Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-13

MOrristOwn POstOffice
Specifications Call for
a Gem of Architecture
81 eelal 10 the Evening star.

~ eciai to the Evening star.
YOUNGSTOWN, Nov. 15.-Plans
and specifications for the new post
office building have been received
here and are being distributed BY
Postmaster Eugene 5. Burke.
The new building will be a hand
some structure of red brick with
marble trimmings and a tile roof. Il
will be two stories high in the front
and one-story high in the rear and
will occupy an area of 5,742 square
feet 1t will be sixty-six feet wide
along Norris street and eighty-seven
feet deep along Dumont place. 4 six
foot cement sidewalk will be con-
structed along the front and the Du-
mont place side and a yitrifed brick
driveway will run along the east side,
leading to a court paved with vitri-
fed brick in the rear of the building.
A marble-faced retaining wall sur
mounted by an ornamental fence will
surround the court The building will
rbe seventeen feet from the sidewalk
on the Morris street front and six
feet from the walk on the Dumont
place side. Grass plots viii occupy
the vacant spaces on the three sides
OF the building and on the south side
of the driveway. steps of white
Georgia marble will lead up from the
sidewalk to the entrance, which will
be constructed in the form of a loggia.
The postmaster's office will be in the
northwest corner of the building lead
ing off from the loggia. The stair
way leading to the second floor will
occupy the other corner. Beyond the
loggia will be the. public lobby, with
the various windows and scall-boxes
lying about it. On the side toward
the driveway will be the money order
and registry department with the
money order and registry and the
postal savings windows opening on
the lobby,
At the back viii be the stamp win
dows, the general delivery window
and the call-boxes. A passageway
win lead from the lobby along the
Dumont place side of the building
to the postofflce workroom in the rear
This will occupy the entire space in the
rear of the building, fifty by sixty-six
feet. 1t will be well lighted by side
and rear windows and huge sky
light in the roof A mailing vestibule,
with a rear entrance into the court,
will occupy an addition to the rear
of the building. The loggia win have
q dense red tile floor and will be
trimmed with ornamental marble and
bronze. The floor of the public lobby
Is of white marble with marble trim
and polished Belgian black and royal
pine fixtures. The screens will be of
ornamental bronze The floor of tho
workroom will be of wood, as will the
postmaster's office and the money
order division. The floor of the mail
ing yestibule will be of cement In
the basement will be located the car
rier's swing room, the boiler room. a
storage room, fuel room and the
janitors room.
Chambers and two offices for United
States Supreme Court Justice Nah
lon Pitney, of this town, will be pro-
vided for on the second floor of the
building. The chambers will occupy
the whole of the Dumont place side
of the building. fianked by the two
offices, one in the front and one in
the rear of the building. An office
will also be provided for the postoffice
inspector. Two unassigned offices and
the mems toilet will occupy the
balance of the second floor. The stairs
leading to the second floor are Of
structural steel and the offices and
judges chambers will be of wood.
The toilet win have a terraza floor
and marble wainscoting.
The cornerstone of the building,
which will occupy a space on the Du-
mont place corner of the building,
will be inscribed with the name Of
William G. McAdoo. secretary of the
treasury, and Oscar Wenderoth, the
supervising architect.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for the building of the postoffice and
has advertised for bids.