The San Francisco call., 1910-01-08
BANK STRUCTURE IS
LIKE OLD MISSION
Upper Stories for Apartments
and Every Modern Con-
venience Provided


lot zoe feet square and has on the cor
ner 50 foot tower, being as practical a
reproduction of the Mission Dolores as
is possible in a commercial building.
The banking room is to be fitted up in
marble with metal grins and all mod
ern banking conveniences. The upper
stories are arranged in the most mod
efn type Of apartments in the Mission.
with thorough ventilation. steam heat.
hot and cold water, telephone service
10 all apartments. etc The building
VIII cost about 100000 Grim &
scott are the architects. They expect
10 have the building completed about
March i. 1910.
NEW MACDONOUGH BUILDING
Contracts have been let for the con-
struction of the Macdonough estate
building at the gore of Front and
Market streets. Work viii be begun
Immediately. The managers of the
estate. Baldwin & Howell, have al
ready leased the stores. This demon
strates the desirability of this neigh
borhood and that San Francisco is by
no means overbuilt. The lofts above
viii have the maximum light and the
best steam heating equipment.
This type of building. which viii be
reinforced concrete. presents ali the
advantages of steel frame at con-
siderably less cost and is being recog-
nized in the west as the proper solu-
tion of the freproof building. Many
of the large corporations in the east
who have occasion to construct a great
many buildings have looked into the
matter thoroughly from the standpoint
OF Insurance and economy, the result
being that a concrete building has
been chosen as the construction for
their entire plant The following con-
Germs may be cited as examples: Pack
ard motor company: George NJ. Pierce
auto company: Farwell, OZem & Kirk,
wholesale hardware. st. Paul; Auto
club Of America, New York; Metropoh-
tan hospital New York; Third avenue
car barn, New York; Siegle boiler
house of New York, and the Christ
church. New York
. Several buildings Of this type have
already been constructed by the Mac
donough estate and have given great
Satisfaction. Baldwin & Howell are the
agents and Macdonald & Applegarth
are the architects
BUILDING FOR DOCTOR STARK
two story and attic stock brick
veneer building has just been COM
pleted by ". ". RednaI, designer and
builder. for Dr. Bertha W. Stark, oc-
cupying a commanding position on the
1-isadero streets. Through the entrance
doorway. which opens directly into the
reception han. one gets a vista of q
large open klinker brick fireplace in
The living room, which is connected
with the reception hall by an arch and
engaged column. The front door has
ar iron grill with beaded glass side
lights and deep Jambs forming flower
The living room and dining room are
connected by sliding doors, both being
paneled in curly redwood with beam
ceiling. the hall also being beamed and
paneled. The remaining rooms on the
main floor are the breakfast ROOM
study and kitchen, the first two having
q high base to the line Of the window
stool The rooms and hall on the first
lloor have hardwood floors.
On the second floor are the bedrooms
and the main bathrooms. The main
bedroom has an attractive open brick
fireplace and in addition a sleeping
porch. The attic, an unusually spa
cious one. contains the billiard hall,
bedrooms and second bathroom and
also a sleeping porch.
The building is Of the Mission de-
sign with red Mission tile roof and or
nsmental leader heads. II contains all
the latest modern conveniences, includ-
ing dumb waiter. warm air furnace,
etc. The cost Of the building is $1,000.
PLANS FOR BANK BUILDING
Plans for the interior Of the banking
building OF the Union trust company
an Grant avenue, Market and OFarrell
streets have been completed in the
main by Clinton Day, architect. While
some minor details await decision, the
general fact appears that the banking
room Of the structure will be unique
and in a class by itself in San Fran
cisco. BIZ reason of an interior finish
i'm white statuary marble. The wood
work in the banking room viii be all
mahogany
The banking room is surmounted by
a dome Of art glass 2Ox3O feet This
dome viii be protected on the outside
bv freproof glass extending some feet
above the dome. There are practically
1--WE floors in the banking building.
These include a basement and sub
basement. the banking room floor, the
mezzanine floor and others.
A feature OF the arrangement is a
lobby 22:6xs7 feet in size. The size
Of the bank is practically S01l2o feet,
there being 40 feet in Market street,
20 feet in O'Farrell street and l20 feet
IN Grant avenue. The entire interior
win be splendidly finished, but not
over elaborately. In addition to the
statuarv marble and the mahogany,
bronze and plate glass will be en-
nloyed. The last two mentioned ma
terials viii be used to constitute the
counter screen. The counters viii be
OF mahogany with marble fronts.
The height of the banking room on
the main floor 10 the dome viii be 55
feet. The rnezzanine gallery extends
sround the banking room at height
Of 22.6 feet from the main floor. This
gallery will be 10 feet wide and also
nave a width Of "a feet on the ends.
The trust department is on the gallery
floor
The directors rooms viii be on the
fhird floor. The executive Offices viii
be on the ground floor. The safe de-
post vaults and the main banking
vaults will be in the basement The
expectation is that the building win be
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