The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-16
BOSTON BUILDING
A Model Structure on
Fort Street.
Elaborate Marble and Mosaic Wol k
Plans by Traphagen-S .ruc-
ture Equals Any Here.

This beautiful store and office build
ing is being erected by the Charles
Brewer Estate, Limited, on the Waiili-
ki side of Fort street, between King
and Hotel streets, on the site SO long
occupied by H. May 4 Co, which firm
has recently reorganized and incOrpOr-
ated with j. T. Waterhouse & Co and
II. f. Mcintyre & Bro, who will occu-
py the entire ground floor and base
ment of the new building. The second,
third and fourth stories will he for Of
flee purposes.
The location is unsurpassed by any
office building in the city. The build
ing will have frontage on Honolulu's
main thoroughfare OF fifty-four feet
and will have a depth of nine three
feet, being sixty-seven feet wide at the
rear, and will be four stories high.
The design of the building is the
production of the WeiI-knoWn architect,
o. G.. Traphagen, and was chosen III
competition by the Brewer Estate be-
cause of its many essentially valuable
features particularly adapted 10 a
firsC-class office building. The style
followed in the architecture is that CT
the Italian renaissance; it was adopt
ed by the architect for its graceful
features and the pleasing contrast it
offers to other forms, affording as it
does a wide scope for the display Of
delicate art.
The store-fr0nt and entrance To the
building will be important and elabor-
ate features and viii introduce some
thing entirely new 10 Honolulu. con-
sisting OF ornamental iron, marble and
mosaic work, together with a maxi
mum amount of polished plate-glass.
All of the facade above the first story
will be constructed OF artistically mod
eled terra Gotta and specially manufac-
tured pressed brick, in beautiful gray
color.
The elevator, in design and efficiency
and safety appliances, will be the best
that can be produced by experts, the
Otis Elevator Company. 1t will be
deliberately finished and of high speed
and is so located that the entire front
will be in prominent view from the
street and the entrance. This is CON
sidered a most advantageous feature in
modern office buildings. The elevator
Enclosures in the entrance lobby, to-
gether with the marble walls and
stairs, combined with the handsomely
executed ornamental ironwork, will in
deed make this entrance equal III eie-
gance to that of any office building IN
the States The stOre-fronts, which are
treated in the same elaborate design,
are modern and up-to-date, such as are
approved by the best shopkeepers Of
the Eastern cities, giving as they do
special advantages for displaying pun
poses in which one competitor endeaV-
ors TO Guido the other, and the dress
ing OF which has become an art.
The immense store occupying the
entire first floor and basement will be
thoroughly lighted and ventilated, this
important problem having been sue
cessfully solved by the architect. All
drays and delivery wagons will dis
charge and take on their loads at the
rear, where special facilities are pro-
vided, including a large freight ele-
vator. The basement will be thorough
" lighted with the Luxfer sidewalk
prism tiles and the Lucidux rejecting
lights, which are universally acknoW-
lodged to be the best ref1ectOrs Of light
known for the purpose. An ornament
al iron stairway and inclined plane
leads from the main lobby to the BIZ
cycle room in the basement directly
under the main lobby; this room is also
lighted with Luxfer and Lucidux
prisms IN the sidewalk and will be
properly equipped.
There will be thirty-six large offices
in the building and each and every one
will be supplied with an abundance OF
light and sir through large windows
directly in the outside walls, which IS
so essential in this climate. The ar
rangement IF the upper stories shows
careful study by the architect The
offices taat are not in the trout or rear
of TIE building face an immense light
court open 10 the sky and open at the
end. so located that it receives the
morning sun and the trade-wlnds,
viii, 4 will blow directly into it; there
fore. IS before stated, each and every
office in the building will be supplied
with an abundance Of direct outside
light ana air, as well as each and all
of the corridors, which will be OF llber-
al proporticns. The offices will be
handsomely finished in natural WOODS
and provided with all the modern con-
yeniences in use in the most up-to-date
office buildings of the Eastern cities.
The building will have plate glass
windows, inside blinds, mail chute ana
annie sanitary toilet arrangements on
each floor. complete in every particular
and of the best grade. This building
&c in course of construction by the
vall-known local contractor, Arthur
Harrison. who has 4 contract FOR the
entire building, which is to be complet-
cd on the 1st of August, 1900. The Ha-
waiian Trust G Investment Company
Limited. are the agents for the Charles
brewer Estate. Limited, and are al
raadv renting offices in this very deslr-
able Office building.