The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-20
PLANS FOR A CHURCH
A Splendid Structure for the
First Presbyterian.
PRESSED BRICK. BYZANTINE
work On the Denton Z Dobson Bald.
ing-Fine Residences Going Up
All Over Town.

Plans for the new church for the First
Presbyterian congregation, to be erected
on the southeast corner of Madison and
Third streets, have been selected. The
building committee on Friday evening
considered the plans submitted BY com.
peting architects and selected those of
Architect Alexander.
The building is designed in Byzantine
style and will be built of pressed brick.
The interior impresses one as being essen
tally house of worship-impressive in
its simplicity of form and devotional in
the feeling it inspires. Special attention
has been given to the entrances and exists,
the two main entrances being from Madi-
son street. while . stairway IN the south
east corner Of the church from the base
ment gives an exit on Third street. An
other means of egress is afforded in the
rear OF the building to the alley. thus CIV
ing two entrances and four exists. The
main floor is calculated to provide about
$50 sittings, which Mr.. Alexander has ar
ranged in the shape of q horseshoe, with
the side seats higher than those in the
middle, so that view of the platform can
be had equally we'll from all points.
Three stairways from the ground floor
y, seat
500 people, and which runs entirely around
the church, the portion in the rear. over
the pulpit, being devoted to the choir and
organ. On this floor, in the northeast
corner, is also found the pastors study
with private stair leading to the plat
form. A beautiful bay window, fireplace
and lavatory render this room specially
attractive. The session room is placed in
the gallery, opposite the pastors study.
The basement contains comfortable par
lors for ladies, lecture hall and class rooms.
together with kitchen, pantry, furnace and
fuel rooms. The newest means of ventila-
ton will be used. It is proposed to take
the foul air from the floors by the aid of
conduit pipes and revolving fans placed in
the basement. The church will be heated
by hot air which will be forced by me-
chanical appliances to all parts of the
building. The total dimensions are 6Ox12O
feet. and the cost will be about $4,000.
Work on the Denton & Dobson build
ing, adjoining the Arlington hotel and
the athletic club, has already been begun.
The plans. prepared by Architect Parkin-
son. are for q six-story building, four
stories on Front street, of the Rennai-
sance style of architecture. The lower
story is basement. The first story below
Front street is an assembly room 62x1O8
feet with a twenty two-foot ceiling, ap-
preached from the principal entrance on
Front street. On the Front street level
there will be store thirty feet wide and a
large billi ard room 7Ox3O feet, the approach
to which is in encoustic wainscoting,
tile floor, etc., all finished in q neat and
artistic manner. The main entrance is of
arched stone, with pilasters and carved
cap on either side. The front of the build
ing is of pressed brick, trimmed with
stone. The interior three upper floors are
divided into rooms suitable for first-class
hotel, with numerous baths ard lavatories.
The halls are well lighted. there are wide
corridors, fire escapes and all modern ap-
rliances.
The Sackman- Phillips Investment Com
pany has four houses now in the course of
erection and contracts have been let for
several more, all on Renton Hill, where
the streets are to be graded this spring.
Thirty-three building permits were is
sued last week, amounting to $14,l60. One
Of them is for two-story fame dwelling to
be built by J. s. Morris in Oakland addi-
ton. to cost 1900. and another is for a
three-story frame dwelling now being
erected by the Seattle Trust Company in
Phinney's addition. to cost 81, 500.
Commissioner J. NJ. Wolf is laying the
foundation, preparatory to erecting q Leat
two-story residence upon the corner of
Williams and Sears streets, Latona. to cost
1880.
Architect Alexander is preparing plans
for two-story frame house to be built by
I. s. Winchell on Squire avenue. The
house will be supplied with all modern
conveniences and finished in cedar. The
cost will be about 81 600