The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
DENVER PUBLIC
BUILDING PLANS
OUT OF SIXTEEN COMPETITORS
NEW YORK FIRM OF ARcHi-
TEcTs WINS.
TO HAVE four STORIES
BEAUTIFUL STONE STRUCTURE
IN CLASSIC STYLE TO COST
ABOUT $1,4oo,ooo.

washington-The board which has
been considering plans submitted for
the Denver public building, has accept
ed the ones submitted by Tracy. Swar-
tout & Litchfield of New York city,
one of the sixteen competing firms
permitted to enter the competition.
The plans may be modified by the
architects office Of the treasury de-
partment, but 1t is expected that In
general way they will be followed in
the construction of the building.
The estimated area of the building
is 46,7OO square feet. its height seven
ty.five feet and gross contents 1885,
TAO cubic feet. The exterior surface
will be stone and will aggregate 6S,-
112 square feet.
1,401, ,121.02.
The building will be of four stories
and flat-roofed edifice, following the
Greek-Ionic style of architecture, with
sixteen columns, forty feet in height,
along the front facade and with five
similar columns along the end of each
end facade. The building will face
Stout street and be placed back from
the street SO as to give commanding
view of the building which will vir-
tually be in the center of plaza 160
by 562 feet in extent.
The Champa street side of the build
ing will be used for mail platforms
and unloading entrances. The colon
made along the front of the building
will form portico from which large
entrances will lead into the lobbies
The description of the building by
the supervising architect states that
the public corridor for the postoffice
will be spacious, well lighted and abso-
lutely unincumbered.
The working space in the center of
the building will be large and well
lighted. There is an uninterrupted
frontage of 21O feet in the main corri-
dor and sixty-eight feet in the smaller
corridors, and direct across the mail
ing platforms. There is direct light
on the stamp windows, delivery win
dows, boxes, ETC., due to the wall of
the light court being directly over the
face OF the corridor. The money or
der and registry divisions are next to
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The postmaster's office, financial room
and stamp division are at the other
end of the building.
On the second or courtroom floor
the lobby is extended across the en-
tire front. Three court rooms are dis
posed of, one at each end and one in
the center over the main postoffice
work room.
Judges chambers and clerks Off
ces are on the Champa side Of the
building back of court reached by
circular corridors from the front or by
spiral stairs and elevators at the back,
enabling judges and clerks to enter
the court rooms from the back end,
thus avoiding crowds in lobbies.
On the third floor are two jury
rooms for the Circuit Court, the offices
Of the district attorney and marshal
and witnesses rooms and grand jury
rooms.
The fourth floor will not be finished
but may be partitioned into suites Of
office rooms when needed. Stairs and
elevators are placed on either side of
corridores at each entrance. The SUI
pervising architect Is of the opinion
that the building cannot be placed on
the market before next spring.