Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — BIG BUILDING FOR NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

BIG BUILDING FOR NEW YORK.

Talk of a Structure to Cost $100,000,000 or Such a Trifle. Chicago Tribune. ■ New York people are talking of a building or a series' of buildings which are to be connected, the total Cost of which is to be $100,000,000. The-plans have been drawn, and the only thing which now remains in the way of its speedy completion is the site upon which to build it and the money to pay for its construction. These are matters of detail, however, and as the elevation has been drawn for the building New York papers are al ready talk ing about the completed structure. The project is not the construction of a tenement house, or a flat, or an, office building or factory, but a community in itself in which all things are to be provided under a single roof, with churches, schools, theaters, libraries, museums,, assembly halls, bath rooms, dining rooms, an observatory roof garden, and other things which it is thought might add to the happiness or comfort of the people who would take up residence within its walls. The main building will be nine stories high, and it is intended to have the various parts of the building grouped about a central structure thirty stories in hight. The library that is talked about is to include works on law, on medicine and on literature, in fact, a complete library, containing not only all sorts of works, but works in all the known languages. The size of this one-hand red-million-dollar city will be too great for any one block of ground, therefore they talk of getting four or more blocks and connecting them with underground tunnels and overhead inclosed passageways. There are to be flats of all sizes, and the occupants may either keep house or only have rooms and take their meals in. the numerouus dining rooms. Solidity of construction is the principal feature aimed at, and while there will be no extraordinary attempts at ornamentation, there will still be many features adding to its beauty and grandeur. There are to be immense baths built on the Roman plan, and in every way the building is expected to be a model, not of its kind, for there are none like it, but one which will stand alone in the history of building and of architecture.