The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-16
Motion Picture
, Makers to Have
. Novel Structure
. on 9TH Avenue
. History Do
F.: meStic Science
. School for Mad
: ison Avenue

New York, and for that matter to the
entire country. which. indeed. Is a fea-
ture In itself. are to be erected. One
will be finished before Christmas n
the other will be ready to usher In next
spring. The first structure. or the one
to be indshed first. Is a building de-
signed for The moving picture industry.
IL combines hundreds of Offices. every
one OF which will not only be fireproof
but soundproof: more than half a dozen
theatres. larger than man. seen in the
tenement sections Of the city, and many
concrete vaults. The other building.
equally as novel. Ia a skyscraper school
n office building. a structure which
has no equal in this city or country.
II Is purely a chool building. twelve
stories high, and what Is more. Is for the
education OF women in household arts.
This building Ia to be put up Mt the
southeast corner OF Madison avenue and
Fortieth street some time after July 1
and will be ready next spring To look
after seekers In domestic science.
The International Correspondence
School interests at Scranto will operate
the school, which will be built for them
by Mrs. Lula II. Hyde. In accordance
with a lease sigrcd a few months ago.
Twenty-one years Is the term for which
the building has been rented, with the
usual privilege Of renewals OF another
period of twenty-one years. Something
less h a s300, 900 will be required 70
produce the building which r. T.. Towns
end has planned. Mrs. Hyde has not
refused to put this amount Of money into
the building and before II has been An
ished maybe an additional appropriation
Will be given toward the operation, as
Mrs. Hyde is much in favor. II has been
said, OF the scheme OF promulgatirg the
science OF housekeeping and other domes-
tic arts to the women of the country.
The property or which the skyscraper
school building will rest Is now covered
with two fine dwellings four stories high
and still far from obsolete or the best
construction they reflect even at this
late day the stately refinement OF DWELL
Digs OF old New York. Some may think
u u shame to remove such substantial
etructures, but that section IL under
going a rapid transformation due to the
immense Improvement of the New York
central, which is o making Itself felt
an Increased demand for business
Pcations thereabout. 1t was this fea-
tlre that brought the school to Mrs.
Hyde's corner. Mr.. Foster and his ASSOC
Bates wanted to get near the big rail-
6pad station. He had under considera-
Con August Heckscher's property sur
eDunding the southeast corner OF Madi-
Noah hA't . ENNofN' caN
ne price which MIR. Heckscher de-
Handed for his property stified the am
kitions OF the institution for "A location
- near TO the Grand Central Station.
3he Hyde property was then considered.
Enough II Is only a few hundred feet
&way from thu Heckscher property, on
Which a twenty story building is to be
ERECTED this summer. the difference In
money was worthy of more than a few
moments consideration.
. SO the deal was closed whereby the
fvo dwellings, will be removed within n
Few weeks and on their site. which is
ofty-four feet on Madison avenue and
f20 feet on Fortieth street, will go up
one OF the novel structures In this big
City. II will be known as the Foster
building, being named after the presi-
dent OF the international school, and
the Foster Institute OF Domestic Arts
and Science, which Is to make its head
quarters in the building. Nine floors of
the big structure will bo used by the
Foster institute. The other floors will
be rented, but on short term leases so
as to permit the school TO get control of
this space as needs may demand. Though
the institute has hardly been started
practically the entire building is re-
quired for its needs. The education
which the institute is to give will be by
mail 10 those WHO ma new 1OTk 100 lar
from their kitchens, while New York
women will have the advantage Of class
Instruction.
II has not been decided yet how
many class rooms will be laid out for
New York housewives and those who
expect to he soon. 1t IL known, how
ever. that thousands OF feet of space
will be given over to the correspondence
end Of the institution. Simulatiously
with the opening of this school branches
will be established in twenty-five differ.
ent cities throughout the length and
breadth of the country, with Madison
avenue and For,ieth street are head
quarters.
The building will be of limestone and
terra Gotta. topped by "A mansard root
of green Spanish tile. The facade will
he a series Of panels. In the Madison
avenue frontage there will be three
panels and OIL the street side seven,
At the outer edgc of the mansard roof
will be y terra Gotta balcony. Three
floors below. or at the tenth floor. will
he an iron balcony. Tn entrance to the
building will be on Madison avenue
through a portal of bronze, marble, or
namental plaster and tile. The corridor
= will lead to "A bank OF three elevators
which will operate through Longitudinal
lanes faced with bronze doors viii
Gothic uruameutations. In fact the en-
tire building, whether inside or out. viii
he dominated by Gothic principles o.
architecture.
ON the stree. floor will he two stores
TIL smaller one Will he at the Fifth ave
nue. end OF the building and will he usec
hy the Foster Institute of Domestic Art
and Science as II demonstration depart
ulent. The large store Will be rented
Cor trade. AS interesting AZ the struc