The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
IN THEIR NEW HOME.

Curtis and GRAND Building. Some
Facts Concerning the new Struc-
ture, one of the Finest and Most
Commodious Buildings In the
City. Arranged to be a Great
Promenade Of Art and the Stock
When Completed to Compete
With any Trade In Texas.
The great fire on Austin and Fifth
street last summer which destroyed
two immense stores and the largest
stock of house furnishing goods and
one of the largest dry goods in the city
was great calamity and one which
will be long remembered as the great
est fire Waco had ever suffered. The
losses were very heavy and in that re.
spect it was calamity. Eventually
Austin street has been the gamer for
where then stood two large but uupre.
tentious two story buildings now will
stand two three story structures which
are grand ornaments TO the street and
the city. The Curtis building though
yet unfinished shows what a noble
bui ding it is going to be. 1t is built
after the most approved modern de.
signs combining great solidlty with
big show. The front of iron zinc I'D
imitation stone with immense plate
glass opening on the first floor will be
second to none in the state and ex-
teriorily and interiorily the finish
throughout is in the perfection of
msssiveness and elegance of artistic
finish The building has frontage
of fifty feet and depth of one hun
dred and sixty-6ve feet, and the three
stories will be used for the stock of
goods that will be carried. This will
make surface of twenty-four thou.
sand, seven hundred and fifty square
feet devoted to stoves, CRATES, mantles,
crockery, tin and granite ware, house
furnishing goods, lamps, brio bac,
art work and the ten thousand articles
which go to make up stock of house
furnishing goods, as the aisles will be
more than made up for by the shelly
ing,
The interior arrangement is of new
and latest styles, and something never
seen before. All the interior work is
of hard pine finish and on a scale
most elaborate and beautiful. The
arrangement is such as to display the
entire stock, and the aisles will make
a promenade for ladies and gentlemen,
which, taken together, will make a
walk of fifteen hundred feet or
over quarter OF mile.
1t is admirably lighted
which is another feature as pleasing as
modern. When building and stock
are complete it will become one of
the favorite resorts for ladies, not only
for the purchase of goods, but also to
exhibit the grandness of Waco to Wis.
iting friends. The front of the lower
floor is all plate glass. The rear is
most copiously lighted and from sky
lights in the center running through
light up all three stories so that it will
be the best lighted building in the
oity.
In new building the stock will be
entirely new, and when completed
will distance anything in similar
line in Central Texas, 1t will EN-.
brace everything required to the furn.
lshing the most elegant mansion as
we'll as the humblest home. 1t is al
ready very large and fine, and COM
pleted it will be immense. Curtis &
Grand are doing fine business now
in spite of the confusion of the finish
ing work going on and the wear aid
tear of removal. In this fine new
store and the magnificent business
being opened up anew every citizen is
interested and will rejoice in the spec
tacle of Curtis & Grand arising new
and grander from the ashes of the
disasterous fire of last summer.