Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-03
ELEGANT BUILDING.
The Handsome Structure 60 be Built
SOOn for the Equitable Guarantee
and Trust Company.

Ine HhnubOne SfEucture 10 De htuttt
S0On for the Equitable Guarantee
and Trust Company.
Baker d Dallett, Philadelphia arohi-
teots, have completed plans and specif-
cations for the elegant building to be
erected on the northwest corner OF Ninth
and Market streets for the Equitable
Guarantee and Trust Company. The
plans and specifications are in exhibition
at tine Builders' Exchange in this city and
the architects will receive bids for the
creation of the building at any time
previous to 10 q. M, on July 10th.
The building will be of Romanesque
styls of architecture and six stories in
height. It will front on Market street
and extend through to Shipley. The
frontage will be Al feet and 4 inches
and the depth III feet and z inches. The
banking room will front on Market and
Ninth streets, and will run up to height
of % feet, making an entresol on the
Shipley street front. The five stories
above the banking room will be 124 feet
from top to top and used entirely for
Offices. The building will tie of Brandy
wine granite 10 the height OF the second
floor level, and Of ornamental brick and
Brandywine granite trimmings in the
succeeding floors. The walls will be of
Conshohocken or Port Deposit stone.
The pavement surrounding the building
will be Of granolithic OF metalithic; also
the pavements OF the balconies, which
will be on the Ninth street side, the con-
tempIRted fireproof floors OF the third,
fourth, fifth and sixth stories and tie loft
and basement q ora.
The interior Of the vestibule showing
in the banking room will be Of Oaen
stone throughout except the sub, which
will be OF black marble. The cap of the
wainscotting and the fireplace in the
presidents room will also be of Oeen
stone. The exterior faces of the brick
walls on Market N nth end Sbipley
streets and the faces of the chimneys
will be of Welch straight hard buff brick,
90 will also the exterior facing walls OF
the balconies. There will be buff terra
Gotta panels 10 the gables. The fire.
places, except in the banking room and the
presidents room, will have pressed brick
faoings and arches nine feet wide, with
soapRtone bottoms, and their hearths will
he Of plain unglazed tile. Thsre will be
o tile floor in the banking room and
marble mosaic floors in the vestibule hall
and toilet room on the first floor. A
marble mosaic panel above the entrance
to the banking room will contain the
emblem of the company in mosaic.
The side walls of the banking room
and yestibuIes will be OF plain glazed tile
and the window silis and the sub Of the
wsinscoting in the banking room will be
of polished black marble. Window
frames and interior doors will be of
white pine and some Of the floors will be
of Carolina and Georgia pine. The ex-
terror woUd work OF the sills and the
partition work of the toilet rooms will
be of yellow pine. Wood work in the
banking room. vestibules, directors
rooms aud toilet rooms on the first floor
will be quartered white oak. Partitions
between the Offices on the four upper
| floors probably will be of hol.
iron, with cast iron newell pests and
round oak handrsil. The balconies will
| have wrousht ;s5n ,ilings and brackets,
the ratings fl y. AyNt3G light will be
used for lighting tho hasemsnt. There
| will hs fireproof Iooms in tie basement
! and iireproof IN .hA Cf,es. Galvanized
iron Gre escspes will ts put on the Ninth
| street siIs. The meiu stairs from the
, Lasement to the first hocr and from the
top floor to the loft will be of yellow
pine. The roof will be covered with
Akron buff Spanish tile. On the coldesi
day in winter the temperature of tho
building will be not less than 20 degrees
For heating the building ard running the
elevator two high pressure Rabcoek d
| Wilcox boilers will be provide
A prominent builder expressed the
opinion this morning that the structure
cannot be erected for less than $125, 900.
All buildings at present on the site for
the new building must be removed by
the contractor. The materials will
become his property but he cannot use
them in the construction of the nsW
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