The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-19
new BANK BLOCK
A Glance at the Plans OF the
Mccormick Building.
is MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT
A Builking That, When Completed, will be
at Least Ten Years Ahead Of the
Growing City.

''The Mccormick Dank block" said archl-
tect Louis Mendelsohn, sis modelled after
the best plan of office buildings. 1t has a
frontage of 45115 on Main and 155 on First
South and will be seven stories high. The
exterior is in the Italian renaissance style.
and is a very pure specimen of that style in
regard to detail. The basement, which will
be about Q feet above the sidewalk, will be
either of a red Or brown stone, cut in rock
face work and very boldly dressed, which
will form the base of the building. The
superstructcre will be built of light
colored stone, the Kyune or similar rock.
The front part of the building,
which will be the bank, and extends
back seventy-tive feet from Main street,
is arranged with very wide and high
windows to give ample light to the banking
room, and the stonework of this part WILL
be crandelled.
Back of the banking room is the elevator
entrance, being the main entrance to the
building. 1t is fifteen feet wide and
twenty-five feet high, very much enriched
with moulded orchitraves, palnelled lambs,
hard woodwork and bevelled plate glass.
The transom of this entrance is faced with
malachite. West of this entrance are three
stores.
The most conspicuous feature OF the
Main street front isssthe entrance to the
bank. This is ten feet wide, thanked on
each side by two granite columns each two
and one half feet in diameter embelllShed
with bases, sculptured capitols, supporting
| an enriched entablature cornice and balus-
trade, which, combined, forms magn1ti-
cent porch to the entrance. The upper
stories of the building are enriched with
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whole crowned by very rich cornice OF
pure Italian architecture. AL the Win
dows and doors Of the exterior will be
glazed with the very finest quality OF plate
glass.
The vestibule of the porch already de-
scribed will be finished In the very finest
mahogany, and will be very elaborate, the
panels being filled with beveled plate glass.
The steps in this entrance will be Of the
finest quality of Swanton marble. The
ceiling of the bank VeStibule will be
grained, enriched with moulded ribs and
foliatedf bosses.
The banking room will be 4511a feet wide,
20 feet long and 10 feet high. The ceiling
will be handsomely paneled with beams,
cornices and eptablatures. The pubic
space will be paved with the finest quality
of marble, inlaid mosaic work and rich col
oring and design. The counters, screens
and other wood finish will be of the best
quality of mahogany. The money vault
will be lined four inches thick with steel
and iron, that is, hard and soft metal. The
door to the money vault viii be provided
! with time lock, and in this de-
tail the greatest care has been taken
in providing the best known burglar proof
work. In addition to the money vault there
will be large book vault fitted up complete
with iron racks and shelving.
The elevator entrance will be finished en-
tirely on the walls and ceilings with the
finest pink Tennessee marble, the floor
being of marble mosaic. In this entrance
there will be rich marble staircase with
bronze rails neivels and banisters. Thsre
will be two elevators of bronze metal and
having speed of 500 feet to the minute,
making the seventh story offices even more
desirable than those on the lower floors,
This entrance is really the chef dc ourne OF
the building.
THE upper stories are divided into offices,
large and small, provided with wash stands,
wardrobes and vaults, the finish and floors
being of quarter sawed oak, and in point of
finish is equal to the very best office finish
to be seen in the city Of Chicago All the
details have been provided such as chair
moulds, picture moulds, cornices, reception
OF electric lighting wires, telephone wires,
etc. The toilet rooms, both for women and
men, are fitted up entirely with marble
trimmings, ickelplated. Especial at
tention has been given to the most per-
feet lighting and ventilation and there will
not be dark or complicated spot in the
building. The idea being to make this the
most perfect office building in every par
ticular to be found west of Chicago and
equal to any found in that city.
Mr.. Mccormick and Mr.. Richards-whC
has the rear twenty five foot frontage
deserve the greatest praise for the enter
prise they show in erecting such magnif-
cent building which is many years ahead Of
Salt Lake city of to-day, but realizing
what Salt Lake will be, are erecting q
building which will be credit to a city
like Chicago and will be in keeping with
Salt Lake city from five to ten or twenty
years hence.