The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-27

pride of the community, the famous trav
elers who had visited it, the constant
public enjoyment of its neyer-wearying
scene and the jolly times the place has
afforded, all added human interest to the
old Cliff House and the sublime panorama
it commanded.
The new Cliff House will be finer than
the old, but it has its associations yet to
gather. Many years hence it may become
as well known throughout the world by
its scattered pictures and descriptions as
the old one was. There are few more ro-
mantle and picturesque locations in the
world for building of the kind, and the
future may possibly plant there an
enduring construction of stone that will
help the cliff grow old and be some
architects untrammeled idea of what
would harmonic with the rocks and the
sea, but the second Cliff House is the
thing of present interest.
The ruins were not cold before Mr..
Sutro decided that he wanted new frame
Cliff House in the style of a French
chateau, and this idea he has chung to.
Several architects have made designs for
him, and they have been changed time
and again to suit his notions and
criticisms. He wanted verandas, towers,
plenty of glass, inches for stationery and
he wanted it to hang further over the
water than the old one did.
The design which he has finally adopted,
and which is shown in the ACCOMPANYING
illustration, was made by Colley & Lemme,
who designed the Sutro baths. Mr.. Sutro's
original idea of the cost of the new build
ing was about $4,000, but he expects now
that it will cost 500, 900.
1t viii be pretty and quite an imposing
structure. 1t will be large, covering an
area of 90 by 40 feet. with five floors.
There will be two stories below the level of
the roadway past it and three above, in
Guiding the attic story. The most notice
able exterior features will be the broad
verandas and the towers, and the eye will
also meet variety of decorative detail,
that will please or displease, according to
the taste of the beholder. Immense tim
bers, anchored to the living rock of the
foundation, will make safe the corner that
hangs above the flashing breakers
The interior of the building is planned
for another and better Cliff House. 1t will
not be hotel, and the only bedrooms pro-
vided are those in the basement for the
employees. 1t will be a place to stop and
regale the eye with ocean, seals, surf-em-
broidered beach, setting suns, sky effects of
various sorts and the statuary on the en-
battlements.
In accordance with these purposes the
ground plans provide for great verandas
sixteen and twenty feet wide, and for large
and much bewindowed parlors, public and
private dining-rooms and barrooms on
several floors, each pro vided with wide
tireplaces.
There will be more of all these than in
the old Cliff House and they will have
higher ceilings and richer finishing. The
main floor, for instance, will have main
dining-room 40x45 feet, ten small dining
rooms, a parlor 25x30 feet, barroom 25x45
feet, shellroom, kitchen, a pantry and a
big hallway with broad stairs to the stories
above. The floor below viii have q din
ing-roon, parlor, four small dining
rooms, butcher-shop, winerooms, etc. In
the upper stories will be other parlors, din