The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-05
Soldiers. Home Mess Hall.

Proposals will be opened tomorrow for |
the new f1reproof mess hall at the Sol |
diers. Home, an immense building for |
which 00.000 has been appropriated 1t /
will be the largest and most mont |
mental mess hall and dorn1itory in the |
country. 1t will cover an entire city
block, being go by 800 feet, and viii be
four stories in height. with basement |
and attic. It viii be in the Romanesque
style OF architecture, and marble is to
be used for It's outer walls in conform
ity with the other Soldiers Home build
ings.
The approach TO this building. which
is In the form Of a. park, south Of the
Sherman building, leads to the main en-
trance which is a RomanesQue arcade,
forming an attractive feature to the
three large central doorways. These
open through marble vestibules into the
large entrance hail or foyer % feet deep,
Y feet wide. % feet high, finished III
white marble walls and floors. with a
wide monumental stairway al each end
of the hall, leading TO the upper floors.
These two stairways meet upon one
landing, which forms band gallery
overlooking the main dining hall.
Immense Dining Room.
This foyer leads TO the large dining
hail. which Is formed IN the shape Of a
Z, so feet wide by Is feet high, and II ex-
tended in a straight line, would form
roo,,, 40 feet long. This dining hall.
which Is the principal object Of the
building and arranged to seat 1.5oo Per
sons at one time. Is finished with ter
razzo floors and marble WainscotlnS
with buff brick walls above.
The dining hall opens through three
large doorways into the scuileries and
kitchen. the latter OF which is sixty-four
feet wide by seventy feet long by TWEEN
weight feet high and contains the
large ranges. roasters. kettles. steamers
ovens. etc, sufficient to provide meals
for the large number of people to be
seryed at one time, and which is, there
fore necessarily larger than any hotel
kitchen, The sculleries and kitchen are
finished in terraZzo floors, with white
enarneled brick walls above. are lighted
with large skyIights above. and ven
tilated with fan draughts into large
stack twelve feet square.
Interior Furnishings.
On this same floor and back of the
kitchen are located the bakery with two
large ovens, the grocery. meat, bread,
and -four rooms, the later OF which are
connected with cold storage rooms and
refr1gerators, supplied by refrigeration
from, a plant IN a separate building.
The upper nOOTS are 6ffdIBSu WILL
large sitting halls. bedrooms. corridors,
linen rooms, barber shop, lavatofies
toilet rouls. and separate bathrooms
The sitting halls finished IN marble
ana Duff brick. The barber shop, lava
tories, toilet rooms, and bathrooms are
finished in marble. and the remainder OF
the building in quartered white oak. witt
plastered walls.
The entire building is absolutely fire
proof. constructed with terra Gotta fiocr!
and partitions carried on structural stee
and finished with a slate roof The
building will be equipped with all TIA.
modern appliances for cooking ant
serving. with standpipcs. hose reels
pumps. etc. for ire protection. Fou
large modern electrically equipped ele
yators are conveniently arranged fo
safety with approved signals and elec
tricaI controllers.
Housing an Army of Men.
The BUILDING will be heated by diree
and indirect steam supplied from q cen
trail plant in n separate building and IN
ventilation will be accomplished through
cut by the use CT electric fans. all odor