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Show 1 Dorius-Building One of the. Best-Arranged Apartments in City . IrrOr U- .P., , i ,M JLD J3 , , , , 0, JJ J Lfl J ''-j::" 'pEffi Clj im jjr inij Hrij1 nir ra Unusually handsomo and. ono of the best arranged npartmont buildings on the northeast bench will bo tho new structuro ncaring complotion at First avenue and II stroot, being erected by-John by-John Dorius, Jr. The now building is of buff brick, with. trlmmings4 of red sandstone and fire brick, and is throo stories high, with a basement which makes -virtually a fo.urth story. The structuro has a frontage of 8-1 foot on First avonuo and is -16 foot deep. The cost will bo about $50t000. The plan of tho interior of tho building build-ing makes it absolutely unique in apart-rhent apart-rhent houso construction in this city. Tl,rt liwvtmirtc on in), flrtrtv n vr nrn. vidod with scparnto halls so that com-plcto com-plcto privacy is maintained at all times. Thcro aro two main entrances in the front, tho eastern ontraneo leading lead-ing to the apartments in that end only. Access to tho apartments in tho base arc obtained through separate entrances on tho street lloor. A feature of the building is tho heating heat-ing plant, which is locatod in tho rear in a concrete building, tho top of which is .list lovel with the ground. Any possibility pos-sibility of injury to tho building from explosion of tho boilers is thus averted. The heating pipes are placed in a sub-basement sub-basement instead of running through iUrt rrirtTtic nf Iin lnuip fi nn rf tnivn f o finil by means of a special scheme of vonti-lation vonti-lation are prevented from making the lower apartments too hot whon heat is being carried to the upper floors. Heating of the building is provided by means of the Webster Undulating system. Inside tho building, the stairways aro enclosed in a stairwell, so that the apartments are ns noiseless as it is possible to have them. Tho bathrooms are large and have real tile sides and floors. Thcso rooms arc larger and better bet-ter than is usual in buildings of this sort. There aro twelve apartments of five and six rooms each, and separate imirtmnnti! -Trtv I,a innUnv ? n fl.A 1,ioW. ment. Entrance to the building for tradesmen trades-men "is provided to each apartment by means of stairwaj-s at the rear of tho structure, where an alleyway leads in from II stroot. A freight elevator provides pro-vides means of hoisting goods to the upper stories. Mr. Dorius states that ho set out to croct. a model apartment and gave less consideration to tho cost of the structure than to the result 'which lie obtained. That ho succeeded in producing a structure which should satisfy the tatc of the most fastidious is evident from a careful inspection of tho building. B. O. Mccklcnbcrg is tho |