The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29

following the suggestions of the Hand
ley executors and Jonas Longs Sons,
who are to occupy the store, has de-
signed a building that the Csty will be
proud of. 1t is to cover the entire
| block now occupied by the Wyoming
house, and it's four stories and base
ment will therefore give over 100000
square feet of floor space.
The main dimensions are as follows:
Interior area 142x135h; height from
basement floor to top of dome, SO feet
height from street line to coping, 70
feet: height of basement, IL feet; first
story, Is feet inches; second story,
Ii feet; third story, IL feet; fourth
story ~ feet; dome above ceiling Of
fourth floor, 20 feet.
The frame work of the building Is to
be Of the best structural iron; faced
with Forest City stone and Indiana
limestone trimmings. The ornamental
ton will be in stone and copper, stone
| predominating. Georgia pine and pop
lar will be the material of the interior
finishing.
PLENTY OF LIGHT
Light without stint was undoubtedly
the idea uppermost in the architects S
mind The facings of the building
have all the plate glass that they can
possibly carry, and raising from the
center of the roof is a glass dome 80
feet in diameter surrounding square
well 33x3S feet, descending to the first
floor. Then in addition to this there is
not a partition in the entire building
each floor having a clear area OF 2O'Ooo
square feet brokSn only by the AZ IRON
columns, which form the supports ana
binders of the different floors. 1t Is
virtually a plate glass box braced with
iron.
The Lackawanna avenue front ana
Wyoming avenue front are counter
parts of each other, except in this that
on the Wyoming avenue side the 'front.'
age is five and half feet greater. The
building comes out to the fence line on
Lackawanna avenue and to the line
of the adjacent buildings on wyoming
avenue. 1t is rectangular leaving out
of consideration the southeast corner
out of which a small quadrangular
space is taken for an area that Will pre-
clude the shutting out of light from
the side windows on the forward part
Of the Burgess block
In general appearance the building
will be handsome without being eX-
tremely ornamental. The two main en-
| frances, which are from the center of
each frontage, will be twenty feet wide
in the clear and will be highly orna-
mental in effect. This ornamentation
will be carried to the top of the build
ing and at the roof an ornamental pro-
lection of 14x2O feet will break what
| would otherwise be straight cave lines.
A fancy balustrade surmounted by fif-
teen-foot poles at regular distances of
twenty feet will ornament the coping.
Electric lights will be placed on top of
these poles.
LARGE DISPLAY WINDOWS.
| On the ground floor built up from a
foot and half base there will be a Sc
ries of plate glass windows broken only
by the two principal entrances and the
narrow window frames. These win
dows will be twelve in number. On the
upper floors there will be three bay
windows thanking each side of the CEN
tral twenty-foot window which enter
into the ornamental effect Of the area
Immediately above the entrances. De-
spite all this plate glass the general
eject of the exterior is very substan-
tial, so cleverly has the architect done
his work.
OF the interior of the building little
Is TO be said until the fixtures are put
in. The main feature is a grand stair
case at the end of the building oppo-
site the LackawaHna avenue entrance
1t extends TO every floor and ON the
first floor connects with a balcony
twenty feet wide and running the en-
tire width Of the room. There is a
smaller staircase in the southeast cor.
ner, a double passenger elevator oppo.
site the Wyoming avenue entrance and
half way between the center Of tho
building and the eastern wall, aud 4
freight elevator in the northeast corner
The walls are to be finished in white
| plaster.
| The building, Il is estimated, win cost
sleOOOQ and VIII be finished and occu.
pied before the holidays II present plan,
| do not fail,