Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-24
CONTRACT FOR STEEL LET BY
ARCHITECT YESTERDAY
COUNCIL AMENDS LAW AS TO
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS
Protest Made by Architects Draws
only Two Votes from Members
of the Lawmakng Body
of City

the building will be completed within
year. The addition will be fourteen
stories in height and will form a great
"L"-shaped structure around two sides
of the present structure, with a big
frontage on Broadway and additional
frontages on both Spring and Fifth
streets.
The last block in the way of the
big hotel was knocked from under py
the CITY council yesterday, when, with
only two dissenting votes, the building
ordinance limiting the height of build |
ings to twelve stories was raised 10
fourteen stories.
Contract for Steel Let
The first big contract in the building |
of the 50 00O0 600 addition to the Alex
andria hotel was let by Parkinson d |
Rergstrom, architects in the Securities
building, yesterday, 10 the Baker Iron |
works for steel to be used in its con-
struction. The annex will be fourteen
stories high, with a deep basement. |
The outside and interior finish will
correspond with the hotel at present.
At the present time the Alexandra |
fronts 120 feet on Spring street and |
206 feet on Fifth street. On the COM
pletion of the addition the hosiery
will have a hundred-foot frontage on
Broadway, 216 feet on Spring streee
and 321 feet on Fifth street. The type |
of architecture will be of the old Span
ish renaissance and pressed brlck ana
terra Gotta will be used.
The first basement will be entirely
devoted to the kitchen and its access
sories. Below the kitchen there will
he a endorsement, and power room.
The floor of the power house will be
thirty feet below the street level. In
the present Alexandria hotel the Indlan
grill room will be extended greatly
making it double its present capacity.
The first story of,the annex. size about
96x54 feet, will be arranged as a dim
ing room. Another portion, 4SX44 Ieet'
will be palm room.
New Spring Street Entrance
There will be a separate entrance to
the annex on Spring street for LADIES'
private entrance, containing granite
staircase and three passenger ele-
vators In the rear of the building VIII
be the baggage department and two
service elevators. In the central por-
ton of the annex will be two electric
elevators and two ram elevators These
will extend to the mezzanine floor +
The dining room will extend from the
ground floor to the ceiling of the mez-
canine floor, giving clear story OF
about twenty feet. The dining room ,
will have a fine oak wainscotlng, IN :
old English style. :
On the mezzanine floor, extending
clear across the 'front.' VIII De be,li
room, 96x46 feet: also three private I
banquet rooms and children's dining :
room: also a large serving Kitchen E
which connects direct to the kitchen in y
the basement. One feature or this n
serving kitchen is that the walters
have access from the kitchen without
passing any other portion of the hotel Y
using the rear elevators.
Big Ball Room Planned
The ball room extends from the mez-
canine floor to the ceiling of the third
floor. On abe third floor there will G
be a large reception room 40X60 feet,
with music balcony. In the present
hotel the banquet room will be turned
into a lounging room, 40X60 feet, and a
committee room for the use OF conVen-
tions. 30x30 feet. The rear of the pres
ent dining room will be changed TO r
mems grill room, and practically the :
whole second or meZzanine floor VIII {!
be devoted to the ball room, lounging i
room, committee room and social d
features
From the third floor up to the four t
teenth floor inclusive will be devoted l
to rooms, giving about $50 additional :
rooms. At the present time there are I
about 300; thus this addition practi- u
cally doubles the room capacity. All G.
this work to be in a strictly first-class I
and up-to-date manner. =
Have Done Great Work u
Parkinson & Bergstrom the archi- n
tects have planned and designed the p
majority of the big, substantial struc- S
lures of the city. Their work has also
extended into many parts of the west Il
Among the buildings designed by 5
them in Los Angeles is Bullock's de- II
partment store, the California club Z
the Alexandria hotel, the Securities
A11u
Trust, Central, Grant, Mclaughlin, AZ
-urrier, Frost and the o. T. Johnson T"
and the King Edward hotel.
They also designed the Chamber Of
Commerce building in Pasadena.
J. p. Parkinson of the firm leaves
IN few days for the east, where he "
will study new ideas in hotels and
office buildings. He stated last night
hat his Office had more than $5,0OO,0O0
worth of work on hand.
Council Amends Ordinance
The city council yesterday raised the di
init of the height of class A buildings uI
rom $50 to $50 feet. This means that m
twelve stories high can be 50
hereafter and it also means
hat the Bilicke-R Rowan company will CT
)uild an annex to the Hotel AleXan- nc
lria at the corner of Fifth and Broad tn
way that will cost 81 600 900. The new VI
lnnex will be $50 feet high, which is of
i've feet higher than the Union Trust
and will be the tallest sky tn
craper in Los Angeles. M
The ordinance to increase the height
f buildings was introduced by Coun- be
ilman Blanchard and seconded by tn
Councilman Wallace. AS soon as the -
natter was before the council a pro-
est was read from the architects in De
titution. The protest declared that u'
he business area of Los Angeles was oV
o large and the opportunities for -,
preading out in at least three direc- 81
ions so great that tall buildings are IN
ot necessary. They declared it would III
esult in an ugly irregularity of the va
ky line. Tall buildings would obstruct oC
he sunshine and air in the streets, We
yas another argument they urged. ~, Nv
Parkinson WithdraWs Protest NJ,
John f. Parkinson was originally a
lember of the architects committee vo
hat presented the protest but he told OF
ne council yesterday that he had un- ia
erstood the architects would withdraw wi
neir protest if the cornice was kept ur
t 150 feet and the additional stories sh
uilt above the cornice. He added 81,
lat he did not concur in the protest. tn
uilding Inspector Backus protested pc