The Dickinson press., 1910-12-24
Entering, one finds long tiled ap-


proach and six-feet-wide. easy oak
stairs with hand rail. a pleasant change
from the abrupt climb in 50 many build
ines. The walls are tinted soft. very
light green. A skylight and ventilat-
ing shaft in the roof give abundance Of
light and fresh air for both the hall and
the reception room to which the stairs
lead after turn north from a land
ing, six feet square. i.
This room is designed as common
reception room for the offices opening
from it and from which it is separated
by several Florentine glass partition
windows. Around this room runs what
at first sight looks something like plate
rail but proves to be a telephone trough
doing away with the unsiehtly wires.
necessary for many different parties.
Opening from this room is toilet
room which. is over the stairs and re-,
ceives light and fresh air from the roof. z
This room is equipped with toilet,
lavatory. slop sink. etc. 1t is tiled in
white enamel, has marble partition
and tiled floor.
Four rooms. designed as offices. open.
from this common reception room and
q fifth, originally designed as the
parlor of the Masonic suite, may be so
used. They connect with each other:
so that they may be rented en- suite as
desired. All have west OF north win
dows-the corner one both-and three
have separate plumbing. Very notice
able on this floor are the beautiful one
panel oak doors. -
The office walls are finished in buff
and the ceilings cream, deeper tint
being used for the walls of the north
rooms, and picture moulding is placed
in all. No office has less than three
windows. two or more of which raise
and lower, and the northwest room,
especially pleasant. has triple window
and triple bay.
The remainder of the second floor is
devoted to lodge rooms. These are
entered at the front of the building in,
two ways-from the general reception.
room ,bv door on the right at the head
of the stairs, and through the parlor
beyond the reception room leading to the
banquet hall along the First Street side.
The first leads to a spacious ante
room. or general cloak room. which
opens directly into the lodge room and
also into the preparation room, through
which entrance to the main room is also
effected. As the lodge purposes to use
the three front rooms on the third floor,
it is fitting that the stairway to this
floor is from the ante-room rather than
from the general hall. Ascending these
stairs one comes out under the skylight
into an open hall where the knights
Templar will probably have lockers with
glass. fronts for their properties. From
this hall open three rooms which will
be the lodge club rooms, the reading,
pool and 800" rooms respectively, for
the use of the members. A toilet on
this floor is the counterpart of the one
below as to location and size.
The lodge room and banquet hall ex-
tend east II feet, occupying the entire
width of the building. the banquet room
being seventeen feet wide. Flexifold
coiling doors, which wind around pillars
in the banquet hall, form the only par
tition and, when these are open. three
openings, ten by ten feet, make these
two rooms practically one. Both rooms
have 1S foot ceilings extending to the
roof. >:s u ~ 4, y=ss ,l,q} =.
In the lodge room the most elaborate
work has been done:Y A paneled oak
wainseoting, four and II: one-half feet
high, extends around the room. Above
this, at intervals of fourteen feet, are
pilasters of oak. - each with p1astered
panel and the space between the pilas-
tiers is finished as one large panel. The
ceiling is oak, heavily beamed and
carved. with plastered panels between
the. beams. A heavy oak cornice COM
pletes the wall. ~; .g3. ~ c stI.-s
The ceiling is light in tone and the
height and heavy beams combine to
give an impression of great distance.
The walls are buff in the main, the
panel having narrow lines Of brown and
gilt, setting off bands of buff and white
from a. yellow center which has dainty
corner stencils in gilt.
The lighting is most beautiful. A
large chandelier is provided for the
center of each ceiling panel and ceiling
lights are placed at intervals of two
feet around the cornice. The latter are
arranged alternately and all may be used
or every other one as desired. A large
vent in the ceiling supplies fresh air
and at the east end. under the fourteen
inch high platform, six feet wide and
extending across the room, are flues
through which fresh air is taken in and