The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-19
MOOSE PLANNING
NEW CLUBHOUSE
Name Architect to Draw
Up Plans for Lodge to
Cost $235,OOO.
START WORK IN SPRING
Actual Construction Work On
Building VIII Be Begun
in Early Spring.

A s235,000 lodge building which
will rank in architectural beauty and
in equipment with the best of it's
kind in the state is the goal of the
Kenosha lodge of the Loyal Order OF
Moose, according to information re-
vealed today by officers of the lodge.
At meeting of the organization on
Thursday evening the lodge voted to
appoint the firm of Lindl and
Schuette as architects for the new
buildings and today it was an
nounced that work was already be-
gun on the preparation Of the plans
and Specifications.
The special building committee of
the lodge has been at work on their
lans for the past several months and
ne negotiations and decisions had
reached the state this week whereby
actual work looking towards early
construction was ready for contempla-
tion by the entire lodge.
To Be Three Story Building.
The site of the proposed building
is on the northwest corner of Market
and Congress street where the pres
emit lodge stands. According to the
present plans, it is propose dto remove
present plans, it is proposed to remove
new building on the spot with front
age of s8 feet on Market street and
1877 feet on Congress street.
The new building will have every
advantage and facility of complete
lodge and club rooms. The base
ment will contain ten bowling alleys
so arranged as to be capable of en-
pertaining state and even national
events in the bowling world. Showers,
lockers and refreshment rooms will
complete the basement which will run
full width and depth of the building.
Room for Five Stores.
On the ground floor there will be
modern store rooms for rental pur-
poses. These stores will face the
streets and will be complete in every
respect A dining hall, kitchen and
reception room, will also occupy the
main floor.
On the second floor there will be
eight suites Of office rooms facing on
Market street, and the rest of this
floor will be occupied with the lodge
halls proper. The large lodge hall
will be on this floor, from which
branch separate rooms for library,
music, pool and billiards, cards, re-
freshment rooms and kitchen. tG
The entire third floor will be de-
voted to a spacious ballroom with a
stage at the north end of the hall,
capable of holding amateur produc-
+ions. A refreshment room, lounge
nd reading room will also branch off
this auditorium. The size of the
,oom, according to the specifications,
will make it the largest ballroom in
the city today.
The third floor will be so arranged
that the ballroom space can be in
creased 25 per cent by throwing open
the lobby and corridors.
All of the floors may entertain
club and social gatherings of any ma
ture without interfering with the
commercial side Of the building, it is
planned.
The plans for the new building are
considered to embody the utmost in
club and commercial building con-
struction and when the building is
completed it will be hailed as one of
the showplaces of the city, if the en-
thusiasm OF any of the members of
the Moose building committee is any
criterion az the present time. Before
the ideas were definitely co-ordinated
for the Kenosha clubhouse the build
ing committee had made close studies
of the clubs erected at Fond du Lac
Camden, N. j., Detroit, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, and other cities boasting OF
beautiful buildings.
The adoption of the civic center
plan by the community made the loca-
tion of the present club most aus
pieious one. Situated in the heart OF
the municipal and county projects
contemplated for this section of the
civic center, the building is being
framed to fit in exactly with the de.
sires as expressed by the city planneI
in Kenosha's city plan.
The members Of the lodge at their
recent meeting were showering con.
siderable praise on the members ol
the special building committee fol
their pAiustaking activities in the in.
terests of the new building. The
committee consists of:
HsrmRn j. Zache. chairman. JOSEPH
Goldsteln, George A. Harbaugh, AL
j. KSppus, William Ellison, Arthur c
Bevk. Jacob Zimmerman, Peter Soren.
SON, Michael Clemens and Henry E
HerzoE. secretary.
For the past twelvs years The
Moose have been looking forward t,
the time whsn they could expand Their
fsciiitias and lodge rooms in Keno
ShA IA take rank wSth khs hylId;1 -,
OF the lArSss: ioagss elsewhere IN, tn,
state u yes with this iaaa ia mias
that shs orgNuisAuoA parshasea IL
October isis, propsrty from Harr,
Rupfar At the sornst Of Masxet an;
Congress streets aoch wh'ch to cree
prcjee' witch the ptAus announce,
today cover.