The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-19

inches wide Tor mammoth signs.
One pleasing feature of the building
will be the great arched entraace,
twenty feet wide, in the center Of the
front of the building, and extending
to the top of the first stery, and being
composed of stone, brick and iron.
The architecture OF arch and building
will be'eXcellent, theegeneral effect of
the building being rather massive,
owiRg'to twelve columns on front and
side extending from she foundation to
the roof, andSwo feet square and OF
pressed brick. The architect is Mr..
Frank Thayer.
TIE main entrance will consist of
four double swinging doors, set ten
feet in from the street, allowing side
show spaces, In wintera yeStihule
five feet deep will be placed inside of
these doors, with other doors leading
Unto the store, The entrance and
|vestibule will bottled. Thereswill be
Ia double side &oor near the rear on
kthe jackson street side, and rear doors
to the basement for receiving goods.
The building will be modern
Throughout, cheated by steam and
lighted 10y electricity furnished by a
plant ia the basement. En- the r6ar
will be9 freight elevator connecting
the basement with the frstand second
floors
The Building will have floor space
in ALI of $4,000 feet,and Wi}l GOst about
$4,000. Twenty-Five Sales-peOple and
Others mil be employed in this splen-
did esta blishment.
The basement will be largely used
as sa2esroom, but will have apart
ments cut off for the heating and
lighting plant and fuel rooms etc.
There will alse be gentlemen's toilet
in the basement. Fourteen foot, easy
stairways will be placed in about the
center of the building to connect the
three floors, and there will be ne out
side stairway. The basement will be
s,well lighted.
The first and second floors will be
used entirely as salesrooms. Two rows
of iron columns will support the first
Land second lfieers and roof, and large
amount of steel beams will be used,
|making the building substantial. The
floors will be OF hard white maple and
the inside finish of the entire build
ing will Doe OF natural hardwood,
probably oak.
AT the rear,o6 the first floor will be
aladies7 parlor, ten by fourteen feet,
aad elegantly furnished, and attach
ed 80 this will be a ladies' toilet. half
way between the first and second
fio9rs, at the rear of the building, will
be "a balcony extending the entire
wiGth of the building and extending
forty feet to&ardEthe front. This will
also DE used for ,salesroom purposes.
IN fROnt of the balcony and about
half way to the front of the building
on tiae,JacksOnrstree side will be the
offices, of the cashier and book-keepers
and the tirm's private offices-all occu-
4pying "a portion of the balcony.
The fSst and seca1d stories will
Save a splendid light from 5000 square
feet of window space, and a skylight
twenty by fifty feet. Each floor will
be thrown into a single great sales
room, the departments occupying
sesprate localities, with cases, coun-
teEs, ETC., and all divided by avenues
and streets. Modem show cases will
be used, witla plate glass. The exact
arrangement has not been decided up
on. On the Jackson street side of the
first floor will be three double show
windows each twenty feet wide and
extending to the secOnd floor. On
each side of the Front street en-
trance will be show Windows Of
similar size. The entire display win
daw space will be 1900 square feet, an
amount far ahead of any other store
built or contemplated in this city.
The show windows will be caSed In,
to avoid frost in winter, and will al
low of a display space six feet wide. /
A splendid feature of the establish !
ment will be cable cash system,
operated by the same dynamo that
furnishes light for the building.
This will be the same as in the large
cities, and all parts of the building
will be connected by cable with the |
cashiers Office, the cables running
both ways continually.
Lit will be observed from this dis
cription of the building that it will |
be equal to the best in the country
and will be great credit to Manka-
to and to the enterprising firm
which will erect it. 1t will be an or
nament to the city, and will be what
its name indicates, "glass block"
and a veritable department store,
carrying many lines of goods.
No one has yet appeared to
Identify or claim Henry Hoffmeyer,
the feeble-minded bow found at, Good