Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-09-20
BREAK GROUND
NEW LIBRARY
Monday----Lots are
Staked off--Plans
Accepted.
CONTRACT LET TO WINDSOR
Last Night Designed by Las
Vegas Fiirm---Mission
Style Adopted.

Santa Fe Will be able to boast OF
as fine and modern public library
building within a few months az there
is anywhere in New Mexico. The site
OF the structure was staked off today
and the ground will be broken for the
foundation Monday. At meeting
yesterday afternoon of the building
committee of the Woman's Board of
Trade, which has assumed the respon-
sibility of providing an up-to-date in.
stitution of this kind for the Capital,
the plans and specifications Of Archi-
tects Holt and Hart, of East Las
Vegas. were accepted and last even.
ing the contract for the construction
work was awarded to Antony Windsor
of this city.
Spanish Mission Style Of Architecture.
The Spanish Mis- 1ion style Of archi
lecture will be followed to a certain
extent in the new building, but in
stead of being erected of adobe it will
be built of brick. 1t will not only be
of attractive appearance inside and
out, but it will be arranged with
due regard to comfort and con.
venience. Although il will be in real
ity only one story high there will pe
high basement The building prop.
er will be devoted exclusively to lib
rary purposes with the exception that
there will be room in which may
be held the meetings of the Woman's
Board of Trade
The first floor will contain in addi-
ton to this meeting room, a reading
room and the stack ROOM in which
the books not used will be kept. It
is proposed to have the library stock.
ed with numerous books of various
kinds pertaining to fiction, history and
the sciences. In the reading room
will be the popular magazines and
periodicals, as well - sises of the
daily newspapers sas@tssle Territery
The basement win 3La arranged with
a view to having entertainments there
from time to time, the proceeds of
which will be applied to the main
tenance fund 1t will have an assem-.
bly, room sixty feet long and thirty.
five feet wide. The basement wall
will be of stone which will extend
up as high as the street grade.
Private Heating Plant in Building.
A private heating plant win be in
stalled in the building, and 1t will be
lighted throughout with electricity
Contractor Windsor's bid calls for
supplying everything that will go
into the structure excepting the heat
ing apparatus and the electric light
fixtures. He will begin the actual
work of construction as soon as posi-.
BILE and expects to have the building
under roof by the first of January
"The new public library building
will be substantial and of neat appear
ance,' stated e. w. Hart, the archi-
tect, who designed it, this morning
to a reporter of the New Mexican In
planning it the main ideas in view
were permanency and convenience. 1t
will be built on the order of the old
Spanish missions. While it will be at
tractive in appearance none of the
comforts were sacrificed for orna.
mentalism. 1t will have all of the
necessary conveniences and will be
amply large for the purposes intend.
ed The brick walls will be above
the street grade and the foundation
will be of stone"
Four Contractors Made Bids.
Contractor Windsor was the low.
est of four bidders. The others who
bid on the building were August
Reingart and ]. ]. Rutherford, of this
city, and ]. w. Mclaughlin, of Trini.
dad. Mr.. Mclaughlin is the con-
tractor who is erecting the new Jail
building. The women comprising the
building committee who had the mat.
ter in charge decline to make public
at present the figures in the several
bids, prefe.. ing to make their report
first to the hoard at its meeting next
Monday. However, it is understood
that there was a difference of about
two thousand dollars between the
lowest and highest bidders.
The ground upon which the new
public library building will stand Is
on the west side of Washington Ave.
nue., short distance north of the Old
Palace. The property was donated to
the Woman's Board of Trade for the
purpose by the Territory. The front
wall of the structure will be twenty.
five feet from the street pavement
and next spring the library grounds
will be converted into miniature
park