Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12

The detailed plans and specifications
for the Board of Trade building, popu-
larly known as the Opera House, to be
erected on the site of the old court
house at the southeast corner Of
Twelfth and Chapline streets, were on
exhibition at the rooms of the Board
yesterday, and attracted great deal
of attention. Everything is now in
readiness for bidders, and many con-
tractors from this and other cities will
inspect the papers during the ensuing
week or two, preliminary to making
estimates for the work to be done.
A careful scrutiny Of the plans shows
that Architect Franzheim has designed
not only large but very handsome
building, complete to the smallest de-
tails in all the essentials of comfort
and convenience, and that Wheelings
new place of amusement will be the
equal Of anything in far larger and
more pretentious cities. Granite, mar
BILE, Indiana limestone, terra Gotta.
pressed brick, thing and other high
class building material will be used in
profusion, and the interior decorations
generally will be both handsome as to
general effect and highly artistic.
The main lobby will have a marble
tile floor with marble wainscoting
three and one-half feet high, and the
foyer will be adorned with marble
columns and will have a rubber tiled
floor The Twelfth street Office en-
trance and exit from the theatre will
have a marble floor and steps, and will
be very handsomely decorated.
The entire exterior of the first story
of the building, on the Twelfth and
Chapline street sides will be of the very
best quality of buff Bedford Indiana
limestone. The fianking columns at
the Twelfth street office entrance will
be of granite, the shaft and base to be
polished, with caps of Bedford stone.
All the first and second story stone
work for the Chapline and Twelfth
street elevations, columns and pilast-
ers, window stills for the second, fourth
and fifth stories, and the trimmings at
the main entrances on Chapline and
Twelfth streets are to have smooth
rubbed surfaces. All the remaining
stone facings will have tool chisel dress
ed surfaces. All stills for windows in
brick walls will be of limestone. No
soft brick whatever will be allowed in
the walls in any portion of the build
ing. The exterior walls on the Chap
line and Twelfth street fronts will be
of pressed brick, with handsome terra
Gotta trimmings.
For interior decoration the marbles
used will be first class Tennessee pink
and white. All the wainscoting will be
of white marble, highly polished, and
the same stone will be used for the stair
treads. The columns in the foyer will
dlSO De Oh the same grade or stone.
Pink marble will be used effectively at
various points.
The ornaments for the stage front
and over and between the boxes will be
very handsome, after original designs
and the general effect as seen from the
front of the house will be admirable.
Where wood work is to be used, very
effective combinations and finishes are
prescribed, both for the theatre and it's
adjuncts, and for the Offices in the re-
mainder of the building, the ensemble
being worked out in a most admirable
manner.
The specifications are very volumin-
Gus, filling no less than forty-four
pages of type-writing. The plans are
many, and yesterday were displayed on
the walls, taking up most of the avail
able space, even without the elevations
| of the fronts.