Evening journal., 1915-09-18
DRAWING PLANS FOR
PENNSCROVE HOTEL
Three-Story Building Will
Accommodate dupont
Powder Workers
NEW CITY BUILDING
FOR FREIHOFER CO.

A. S. Reed and Brother Company
are among the contractors who are
bidding on the construction Of a large
hotel with nearly 100 bedrooms, which
the Kean, Parmet Dozer Company
proposes to erect at Broad and Wall
nut streets, Pennsgrove, n j. The
plans were made by J. Elvin Jackson,
architect. of Philadelphia. The hotel
is TO be known as the Hotel Kean.
It will be three stories high with
basement The building will be frame
with the exception Of the basement
story which will be concrete.
The building will be SO feet 6
inches by 112 feet inches. In the
basement there will be two large
storerooms in the front with a large
ball in the middle. The hall will
lead to a billiard room in one part Of
which there WILDE shufiieboards. Ad-
joining the billiard room will be an
Office. In basement there will also be
a laundry, a room for the ianitor, toi-
let, etc.
On the first floor there will be a
large lobby with a cigar counter on
one side and a notion counter on the
other. There will be a large hall lead
ing back TO a diningroom which will
be 81 feet by as feet 2 inches. On
one side of the hall there will be
women's sittingroom and the other
side a mems sittingroom. lockers and
an office. In the rear of the dining
room there will be a livingroom, a
kitchen and two bedrooms.
The second and third floors will be
exactly alike and on each there VIII
be forty-eight bedrooms There Will
be large Railways on each floor. The
building will have q galvanized iron
cnrnice.
J. A. Bader and Company have re-
ceiged the contract to erect a board
ing house for the DUPONT Powder
Company at Deep Water Point. n. }.
The structure will be of neat design.
Tho plans we're made under the direc-
tion of William G. Ramsay, chief engi-
neer in the engineering department
Of the dupont Powder Company. The
building will be constructed OF wood
and will be two stories with attic On
the first floor there will be lobby
90 feet inches by "a feet inches.
From the lobby there will be stair
way of ornamental design leading to
the second floor. There will De slid
ing doors leading into the diningroom.
The diningroom will be IL feet by 26
feet 4 inches There will be caro-
room and a writing room in the rear
of the lobby. On one side will be nVe
bedrooms and on the other a dining
room. kitchen and pantry There VIII
also be an outside pantry and porch.
There will be a cased girder IN the
lobby and diningroom.
There will be fourteen bedrooms,
custodians quarters as well as path
rooms and a corridor on the second
foor There will be an ornamental
front porch and beveled plate glass
ir the front door. Dormer windows
will be placed in the attic. Dressers
will be built in the kitchen and the
nantrv according to designs prepared
bv engineering department OF the du-
Pont Powier Company. Shower baths
will be located in the custodian's quar-
ters and in the bathrooms on the sec
ond floor. The building is to be wired
throughout for electric lights and a
steam heat system will be installed
J. A. Bader and Company have re-
ceived another contract for cottages
10 be erected at Carney's Point, n. j.,
for the dupont Powder Company. This
time the number to be built is twelve
and they will be of the type known
as aladdin" These will make l84
houses that Bader & Company have
contracted to build near Pennsgrove.
Bids are being asked for the con-
struction Of a modern and sanitary
bakery building and also a large
stable for the William Freebooter Bak-
ing Company which will cost about
$50. 600. The bakery win be located on
a plot at the northeast corner OF
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and bounded by
that avenue Lincoln street and the
B. & o. r. r. II will be 2S0 feet rs
inches by 124 feet and be constructed
of brick and concrete with terra Gotta
trimmings and will be practically fire
PROOF. The plans we're made by the
Peuckert & Wunder, architects OF
Philadelphia, and call for a one and
tyo-story building. There will be tile
wainscotinC in the side walls AMI par
titions in the cooling room, baking
room and dough room. There will be
sliding fire doors throughout the build
ing and rolling steel shutters.
On the first floor there will be a pri
iers room with brass grille, safe
room, settlement room, list room
dough room, large baking room. ovens
cooling room, store room, wagon shed
delivery room and loading room
There will be a mezzanile floor or
which will be located a lunch room
wesh room and locker room for the
employees. There will be a cellar un
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All the floors will be of concrete
There will be numerous windows 81
that there will be an abundance O
light in the building. A bricR chin
ney 1O3 feet high will be erected. Th'
inside diameter at the top will be
feet inches. The word 'Freihofer'
viii be formed On the front and bacl
with light gray brick to match thu
color of the terra Gotta trimmings o
the building There will be a dia
mond fret at the top of the chimney
also of light gray brick and stoni
can. The chimney viii be insulated
against lightning.
The stable will be erected on tn
north side of Thirteenth street abovl
Lincoln street and will be 32 feet
inches by 102 feet 2 inches. Il vii
also be constructed of brick and con
crete.
A. S. Reed and Brother Compan,
have started on the brick work fo
the addition to the High School
over million bricks will b.
required. There will be about 100.
600 face bricks needed for the QUITE
walls and these are being special.
made by the Delaware Terra Cotti
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