LYON, POTTER & CO., 174 AND 176 WABASH-AV. ... The Only Authorized Representatives in Chicago. OLD INSTRUMENTS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. J. H. BONNELL, CHAS. M. MOORE, Manager. CHICAGO, BRANCHES: BOSTON AND MANUFACTURERS OF Printing Inks. Real Estate and Loans. Collect Rents and Pay Taxes. Buy, Sell and Manage Prop- Cor. LaSalle and Madison Streets, Telephone 302 CHICAGO. The Auditorium building includes. The Auditorium-Permanent seating capacity over 4,000; for conventions, etc. (for which the stage will be utilized), about 8,000. Contains the most complete and costly stage and organ in the world. Recital Hall-Seats over 500. Business Portion-Consists of stores and 136 offices, part of which are in the tower. Tower Observatory-To which the public are admitted. United States signal service occupies part of 17th, 18th and 19th floors of tower. [Above four departments of the building are managed by Chicago Auditorium association.] Auditorium Hotel-Has 400 guest-rooms. The grand dining-room (175 feet long) and the kitchen are on the top floor. The magnificent banquet hall is built of steel, on trusses, spanning 120 feet over the auditorium. 1887. Ground broken for the building Jan., The corner-stone was laid Oct. 6, 1887. The copestone was laid on top of tower Oct. 2, 1889. The Recital hall was dedicated Oct. 12, 1889. The Auditorium was dedicated Dec. 9, 1889. The hotel was dedicated Jan. 30, 1890. The building was completed February, 1890. Cost about $3,200,000, not including land. Area covered by building, about 1% acres. Total street frontage (fronting Congress street, Michigan and Wabash avenues), 710 ft. Height of main building (10 stories), 145 feet. BUILDING. May, June & Feb. [July Dec. 10.55 @19.50 8.00 @13.25 8.20 @12.20 11.60 @24.00 May. 12.90 @16.00 Oct. 9.00 @13.37 Jan. 7.50 @13.62 Apr. Size of tower, 70x41 feet; the foundations cover about two and one-half times larger area. Weight of entire building, 110,000 tons. Weight of tower, 15,000 tons. Iron work cost about $600,000. Number of brick in building, 17,000,000. Number of square feet of Italian marble mosaic floors, 50,000. (Containing about 50,000,000 pieces of marble, each put in by hand.). Number of square feet of terra cotta (arches and partitions), 800,000. Number of square feet of plate glass, 60,000. Number of miles of gas and water pipes, 25. Number of miles electric wire and cable, 230. Number of miles of steel cable for moving scenes on stage, 11. Number of electric lights, 10,000. Number of dynamos, 11. Number of electric motors for driving ventilating apparatus and other machinery, 13. Number of hydraulic motors for driving machinery, 4. Number of boilers, 11. Number of pumping engines, 21. Number of hydraulic lifts for moving stage platforms, 26. CORN EXCHANGE BANK, "THE ROOKERY," Corner LaSalle and Quincy-sts. Accounts of MERCHANTS AND INDIVIDUALS Solicited. ISSUE TIME CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT, CAPITAL...$1,000,000 1 SURPLUS...$1,000,000 CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON.... .President ....... Cashier CHAS. H. WACKER, CHAS. H.SCHWAB. JOHN BONFIELD, Principal. M. L. BONFIELD, Superintendent. THE BONFIELD DETECTIVE AGENCY. 120, 122 and 124 LaSalle Street, LATE WITH PEABODY, HOUG HTELING & CO. Galloway, Lyman & Patton, Real Estate and Loans, Tacoma Building, Northeast Corner LaSalle and Madison-sts., CHICAGO. Ald. Kerr's Ap'tm't House. Washington-av. and 61st-st. Following are brief descriptions of some of the more important buildings completed, begun or projected in Chicago in the course of 1890. Many old office buildings are having new stories added to them or are being entirely reconstructed, and there are scores of new ones costing from $25,000 to $100,000 in process of construction. Mention of these has necessarily been omitted: MASONIC TEMPLE. The inside finish and highly ornamented. W. C. T. U. TEMPLE. On the southeast corner of LaSalle and Monroe streets the National Woman's Christian Temperance union is building a $1,000,000 temple. The corner-stone was laid on the 1st