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Thickness of Wall

2-story Building. II 13 80. ....l ...,-
3-story Building. II Il 13 49,. -.
4-story Building. Y II Il - -.
Parapet walls to rise not less than
Is inches above roof and to be not
less than Is inches thick.
Orders and beams to rest on lodges
of metal. stone or brick.
The following being full and cor
rect description of a standard build
ing:
Is one having walls of brick or stone
(brick preferreD not less than Is
inches thick at top story. extending
through, and Is inches above roof in
parapet and COPIED, and increasing four
inches in thickness for each story be-
low to the ground. the increased thick
ness of each story to be utilized for
beam and girder lodges. Ground floor
area not over 5000 square feet (say,
80 by 1000; hight not over four stories,
or so feet: floors of three-inch plank,
covered by one-inch flooring crossing
at right angles, with waterproof pa
per between (tin or sheet iron between
preferred); wooden beams and Orders
and wooden story posts or columns u
inches square, or protected iron col
umns; elevators, stairways, etc, cut
off by brick walls or plaster on me-
tallic studs and lathing; communica-
tected with approved Uncovered doors
and fire-proof sills windows and doors
on exposed sides, protected by approx
ed Uncovered doors and shutters;
wallis of hues not less than inches in
thickness. to be lined with fire brick,
terra-cott or cast-iron and throat ca
pscity not less than Ga square inches,
# steam boilers are used; all floor tim
bers to be trimmed at least four inches
If Hrra haa I'D 11x- ste I'M.
lighted by gas; cornices of brick, metal,
terra-cotta or other incOmbustible ma
terial: roof covered with metal or tile;
If partitions are hollow or walls are
furred off there must be mortar or
other fire-stops at each floor.
Sec. 9. The term business Building"
shall embrace all buildings used princi-
pally for business purposes, thus in
Guiding among others. hotels, theaters
and Office buildings.
Sec 10. The terms Wholesale
Store" or Warehouse" shall embrace
all buildings used Cor intended to be
used) exclusively for purposes OF. mer--
camille business or storage of. goods.
Sec. IL. A basement story of any
building is defined as a story whose
floor is twelve inches or more below
the sidewalk and whose hight does
not exceed eleven feet in the clear All
such stories that exceed twelve feet
high shall be considered as first stories.
Sec. y. The hight of all buildings
for the purpose of this ordnance snail
be taken from the grade Of sidewalk to
a point half way from the lowest to
the highest part of the roof.
Sec. Is. Whenever it is sought TO
increase the night of any building be-
yond the hight for which the original
permit was granted, the thickness of
walls thereof shall also be increased in
accordance with the above table.
Sec. IA. The outside walls of rooms
having trussed roofs or. cell
ings. such as churches, pub
lie halls, theaters. dining rooms
or the like, if more than If
teen or less than twenty-five feet high.
shall average at least sixteen inches; If
over twenty-five feet high. at least
twenty inches; if over forty-five feet
high, at least twenty-four inches in
thickness. An increase of four inches
in thickness shall be made in all cases
where the walls are over one hundred
feet long. unless there are cross walls
of equal hight.
Sec. Is. If solid buttresses are en-
ployed with a sectional area of three
hundred or more square inches placed
less than eighteen feet apart, and ex-
tended to or nearly to top of walls, four
inches may be deducted from the thick
ness of any wall having such but
tresses.
Sec. Is. Cut stone faolngs of walls
shall be backed up with brickwork of
same thickness required where no cut
stone is used. In cases where the cut
stone is in a great measure self-sup-
porting, four inches less thickness OF
brick backing may be used. ASHER
fronts properly bonded to the brick
work may have backing same as self
supporting stone fronts or walls
Sec. IL. Any party wall now existing
that Shall have been built conformable
to the requirements of any law regu-
lating the construction of such walls,
and in force at the time of such con-
struction, If sound and in good condi-
tion may be used in the construction
of any adjoining buildingi Provided,
however, that no brick work shall be
placed on such wall to give additional
hight to the wall, unless the thickness
of such additional wall and the thick
ness of the old wall in each story shall
at least equal the thickness required
for division walls. This section shall
apply in all cases where II is desired
TO add additional hight to any bust
ness building. In case of outside walls
of any business building being built
against the wall of any old building
(rot being a party walD the new wall
SUdH De Oh ll6 Sdlit lilANhA AN-
quired for outside walls in such, build
dnE.
Sec. 49, Buildings having the first
story or basement and first story de-
signed for business purposes, and the
upper stories for dwellings, the first
being not more than thirty inches
above grade Of sidewalk. shall have
walls of brickwork of the thickness as
follows, to-wit: For two-storv and
basement buildings, the basement and
first story walls. twelve inches; sec
ond story. eight inches; for three-story
and basement buildings, basement wall,
sixteen inches: first and second stories.
twelve inches: third story. eight inches;
for four-story buildings. the basement
wall. twenty inches; first story. sixteen
inches: second. third and fourth sto-
ries, twelve inches. When built in
blocks Of two or more buildings, the
division walls in three-story buildings
may be twelve inches in basement, and
IN four-story buildings they may be
sixteen inches in basement
Sec. 10. All dwelling houses, In
Guiding those having first story used
Tor business purposes, and all other
buildings that are used, more than two
stories high. having fiat roofs, shall
nave all the walls Except front walls)
extended sixteen inches above the roof,
ana not less than eight inches thick, TO
nave proper copings OF uncomfortable
Materials double pitched roofs to have
their division and side walls carried