The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-06
Another Instance of the Big
COnpany's Enterprise.
THEIR BRANCH IN THIS CITY
The Erection Of a New PaIatiaI CARR.
age FaetOry-An0ther AdOrn-
ment TO Chicago buildings.

tory OF the Studebaker Brothers Manu-.
featuring Company is now in course of
erection, under the supervision of and
after the plans drawn by the well-known
architect, S. s. Beman. II is situated
upon Michigan Avenue, near Congress
street, facing the Lake Park. and covers
lot l07 feet front and III feet deep.
Its cost will be in the neighborhood of
$3.50 600, and it viii be one of the most
imposing structures ever erected in this
city of great buildings. 1t will be nine
stories high in front end eight stories
on the ALLY. The height of the front
will be 40 feet between the street grade
and cornice, or fifteen feet higher than
the celebrated Pullman office building.
on the same avenue, and on each corner
there will be tower thirty feet high, so
that the editice will rise away above the
surrounding houses and be one OF the
most conspicuous buildings on the south
side. Its beauty will equal and even
exceed its magnitude, the front being of
Synite grant up to the third story and
Bedford tone above. 1t will be mas
siye and bold in all its details. and Will
combine the latest and most approved
forms of exterior art and workmanship.
The towers will be of stone. There Will
be a magnificent main e..trAnce on
Michigan Avenue, and in addition, on
the north side, an opening also on the
avenue, port cochere carriage gate)
entering upon the court sixty eight feet
deep and twenty feet wide. This court
will form a connection wit the wind.
ing alley. running around the north and
west sides OF the building and leading
| TO the freight elevator at the Southwt- [
corner. Opening on the gouIi viii b. a
reception room and the business Offices
| In the second Story over The doorway
there will be Loggia made by leaving
out portion of the wall, and In The
| rear of this there Will be
finely furnished parIOrs for The use Oh
patrons and visitors. FOur Of the great
halls will be used as display and sales
rooms, and all the upper stories Will he
| devoted 70 manufacture pl rpOSts. II
! is hardly necessary 10 add that the
! building will be constructed entirely az
| iron, stone, glass and fire-proof mater
ais. although the floors OF the sale>-
rooms will be finished in hard and pol
ished woods. srhe walls and ceilings q
| the salesroOms, parlors and offices will
| be beautifully frescOed. the entire struc-
! ture will be Illuminated with electric
I lights; the halls. stalrcaSeS. passenger
elevators and all the ace, ores of q
! handsome modern structure. Will be
elegantly finished, and in a word, il Is
| the design TO make the Studebaker
! building not only q model structure iii
point OF architectural beauty and con-
venience, but = monument 10 The great
| house of which is will form an impOr-
| tant branch, and a. Ornameu. e"
! Chicago.
Tie intent is not uniy to establish a
carriage repository the finest Of lis Kind
/ in America. but 10 put UP works and
/ turn out vehicles which Tor beauty eie-
gance of construction and finish. ana
a-Iistic style shall place them at the
/ head of the carriage builders OF The
world, as they have long been acknowl-
edged a. the head of the wagon makers
| OF the world. The progress of the Ell
! terprise will be watched with interest,
| though of the ultimate success of the
company in this particular there is little
room for doubt. The brothers have
never started out to accomplish any
! thing and failed; and Il firm that has
carried off first prizes from the national
! fair in Chicago IN 1857, from the Centen
NAL Exposition in 1876, from the Inter
national Exposition in Paris in 1875,
/ from The Mexican Exposition in 1879.
from the recent worlds fair at New
Orleans. and from hundreds of States
and provincial fairs in the United States
ami foreign countries, offer pretty GER
tain guaranty that whatever they pro
pose to do will be done.
In the management and direction Of
the new factory and repository, the
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company will be ably assisted by Mr..
Wilder H. Pray, who has already for
some months pest, been in charge of the
present Studebaker repository at 233
State Street. Mr.. Pray has been identi-
fed with the most fashionable carriage
trade of New York for over twenty-one
wears. and during this time he has built
IN a reputation for the most refined
taste in all matters pertaining to carri-
ACE architecture. His relations with
this new branch of the vast business
conducted by the Studebakers will,
therefore, be an additional assurance
that the goods manufactured and offer
ed To the Chicago public Will be recher-
che in every particular. At their pres
emf store. 233 State, and 40. 81, and %
Jackson. they are in daily receipt OF all
the latest styles coaches, broughams.
and rockaways; also large line of fine
sleiehs.- Chicago HGd.