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Show Dimvoodey's Furniture Store. Yesterday, we looked through Mr. Henry Dinwoodey 's new building on First South street, which has just been completed ready for occupancy, and which stands aloft an ornament to the city, and a lasting monument to the business success of the owner. Tho outside of the building, the walls being of red brick, presents a very massive and substantial appearance, appear-ance, while the front forty -two feet is finished, after the modern style, ornamental iron window caps and sills and a neat metal cornice, while the front of the first story is of glass and iron. The building is eighty feet deep, forty-two wide, forty high; and has three floors and a b;iscment extending extend-ing twelve feet under the sidewalk and ten feet in the rear, making it one hundred feet long. Each floor forms one large compartment, their being no partitions except on the sec ond noor, where there are two small rooms, one being for the public and the other a private office. Through the centre of each hall a row of fourteen four-teen inch pillars support tho floors above, and give a more finished appearance ap-pearance to the rooms. The height of the ceilings, commencing at the ground fl xr, are respectively fourteen, four-teen, twelve and ten feet, while the basement is also ten feet in the clear. The rooms are amply lighted, there being twelve large windows in each, six at the front and the same number in the rear, while preparations for illuminating il-luminating at night have been made, gas pipes being laid through the entire house with frequent jets in each hall. The floors arc all connected with broad staircases, stair-cases, and a hand elevator for raising and lowering goods goes from tho basement to the upper floor. In designing de-signing the building the architect has shown taste in so admirably adapting it for tho purpose for which it was erected furniture salesroom and warehouse. Goods can be easily displayed dis-played while access to every part of the house is readily gained. The first and second floors are to bo used as salesrooms, the former for bedroom bed-room and the cheaper classes of furniture, and the latter for parlor and more costly goods. The base ment is to be the principal wareroom, yet the third floor will also be used for that purpose as well as the paint shop of the establishment. Immediately Immedi-ately ofT the second hal is a large room for upholstery work, and in tho rear of the whole are the extensive shops where furniture is m:'dc and where the imported goods are put together, altogether making one of tho most complete and handsomest as well as most extensive establishments of the kind in the west. Mr. D. is moving his extensive stock of furniture into the building preparatory to making a grand opening open-ing on Monday morning. |