Arizona republican., 1909-03-21

The floor space for the bank will be more than doubled. as it now occupies but 25 feet on Washington street.
 Mr. Bliesners designs show a build ing which will be a credit to the city and will be another step toward a better and more beautiful architecture. which is beginning to prevail in the erection of business structures in Phoenix. While the particular type of architecture cannot be said to be- long to any of the different orders it is an adaptation of the classical types.
 The first floor will be faced with terra cotta and the balance will be cream-colored pressed brick. On the Center street side. next to the bank there will be a sixteen-foot lobby and elevator entrance. The floors in the lobby and also in the bank will be tiled The corridors on the office floors will be of the same material and will be faced with marble bases. The wood work will be of oak. All of the offices will be equipped with separate lava tories and wardrobes. The upper floors will have mail chutes and the other little labor-saving devices that are now found in all modern office buildings There will be twenty offices on each of the upper floors.
 A steam heating plant will be in stalled and also a vacuum cleaning ap- paratus
 The bank fixtures will be of prima vera or white mahogany. A system of safety deposit boxes will be placed in the vaults The vaults themselves will be fire proof and burglar proof as far as human ingenuity and expenditure of money can make them.
 While the building is under construc- tion the bank will move to the old quarters of the Valley bank
 W. J. Bliesner. the architect of the new bank, is a recent arrival in Phoe- nix. and this is his first important work here. For some years he was a member of the firm of Burnham & Bliesner Of Los Angeles. who have de- signed many public buildings and of flee structures throughout the coun- try and especially in California Among the best examples of the work of this firm is the Polytechnic High school of Los Angeles Another eX- cellent one is the court house at Riv- erside. a one-story structure of classic beauty. They also designed the Car negie libraries at Riverside. San Der nardno. Pomona. Monrovia, Spartan burg. $. C.. the high schools at Holly wood. Lordsburg. Santa Ana, Oxnard. Oakdale. the Franklin school at Pasa- dena. and the Commerce High school at Los Angeles. and many residences and office structures and fourteen Masonic temples
 Mir. Bliesner will make his home in Phoenix. When seen at his offices in the Fleming block yesterday. he said:
 'I gave up my offices in Los An geles and came to Phoenix because I believe there is a future in the build ing operations here that will not be found in southern California I think the next few years will see works of great magnitude promoted in this dis trict. I have come here to stay and shall gradually withdraw my Cali fornia investments and place them in the valley. It takes time to do these things properly, and I am not going to rush in and gobble up large chunks of real estate at present: but later on well, I like Arizona and believe in it.
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