The Portland daily press., 1894-11-24

grealy facilitates the lighting of the rooms.
| There will be about l25 of these and ON each
floor there will be six very large chambers
nearly go feet square in each of which is
fireplace.
The peculiar ard most attractive feature
of this proposed hotel is result Of its M
usual height. The dining room and kitchen
are to be on the seventh floor, far above
everything else in the city, and on line
with the top Of the Observatory on Munjoy
Hill. The entire east side of this floor will
be occupied by the dining-room. which will
be ITO feet long and 20 feet in width.
1t will he a long gallery. one side of
which will be more window than wall. for
eighteen handsome round -arched windows
giye.a magnificent view Of the city the
harbor and beautiful Casco Bay, the whole
delightful spectacle; being spread out below
almost like a BIZ ds-eye view.
In tho Office u swift elevator will take
guests to this lofty dining-room. There
will be another in the parlor on the second
floor and third. freight elevator, in the
rear of the building. On each floor Will De
eight or ten bath rooms.
peculiarity of the construction OF thls
building and also of the new Brown building
on the corner of Centre street, is tnat
rolled steel orders and beams arc Hsed for
the first time in Portland. This STEEL
though more expensive, is stronger than
the iron and in case of a fire. it would not
crack and give way as the hot iron does
when struck bv cold water. Also the new
wire lathing will be used. a great safeguard
against fire.
This handsome structure, which will
prove such an ornament to the city Will
cost at least 100000. 1t Will be more than
a year in building for it is not expected to
be completed till next June. 1t is not be-
ing built by con tract, but by the day. Mr..
j. Henry Rines is devotipg most of his time
to the supervision of it, while the other
three brothers look out for the business at
the store. w.
Though built for hotel it may not neces-
sarily be one, for unless satisfac tory ar
rangements can be made for the manage
| mont of it as hotel it can and will be used
as an apartment house like the Columbian.
And this brings us to the mention of that
handsome building, also on Congress
street. which though begun last fail by the
Rines Bros. was not finished till late this
spring and comes properly into this year s
building operations. Our readers are en-
tirely familiar with ii. SO that no descrip-
tion is necessay Itshas becn very success
fuI as an apartment house and will be en-
larged next year.
THE OTHER BLOCKS.
The heirs of the J. B. Brown estate are
building fine large block, that will have
entrances on both Congress and Centre
streets and that in the shape of a letter L.
encloses the smaller block on the corner
If those streets. 1t is five stories in height
and has 10000 square feet of f1oorspace, maxi
ing grand total of $4,000 square feet for
the entire building, ali of which will be
oo oupied by. O1en Hooper & Co. tor their
furniture ware-rooms. The front of this
block OF Congress street is very handsome
being of pressed yellow brick. with highly
ornate cast iron trimmings. The building
| will cost in the neighborhood of S6G,0t0.