The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-31
REALTY PROGRAM
is EXPANDING
Plans for New Commercial
Club Building to Be Dis
CuSSed Tomorrow.
THEATRE is PROJECTED
COBB PREPARING TO PLAT pop
PERToN DISTRICT.

Henry Ives Cobb of New York. the ar
chitect for the Newhouse buildings, who
arrived in Salt Lake Sunday evening. ac-
companied Samuel Newhouse and Judge
Colburn on visit of inspection to Pop
perton Place yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Cobb spent most of the day discussing
with Judge Colburn the plans for plating
| the district and tht arrangement of the
lot. He said that he would probably be-
gin plans within a short time for the
Place
The board of governors and the building
| committee of the Salt Lake Commercial
club viii meet with MT Cobb tomorrow
afternoon and discuss the plans for the
new Commercial club building soon to he
built for the club by Mr.. Newhouse. MIR
Cobb said that he was in hopes that the
club building would be begun in the near
future. The plans for this building have
been drawn and approved.
me Commercial club will occupy a
beautlful building on the corner of Cactus
street and Exchange Place. 1t viii be
SIX STORES in height with a roof garden
On the first floor will be the main club
ana reception rooms with a ladies' en-
trance and sparlor The second and third
floors will be taken up with the large
dining and banquet rooms. There will be
entrances outdoors from the dining room
TO balconies to be used as smoking rooms.
a gallery for spectators will run around
the, main dining room. adjoining which
VIII be the ladies' dining room
The fourth floor will contain the hill
iard and card rooms and the library The
Ilftn and sixth floors will be used as
sleeping apartments
Booming Commercial Club.
Since the first OF the year the member
snip committee of the Commercial club
mas been particularly active in securing
new members in order that the club NAV
have an active membership of OnO he
fore the new building is completed. Fol
lowing the meeting on Wednesday the
announcement that the building will com
nence at once is expected. il possible Mr.
NeWhOUse win attend the meeting. but
IN case ne cannot do so Mr.. Cobb will
represent him.
Another Newhouse building that will he
begun this summer probably, is the min
ing exchange which will be AT the head
of Cactus street fronting on Exchange
Place and looking toward Fourth South
street This building will be an artistic
structure. built to house the offices of the
INNING interests Of the city. Still an
other structure that Mr. Newbouse has in
contemplation to be erected soon is a
theatre on the corner Of State street and
EIAcnahee Place. Whether or not this
theatre IS built this season depends on the
demand for the building, it is said
Hehry Ives Cobb carefully inspected the
work on the NeWhOuse and Boston blocks
yesterday and was pleased with the pro-
gress being Dade on these two office
buildings. The steel is all I'D and the
brick and stone work is moving rapidly.
II is understood that the first floor of the
NeWhouse building will be occupied BY a
Dank and that attorneys will OCCUPY the
majority of the offices in the building. In
case a great many lawyers make offices
IN the building Mr.. Newhouse will put i'm
law library for their reference The
flrst floor of the Boston Block will prob
ably be taken by large dry goods firm.
The Newhouse District.
At the entrance TO Exchange Place on
Main street stand the great Newhouse
and Boston blocks, now in skeleton form,
just east of the NewhOUse building a
Iour-StOTy annex 10 the office building
VIII connect 1t with the proposed new
home of the Commercial club The nron-
erty across the street is to be occI1Died
OK store buildings and the Mining ex-
change. Through the block on STATE Street
me new theatre is TO be erected
The probabilities are that orr newt
move viii be to begin work on the Com
mefcial club building said Nj CObb
1 nave a meeting with the building com
nlttee and the board of governors on
W edneSday and We may decide on some
thing definite at that meeting.
The work on the Newhouse and Pos
-Oh bulldinSs is beng pushed rapidly
IS possible and think they will be ready
OF occupancy some time in the fall Tho
Interior plans of those two buildings will
De subject to the wishes of the tenants
Other buildings as planned at Dresant
NIL De done just as rapidly as there is a
remand for the buildings We do moi vvaDf
o oulid more buildings than we can find
enantS Ior but we do want to build them
ust as rapidly as there is a demand FOR
hem Ii is possible that we NAV start
work on Inc Mining Exchange or the the
tire or the hotel this season. Nothing
leinite has been decided. We will build
I'll the buildings we planned to build tbe
apldity ana the order in which they are
o De built, Of course. depending on the
demand" u" tue
Mr.. Cobb made only casual reference tn
he hotel project -