The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-18
BARRE'S NEWEST GARAGE
Located on Jefferson Street Is One Of the
Finest in the State.


With the completion of the new mo-
tor repository and livery on Jefferson
street, to be known henceforth as the
Barre garage, this city will be able
to boast of one of the finest buildings
of its kind in the state, and tourists
who pass through Barre can make tenn
porary headquarters in garage, the
equipment and appointments OF which
cannot be equalled by any building in
Vermont erected solely for housing and
repairing automobiles. The new garage
is now occupied on the first floor by the
Drown Motor Car Co., and by ii. q. Ben
nett's Cadillac agency. The Drown COM
pany handles the Buick cars. On the
second floor, the space is divided into
machine shop and repair room leased
by Mower & Harvey and by the paint
room of the Drown Co.
The dimensions of the new building
are l00x62 feet It's walls are of solid
brick, the frame is of steel and rein
forced concrete, and the partitions are
of iron and cement with steel sheathing
The garage is situated at a convenient
distance from Main and Washington
streets and fronts on both Of the JEFF
ferson street angles. 1t is two stories
high and the trimmings are of Barre
granite. From the roadway it meas
ures twenty-one feet to the walls. With
the exception of the rear side of the
structure, all of the walls are faced with
large plate glass windows measuring los
inches square. The advantage of these
large windows can be readily realized
when it is learned that cars placed in
the show rooms can be seen at great
distance. The main entrance to the
building is on the south side, The large
door at this entrance measures 10 feet
along the Threshold and ample room
is provided for the largest car built.
On the east side double door is used
as an exit.
In the basement. considerable space is
given over to storage purposes. Here
the Drown Co. has its tire room, where
well-arranged racks store hundreds Of
tires of every brand. In the basement
also is the battery charging apparatus,
with its Westinghouse motors and other
appliances. The cellar is flooded with
light from windows on four sides.
Access to the basement and the sec
ond floor may be gained by huge ele-
vator, which operates easily and is ca
pable of lifting or lowering machines
of the greatest weight. On the second
floor the Mower s. Harvey company has
its machine shops, offices and vulcaniz-
ing rooms. The repair company has in
stalled all of the latest machinery in
the conduct of its business and the ap-
are of the best. The offices
of the company are located in the west
end of the building. The Drown Motor
Car Co.'S paint room is at the east end
of the second floor.
Floor space on the ground floor is
jointly occupied by the Drown Co. and
Mr.. Bennett On the west side the Cad
lilac show rooms are established, while
in the northwest corner of the building
room is finished off into private office
for Mr.. Bennett. His automobile show
rooms are all that could be desired and
several models of Cadillac cars are shown
to splendid advantage. Facing Jeffer
son street on the south are in the show
room and offices of the Drown Co. The
display room for the Buick ears is hand
somely arranged and several cars are in
the windows on dress parade.
Perhaps the most distinguishing fea-
ture of the entire structure is its ad-
mirabie lighting facilities. Through spa
cious windows on each floor, as well as
in the basement, plenty of light is adj
mitted No more painstaking provisions
could have been made for this essen
tial feature of the pretentious strue-
ture. Visitors to the garage have been
many in the past few days and nothing
but commentator has been expressed by
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