The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-18
THE NEW YALE D0RMIT0RY.
THE YORK BEING PUSHED RAPID.
LY FORWARD.

Plans for the Structure-To Accommo-
date One Hundred and Twenty stu
dents-Situated on York Street Between
Library and Elm Streets-Work in
Charge of Mr.. Treat, of Smith, sperry
Il Treat.
The work on the new Yale dormitory
on York street, between Elm and Lii
brary streets, is being rapidly pushed
forward, and although it has been in
process of construction for only four
weeks, Arthur 3. Treat, of the firm Of
Smith, Sperry & Treat, who has per-
sonal supervision of the work, has so
hustled things along that the walls are
now all up to the second story, all
ready for the second story window
/. frames, and the rear part of the second
\ floor is partly laid, and as soon as the
4 iron beams required arrive the remain
\ der of the floor will be put down.
The building will be five stories high
and the front will be in Long Meadow
\ Kibbe stane rock faced UP to the sec
4 ond story. The rest of the body part
x of the building will be in North Haven
H pallet brick laid in red mortar and red
Maynard stone, making good comb l.
H nation. The trimmings for the front
II will be Long Meadow Maynard stone
NJ and the window arches will be of key
N stones and skerbacks Along the front
II of the fifth story there will be an iron
NJ balcony, and underneath that there
III will be terra Gotta cornice. over the
III front entrance there will also be q
III small balcony Around the front en-
trance there will be ornamental stone
u carving. Up the front there will be
| two pilasters with carved stone caps
and two semi-circular pillasters with
brick coigns. Under the fifth story
cornice there will be a belt cornice of
terra Gotta The rear of the building
1 will be in plain brick. The building
will be 123x55-6 A corridor will extend
the length of the building on each floor
and will be in buff brick. The main
entrance hall will be in enameled brick.
The floor of all the corridors and halls
will be of mosaic and will be fire-proof.
The stanchions and floor beams will be
of iron. On each floor there will be a
toilet room laid in enameled brick and
slate floors and will be fire-proof. The
building will contain eighty rooms
twenty Of which, one on each corner Of
Al each floor, will be double rooms, the
81 rest being single rooms. The heating
Il will be by steam supplied from the
steam plant of the college. The light
ing will be by gas. The building will
be completed by September 18th and
will be ready for occupancy at the
opening of college next fall.
The firm Of Smith, Sperry & Treat Is
putting UP the building, which will
make the sixteenth college building
erected by that firm; in fact the firm
has built every new dormitory building
on the campus except Vanderbilt Hall
and, and in addition built the new
Shelf. building. Besides these the firm
has nearly completed the fine English
residence on Hillhouse avenue, and is
constructing the new synagogue at the
corner Of Orange and Audubon streets,
and is building an extra story on seve-
raj buildings at Candee's rubber facto-
ny. All OF this work is under the per-
sonal supervision of Mr. Treat, who
also superintendent the construction of
WEIGH, White and Berkeley Halls, the
Yale Infirmary, the new Shelf. build
ing.