Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-02-16
A MODEL TENEMENT.
DESCRIPTION OF A BIC APARTMENT
 HOUSE AT GREENPOlMT, L. l.

Material Used and It's Artistic Effect
 Convcniences and Interior Arrangement
 Bedrooms and ParIors-Lecturc Room.
 Chiidren's Playground.
 Among the buildings erected for the purpose of supplying comfortable, decent and economical dwellings at very mod crate cost, that put up in Greenpoint by Charles Pratt is worth noting. It is to accommodate 1l6 families, and is a six story structure of such massive prOpOr- tionS as to attract attention from the river, which it faces. It extends 200 feet on Franklin street, l35 feet on India street and 75 feet on Java street. The chief material used is brown stone, brick and terra cotta. There are bay windows, artistic cornices and gables so that it's effect is not monOtonouS. There are really six separate buildings, which would have in them when quite full about lG0 persons each.
 On the Franklin street side there are twenty-one families, who use one en- trance, nineteen families lSie second entrance, and seventeen families 8 third entrance. On the India street side twenty-six families use one entrance aslU bNelllG -OlS llHli1ieS dllOltlST. O1 the Java street side eleven families use one entrance. Each house is separate from all the others. All the halls are fireproof. The steps are heavy blue stone slabs, inserted in brick walls. The staircascs are nicely proportioned low risers, with broad steps. The turns are made on square platforms, with ample light at each platform. These staircases arc kept heated, lighted with gas, and cleaned without expense to the tenant.
 ROOMS AND THEIR RENT.
 The rents range from $8.50 to $20 per month. For $20 there are suites of seven rooms, every room with window in it opening on wide air space, giving two parlOrs, sitting room, two bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and a scullery. The scullery goes with each set of apart ments. and it's completeness is great feature of this building. It contains an earthenware waShtiib, with hot and cold water. a large sink and an ash chute, in which all refuse may be emptied, lead ing to the cellar. Each family has a separate water closet, with q window in it opening into the scullery. Each scul- lery is ventilated by an opening into a fiue built for the purpose, leading to the roof. Each kitchen has range and hot water boiler. Each tenant has a separate coal and wood bin in the cellar, a sep arate portion of the yard to be used for drying clothes, and has access to an ele- vator which can lift 200 pounds at a time.
 There is folding table in each living room, and closet to nearly every room. Wainscoting prevents damage to walls. There are galvanized iron boxes on the window sills for flowers. Picture mold l ings are secured to-all the walls, and the tenants are supplied with hooks, so that there is no temptation to mar the walls with nails. The rooms average 140 square feet. Each closet has shelves and hooks enough to meet the wants of the most closet worshiping matron.
 | The plumbing work of the building is a vast network of pipes. The heaviest material in lead and iron pipe was used. Eleven tanks, holding 25,000 gallons of water on the roof, supply the three upper floors, and can be used also for the three lower floors in case the pressure is not sufficient from the city pipe.
 CELLAR AND BASEMENT.
 The bedrooms and parlors are trimmed with white wood, filled, varnished and rubbed. Great pains have been taken tc secure a perfectly dry cellar and base ment. The foundation walls rest on a dry gravel bottom. They are covered with asphalt and have a bitumcn damp course In the basement there are commodioIs bath rooms for the use of the tenants They are heated with steam, and have marble floors and wainscoting. The wood work Is polished ash.
 There is a reading room, or lecture room, on Java street for the free use oi the tenants. It is lighted, heated and supplied with the leading newspapers and periodicals.
 The suites of four rooms rent fer S1S per month. They comprise parlor. bed room, dining room, kitchen and scullery Some of these four room fats are rented as low as S13.50 per month. The thrcC room suites rent for from So to Sl3.5t per month.
 Children are not permitted to play or the staircases or in the railways, bu they have grand romping place in th' big yard, which covers about 6, 900 square feet of open space. Although the build ings are substantially fireproof, there art fire escapes connecting each floor witt the ground. The buildings were erected for him, and are now managed by building company. Before the plans werr completed there was thorough study O the model apartment houses of London built by George Peabody, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Sir Sidney Waterlov and others, as well as later structures il New York and Brooklyn. The aim wa to secure the maximum of comfort an( safety at the minimum of cost. It ha attracted a class of permanent carefu tenants. The building has never beer full, but it is filling up rapidly. It is pro posed to give a few courses of lectures il the reading room this winter. When tn apartments are all filled the investment which is about S450, ,000, will pay, afte meeting the expenses, about per cent The income of this building is an endow ment by Mir. Pratt of the Pratt Institute The original plan comprised the estab lishment of cooperative stores similar t the plan of the Rochdale stores in Eng land, but this has not yet been developed New York Sun.