New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
ALADDIN ABODE
FOR BRUSH And PEN
New history Haven Up
town, to Cost ,23l ,00O,
Aims to Inspire Artists.

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luxurious than ever artist IN his most
inspired moments dared dream oil may
perhaps become a reality. In west
Sixty-seventh Street, between Central
Park West and Columbus Avenue Ne"
York's principal art colony, another CO.
operative building is planned by
group of artists and writers, or whlch
Penrhyn Sthnlaws is the leader.
The prospectus of what the struct-
ure will be reads like a page from the
ARABIAN Nights" For instance, there
will be no preparation Of meals 10
worry about A central kitchen Will De
installed. with dumb waiter connec-
tons TO each studio. When hunger IN
terrupts temperamental fight, all the
artist or writer need do IS place ms
potatoes in the shaft with note, ana
back they will come, French trled OF
au gratin, as ordered.
There will be no servant problem IN
the new abode of genius, either:
staff of maids IS 10 be maintained
who know how to clean studio with
out deliberately removing the artistic
atmosphere by tidying il, And the Ice
boxes, Each one is TO be ttted with
an electric apparatus for making Ice
on the premises, in cubes small enough
TO fit the daintiest high ball glass II
desired.
Building To Be Seventeen Stories.
The conglomeration of wonders, TO
be known as the Hotel des Artistes'
will be built at | West Sixty-seventn
Street, on a plot $50 feet by 100 teet
II will be seventeen stories IN height
of Gothic architecture. Penrhyn stan
laws calls it a combination studio
building, hotel and apartment house
with the advantages OF all three types.
Authors are to have the south front
where the sunshine may stream In 10
brighten the pages of best sellers in
the process of evolution. The opposite
side, where the even north light Will
penetrate the studios, will be given
over to the painters. Altogether there
will be about one hundred duplex studio
apartments, small and large, but each
is to have an eighteen-foot ceiling and
a mezzanine floor with balcony.
The building is 10 be comparatively
owned, each stock owner occupying
space in the structure equivalent TO his
holdings. About 45 per cent OF the
rental space will be taken by the own
ers and the other % per cent rented to
pay the running expenses. The pro
moters figure that yearly balance OF
1900 will accumulate as a sinking
fund for the gradual determination OF
! the mortgage. The estimated cost OF
the structure is 81 .23l 600.
The president of the Hotel des Ar
tistes. me. is Mr.. Stanlaws. Frank Y.
Dumond, the painter, is vice president.
, Others interested financially are Walter
+ D,,..on " ,llorI Matcalf GfaOiau Mid =
dleton, J. Philip Schmsnd. Mathies San
dor, b. West Clinedinst, Mrs. W. j. Fos-
dick. Miss Marian Hubbard, Miss Win
nifred Boyle and Miss Belle Dellen-
balgh, artists; James Howard Bridge,
/ Ralph Waldo Trine and DR.. Frank
Crane, authors; Harold Boericke and |.
F W. Symmes, bankers. and Theodore
Wilson, real estate man.
In the detailed description of the
buildings features the central kitchen
is described first. so it must be that
next TO north light meals are Of most
Importance to the artistic temperament
IL will be presided over by corps OF
chefs, whose salaries will be paid out
OF the running expenses of the tuild-
ing, just as the elevator boys will be
paid. Each apartment will have a ser
vice room, where food may be kept OF
received from the kitchen when it is
prepared. Dishes will be washed by
the kitchen staff in a sterilized dish
/ washer. Servants for housework or for
waiting on the table may be got from
the Office at a minutes notice at a
/ charge of 25 cents an hour.
First Floor Has Big Ballroom.
A few Of the other features of the
hotel follow: On the first floor there
will be a ballroom seventy-hve feet IN
length. which may be used by owners
/ or pay tenants as they please. Ii will
be adjoined by d banquet hall OF the
same size, where dinners in artists
surroundings may be given. On the
first floor there will also be a grill
room. while on the floor above there
will he a dining room, with a la carte
/ service A swimming pool and shower
/ bath are 10 be placed IN the basement
The roof will be utilized for recre
alton. One corner will be set aside a:
playground for children. Sand bed
and a skating rink will be glass GOV
cred and heated in winter. A sun par
lor will occupy another corner, and
like the playground, will be inclosed II
glass in winter.
SQUASH courts will also have a place
on the roof A laundry rs to be placed
where tenants may DO their own wash
/ ing or have il done for them Al =
cents an hour.
Perhaps the very best feature is the