Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
FINE IMPROVEMENT.
The Addition to the State House Hot.
An Ornament to the City.

The Addition to the State House Hotel
An Ornament to the City.
When the improvements now in progress
on the State House Hotel at Tenth and 4
streets, shall be completed the structure
will be one of the most elegant and impos-
ing in the city. Charles H Jenkins, the
owner Of the property, realizes the fact that
the location is second TO none, and he has
laid out plans for the expenditure of q
large sum Of money in enlarging and beau
tifying the place. He is ROW erecting an
addition TO the present building, TO extend
from the rear thereof back to the alley, so
that when completed the hotel will cover
g space OF l60x130 feet. His plans drawn
by architect Hamilton embrace an en-
tlrely new and modern front, ornamented
with gray Niles stone, on the K-street side,
with three towers, and the Tenth.street
SIDE Wlk be made to correspond Herewith,
also showing central and two corner
towers. The corners. above the basement
story, viii be octsgon in shape, and project
over the sidewalk for several feet.
The new addition now being constructed
on the Tenth-street side will be 95 feet in
depth, and like the K-street 'front.' will be
bullt OF cherry-red stock (or smooth brick.
This TlH constitute the hotel dining-roon1,
which will be 32k feet wide by 95t feet in
depth. The kitchen, which will adioin the
olnlng-room on the west, will be 44x20 feet.
and viii also have a large pantry and store
room IN Its rear and opening on the alley
Beneath the Kitchen will be portable exca-
vators 10 receive all garbage and swill, and
these can be run out to The alley, through
the basement, and their contents carted
nTfprD 90 A . h.
alning-room, on the Tenth street side OF
the new addition, will be several fine
suites OF airy apartments.
The entire basement will be loored with
patent cement stone, and can be kept as
neat and clean as a parlor Beneath this
Hoonng, and near the alley, is large
Cemented c!stern, or ceSspool, which re-
celyes all sewage and waste water from the
hotel, with an underground overflow pine
connecting with the alley sewer. The sery-
lce.plpes through which the hotel is sun
piled with water are , inches in diameter,
which lEsures an abundant and ready sup
ply.
The walls of the new structure are %
inches in thickness, and the foundation
walls are composed of niue bricks
doubled" That portion of the present
building occupied by W. K Wallace as q
galvanized iron cornice factory and stove
store, 80 feet in width, has been fitted I'D
back to the alley as workshop, where
force of from 20 to - men is employed in
the manufacture Of iron cOrnices for build
ings, an industry hitherto not conducted
in this city
Mr.. Jenkins thinks he will not at present
replace the front Of the present structure,
owing 10 the heavy expense that would be
entailed, but will do so in the near future,
The towers will be erected when the face of
the entire building is remodeled. The up.
per balcony has been removed, however,
and the face Of the building will be tempo.
rariiy improved. This property is most
eIglbly situated, being close 10 the State
Capitol and at the junction Of three street
car lines.