Arizona republican., 1913-07-27
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What the Firm of Cook & Smart, Engineers, Has Done Past Year in Scien- tific Road Building and House Construction

House constructor
 1 The blue prints in the offices of Phoenix architects and engineers have had a bigger, better and more
 varied story to tell this season than l ever before, Of the upbuilding and
 development of this city, of the Salt
 River Valley and the new state gen i erally Visiting the offices of Cook 1 and Smart in the Monihon building | for information regarding the new | buildings for the Northern Arizona
 Normal School at Flagstaff designed 1 by that firm. and to be built this l fall under it's supervision, an inter esting record was secured of the past seasons activities of one of this city's best known architectural en- gineering firms. The firm of Cook and Smart. succeeded that of Streitz, Cook and Smart, and was organized
 but little over year ago.
 About the first outside job tacl1l-
 ed was to help rebuild the town of Ray after the big. fire, where the firm handled concrete steel work to the amount of about $50,000, includ- ing the well kn.wn- Ray-Con hotel
 Later two edifices were designed for
 the Later Day Saints at Mesa, to
 cost S16.0e0. and one of these is about
 complete at this time. The new
 church to be built by the Methodist
 Episcopal congregation at Mesa was also designed by Cook and Smart,
 this building to cost between $S,0O0 and $1O.OOO. The remodelling of the
 Majestic Theater at Mesa, which with
 it's. sloping floor Auditorium seating
 $50 people, and it's attractive facade, is a. most -creditable little theater,
 Was another job.
 Here in Phoenix this firm handl
 ed the Louis Killeen building, just
 west of the New York Store, and also designed and superintended the building of the splendid new garage of the Overland Auto Go. on the Sweeney property on North Central avenue
 At present the largest local work is the new three story and basement reinforced concrete building for the Pratt Gilbert Company on South Central avenue This building GOV ering ground space of 100 by 1871 F, will cost in the neighborhood of S0.000 and will be a most inn pressive addition to the gateway to the city, A building of this type, us- ed as salesroom and warehouse by an implement firm of the standing Of Pratt Gilbert will be convincing evidence to the newcomer of the ag- ricultural solidity and development of this section. Their building is to be strictly reinforced concrete. with basement covering entire size of building A feature will be the meg zanine floor on three sides of the fo, T
 It is now expected that work will commence early in August on this building. This firm has also made plans, which have been accepted for the new office building for the Ari- zona Eastern to be built soon near the new machine shops on South 12th street This is to be of con- crete-steel, will be 90 by 14o feet two stories and basement and will cost approximately S45, 5,000
 The work for the northern Arizona normal school at Flagstaff includes three fine buildings to be erected at total cost of $SO,000. These build ings, with those already built, are regarded by the school authorities simply as the start for a most in teresting and artistic group for which comprehensive plan has been de- signed. Of the new buildings, the Girls Dormitory. is the largest, it's dimensions being 36 by 173 feet, and two full stories in height, giving ann pie space for sixty-three comfortable rooms. Under part of the building will be a basement equipped with modern laundry. The preceptress will have her home in this dormitory The building will be of high class
  Arizona red sandstone, quarried near Flagstaff being the wall material 1 This same handsome rock will also | be used in the Boys Dormitory and | the power plant, the other two | new buildings.
 The Boys, Dormitory building is to | include the old dormitory, and when | the new part is complete, will be | the same size as the ! girls building. The power plant 46 | by 42 feet is a central steam heating | and electric lighting plant for all of | the school buildings. It is a one story structure and so designed as to permit of enlargements being l made in the future without trouble Work is to be begun early this fall on these buildings and will be done by contract
 Horace A. Cook, the senior mem- Der of the firm, is a Purdue man, and when he graduated from the school some seventeen years ago, found his first engineering work in connection with the macadam high ways then being built \ in Indiana lie has always kept an interest in good roads, and during the first eighteen months of the city's present paving campaign acted as supervis- | ing engineer At the present time, the firm has charge of the work be- ing done on North Cenrtal avenue for Road District No. z The north three miles of macadam, completed r apout three years ago, have just l. been given seal coat of asphalt. | linlshed with screenings. This is 1one m order to preserve and renew F