Wichita eagle., 1889-12-10
Williams street by ITO feet in Main. three
stories apd basement in height. The base

Williams street by ITO feet in Main. three
stories apd basement in height. The base
ment win contain Offices for street CON-
missioner. central police station and city
marshal's Offices and police commissioners
rooms. The city prison will be in the rear
and will have entrance for patrol wagons.
On first floor will be Offices for commits
sioners of elections, city engineer. central
fire station, police court and judges.
On second floor the mayor and city at
torney's Offices and council room and
library occupy Main street with balcony
on the corner and over Main street en-
trance. On Williams street front is the
treasurer's and slerk's offices and record
rooms. The council chamber and cloak
rooms occupy the entire south end OF the
building on second and third floors. A
gallery being arranged on third floor with
seating capacity of four hundred. The
north half of third floor has large room for
meetings of school board, offices for super
| intendent of schools, clerk of school board,
cloak rooms and city library, with capacity
of 1000 volumes. The clock tower which
will be stone to the top is located in CEN
ter of the building and rises to height CT
| 10 feet, with balcony at height OF l50
| feet.
All corridors will be tiled and second
| floor and council chamber finished in red
oak.
| The stairway and elevator is located op-
posite the Main street entrance. Toilet
rooms are conveniently placed on each floor
! The style will be Romanesque. built
| pitched face Kansas stone, backed up with
brick. All cornices will be copper and the
roof slate.
PLANS NO. 2.
| The design as presented by MIR. w. h.
Mcpherson is elegant in exterior design
and superb as regards interior arrange
ment with estimated cost S67, 500 The
building is. 1l0xS0 in size and three stories
above the basement with a corner tower
The basement Is finely arranged for its
proper uses. with large department for
the police patrol with drive en-
trance on Williams street, with prison to
the rear of patrol room, also offices for
street commissioner and fire marshall,
chief of police, water company, etc. The
prison department isconnected direct with
private stairs to police court above. The
| first floor is entered from Main street
with an elegant Romanesque entrance
| with large open vestlbule from
which enter into a large grand lobby
hall with elegant effect. Wanscotted
with Mexican onix, Mosaic tile floor and
marble staircase to one side making a
space of 3Ox5O feet of clear hall with open
we'll above To the right is the police
court room, judges office, police clerk and
city marshal's offices connected. Also on
the first floor are the city clerk and treas
urer with vanlts, etc, complete. Up the
grand staircase, OF elevator, land into
another grand hall This floor has the
city council located on the southwest
corner with light from three sides with
elegant ventilation, with committee rooms
connected. The mayors Office is located
on the northwest corner in the tower with
private Office and toilet room connected;
the city attorneys Office and private secre-
tary connected with mayor. Also the
commissioners of election is located on this
| floor In the northeast corner is located
with fineley arranged rooms with vaults.
| The city engineer also are marble
closets for toilet purposes. Then &c
up the grand staircase to the third floor,
on which find council chamber or
public hall the board of education and
other Office rooms for other purposes.