked like an envelope box on
end. II had no more style about 1t than !
stable, but am told that al the flats arc
rested already, although the stairs are not
yet built. saw numberIess other such