The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20
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Mammoth Chesterfield Apart.
ment House Nearly Done.
ROOMS in GREAT DEMAND
Nearly Every Suite Has Been Tented
Without Effort on the Part Of the J
Owners City IN Itself, Lacking
No Modern Convenience. 4, ~

mo Chesterfield Apartment House will
be and Is now credit to Richmond. 1t
has moro OF tho metropolitan air about
1t than any edincc In tho city. Seven
full stories above the street 1t lifts It's
huge form far above any buildings N
Richmond and It's roof ls without q doubt,
the highest spot on which mems feet
have rested hereabouts Erected OF splen-
did mt tcr1al Gre proof to the last degree.
stretching for half q square along Shafcr
and for quarter Of square along
Franklin tho Chesterfield Is peer OF
any to be found south of the Potomac.
This first great and modern apartment I
house OF Richmond will DO completed
by the first OF November. It was the
hope OF the owners and tho lessoes OF
apartments to have 1t from the build
ers by the first Of October. but circum-
stances beyond the control OF the con-
tractor will delay the completion one
month. When ono swings back the head
and gazed upward at tho giant struc
he is willing TO excuse tho builder who
consummated such O work within less
than thirty working days Of the pre-
scribed limit. Some Of tho apartments
will DO completed by october 1st and all
most certainly some lessees Will move
In before October 18th. but 1t is not
likely that all the vast amount OF small
work can DO accom- plishcd before early
In November. Some Of the floors are
nearly completed now, save the paperlng,
but considerable is to be done on the
basement. first and top floors. When
Finished" is used 1t is meant that every
nail will hAvo been driven, every screw
turned to It's head and every pipe and
electric wire will be In place and moth
ing remains to be done but enter upon
the enjoyment OF the manifold convent
snces OF q modern apartment home.
RENTING WAS EASY.
One remarkable fact about the Chess
ter1ield Is that almost every suite OF
rooms In tho mammoth building has been
taken This Is proof positive OF the fact
that tho owners correctly felt the pulse
Of tho people when they decided to put
their money to so great an amount In
tho innovation so far as Richmond was
concerned. But the Chesterfield will have
every convenience in itslf OF large
city.
In tho hascm ant will be rathsk eler.
which will keep open until lato in the
Night; = drug store. handsomely appoint
ed and kept BY T. A. Miller; handsome
lavatory. general Kitchen furnaces and
boilers for heating tho building, jani-
tors apartments etc. &
On the first floor will be q lobby at the
entrance, fully and elegantly appoint
ed fe, an ONCE for the manager, la
Gca' reception rc>:n. and apartments.
IN tho general plan OF the building apart
ments are found in three classes-house-
Keeping. with nine rooms, and Kitchen;
without housekeeping. consisting of three
rooms and bath; and bachelor apa rim en!s
OF two rooms and bath. Tho arrangement
or distribution OF all OF these apartments
Is such as to give light and air to all.
Tho rooms. while modern enough to be
kept warm on a winter day. arc unusu-5
ally high pitched and large. All floors
above tho first are given over entirely 10
apartments There are twelve housekeep-
Ing apartments OF nina rooms each. sE
PLENTY OF ROOM.
Tho housekeeping apartments have pri-
vate halls n den. living room, 1--WE bed
rooms. dining room. largo pantry. kitch-
on and bath. Only gas ranges are pro-
vjded for. Each OF these flats has a dumb
waiter connected with tho kitchen OF the
building to be used in the absence Of the
prfva to servant,
The three-room apartments are very
attractive Small families who wish Only
two. bedrooms and living room, can get
their meals from the general kitchen by
the perfect dumb watter5 system. The same
may be said about tho bachelor apart
ments Of two rooms and BATH The build
Ing is guaranteed to DO absolutely fire.
proof. Ono OF the sub-contractors said
Yesterday that he would be perfectly Will
Ing to have one Of the rooms or floors
filled with straw and sleep on an upper
floor. He did not deny that lre would
distirure the huildinS but there was mo- r.
Ing for 1t to burn, Even irons that would
not twist from heat had been used.
Wooden doors cha4rbonrds, moulding,
etc., were OF wood. hut there wos nothing
about the building to sustain FIRE. The
floors were laid on a cement founda-
ton.
The building already has in working