Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1915 — Artists of New York to Have Palatial Quarters [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Artists of New York to Have Palatial Quarters

NEW YORK. —Studios and living quarters more luxurious than ever artist in his most inspired moments dared dream of many perhaps become a reality. In West Sixty-seventh street, between Central Park West and

Columbus avenue, New York’s principal art colony, another co-operative building is planned by a group of artists and writers, of which Penrhyn Stanlaws is the leader. The prospectus of what the structure will be reads like a page from the “Arabian Nights.” For instance, there will be no preparation of meals to worry about A central kitchen will be installed, with dumb waiter connections to each studio.

There will be no servant problem in the new abode of genius, either. A staff of maids Is to be maintained, who know how to clean a studio without deliberately removing the artistic atmosphere by tidying It And the iceboxes! Each one is to be fitted with an electric apparatus for making ice on the premises, in cubes small enough to fit the daintiest high-ball glass if desired. The conglomeration of wonders, to be known as the Hotel des Artistes, will be 17 stories in height, of Gothic architecture. Penrhyn Stanlaws calls it a combination studio building, hotel and apartment house, with the advantages of all three types. Authors are to have the south front, where the sunshine may stream in to brighten the pages of best sellers in the process of evolution. The opposite side where the even north light will penetrate the studios, will be given over’to the painters. Altogether there will be about one hundred duplex studio apartments, small and large, but each is to have an 18-foot ceiling and a mezzanine floor with