The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-28
PLANS SUBMIT TED
FOR new BUILDING.
President We'll Of the Masonic Build.
ing Committee Receives Plans
From Chicago
Architect.
FOUR OR FIVE STORIES
Plans Show the Extent Of the Plans
Of the Building Committee
and Others VIII be
Received.

j. b. Well, president Of the Keokuk
Masonic Building Association, has re-
ceived a set Of plans from Robert M.
Hyde, a we'll known Chicago archi-
tect, to be submitted at meeting OF
Eagle lodge Monday night and later
on to all the various Masonic bodies
in Keokuk. These plans give a very
comprehensive idea of the kind of
building that the local lodges intend
to build, but the plans submitted are
only one set of number that will be
submitted by other architects No de-
cision will be reached until the other
plans have been thoroughly gone over
and examined.
The plans Of the Chicago artist
show beautiful building, stone for
the first story and brick on the upper
stories. The building will be either
four or five stories in heighth and
will contain beside the lodge room,
which will occupy the entire top floor,
from fifteen to twenty-five office
rooms on each floor. The ground floor
will be arranged to accommodate three
stores, the rear on the Fourth street
side showing moving picture theatre
or these stores may be eliminated and
the entire ground floor may be used
as an office.
Heavy plate glass windows. very
large, are shown almost circling the
ground floor on the Fourth and Main
streets sides Over the entrance to
the moving picture theater is shown
an iron awning in heavy scroll work
and colored glass. On each side OF
the wide stairway in the Fourth street
main entrance are passenger eleva>
tors.
The committee have been working
for some time and have now every
thing ready for an early announce
iment OF the acceptance Of plans. Many
meetings have been held and several
hundred letters have been exchanged
between them and various architects
concerning the proposed building
Mr. We'll stated today that he expects
a set of plans from local architect
and they will also be submitted to the
committee The building committee
lis, OF course, partial to the local man
and If possible will give him the work
but members Of the committee stated
today that If all the plans submitted
are of the same class as the one al
READY received, it will be hard task
to select the one that will be built.
The committee that has the building
| in its charge are j. B. We'll, presi
dent; Jno r. Carpenter, vice presi
dent. ]. M. Wilson, secretary; A. E
Matless, H. G. Brown, Thomas Reddie
]. l.. Hawkes., H. D. Fleming and Ralph
B. Smith. These men have gives
many hours of their time to securing
1.-THE new building for the lodge and
the improvement of the city and de
serve q great deal of praise for theil
efforts. That they will succeed in civ
ling Keokuk another beautiful building
is certain The meeting Monday might
will no doubt bring out large mum
Der of members of the Masons, who
have entrusted to these men the worl
of fitting UP new home for them tt
replace the one destroyed in the dis
astrous fire Of last January. Temper
airy quarters have been secured in thu
knights OF Pythias hall on Fifth anc
IBlondeau streets and these will bt
used until the erection of the new
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