Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-15
OUR u. S. BUILDING.
The Handsome Public Structure Turned
Over to Col, McGrorty by
the Contractors.
Some Description of it-A Splendid Ad.
dIton to Santa fe Public
Institutions.

santa re ) handsome nltGu states
court house building was transferred
by Superintendent brigham ON Saturday
to Col. j. P, Mc(irorty, The government
custodian, authorized nv the treasury tie.
partment to accept the work ot the con
tractors, Messrs. Donoghur < Moner
With the exception OF receiving few fin
ishing touches from the painters brush
the building is now completcd
The structure occupies ground space
60Xl50 feet. The basement is used lor the
steam heating apparatus and for storage
for the different offices. The first floor is
divided into ten spacious office rooms,
will be occupied by the register and re-
ceiver of the United States land office,
the surveyor general and the collector of
internal revenue. Two OF these offices
have spacious vaults. There is also IL
lavatory on this floor conviently arranged
tor the accommodation of the officials and
their clerical forces.
On the second floor is the United States
court room, j0X55 feet, with Il gallery on
the west end OF the hall for the use of the
public. On this floor also are offices for
the United States attorney, the judge Of
the United States district court, and two
large rooms for the United States grand
and petit juries. The building is well
lighted and the corridors and rooms are
unusually large.
The heating and yentilating apparatus
is somewhat elaborate for building of
this size, and is in the opinion of the sup
erintendent the most complete of any
thing of the kind in the territory, every
room being supplied with cold, pure air
directly from the exterior This comes at
once in contact with the indirect stacks
tor the rooms on the first floor and with
the direct radiators for the rooms Of the
second floor, where it is heated and dis
tributed.
Every office room in the building will
be carpeted, and the furniture will be OF
both Il substantial and elaborate char
acter.
Inside shades and outside awnings will
be provided for the enter building In
formation from Washington is to the
effect that contracts for this latter work
and for furnishing the buildingNill be let in
a few days, and it is now the intention to
have the structure in every respect ready
Tor occupancy within six weeks.
The government appropriation for com.
pleting the building amounted to $52 Jas,
and this has been most judiciously ex-
pended under the direction of Col. Nc
Grorty. AS is well known, the walls OF
the basement and first story have stood
uncompleted for years, and represented
very rough and unsightly work, but
under the supervision of Architect Brig
ham regularity, order and beauty have re-
placed this rough work and the building
is much more attractive in exterior APP
pearance than it was at first thought pos
sible to make it. As it stands 1t could
probably not be duplicated for $125 900.
The contractors, Messrs. Donoghue 4
Monier, lave done their work well. The
sub-contractors for the different branches
of work on the building were: Plumbing
and gas fitting, W. A. Mckenzie, Santa
Fe; galvanized iron work and Stating, j.
Walters, Denver; carpenter work, Anto-
MO Windsor, Santa Fe; steam heating,
Samuel |. Pope & Co., Chicago painting,
James Bell, Santa Fe. Each of these
has executed his contract in first
class, workmanlike manner.
Messrs. Donoghue Il Monier also have
the contract for putting $4,000 worth of
improvements on the spacious grounds
surrounding the structure, which work
they are now pushing to completion.