River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-18
Temperance.
THE GREAT TEMPLE.
The Costly Home of the Woman


Christian Temperance Uuion.
The mammoth Woiuan's Temper
ance Temple is now being erected al
the southwest corner of Monroe ant
La Sale streets. It's protector is the
Woman's Temperance Building Asso
citation, an organization within the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. The handspring of the EN-.
terprise has been Mrs. T. b. Carse
who has labOred day aud night foJ
five or six years to realize her ideal OF
a superb and monumental building,
Plan after plan has been drawn boy
the architects, Burnham & Root, each
one approaching nearer this ideal.
This will be their masterpiece in con
struction and interior arrangements
When the site was changed from
Dearborn to La Sale street the work
of design had all to be done over
again. and indeed it has been done
over and over several times, until the
design here presented is the result.
This monster edifice will measure
90 feet on Monroe street, 100 Oh La
Sale street, aud will be 900 feet in
height TO the top of its soaring roof.
1t will have thirteen stories. includ-
ing those above the co nice. It will
cost 81. 100000. The 10 lterial of the
first three stories will be beautiful
brown granite. Above that the wall
will be of brick and terra Gotta, man.
ufactured expressly for the purpose,
and of a tint midway between red and
the brown brick of the R0ckery As
will be seen, the building will be
somewhat in the shape of the letter
IL, and consisting of two immense
wings or pavilions, united by "a mid
die portion, or vinculnm. 1t will
therefore have court seventy feet
long and thirty feet deep fronting on
La Sale street, and "a similar court, of
the same length and eighteen feet
deep, fronting to the west.
The interior of the structure will
not be very different from the other
great buildings of the city. There
will be a central hall on each floor
running north and south, and trans
verse hall in each pavilion running
east and west. There will be about
two hundred and fifty offices, all fin
ished in the most modern and approx
ed style. without regard to expense.
There will be eight elevators, dispos-
ed of III semicirele. The chief fea.
ture of the interior will be Willard
Hall, a magnificent audience-room on
the ground floor, aud in the southwest
corner of the building, with capac-
ity of 600, where daily meeting will
be held and where the incense of
prayer for the inebriate and for the
cause will perpetually as
cend.
The preliminary work on the temple
will necessarily be slow. Every par
ticle of an old foundation put in by
Marshal Field for different building
six years ago has to be removed; and
everyone who has given look at it
can see that its removal is formida-
BILE undertaking. The work, however
will be pushed forward with the ut
most yigOr, and there is no doubt that
the corner stone will be laid Septem-
Der Is, with very solemn and impos-
ing ceremony appropriate to such an
event.
The time set for the completion of
the work is May /, 1892. The con-
tract for the entire building has been
let to one man. The funds are to be
raised both by stock and bonds.
The capital stock is 100000, all of
which has been subscribed, and stock
holders will issue 100000 worth of
bonds secured on the property. Both
stock and bonds will be held partly
and temporarily by the sterner
sex. But the women have Sc
cured the right to buy them
out, and confidently hope within
a few years TO be the sole owners of
their beautiful temple.