Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
A MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE.
The Contract for the Building of the Nc
Methodist Church Let.

The contrae, for the Building of the New
Methodist Church Let.
The contract for the erection of the
Methodist church. to take the place of the
one burned, has been let to Mr.. Abram
Smith, one of Wichita's most successful
builders and competent contractors. There
has been no perspective drawn of the new
edifce, but from the plans and elevations
which he yesterday morning exhibited, We
can probably give something OF an idea OF
its style and appearance. The building
conforms to no ordinary geometrical figure,
consequently will be hard to describe. The
tower or steeple will Le one hundred and
thirty-six feet high, and will stand in an
angle on the south side Of the building,
through which will be the main entrance
to the main audience room. There will be
one gable at the front. another to the north
pinacles o: these gables will be
just fifty-three feet from the
ground. In each gable is rose window OF
stained glass and each window nine feet in
diameter. These gable windows fall IN
broad line of cut-stone betting which runs
circular cap. All the other windows are
| narrow, and square at the top and bottom,
with heavy cut-stone caps and stills, and
are the only features that strikes us as in
harmonious. The walls, which are OF Kan
sas City brick, are eighteen feet from foun-
/ 49, 81 he, lam of the
roof from the square is twenty-eight feet.
| The general appearance Of the church from
the west, north or south sides will be
gothic. The rear roof will be steep-hip.
The church will be heated by two furnaces,
and the entrance will be reached by steps,
the main floor being five feet from the
ground. The building is ninety-Dine feet
and eight inches by seventy-fye feet on
the ground. The tow-r is sixteen feet
square at the base.
The inside Of the church will be eompos.
ed of a main audience room 3sx15 feet, level
back l6x37 feet, Of an elevated floor fol
pipe organ, choir aud pulpit or preachers
desk. The front of this raised floor is q
semi-circle ornsmented or enclosed with q
railing. The long way of the room is north
and south. To the rear and upon either
side Of the octagonal: depression are two
rooms 1lx14 feet each, one the pastor:
study and the other the library room. To
the west or in front Of the main audience
room Is lecture room 2S4 x3I feet, with an
inclined floor, and connected with the main
room by suspended doors which can be ele
ture room and occupying the very from
part of the building, are two class rooms
Over these class rooms a.e two galleries
reached by a stairway running up between
the class rooms, which galleries are a part
of the lecture room, but which become 8
necessity. The inside will be Of wood fin
ish with exposed arches and trusses ant
wooden ceilings. The main audience room
will hold six hundred seatings exclusive o.
the platform the audience room, lecture
room, galleries and vestibule, all Of which
combined capacity of about eleven humid
red. To the north OF the lecture room. oil
In the angle formed by the latter room
and the north class room is vestibui'
l1sx16 feet. and also under the tower yes
tible Of the size, through which is the
main entrance to the church. The genera
style Of the inside will be something Xix,
the old church. but in our judgment not sC
capacious. Rather than anything Of 4
marked difference, the inside seems to be
notifications of the Baptist, Presbyterian
and the old church. Mr.. Smith. the con
tractor, and who Is fine workman apt
q competent judge, says the style, efIec
and comfort Of the audience room will bt
unsurpassed by any church, with whose
interior arrangements be is acquainted, In
the west. The finished structure will ex
elusive OF pipe organ cost fully ifnot in ex
cess OF e2i 900 and Is TO be completed by
the 18th day of December. Messrs. Dieter
Il Campbell who have the contract for lay
ing vet this season over one million OF
brick, have the contract for doing the
stone and brick work, and the Myer'
Brothers the painting.