The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-25
New Structure May Be De.
voted in Large Part to Ho-
tel Purposes
CONSTRUCTION TO
BE FIREPROOF
Will Rest on 81 Reinforced Generate
Piers and Will Be One of Finest
Built Structures in Vermont - Floor
Space $4,000 Feet.

That Attorney General Herbert G..
Barber will devote to hotel purposes a
good proportion of the building which
he Is erecting at the corner of Main
and Flat streets is not altogether i'm
probable. Mr.. Barber was asked this
forenoon by representative of The Re
former if he intended to use a part or
all of the building for a hotel, and he
replied that he had not fully determined
rs to the occupancy of the building, but
that he had considered the advisable
ty of building it in part for a hotel.
Mr.. Barber at first planned a build
ing three stories high on Main street
and four stories high on Flat street, to
be built of wood with brick exterior.
He has entirely changed his plans, how
ever, and will put up a first-class fire
proof building five stories high on Main
street and six on Flat street, or two
stories higher than at first planned. The
height from the engine room floor to
the roof will be l12 feet
He says there would be opportunity
for first-class dining room on the low
er Flat street floor, with stores on the
lower Main street floor and 80 hotel
rooms above that in addition to good
number of Offices and some apartments.
1t is not necessary to decide at this
| time in regard to the hotel proposition
as the foundation work and general CON
struction features will be the same in
any case.
With 10 men on the Job and the big
concrete mixer working to its capacity
the work of putting in the foundations
ha htti1l
The new building will be thoroughly
| freprOof and as well built as any
| building in Vermont 1t will be the
| first of its kind in Vermont. The ex
terror will be of dark, rich, red tapestry
! brick with stone trim, and the Kahn
system of steel reinforcement will be
used throughout. 1t will be equipped
with an elevator system and will bC
modern in every detail. 1t will have
1000 square feet of floor space.
Fifty-seven re-enforccd concrete pier.
will support the structure, and it wa.
in part for the purpose of making some
changes in them to meet the require
ments of the larger building thai
work was suspended few days recent
ly. In these 81 piers are six which are
built into the large concrete wall be
tween the building and Main street, anC
the weight of the east side of the build
| ing will be borne by these six piers ant
connecting trusses instead of by the re
tanning wall. The other sides of tn,
building similarly will be supported by
| re-cnforccd piers and trusses. The Fla
street wall will be 90 feet long and tn,
Main street wall 12S feet long.
| The rear wall of the building, on ac
count of its proximity to the Taft build
ing, which is q large wooden structure
is to be equipped with metal sash ant
plate wire glass windows.
Although there will be light on thre,
sides of the building the plans call fo
two courts on the rear side, so arranged
as to give the maximum amount of ligh
in all corridors and offices. In this re
spect the building also will be one O
the finest in the state.
1t is expected that the new structur
will be ready for occupancy before mex
summer. The contractors are F. w. {
J. A. Dakin of Burlington. Mcdowell
& Henderson of Burlington are tn
architects, c. A. Perry, associate, hav
ing the work under supervision MI
Perry will be here until the building i
finished. The reinforcement system
is furnished by the Truss Kahn Stee
Co. of New York.