Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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t, which hasbeen erected with the idea of providing f or thecrockery, glass, and lamp people an up-to-date, well-equipped and well-lighted building for showrooms, isnow ready for occupancy. The structure is twelvestories high, and is absolutely fireproof, no wood ofany kind being used in its construction. An unusualfeature in this building is the absence of interior col-umns, as will be seen by the illustration below and the light is necessary. Thes eventh, eighth, ninth, tenthand eleventh floors are the same as the top, with theexception of the skylights. The floors from the secondto the sixth have not the side windows, but the lightfrom each end is ample. The store floor has twolarge display windows divided by a macsive and im-posing entrance door. The basement, which is thefull size of the building with the exception of what isused for the entrance, is let with the store and is con-nected by a private staircase. There are two com-plete lavatories and toilets in the basement for the
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ONE OF THE FLOORS, SHOWING ABSENCE OF SUPPORTING PILLARS. ground plan on the next page. It is so constructedas to leave the floors entirely open and free from ob-struction of any kind. The size of the rooms is ap-proximately 100 x 50 feet. There are three elevators—two for passengers,and one large frieght car There are two separatestairways, and two complete lavatories on each floor.Hot and cold water are provided throughout thewhole building. In addition to being fireproof, it isalso equipped with an automatic sprinkler system,and is furnished with a tower fire-escape. The top floor has four skylights, and the entirefront and back consist of windows, while on the westside are nine more. This floor is ideal where perfect use of the tenants of the store. The freight elevatorhas an entrance on the street. The owners of thebuilding equipped their own steam-heating plant, butas a safeguard in case their boilers should at any timebe out of commission are also connected with thestreet ste

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