The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-05
APARTMENTS ARE
FOR VERY RICH
Croesus Might Like These
Gotham Flats
TO PAY THE RENT
Would Take His observation-disclosures
ty of Man Taxed TO Plan Their
Comforfs-Art Mingled
With Utility
TO PAY THE RENT

From the New York Evening Post
If it is true that the place in which
one dwells is an expression of ones
self, then the twentieth century New
Yorker who makes his home in certain
apartment houses of Manhattan is an
exceedingly luxurlant and pampered in
divldual
One of the new apartment houses
de luxe just completed displays this
notice: For rent-suites of IA rooms and
five baths to suites of 81 rooms and nine
baths Rentals $500 to $4,000" Half a
dozen livered attendants are ready to
conduct you through elegant halls and
costly apartments The building is 12
stories high and the apartments are ar
ranged so that only one or two are on a
floor. More than 1000 square feet of floor
space may be thrown together for en-
| PERTAINING.
Each apartment is equipped with
vacuum cleaners dressing rooms and
millinery closets, with plate glass shelves
and compartments with individual wine
vault, parquet floors. local and long dis
lance telephones combination locks, wall
safes, cedar-lined closets call bells with
annunciator, mail chute, a fltering
plant. electric fans from the ceiling. stor-
|
dryers and other conveniences too numer-
Gus to mention
The entrance hall and reception rooms
are spacious and finished with elegant
Italian marbles, mosaics and stained
| glass windows, and the decorations, furn-
ishngs and rugs blend. There Is con-
slant elevator service, and conserva-
tory on the mansard floor is used as
sun parlor byathe tenants There are
/ l. o,-1 nd 70 q a. r
Der shop and hair dressing parlor, and
valet and tailor service.
| Expensive material has been used
throughout in. the construction of the
freproof building, and in its excel
lence, its exterior and interior beauty,
as well as its complete installation of
fixtures. 1t is a notable example of the
work of IL large contracting firms.
Bedrooms on Court
| Then there is a new structure with
| 176 apartments, from seven to twelve
! rooms each, with three to six baths,
and extra servants, and storage rooms.
Each apartment has a foyer opening
directly into the parlor or living room.
All kitchens, buffers pantries and
! laundries face the street and all bed
rooms open on the court, thus insur-
| ing quiet and privacy. In addition to
! the passenger elevators there are eight
service cars, which make possible de-
liveries of every kind in separate parts
| of the building.
| In each apartment are artifcially
| cooled refrigerators, shower baths OF
! hot and cold water, specially designed
gas ranges and a noiseless, ventilated.
automatic garbage receptacle built in
the wall. vacuum sweeping plant
| covers the entire building. The large
boiler and engine room is undernea TIL
the court, thus insuring to tenants
complete freedom from vibration, heat
or noise. The lights of the building are
supplied directly from a private cleo
trical plant.
Another new house is modelled after
an old French chateau, and many of the
4 details of the ornamentation are dupli-
| Gated. Passing through massive pair
Iof iron gates swung from huge stone
| pillars. an arch of wrought iron above
suspending q large. antique lantern one
is attracted, upon entering the court
yard by the bronze entrance doors that
suggest in their design the Transition
school, "A paneled wrought-iron screen
opwls into the vestibue. of which the
walls. from floor to ceiling, are of Caen
stone. The ceiling is reproduction OF
an old castle in Ruen. On the side of
the hall is a winding marble staircase,
and at one end is a splendid stone man.
tel with a carved hood, having in the
center the escutcheon of Francis l.
PaIatiaI Suites
On the upper floor are suites of apart
ments with 10 rooms and five baths, or
| 70 rooms and eight baths. The entrance
10 each suite Is through a heavy ma
hogany door having an old brass knocker
set between the lights of Italian glass.
| Opening from a private hallway are re-
ception, drawing and smoking rooms, all
Of which are hung with. Venetian silk
draperies The dining room in these
suites have walls wainscoted in Spanish
oak The ceiling Is heavily beamed, with
a color scheme of burnt orange between
the beams.
| The bed chambers are arrayed in
suites of two with bath, and they are
completely isolated Com the living Sec
| ton of the apartment. Some of the dainty
boudoirs are hung in pink, yellow, blue
or green MORE and lighted by swinging
lamps.
There are scores of new buildings con-
tanning similar luxurious homes-the rent
OF which for a year would support