of November last and it is expected that the structure will be completed May 1, 1892. It is to be twelve stories, or 200 feet high, 190 feet long and 96 wide, with an exterior court. The auditorium will be on the first floor, with passage ways, etc., complete in itself. The remainder of the building will be devoted to office purposes, there being room for about 300 offices. Rock-faced granite will extend around the building for two stories, the upper part being of buff brick and terra cotta. A French-pitched roof three stories high and covered with brown Spanish tile will surmount the building. The construction is to be entirely of steel, with brick piers doing their part of the work. A prominent feature will be a copper fleche or tower rising to a height of 285 feet. There will be eight elevators forming an ellipse. The main entrance is to be very elaborate, all the wall surfaces being covered with alabaster and marble. On the 6th of November last the cornerstone of the great Masonic temple, which is to stand on the northeast corner of State and Randolph streets, was laid with impressive ceremonies. The building when completed will be twenty stories, or 275 feet high. Its dimensions are 170 by 113 feet. There will be light on all sides. The four sides are to be finished the same as on the street fronts, So that the structure will appear as imposing from the north and east as from the west and south, the main street fronts. It will have a pitched roof of brown Spanish tile, extending two stories high. The main fronts will be of dressed granite extending to the sills of the fourth-story windows; above that the construction will be of brick and terra cotta of a gray and mottled color so as to be almost identical in appearance with the gran ite The first ten stories are to be devoted to shops accessible from a ten-foot balcony continuing around on an inner court, and provided with show windows similar to those used on street fronts for display of goods. The floors between the tenth and seventeenth are to be used for offices, and those above wilt be occupied exclusively by the Masons. They will have four halls, each fifty feet wide, one hundred and eleven feet long, and twenty feet high, to be used for drill rooms. There will be a banquet hall,consistory,commandery rooms, parlors and small rooms in abundance. No in- The Chicago hotel is a $1,000,000 structure terior columns will be used in the large halls, being erected by the Northern Hotel comthe floors being supported by trussed and lat-pany, of which Mr. E. S. Pike is president and ticed girders. The construction will be entirely E. W. Johnson treasurer. It is located at of steel and brick. All the outside piers will 227 to 245 Dearborn street, is 165 feet by 100 feet contain steel columns, thus making it doubly in dimensions, and fourteen stories or 169 feet secure. Lateral bracing, securely tied together high. The interior court is 49 feet by 61. by vertical supports, will extend from top There will be a hotel rotunda under the court, to bottom. There will be fourteen passen- with the main office in the rotunda. A feature ger and two freight elevators, the former is to be made of the skylight over the roforming a curved face with a radius of forty tunda. The construction is entirely of steel, feet. All the balconies are to have floors and with all walls supported at each floor level soffits of marble a. d mosaic; all the columns and tied to steel construction. Lateral bracshowing in the court are to be of alabaster, ing extending from column to column to the and all the interior metal is to be of bronze full height of the building will make it per CHICAGO HOTEL. C. W. SPALDING, Pres. EDWARD HAYES, Vice-Pres. J. P. Altgeld. H. S. DERBY, Cashier. JAMES WADSWORTH, Loans and Real Estate, 84 WASHINGTON-ST., CISCO BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. MPROVED PROPERTY in all parts of Chicago and Suburbs for sale on Long Time and Easy Terms. PROPERTY CARED FOR FOR NON-RESIDENTS. A. GRAY, REAL ESTATE AND LOANS 77-79 South Clark-st., Main Floor, TELEPHONE 2227. CHICAGO. |