The daily sentinel., 1912-06-21

7 The structure will occupy a front
of &C feet, running back 80 feet
toward Fifth street. On the Fourth
street side, running % feet on the
Ute street front will be spacious
open veranda. This piazza will be ~
feet wide The, building proper Will
be 2a stories with full basement.
The building will set we'll away
from the sidewalk in the center OF
d wide lawn. and is reached on the
Ute street side by broad porte
cochere.
-wprkmen began today tearing
down the old lumber yard building
Lon the site for the home and IN
feW.Says will have the ground ready
for the excavations.
Entering the building from Fourth
street and crossing the veranda the
visitor to the completed home VIII
enter an ornately finished poruco
leading into the stair hall. Attract
ing immediate attention is the mas
siye staircase of solid quartered oak.
The wood in this stairway will be
specially selected and matched and
will present one of the most pleas
ing appearances of any portion OF
the very costly furnished structure
The selections have not been made
for the finish or hangings in the
building, but the Elks have determine
ed that no building of its kind in the
state will be more richly appointed
than their new home.
On the right of the stair hall the
visitor may enter the reception room
for ladies and strangers who are not
members of the order Behind this
room is the double Office of the sec
retary, back of which is the coat
room and general toilet room.
The space to the left of the hall
is occupied by luxuriously furnished
library. This will be one of the
show rooms of the building. The
room VIII be- 34x20 feet and only
the most costly furniture and library
fixtures Will pc used in finishing this
room ~ -..
Passing under the big landing of
the staircase, the visitor goes into
the great lounging room. To the
right is the card room which is con-
nected with the lounging room by
sliding doors.
The palm room is portion of the
building upon which the Elks expect
to lavish the most painstaking atten-
tion. Walled only by art glass and
filled with palms, ferns and growing
flowers, this room will be paradise
of bloom and verdure. Comfortable
reclining chairs will make it as pop
ular with the Elks and their
friends as the other rest places in the
building. Plans are being considered
for installing marble fountain of
costly pattern in the palm room.
This room is reached by the auto
and carriage driveway from Ute ave-
nue. which will sweep to the building
from both directions. This driveway
will be of macadam and pebblestone.
T Stable billiard room will occupy
the rest of the first floor.
Leaving the staircase on the sec
ond floor the visitor goes into a
great stair hall which opens into the
candidates room, coat room, quarters
for the board of directors. ladies
rooms and storage rooms for para
phernalia.
OF from the main building the
roof of the veranda and palm room
will he used as promenade way.
This will be entirely open and Will
give a fine view of the entire city.
The largest lodge room in Grand
Junction and the most costly in the
state save that at Denver will be
lns1aileu as tne regular HeetiHS pidte
for the lodge. The lodge room at
Colorado Springs, reputed to be the
finest in the entire west, was taken
as model and in both size and plan
will be duplicated here.
The room will be 56x41 feet. but
the feature of the entire building
will be the mammoth dome or art
glass, where the invisible electric
lights will shed their subdued radi-
ance over the building. These globes