New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-01
Building Plans
Going Forward
NEW BANK BIDS CALLED. AR
MoRY WELL BEGUN. MANY
NEW HOMES.
ZISCHKA WILL REPLACE BURNED
BUILDING WITH BRICK
BLOCK.

DluS 1OI Tic CONSTRUCTOR OF the new
bank building to be erected by the
Farmers & Merchants State Bank of
New Ulm at the corner of Minnesota
and End North Street will be received
by the building committee on July goth
and at that time the contracts for the
work will be awarded.
The plans and specifications have been
prepared by A. Norman & Company
of St. Paul and call for two-story brick
block 26x80 feet. Altho the plans and
specifications were practically agreed
upon several weeks ago, they were revised
somewhat and were finally adopted at
meeting of the building committee, at
which time E.. A. Taylor, Jr., superin-
tendent of the architectural firm was
present.
The building will be constructed of
Aufderheides light colored brick, trimmed
with Bedford Stone. It will consist of
basement and first and second floor.
The front part of the basement, 25x6O
feet, will be turned into hall which can
be used by creamery companies and
other farmers organizations for meeting
purposes. There will be side entrance
to the hall proper and rear entrance
to the boiler room which will occupy the
back part OF the basement The rear
part above the heating plant will be alb
solutely fire proof, as will be the wall and
the steel door between the basement and
the first floor.
The first floor will be reserved for
banking purposes exclusively and will be
modern and up-to-date in every particu-
lar. The plans provide for safety
deposit vault, spacious lobby, customers
room and separate rooms for women
customers, with toilet and rest room
facilities. In the rear part will be the
directors room which can also be reached
by an entrance from the rear
The second floor will be used exclusive
ly for office purposes and the plans call
for 8 Office rooms which will be as modern
and up-to-date as any in the city. The
matter of the arrangement of the rooms
had not been definitely decided upon as
yet and will depend in measure upon
the wishes of prospective tenants of
whom there seem to be several. The
work OF tearing down the old building
will be entered upon within few weeks.
The foundation of the new bandstand
is complete and no doubt while the boys
are away at camp the work on the struc-
ture will be complete so that the first
concert when they return will be given
from the new stand. 1t is quite struc-
ture with its heavy foundation of boulders
Work has been delayed on the new re-
servoirs because of lack of material to
complete it. It is to be hoped that this
difficulty will soon be overcome as every-
one is getting anxious to have supply Of
water that is dependable. There are
several cases of illness in town that look
more or less like typhoid and as long AZ
it keeps breaking out people will feel
afraid of the water.
Jonn Alschka,s saloon property which
was recently Quilted by fire will give way
to two-story brick business block 25
feet wide and Y feet long. One fire scare
was enough for Mr.. Zischka. Altho the
insurance on the building brought him
only Sis? and the new building will cost
fully $4,000, Mr.. Zischka decided that it
would be poor policy to repair the old
building and as consequence he is going
to build a new business block which will
be credit to the town. The contract
has been awarded to FEED Keute and
Charles Kaiser and the work will be
begun the week after the Fourth. The
rear part will be built first and the work
is to be carried on in such manner that
Mr.. Zischka viii be able to continue his
business without interruption.