The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-25
COMPLETED
Pans and Specification of the Club House
OF the Hanover Seaside Club to be Erect.
ed on Carolina Beach Now Ready.

Mr. II. E. Bonitz, the clever young
architect, yesterday finished the plans
and specifications for the Hanover Sea-
side club house to be erected on Caro-
lima Beach.
In a previous issue Of The Messenger
has appeared a short description OF the
building and the exact site upon which
it will be located. However, a more de-
tailed and precise account OF the struc-
ture is as follows:
The club house will be most attractive
and imposing in appearance, viewed eth
er from the exterior or the interior, and
will face the broad Atlantic. The shape
of this coy pleasure palace will be hat
of a right angular cross, and will cover
a space of ground ninety-two feet in
length and sixty-one feet in width. Com
pletely circling the first, or lower floor,
will be a substantial piazza of 2,760 square
feet; the second and last floor will have
two piazzas, not circular, however, but
one front and one rear, containing LOO
square feet.
THE LOWER FLOOR.
The main entrance will lead into a spa
cious auditorium, 80 feet by 40 feet, run
ming the entire width OF the building,
therefore opening in the face OF the
ocean on the east and the sound on the
west, which will allow the refreshing
and appetizing breeZes to ave full sway.
This room will furnish ample and COM
Portable seating capacity, and like the
other rooms, will be cealed. At both ends
of the auditorium will be two wings. The
north wing will contain a ladies' sitting
room 03x20), ladies' parlor x(Sx10), and a
small ladies' toilet room. The parlor will
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fair sex, and the sitting room will be
just such a place where sociable chat
will be surrounded with every comfort,
while the toilet room will be arranged in
a tidy manner. In the north wing will
be the cuisine apartment, dining room
and lunch alcove. The culinary apart
ment will he a model one. The dining
room will be commodious and airy, and
the lunch alcove will be a spot where
quietude will prevail, but will be decid-
edly CHEEKY.
THE UPPER FLOOR.
Entrance to the second story can only
be made from the outside, by ascending
a wide stairway leading from the north
ern section Of the circling porch into a
pretty hall in the second story. A we'll
appointed billiard saloon % by 80 feet,
WILL occupy the CeIIIe poI u lhhS
floor and will nave n large exposure to
the ocean. A modern cafe and gentle
mems smoking room will be located in
the southern section and the northern
section will contain two card rooms, a
plain chamber and the custodian's room.
This floor will afford the gentlemen
members many comforts and pleasures,
and will be greatly enjoyed by their
guests.
The entire building will have perfect
ventilation, and all the windows will be
fitted with chip glass which will not per-
init the glare to enter. The pitch OF the
first story will be ten feet, six inches,
and the second story nine feet and a half.
The two piazzas will be each twenty feet
wide, and travel of the lower porch
twenty times will make a distance of a
mile.
Some distance from the club house will
be erected bath houses for ladies and
gentlemen. The main building and other
structures will cost between $500 and
5000.
These plans and specifications will be
laid before a meeting of the club to be
held tomorrow night, and then bids will
be called for at once.
The club house when erected will attest
the skill and efficiency of Mr.. Bonitz
as an architect. Mr.. Bonitz is a veteran,
and a most competent one, at planning
for the erection of places of pleasure.
The Clarendon club house on Wrights-
vile Beach, and the Sedgeley Hall club
house, now in course of construction on
Carolina Beach, are both evidences of his
brain and hand work.
"A Hist0rIcal Promenade"