Show FIFTEEN STORIES IS HIGH ENOUGH Architect Does Not Believe Local Skyscrapers Should Exceed That Height HIGHER IS IMPRACTICABLE NEWHOUSE BUILDINGS WERE ERECTED AS MONUMENTS In view of an agitation against the erection erection tion of skyscrapers of unusually great height commenced n New York recent recently ly Iy and which Is like likely I to become general all over the countr country there Is little probability probability ability that skyscrapers In Salt Lake will willever willever ever extend beyond fifteen stories In the opinIon of a local architect It was the proposition to bull build a sixty two story structure somewhere on Man Yan Manhattan hattan Island that caused people to thInk and resulted In an acute controversy on the subject Architects figure that the constructive cost of a building will be on an average about 10 per square foot for tor the first story Including the basement The see sec second ond floor will cost per ner square foot the thIrd 75 and the C fourth 60 For Forever ever every story further up the cost will wUl In Increase Increase crease at like ratio Taking the th pro proposed proposed posed story structure referred t tto to the cost per square foot of construction I tion on the top floor would be or I times as much as the same area would cost on the second floor and yet would not produce so much revenue The rental for all skyscrapers Is figured out at so much per square foot based on the cost of construction per square foot The Newhouse skyscrapers In this city contain about square feet stated A S BIbbins manager of the Newhouse Realty company and bring In rentals be between between tween and per square toot foot Big buildings In other cities constructed at atIes atless less Ies cost bring In comparatively higher rentals The Newhouse buildings were not built on a purely profit basis but rather as monuments to the Newhouse name The same size buildings could have been erected at several hundred thousand dol doh lars less money and would still have brought In the same rental I I Interesting Observations Harrison L Beach Deach an architect of re repute repute on the east has some come Interesting observations In an eastern exchange and some ot of his arguments against unreason unreasonably unreasonably ably high buildings follow He b begins by the Impressive statement that on lower Manhattan Island there are more high office buildings than In any other city In the world and that just at atthe atthe the time he was writing there were Ia these office buildings ten acres of offices The average space for tor a city office rOO room 1 Is quare feet an acre aCle con contains contains 42 60 square feet Ceet There are at the present time 1815 1515 vacant offices counting each room as an office In the city None of oC these buildings Is less than IS 15 stories and a good many of them are over 40 One of these contains enough people to furnish population for a town It If the whole o lower New York YOlk that thatIs Is Manhattan Island from Fourteenth street to the Battery were all occupied by buildings twenty stories high and all the rooms were occupied It would require Continued on Page Two FIFTEEN STORIES IS HIGH ENOUGH Continued From Page One seven times the existing now for these people to get to and tram from their of offices offices To accommodate the people trying to get to their business places the streets would have hae to be widened seven times their present space or we would have to build streets like Ute the skyscraper bUildings on soven different levels It Is figured that there la Is only use for one building of fourteen stories ou oft each ench city square even evenIn evenin In New York The rest of the space would have to bi covered with buildings of not more than six stories In other words there would b be one build building building ing coveting covering of a square and the other with buildings would furnish aU all the room necessary necessary essary In lower New York a city square Is feet He argues that It if a limit of fifteen stories had been set to build buildIng building I Ing In lower New York years ago It would be better for all concerned First Floor Is Best The first floor of course Is th the greatest Taking a 11 building It Is figured that the rental per square foot will be worth 10 In a city like New York Deducting operating expenses would leave Income from each rent able square foot of the ground space For Forthe Forthe the second story the net Income Is put at Above that there Is a 0 general aver average age struck of the rent Income per square foot at The building In mind Is supposed square feet teet for the twenty stories The earn earning Ing value of the ground for a twe building Is put h at per square a year and andon f ont on this It i Is s estimated that the tract ct of ground was worth It seems that In England by common common law there Is a right of ancient lIght to tn p exist I This means that when once c D a p person rs i has as erected r t a build buildIng J id iding ing and had the UI use O of the light for 0 a considerable number ot of years his neighbor may not build In such a way as asto asto to cut off ott the light from the building which has b ben n erected years before No such right exists In America In putting up taU tall buildings here property owners must take into consideration the possibility possibility of having the light cut cutoff off An In Instance Instance stance Is given of 0 a building In Nw New York built out to the property line Une of the next lot adjoining The owners of this hereto heretofore for fore unimproved lot made plans to erect a 1 building in the main similar to the one In mind They put a blank wall along the new building the wall full fuU of windows of the original building This would have darkened entirely the whole building twenty stories and more along Its southern side It would have necessitated the tearing out of the south wall of the big building and constructing a light court which would have cost about 20 The result was an agreement be between between tween the o owners ners of the two pieces ot of property by which this was avoided Difference In Conditions In Chicago a corner on MIchigan avenue is taken with a steer and terra cotta building of about fifteen stories The rental of the b basement lement Is figured at 72 cents per square foot the ground floor used as a store at the tho second floor at and above that at This build lug Ing reaches back to Madison street with Improvements of the same kind where the die basement Is figured at 83 cents the ground floor at the second floor at SUit and above that at In St Louis Louisa a corner on Olive street Improved with witha a similar building the ground floor pays per square foot the second floor the others an average of LU In a corner on Market street improved similarly the ground floor pays the second floor lm th the others an average of 34 cents per square foot In Inthe Inthe the same city a corner of Market street improved with a stone and brIck house building the ground floor pays the second floor and all others an average of 95 cents c Now In New York a corner on Wan Wall street with 1 a steel and concrete building the ground floor pays tO 40 per square foot the second fl or others an average of 48 of one square on Wall street is another building of ste steel l land and brick where the ground floor pays 15 the second one and aU all that 22 This shows the In value of a corner and an Inside lot A corner on lower Broadway above Wall aU street the ground floor pays 1480 the second floor 7 22 others per square foot The only Pacific Coast city taken Is Seattle where a corner of See Sec Second end ond avenue Improved with a concrete building brings a ground floor rental of 95 per par square foot aU all the floors above an average of per square foot A corner on First avenue steel and brick building the ground floor rental Is per Jer square foot second floor and above that per square foot Two bUildings are Instanced In New York City on Broadway close to Trinity church One Is granite the other of terra cotta each about stories In Inthe Inthe the granite building the ornamentation on the outer walls of the four upper stories cost as much as the entire terra cotta building from sidewalk to roof and this adornment is scarcely visible from the tho street The owners of the terra cotta building are evidently receiving a much larger return to In revenues than those who own the granite |