Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-12-16
|ntIoa lofFmiFs RESIDENCE.
One u lhe Finest in the State.
m Ornament to Any City

Mr.. nnd Mrs. Mtctiaei floInlaO
have moved into their fine new
home on Main street. The house
10 forty-five by seventy-five on foun-
dation lines, the main part, forty
five BY fifty feet being two stories
high, the posts being twenty-four
feet high. There is a cellar under
the whole Of the main building,
wallet with Sioux Falls jasper. A
| cistern Of one hundred and Atty
barrels capacity is located under the
dining room. There are twenty
one rooms in the honse rs follows:
Vestibule, hall. parlor setting room,
kitchen, dining room, FIVE cham
beers, lavatory, pantry, laundry and
six closets and store rooms, be-
sides the cellar and large garnet. The
rooms are all large and conveniently
arranged the hall and stair case be-
ing in the center Of the house. The
doors are large, and all double doors
are hungon patent hangersand work
ut a touch. The vestibule, parlor,
sitting Dor and dining
are provided with plate glass ofsuit-
able sizes with loaded glass tran
SONS. These are composed Of cath
edral, brilliants and French plate
and are very handsome. Every
window in the house, forty in num-
Der, are double strength. The en-
tire building is sheathed with ship
lap Then covered with Manahan's
sanitary m%edicated parchment, then
CT ap toarded, the siding being laid
four and a quarter inches to the
weather. The inside is back plas-
tered with adamant then lati,ed
again and plastered with adamant,
three coat work, hard finish. Over
a car load GEO sacks) Of adamant
was used. Goss and Jones did the
back plastering and Dell Plantz. Of
Sioux Falls, did the inside finish,
and it is pronounced by competent
judges to be a perfect job. The
doors Of every room on the lower
floor "opens into the hall. The in
side finish is very elaborated and is
Of oak. ash and hard pine artistical-
~ milled. Each door and window
finish is provided with a cornice or
capital finish. The painting is a
piece Of artistic workmanship and
was done by Smith 4 Co, Of Sioux
Falls and Mr.. Gettle, of Elk Point.
The inside finish is in hard oil, hand
rubbed and is smooth as glass.
The most Of the doors are oak. The
floors in the parlor, hall and dining
room, and the double parlors up
stairs are Of maple oiled and hand
finished, and are very beautiful,
The stair case is a double one of
oak and a feature Of the house. The
hall, dining room and vestibule are
wainscoatod with oak panel work
three and half feet high. The house
is heated with hot water, Spence
system. There are fourteen radia.
tors. It is also piped for hot and
Geld water with marble wash basins
conveniently located.
The entire building is wired for
electricity. Twenty incandescent
lights being provided for. There
are also two elegant fire places one
an imitation Of fancy thing, the
other jet black, one in the sitting
room down stairs, the other in tho
parlor up stairs. The chimneys.
two in number, start from the foun-
dation wall and are two by three
feet, each provided with ash pans.
The pantry is a model of beauty,
and is inclosed on three sides with
drawers and glass cases for dishes
and china ware. An elaborate porch
extends across the entire front Of
the house with handsome balcony
in front Of the second story. There
is also a porch on the west side OF
the kitchen part. Ice is put into
the refrigerator from outside Of the
house a door being provided for that
purpose. In fact everything about
the house has been arranged with a
view to convenience. Bert Man
ming, Of Sioux Falls, was the fore
man Of the carpenter work. There
was over forty thousand feet oflum-
Der used in the construction, and
a ton and a half Of nails. Over sixty
persons have been engaged in the
construction; thirteen from Sioux
Falls, two from Sioux City and the
balance from Elk Point.
While there are residences in the
state that cost more money, we do
not believe there is a better buili,
fineriinished or.mo,e complete house
in South Dakota. Mr.. Hoffman
has been a resident Of our city for
over twenty years,is n of our most
successful, respected and honorable
business men, and he ard his ex-