Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-16
nntM0OEllED BANKING ROOM
Howard National Bank and City
Trust in New Offices.
Changes Provide Additional Spncc for
Customers rnd Bring Clerical Force
Together on Main FIoor-Pa-
Iatial Quarters Described.

The Howard National Bank and City
Trust company occupied their remodel
led offices in the Howard Bank building
Monday The changes have inter
ested great many people during the
past twelve weeks and now everyone is
cordially invited to inspect all that has
been done
The arrangements are the result of
long planning by f. E. Burgess, the presi-
dent of the two institutions. To gain
adequate space for customers and clerks
1t was necessary to move the cashiers
office to the Church street side of the
building. take out the marble stairway
and install more compact cages and
desks Upon entering the present spacious
lobby it will be seen that the seem
ingly impossible has been accomplished.
Approximately $50 square feet of floor
space is given the public while back of
the banking screen there is now room
for five clerks previously quartered on
the mezzanine floor.
Nothing has apparently been forgotten
that could add to the usefulness and
beauty of the banks appointments. The
rooms are finished in imported and do
nestle marble, East Indian mahogany
bronze and plate glass. walls in delicate
ly tinted caen stone, ceiling frescoed in
oils and the whole is lighted by chan
deliers with shades of alabaster.
Since April 20 the two banks have
been located in a nearby store at 1874
College street, where much of the old
furnishings were set up. This equip
ment will never be used again in the
Howard Bank building, as everythin ;
from mosaic floor to frescoed ceiling
new and made to fit it's particular plac
with studied accuracy
6. NJ. Bartlett of New York city,
architect of Hotel Vermont, drew the
designs and the contract was awarded
to the w. Shelton Swallow company of
this city and New York, builders of
Hotel Vermont and other handsome
structures in this vicinity.
MARBLE FROM THREE CONTINENTS
Marble from Europe, Africa and
America has been used to produce the
artistic setting of the architects design.
The screen, wainscoting. customers
desk and bench in lobby are of Bfeche
Stazzema marble from the Carrara dis
coast of Italy.
The dark green base and deal plates
are made of Tinos marble from the Isle
of limos, Greece.
The dark red jewel in the cornice of
the screen is Red Numidian from inland
Algeria, the quarries being owned by
descendants of widows of two If
Napoleon's marshals to whom they were
presented as trophies of conquest in
Africa. At either end of the 36-foot cor.
nice are speciments of Easton Green
marble from Pennsylvania and the other
jewels are of Yellow Sienna and Convenr
Sienna from the Sienna district and
Pavonazzo from the Carrara district
Italy.
Italian White marble forms the cap
inside bookkeeper's and collection clerk S
windows.
The marble mosaic floor of the lobby
has White Carrara field with border of
Vert Emeralde and Rouge Cult, both
from France. The red Tots in the rosettes
are of Rouge cult, a color actual !,
produced by burning, and the green dots
are of Vert Emeralde.
The wainscoting back of screen and on
north and east walls is Italian marble.
The heavy slabs of Breche Stazzema
marble that form the customers desk are
covered with plate glass three fourths
of an inch thick.
BEAUTIFUL CEILING AND WALLS
Probably nothing except the marble
work will attract more attention than the
beautifully decorated ceiling with its
artistic blending of subdued grays in
m npl ma yaI hxr hnr pF
blue and gold. There are four of these
panels and from them are suspended the
seven chandeliers with their alabaster
shades. The walls finished in caen stone
harmonic perfectly with the color
scheme of lights and ceiling The effect
of the panels is to broaden the room, the
chandeliers break its height and the lines
on the walls seem to enlarge it.
Directly at the left as one enters the
building is the office of the cashier, H. T.
Rutter Set in the bronze casing of tho
screen is a massive bronze door with
plate glass panel extending It's entire
length. The office is finished in Easl
Indian mahogany and has a waxed oak
floor. A self-closing door in the mahog-
any partition leads to the main banking
room.
mere are nNe WINDOWS with bronze
barred wickets in the straight screen
parallel to College street They are those
of the paying teller two receiving tell
ers, the head bookkeeper and collection
clerk over each wicket is a bronze
plate designating the business transacted
at THIS various windows
AT he end of the lobby is q bronze
and plate glass door opening into the
vestibule or hallway beyond which is the
presidents private office This room has
been enlarged by taking out the coupon
booths and may be used for directors
meetings. The walls have been decor
atcd in harmony with the light bun tints
of the main offices. Two mahogany
coupon booths for renters of safe de-
post boxes are at the south end of the
vestibule and at the right of the presi-
dents room. They are separated from
the lobby by the marble and plate glass
screen.
the corner beyond the massive steel door
of the vault, is a circular stairway lead
ing from basement to mezzanine floor.
ADDING MACHINES UNDER DESK.
Opposite the entrance to the vault Is n
sef-cosng door in the mahogany par
I-tition that shuts off the east end of the
room occupied by tellers. bookkeepers
and clerks. Space was gained here by
removing the marble stairway so that a
30-foot desk for three bookkeepers could
he placed against the north wall Sec
tons of this desk at each end are hinged
and under them are four adding ma =