St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-10-25
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
The New E. A. Darling Block the
Largest Built in Town for
Several Years.

Ihor0 mas D0Gn d large amount
of interest, this summer, in the new
building constructed at the corner of
Central and Summer streets, and the
Caledonian is pleased to give brief
description of this new building,
which is the principal building pro-
ject of the year in town, and tell
what the building will be used for.
This building which is being built
by Contractor James M. Foye and his
efficient workmen for Elmer A. Dar-
ling of New York City and East
Burke, will be used as an annex
to the garage and for the G. H. Goss
Co., of which Charles H. Goss is
manager, as new store which it is
expected will be ready for occu-
pancy December 1st.
The main building has rs foot
frontage on Central street and "a
foot frontage on Summer street. The
building is three stories high besides
the basement and in the building
over $4,000 brick were used. The
brick rest on granite corner pieces
and there are granite keystones over
the windows making very attract
i've appearance. There will be five
large plate glass windows on the
ground floor making the finest and
largest display windows in the state
and there are a large number OF
windows on the other floors making
it an especially well lighted building.
Inside of week the granolithic
sidewalks will be laid, the walk on
Central street following the same
style as the walk in front of the gar
age and the one on Summer street
will be 10 feet wide giving that side
of the building a very attractive ap-
pearance. There will be two main
entrances, one en- each street, the
one On Central street being set into
the building.
The Ground Floor.
The interior of the ground floor,
which will be used for store, will
be "A feet long and Is feet wide in
which will be carried an unusually
large stock of hardware, paints and
oils and all other goods which are
necessary for stock in an up-to-date
hardware store In the north east
corner of this store will be toilet
and cloak rooms This space will
cover. four and one-half feet wide by
1S feet long, In the north end of
the main floor will be the work shop
and work room 20 feet wide and IS
feet long and also a store room for
lead and copper 10 feet wide and 16
feet long. In the work room will be
installed all the machinery neces-
sary for running the business and
there will be an entrance from Sum-
mer street to the work room. The
interior finish to the store will con-
sist of lathed and plastered side
walls and the ceiling will be covered
with matched boards with an as
bestos covering. Then over this will
be a steel ceiling with a special de-
sign, which has been contracted and
will be placed in position by the
Keighley Metal Ceiling and Roofing
Co. The wood work will be in birch,
including all the floors in the build
ing. The doors, ON the main floor,
will be of red birch veneer.
The Second Story.
The second story will also have
steel ceiling with pulp plaster
walls and hard wood floors. The
second story will be divided into
several different rooms and will be
used entirely for additional room for
the garage, the business of which
has already outgrown its own build
ing. There is runway connecting
the top floor of the garage with this
floor and it is planned to have a
painting and vanishing room, an
upholstering room which has been
made necessary by the large number
of calls for this kind of work, an
enameling room which will prob
ably be the only one of its kind
in the state which will contain the
latest machinery for enameling and
plating, a vu1canizing room and a
stock room which will be consider
ably larger than the present stock
room in the garage.
The third story will, at present,
be used entirely as storeroom, but
will later be used for any branch of
the business which demands extra
room. There is a fire escape from
the third story onto the roof of the
garage.
In the Basement.
The basement will contain boil
er room "a feet wide and 28 feet
long and will contain two heating
boilers and a hot water boiler. The
ceiling of the boiler room is cement
held in place by steel I beams which
makes this room fireproof. All of
the basement ceiling will be steel
and the floor cement. One third of
the basement floor will be used as a
storage room for the garage and the
remainder for storage room for the
store except a portion which will be
used for the pipe cutting machines.
The electric wiring in the building
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