Cañon City record., 1900-07-26
NEW CHURCH TO BE BUILT.
The First Presbyterian Society In
this City VIII Have q Forty
Thousand Dollar Edifice-
It VIII be Beauty.

fOr q Clme GneT6 HAS UecH uuIc VI
less talk in this community regarding
the proposed new house of worship
for the First Presbyterian church
and society in this city. The matter
has now been definitely settled. The
building committee on Saturday last
settled the question by awarding the
contract for the outer shell of the
structure, that is, from the basement
up. The price for this portion of
the work, as awarded to the contract
or, C. M. Ward, is $24,2l0. Work is
to be commenced at once, and the
building is to be completed within
a year.
Mr.. Wards contract does not in
clude the windows, steel partitions,
plumbing, heating, plastering and
painting; also the seating and organ.
These are matters for future con-
tracts.
There is every reason to believe
from the blue prints of the new
structure, that when completed and
ready for occupancy it will be with
out doubt the finest church building
outside the large cities, to be found
in this state. If the present plans
and intentions of the society are
carried out then the cost will range
somewhere in the neighborhood of
forty thousand dollars.
Messrs. Bradbury & Rittenhouse of
this city, arc the architects.
In order that our readers may be
able to form some idea of what the
building will be, we give give room
for the following description:
The building will be 77Axl32a feet,
and will be constructed entirely of
stone; using pink stone from the
Lyons quarry for the foundation and
white stone from the Harding quarry
for the superstructure. The building
is to be arranged with heating ap-
paratus, kitchen, dining room and
toilet rooms in the basement. On
the first or ground floor, corner of
Seventh and Macon, the main audience
room is located. This room is 58x63,
with pulpit and choir platform, l0x36,
the entire room having a seating
capacity of about 600. Back of the
pulpit a space is left for the pipe
organ, which will be 16 feet front,
and arranged in the most modern and
artistic style. From the pulpit plat
form small corridor leads to the
pastors study on the right, and 9
choir room, which will be used for
bible class room, on the left. The
main audience room is arranged fol-
curved pews on bowled floor; the
main aisle leading from the central
entrance in the tower at the corner
of the room to the pulpit platform
This room will an arched ceiling and
will be arranged 80 as to give the
very best acoustic effect. On the
north end Of the building is the Sun
day school department, with q room
3Sx38, and Infant and Kindergarten
room, with seating capacity of 200,
I also three class rooms. Above tn sse
latter are located the lad'e parlor,
Y.P.S.C.E. room, class rooms, ETC., all
opening into one main audience room,
by means of large rolling partitions.
There will be large rolling partitions,
30xl6 feet, between the Sunday
school and main audience room.
When complete and properly seated
the whole building will easily accom-
modate 1000 people. On the south
west corner OF the building, at the
main entrance, an octagon tower
rises to hight of 104 feet. 1t will
be built of stone 36 feet high, from
which point it will be of wood con-
struction, covered with ornamental
shingles or Spanish tile. There are
five exits from the main audience
room and two additional ones from
the Sunday school room. The build
ing is designed in the Romanesque
style of architecture and will have
cathedral glass windows of modern
design throughout, several of these
being Memorial Rose windows, which
at present are no fully decided upon.
The Cassedy-Pauls-Mauning outing
and fishing party, sunbonnets and all,
| are back from the head of the Con-