The Dickinson press., 1891-12-19
THE NEW BRICK BLOCK
Tile Finest Business Place in Dick
Mson Completed.
Laurence g. Dickinson in Their
NeW Quarters.

& Dickinson is completed, a descrip-
tion of the same will undoubtedly be
of interest to our readers. The build
ing, which is on lot s, block 3, Willard
street, is eighty feet in depth and
fronts twenty-five feet OIL the street.
The stone basement walls, twenty
inches in thickness, rise eight feet
and four inches clear. In the base
ment, just back of the center, is Il No.
1858 Boynton furnace, which heats the
whole building. Twenty-Five feet
from the front Il brick partition is
built across the cellar, into which the
heat from the furnace cannot enter.
and in which goods requiring !. low
temperature will he kept. A broad
stairway enters the basement ut the
rear, and another flight of stairs de-
scends from the storeroom near the
front. In the northeast corner is sit
uated an elevator, manufactured by
the Franklin Machine Works of st.
Paul, Mimi, and will he used to lower
and raise barrels and boxes of goods
between the basement and the sales
room. The salesroom. on the first
floor, is seventy-eight teet in length
by twenty-five and one-lialf in width.
The strest front is of iron end glass.
consisting of iron columns and Intel
painted black and striped with gold.
and plate.glass windows. Two sash
doors finished in hard oil open from
the street. An iron plate placed in
front of the doors is 5x5 feet. The
show windows on each side of the
doors are five feet in depth. Shelving
extends the whole length of the room
on the east side, seven feet high, with
two tiers of drawers, extending be-
meath twenty-eigh feet of same. On
this side four counters, each twelve
feet in length, will be devoted to the
grocery trade, and Il beautiful new set
of Fairbanks counter scales are in
place on one of the counters. On the
west side there are two sections of
shelving; the front section being ten
feet long, and the other forty-five feet
long; on this side there are two coun-
ters, each ten feet long, and six tables,
each eight feet long. The west side
is dedicated to boots and shoes, hats
and caps, clothing and gents furnish
ing goods. All the shelving, counters,
drawers and tables. are in hard finish
ed, natural oak, and must be seen to
appreciat thl artistic elegance of the
aame. The &oor of this room is Of
|three-inch strips of hard maple fin
ished in oil. The ceiling is of CORFU
gated iron painted white.
An Office has been set off in the
northwest corner, ska feet, and is
five inches higher than the floor of
the store. 1t is partitioned through
the center, forming private Office in
the rear, and the front room occupied
by the bookkeeper.
The lighting of the salesroom will
be effected by large lamp in each
window, and by four of like size sus-
pended from the ceiling, at intervals,
the length of the room. There is IL
sash door and transom in the rear.
There is face plate at each end of
the room for furnishing cold air, and
three hot air registers. The walls of
this and the upper rooms are hard
finished. The impression made upon
avisitor to the salesroom is that light,
grace and beauty were made the great
object of all who had any hand in the
work.
The ascent to the upper story is
made by flight of oak stairs which
open OH a passage running across the
middle of the building. From this
passage open two rooms fronting on
the street, each 20x1l feet. On the
other side of the passage door opens
into room, SKA, in which is recess
41sx7 feet. The knights of Pytllias
having engaged the second floor back
from the passage, this room is the
ante-room to the lodge. One door
from the ante.room opens into the
preparation room, Sxs, and another
into the lodge room, the dimensions
of which are 22115x45 feet, with twelve
foot posts, making one of the finest
lodge rooms west of the Missouri
river. The windows of the lodge will
be fitted with inside Venetian blinds.