Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-22
THE NEW HOTEL
CONTRACT LET FOR FOUNDATION
AND BASEMENT WALLS.
The Main Building to be 80 Feet Front on
Robert Street by 225 Feet OH Sixth Street
Fire Proof-S10 Sleeping Rooms.

The GLOBE is informed that the contracts
for foundation, basement and area walls
(up to grade iine) of the new hotel, for
which Dennis Ryan, Esq, recently purchased
q large block of land on Sixth, Robert and
Seventh streets, have been let to Hennessy
Brothers and Agnew & Cox, of this city.
These contracts cover front of $50 feet
on Robert street by 225 feet on Sixth street,
leaving the Seventh street front for future
improvement. The main building now being
contracted for will have an alley, thirty
feet wide on the Seventh street side,and an
alley twenty-four feet wide on the Jackson
street side. When the Seventh street front
Is built the building on that street will be
connected with the main building by arch
ed and enclosed passage ways over the
alley, between the second and upper
stories. The main building will be six
stories in height, and will have
eleven stores occupying the most
of the first floor and Easements. The
principal entrance will be tw6nty feet
wide, midway of the Robert street front,
and the ladies entrance will be on Sixth
street about fifty feet from the corner of
Robert street. Both these entrances will
lead, on level of two steps above the
81 iewalk, to the main or central Office,
room 70x50 feet and about 80 feet in
height.
The main building, as now being con-
tracted, will contain 80 sleeping rooms,
besides offices, billiard rooms, public dining
rooms, public suit of fine parlors, private
parlors and two private dining rooms. Of
the interior finish and furnishing nothing
can be said in detail as yet, but the inter
ested public Is well assured that all will be
equal to the expectations of those who
have done the most towards promoting the
building of the hotel which is to be credit
to the capital city of Minnesota and supply
its commercial need of larger hotel accom-
modations of the first class.
The main building will rest on granite
piers, forming the first story. Above
these the building will be faced with
pressed brick, with dressing of Ohio white
sandstone and terra Gotta ornam5 ntation.
The architectural designs are not yet per-
fected, but the exteriors will be in modern
gothic style, and the construction is
planned to make the whole building fire
proof. All the columns and girders will
be protected with fire clay lining, and the
spaces between the floor joists will be
filled with fire clay tile, on which will be
laid the plastering of the ceilings. All
the partition and division walls through
out the building will be constructed of
solid brick and hollow tiles, and the roof
will be similarly guarded against fire.
1t is intended to begin laying the founda-
tions as soon as the excavations now in
progress are sufficiently advanced, and
if the weather permits, to
lay the dimension stone footing courses
the present season, the contracts
providing for completion of all the foun
datlon and basement walls up to grade on
or before May Is, 1884. 1t is also intend
ed during the coming wiuter to let the
contracts for the iron and cut stone work,
SO that no delay will occur in building the
superstructure next summer.
The Seventh street front, reserved for
future construction will have seven wide
stores, lis feet deep, and will proba-
bly, be of the same height and general plan
of elevation as the main building on
Robert and Sixth street. The wide
alleys separating the Seventh street part
of the hotel and Jackson street buildings
from the hotel will have their value in the
way of light and ventilation for all the
building as we'll as convenience in receiv-
ing goods and hotel supplies. Should the
jackson street front be also hereafter OBJ
tanned for the hotel the building on that
front will be connected with the main
building, like the Seventh street build ing,
by passages over the alley.