Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-06-19

brick, with terra-cotta trimmings, and
will have frontage of 100 feet on
Third avenue and 130 feet on Scher-
merhorn street. It will be three stories
in height, and will have tall, square
tower at the corner where the streets
intersect. There will be nine en-
frances on the avenue front and on the
street side of the building, each open
ing from vestibule directly opposite
the foot of IN aisle.
The main auditorium, which will be
arranged to seat 5000 people, will be
reached by easy tiers Of steps, both on
the interior and exterior of the build
ing. The steps to the entrances will
be broad and the doors wide and high.
The first floor of the church will be
eight feet below the level OF the street,
and will contain large hall to be used
for prayer meetings or lectures aa and
so arranged as to accommodate looo
people; a drill room for members OF
the Boys Brigade, commoalons dining
rooms for sociables, readiug.rooms
and library rooms for the hlng S
Daughters, young mems parloers5' &c,
commodation for the Ladies ala anu
Dorcas societies, work rooms tor mis-,
SION work of oil kinds and toilet
rooms.
the Sunday-schcol assemble in the
main auditorium, after which they
will retire to class rooms underneath
the oalIery. where rooms are to be
sormed bv an ingenious arrangement
~ noles and curtains. Before the
reoi,lar ~ CHURCH services begin these
r;1, he Faced out of sight, leaving no
aridene of the auditorium having
beenIsed for anything else.
Te main floor will be entirely sur
-4nded by large and deep gallery,
! which there will be seating accomo-
ldations for the congregation, except
in that portion directly over the pull
pit platform. In semi-circular re-
cess back of the pulpit platform will
BE- placed the large $4,000 organ,
which has been removed from the old
church at Pierrepont and Clinton
streets and which is now in storage.
1t is the biggest organ of any church
in Brooklyn. In front of and at its
sides there will be space for chorus
of2O0 voices, which it is intended to
uganize under the leadership of Sig.
C. Brocolini, the choirmaster at the
>hurch. Just beneath the organ loft
there will be placed white marble
baptismal pool, with retiring room Oh
each side.
Adjoining the main auditorium on
the Schermerhorn street side will be
the assistant pastors study and the
church offices. There will also be
rooms on the opposite side of the au-
ditorium. In tho rear of the main
building thero will be an extension
three stories in height and twenty-five
feet square. On the first floor of this
extension will be the kitchens, pan
tries and the store rooms Of the
church.
It is designed to cover the entire
structure with one roof, forming O
pointed dome. The dome will be COW
cred with enamelled, mottled Roman
tiles. There will be no obstruction
in the auditorium to mar its grand
proportions. On both of the street
sides of the structure there will be
large rose end mullion stained glass
windows, with scriptural and en-
blematic designs. The interior finish
of the church will be in hard wood in
natural colors and handsomely fres'
coed plaster.
To the pastor, the Rev. Cortland'
Myers, is due the credit OF the new
church's many original features, The