Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-08-19
NEW STATE BUILDING.
EXPECTED TO BE ENTIRELY COMPLETED
NEXT MONTH.
Handsome Decoration of Court
of Appeals Rooms - An
Imposing Edihce.


tor the next session of the Court of APP
peals in October. The building cost
quarter of million OF dollars, and occu.
PIES the site OF the old colonial Pinkney
residence, which the State, after purchas-
ing, gave to the Misses HnlSney, and
when they had moved, in tact, two
blocks away TO ST. Johns street.
Although the Pinkney house was over
one hundred and fifty years old. 1t was
moved without the loss OF a brick, and
with all OF ITS furnishings, glassware, &c,
in perfect condition after the process of
moving. The State building is 100 feet
? inches by I37 feet I inches. Ii is
bounded by Bladen street. college avenue
and State House Circle. 1t is fireprooi
and its framework or skeleton is OF iron
and steel girders. 1t has perfect system
OF ventilation and heating shafts, and
viii be heated by hot air from the power
house five hundred feet distant.
The building was begun in August.
1901, and is expected to be completed
next month. The architects were Messrs.
Baldwin x Pennington, and the contrac-
tors are Henry Smith 4 Sons. OF Balti-
more. The main colonnade faces the
Governor residence and the other en-
trance is on State House circle, opposite
the new annex to the State capitol, now
in process of building. The building will
contain the Court OF Appeals, the State
Library, the State Treasurer Offices,
the comptroller offices and apartments
in connection with these. The library
is designed to contain I5o. 900 volumes.
The Comptroller Office will occupy the
north end of the building, and the Treas
urer's office with double steel vaults,
will occupy the south end,
At the east end will be located the
Land Commissioner and Fish Commits
sioner's offices. The Comptroller office
contains a handsome mahogony mantle
that cost $500. 1t is beautifully hand
carved in small punches of grapes with
the finest tendrils of the grape vine. The
Court of Appeals room is in the east end
of the building. This room alone is said
to have cost $4,000, Its walls. to the
height of sixteen feet, are solid mahog-
ony panels, ornamented with hand carv-
ing of historic designs, the scale of justice
and the emblem OF peace-the battle axe,
with arrows imbeded therein. Above
the mahogony finish of the side walls is
an ornamental plaster finish to the ad-
dItional height of six feet, and the ceiling
OF the Court of Appeals room is "a hand
some dome of Cathedral glass.
The. building is two story and attic.
The basement is OF Howard county
granite exterior. with glazed brick,
interior finish. The walls are of brick,
with Indiana limestone ornamentation.
The corridors are lined with white En-
ghsh vein, Italian marble, the veining OF
which outlines many strange images. On
one panel can be plainly discerned a
frog, attempting to leap into a pool. On
another deer, and still another shows
in clear and distinct outlines of the beau
tiful marble, the Egyptian Sphynx. Faces
and other images are also clearly defined
and attract the curious and cause much
speculation. The floor of the corridor is
OF mosaic basket pattern wainscoating,
and all the floors are laid in compost
ton of cement and sand to deaden the
sound. In the corridor twelve beautiful
marble pillars from the old Custom
House, in Baltimore. are utilized.
The completion of the building will
accomplish several things most deslrables
chief among which is proper quarters for
the Court OF Appeals and proper place,
winch the Court Of Appeals never had,
for the safe keeping OF the records. In
the basement will be the receiving and
shipping rooms and the custodian office,
a system OF heating apparatus and coils
and stocks for same. The building will
contain an elevator, and the root con-
struction skylight of paradigm glass Of
the wire woven pattern. Around the
upper sidewalks of the rooms will be
panels of Cathedral glass. The library
will contain gallery and book cases
finished in quartered oak. There are two
toilets on the first floor, public toilet on
the second floor and two toilets in the
basement. In the attic are private baths
for the judges and retiring rooms.
A new feature introduced in this build
ing is the double sash windows. Each
window has two sashes, an upper and
lower, OF heavy plate glass. Tnis is
feature characteristic OF buildings in the
West, but rarely seen in the East. 1t is
for warmth and at the same time keeps
out noise. Mr.. Charles Herbold is the
superintendent of the building, and has
charge for the contractors, Henry Smith
& Sons. He IS courteous and polite in
showing visitors through, and has his
hands iull, for the building is visited
daily By many strangers as well as towns
people, who admire the new building.