The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-16
BRIDGEPORT TRUST COMPANY BUILDING
 HANDSOME HOME

What marks the most remarkable growth of a banking and real estate business in Bridgeport is recorded by the changes which the Bridgeport Trust Co. is to make to it's building in State street and the new building which the Bridgeport Land & Title Co. will build.
 The Bridgeport Trust Go, will re- model it's three-story building at 167 State street in preparation for a one-story modern bank building on the site. As told in The Farmer several days ago the Bridgeport Trust Co, and the Bridgeport Land & Title Go. are to have separate buildings. The latter concern has Just acquired the property from 878 to BIT Main street and has contractor tearing down the ancient buildings there.
 A modern real estate and loan of flee building will go up on the site The plan is to have thise n ew office building connect with the remode11ed building of the Bridgeport Trust Go. in State street.
 Besides the banking firm these ten- ants who must all find new quarters now occupy the upper floors of the Bridgeport Trust Go. building: Wif-fl liam J. Nichols. real estate; Charles R. Clarke. real estate; Davenport 0s Banks, lawyers; William A. Redden, lawyer Continental Casualty Co. and John L. Washing, broker
 The date for the change has not yet been set by officials of the Trust Go. Plans for the remode11ing of the building have been prepared by G. A. Freeman Of New York. The remodel- led building will he 40 by 100 feet of brick with a marble front in place of the present chiseIed granite struc- ture. MT. Freeman was also the arch itect for the Bridgeport Land & Title Co. building in Main Street.
 The present bank building of the. Bridgeport Trust Co. was ohpIeted in April, 1909. It Is three stories in height, the upper stories being occu- pied by two floors of rented business offices The Trust company will use the entire remodelled building. The building will have a frontage of 40 feet In State street and a depth Of 140 feet.
 It will be the largest banking room in the city and probably the largest in the state. A new vault will be in- stalled and the safe deposit facilities of the company just doubled. AL though the building will be practically one story high, it will be nearly as tall as the present structure. It~wi1l be 50 feet from the ground to the top and the ceilings of the bank will be 31 feet, Inches from the floor. X small 1nezzanine will be placed over the vault for the use Of the Bteno- graphers. The bui1ding will be ar ranged 90 that a mezzanine may be placed over the banking room or am other floor built in if necessary.
 The directors room will be made much larger and will be lighted from the four sides instead of from the ceiling as at present.
 The plan for the building calls for a front of marble or granite of Greek architecture with two massive Corin-. thian columns arising on each side of the entrance to the roof. Between these columns will be recess en- trance with Q massive front of plate glass by which the bank will be light ed The front of the new building which the Bridgeport Land & Title Go. will erect in Main street will be Of similar design except there will be no columns.
 The old buildings on the property acquired by the Land & Title Co. have been tom down and work will be co1n- menced toInorrow on the excavation for the cellar. When the land com- pany's building is completed both the business of the bank and of the land company will be carried on there while the trust company building in State street is remode11ed.
 Both concerns will also use the building now used by the Bridgeport Gax Fixture Go. That concern is to l move to another location soon. The equipment in both the new buildings will be the most up-to-date used in banking or real estate business.