The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-24
new JEFFERSON
TO be PALAT|AL
be flanked BY the entertainment or
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will be thanked by the entertainment or
ball room.
This will complete the front elevation
In the space occupied by the entrance
to the main lobby. The east and west
wings OF the Main Street extension will
be chambers, with outside exposure, those $50
Streets hooking into the broad open space
over tho handsome roof Of the main
lobby and with sun parlors on the top
floor Mt tho south end.
The interior OF the lobby will be most
comfortable and pleasing to the eye.
There will be no unnecessary wall or
partitions. Pillars will be used In the
general effect, thus minimizing the
chances OF heat and giving free circu-
lation To the brcezes that may find
themselves within the finely ventilated
lobby The staircase leading to the
Franklin Street foyer. and the balconies
above the main lobby will be devoid OF
side walls or enclosures of any kind.
Instead, richly-carved and substantial
pillars will extend from the floor to the
base OF the balconies. The same effect
will prevail lin the construction of the
staircase leading still further up to the,
level Of the Jefferson court on the!
Franklin Street side, 80 that those SIT
ting or promenading in the court may
see and be seen by those In the lobby
below on the Main Street side. The
only distractions will be the ornamented
pillars. All around the main lobby Will
be the balconies, familiar to the guests
Of the old hotel. but this balcony will
be more con1modious and sumptuous. At
the southern end the band stand Will be
erected, as part OF the balcony proper.
so that sweet strains OF music may reach
the ears OF tho guests as they lol about
the lobby. lounge In the court or sit at
their meals.
Effect Of Lightness.
On the balcony floor, which will be the
dining room floor also. will be the nur-
sery and the merchants sample room.
These two rooms will occupy the space
Immediately above that now taken up ~
the Jefferson Street facade, The sample
room will be adjoining the dining room
and the nursery adjoining that
The effect on the ground floor will also
be that brought about by open work"
Where walls or partitions once stood.
will be pillars and glass work The walls
now separating the Main Street hallway
from the drug store will be replaced by
glass partitions and this scheme will pre-
vail all through. The barber shop will
be moved to the east side Of the building,
{ to be erected on the vacant lot just add
ed to the original site. The room now
used as barber shop will be utilized as
a retiring room for ladies. where hair
dressers, manicure artists, chiropodists
and the like will always be in attendance.
On the Main Street side: adjoining the
writing rooms adjacent to the entrance.
VIII be the bar, next to that the barber
shop with skylight roof, and then a
flower store North Of the bar will be
located the billiard room, with a sixteen
foot space between that and row OF
sample rooms on the Adams Street side.
Beneath this entire front. one Of the most
complete rathskellars in the country vii,
be located. s.gis s5F rs
At convenient places throughout the
space adjoining the main lobby will be
| placed writing desks, retiring corners,
! little resting places, lands. telegraph
and telephone stations and at the foot Of
the main staircase leading up to the
Franklin Street court will be located a
ticket Office. where tickets on any rail-
Il