The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-10
MARLBOROUGR-BLENHEIM
A Notable Building Just Completed at the Famous Resort, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

the Famous Resort, Atlantic City,
 New Jersey.
 The Messrs, Josiah White & Sons
 nave just completed the new Annex to
 their Marlborough House in Atlantic City, and on March first throw open
 its doors to guests. This house, which contains two hundred and fifty guest
 rooms and two hundred and fifty pri-
 Vate baths, will increase their total 1 capacity, so that the Marlborough Blenheim, which is the name of the | combined establishment, will accom-
 modate eleven hundred guests.
 While the houses are separated by a
 public street, Ohio avenue, they are | connected by bridges extending from
 the Exchange in one house to that in
 the other, making a continuous sun
 gallery all the way across.
 The architecture of the Blenheim Is particularly striking and attractive. A
 large dome covered with green and
 gold terra cotta surmounts the ocean
 end, which is twelve stories high, and frequent bands of bright colored mer-
 oer tile and light green terra cotta in
 sea forms make a delightfully."- interest," ing exterior In construction the house
 makes decided new departure in
 many respects. The columns and
 beams, which ordinarily in fireproof
 buildings are made of steel, in this
 building are constructed of reinforced
 concrete throughout. The walls are
 built of hollow tile plastered outside,
 thereby gaining two air spaces in the
 walls, so as to insure the dry atlnos- phere so essential and often lacking in new buildings. The floors are also constructed. of hollow tile with rein forced concrete joists This construc- tion, with the maclite partitions, is considered the greatest advance in fire proof construction which has taken place in the building world Every floor was tested to four times it's great est live load Thomas A. Edison, the world renowned expert conducted the beam test, and after examing the building thoroughly said: Tt is un- doubtedly the coming construction for all great buildings It won't bend 1t won't break and you couldn't burn it if you tried
 The Blenheim building, which occu- pies one hundred and fifty feet on the ocean front (which, added to the Marl- borough front, gives a total frontage to the Marlborough Blenheim of three hundred and fifty feet upon the Board walk) has total length of over five hundred feet, and is eight stories high, except at the ocean end, which is twelve stories high, surmounted by dome, the top of which towers one hun dred and seventy three feet above the ocean level. The view from this tower commands a distance of twenty miles inland and oceanward, with Atlantic City spread out in panorama below
 Probably the most attractive feature of the entire Marlborough Blenheim establishment is an enclosed and open air sun parlor, extending one hundred and fifty feet along the ocean front one story above the Boardwalk, and open- ing directly into the Exchange of of the hotels. There are six large open fire- places in this sun parlor and exchange, and central feature consisting of a beautifully decorated gem of ball room surrounded by handsome columns and stained glass windows, rep resenting deep sea interspersed with fishes coral and plants. In fact, the whole of the exterior and interior de- corations carries out the thought of the ocean. Terra cotta ornaments, thirty feet in length, represent mythical sea serpents, fishes, terrapin, shells and other sea forms. S
 Without question, the building will be classed as one of the notable build | ings of the world, and will form an | attraction which will be invaluable to | the welfare of Atlantic City, and is a 1 great credit to its distinguished Phil | adelphia architects, Price & McMc- | Lanahan.
 In three other particulars this huild- | ing stands out with startling distinct ness as an achievement in the building | world It was commenced on the first day of July, 1905, and opened on the | first day of March, 1906, having been completed in exactly eight months after ground was broken Not a single hu- nan life was sacrificed on the building, the most serious mishap resulting in a broken arm; third, and most wonder l full of all, the building was constructed from beginning to end without single strike on the part of the mechanics or aborers employed. This is a record. 1t Is believed, involving, as 1t does, an ex- penditure of over one million dollars Tn a building twelve stories high of the absolutely fireproof class, without an equal in any part of the country.
 The house is furnished throughout in solid mahogany and brass beds, B aker oox springs and mattresses. It's de- ,orations by Chapman, of Philadelphia ire most attractive particularly the European dining room (there are both American plan and European plan lining rooms, so that guests live which, ever way they prefer) which is strik- ng in it's expectations of natural fruit md vines. The decorations of the cafe old Morse scenes, and are lnique and pleasing in their general ,ffect.