The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-26
The Building Committe OF the Mon.
tana Club Accepts Paulsen 4
Lavalle's Designs.
The Second Prize Won by q Hell
ena Firm While the Third Is
Divided.
Description of the Building From Base
men to Attie-The Finest Club House
In tho Northwest.

The building committee of tho Montana
club concluded its labors yesterday in the
matter Of deciding between the plans sub
mitted for the clubs now house. There
were eleven sets of plans submitted, and
after three days careful consideration the
awards were as follows: Paulsen a. La
vale, first prize, $1,50O; Mcdonnell d Rob-
orts. second prize, $3.50. Thu third prize of
$3.50 was divided between Wallace d
ThornburR and Bsrtram q Keefe, of Min
neapolis. That q Helena firm should have
taken the first prize and another home con-
Germ the second, while part Of the third was
also awarded a local firm is q matter for
oongratulation. They were brought into
competition with st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Denver, Chicago and st. Louis architects,
and the result has been to the credit OF
home talent. The members of the award
ing committee are all more or less familiar
with the construction of buildings. m the
awards were made only after the most care
full consideration of each detail.
The plans of Messrs. Paulsen & Lavalle
call for a building of six full stories. with
several additional half stories, built after
the Romanesque style. 1t will be of gray
stone and local pressed brick. with a red
slate roof. There will be q frontage OF
seventy five feet on Sixth avenue, by 100
feet OH Fuller avenue. The main club en-
trance will be on the southwest corner OF
the building, on Sixth avenue. h club
gives five feet and the adjoining property
owner five feet for an alley on Fuller ave-
nue.. and this will be the servants entrance.
One corner of the building will be sur
mounted by a tower. The main entrance
door will be a most elaborate affair, a large
door of old oak, with heavy wrought iron
hinges and iron grating above. giving it a
medieval appearance.
The basement and first floors will be de-
voted to business purposes, and nave been
80 designed and will be SO completed as to
ensure their desirability and bring to the
club a good revenue.
On the second floor will be the office OF
the club, billiard room and parlors, bar
and ]strangers' room. The larger room on
the floor facing Fuller avenue will be e1gh-
teen feet in height. Running all around
this is a half story gallery. There is a
spacious hall, sixteen feet wide. running
through this floor. front the west wall to
Fuller avenue. It will be made bright by q
skvlight.
The third floor will contain the office OF
the secretary, rooms for the president and
board of managers, reading and writing
rooms and general and private card rooms.
The fourth floor will be the bachelors
paradise, in that it will be given up entirely
to sleeping rooms for the members. There
will be fourteen of them, fitted with baths.
Each room will have a vestibule and closet
and besides there will be general linen
closets and other conveniences.
There will also be sleeping rooms on the
fifth floor. The northwest corner, how
ever, will be given up to a general dining
room, one for private parties, and the serv-
ing department.. The general dining room
is in one of the gables, which run up to the
root. 1t is twenty feet in height, finished
in gothic, with a beam showing plastel
work in between. The tower on this foo
is open, affording a most desirable place
for smokers to retire.
In order to avoid. all odors, the kitchen
and all its dependencies will be located il
another story.
The sixth floor will be used for store
rooms, and quarters for the servants
Rooms can also be fitted OF the sixth TO
members.
There will be lavatories on every f1oor
and the building will DO lighted by cleo
tricity and heated by steam or hot water
A passenger and freight elevator will alst
be among the co%nveniences The estimated
cost is $4,000. There will be no delay il
the commencement of work.
The accepted plans were on exhibition il
the club rooms last night and not IN ad
verse criticism was heard. The building a
designed liz one in which the member o
the club, the city and state and the archi
tects may take pride. Its construction will
indicate that Helena is actually taking OF
metropolitan airs, and will give this cit.
the finest club house between st. Paul ant
San Francisco.