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Show iiRMON CHURCH IS ERECTING HANDSOME BUILDING aloROUGHLY UP TO DATE IN All" APPOINTMENTS I WT NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE MORMON CHURCH. j p icture WiU Add Much to )g-'Beauty of South Tem-D, Tem-D, jB pie Street. HIKE now administration building .H$ now "being' constructed by the 'wt' ormon church on South Teiu-M. Teiu-M. plo bcbvcon Main and Stato 'jUjfi'will be, wlioii finished, one of .ijPiidsoniest, most modern and best I Hpid in the west. It is designod ftotain offices for the general au-jHUej au-jHUej of the church, together with Kbclrcs and storing space i'or the slbgical library, the historian's i ' and tho church records. The mug will be constructed of steel, iBjoofed with concrete, and with re--Hted concrete floors, 'prill face on South Temple with a iBlfirahlo frontage on Collego avc-.iJfc$o avc-.iJfc$o areu occupied will be 1(5.000 JKf.feet. Although it will contain 'PBfivo stories and a basement, it will bo the height of an ordinary soven-storv soven-storv building. Tho stylo of architecture on the outside out-side will bo Greek Ionic, executed in Utah marble. Tho principle feature of the cxterion will be twenty-four massive mas-sive fluted marblo columns," forty-three feet in length ami with a twolvo-foot base diameter. Solid cast bronze in special design will be used to complete the decorations between tho columns. , South Temple Entrance. The building will bo entered from South Temple by a long flight of granite gran-ite steps between the columns ' and through heavy bronze grilled gates of artistic design. The lobby will' be finished fin-ished in polished marble, with paneled ceilings rich in coloring and decorations. decora-tions. From tho lobby a marble staircase stair-case will lead to tho reception room, which will be especially rich in its decorations. dec-orations. It will have' sixteen polished dark marble columned walls in Greok Doric design. Four polished marble shafts, bearing Greek vases of alabaster, alabas-ter, together with hidden angle or cove lights, and a central ceiling fixture of bronze, will furnish tho lighting. The ceiling will bo of rich art glass, which will show up especially beautiful because of tho great central skylight, which will bo directly ovorhead. 1 From tho reception room access may bo had to all departments on the first floor. This floor will bo given over principally to tho spacious suite of tho first presidency, which will occupy tho south and west front, tho clerk s offices of-fices extending to tho cast front, and offices for those in charge of the missionary mis-sionary and immigration work on the west and north fronts. Handsome Reception Room. The president's reception room will be elegantly, paneled in walnut with beamed ceiling. Mural paintingB of historical sub.iocts and tapestries will adorn the walls above tho dado, while an immenso fireplace will be. tho principal prin-cipal decoration of tho east side ot the room. Flanking this room will bo three prl-vato prl-vato consulting and secretaries' roomB. Thcro will also be in the suite a spacious spa-cious waiting room and entry, with vault spaces placed, at convenient points. On the second floor will be the offices of-fices of the twelve apostles, tho quorum of seventies, tho church schools and several unassigned offices. These offices, of-fices, twenty-four in number will bo attained by an eight-foot corridor flanking the central light court. All of ihcm will have exterior lighting and direct ventilation if desired-. Tho front half of the third floor will bo subdivided similarly to the second floor into largo offices and work rooms, twelve in number, whilo the rear half is to be used for book stack rooms composing tho reference library of the church historian, who will occupy oc-cupy the offices in front. The floor room is designed to meet the requirements of tho genealogical society. so-ciety. Thcro will bo ample office room, together with stack rooms and reading rooms. The whole of the fiftli floor is assigned to stacks exclusively. Theso arc to accommodate the church records and documents. They will have a capacity of approximately 57.J.000 volumes. About conal this number can be stored in the basement and about half as many in the stack rooms on the third and fourth floor. The basoment, damp-proofed and abundantly lighted, will also contain a mezzanine-' floor for machinery. Lavatory and service rooms, conveniently conveni-ently lighted and well equipped, will be amply provided. Tho artificial lighting light-ing throughout the building will be of the semi-indirect typo. There will algo bo provision mado for eras lighline. A telephone exchange connecting all departments de-partments as well as furnishincr outsido connection, will also be installed. Tho heating and ventilation will be of tho latest approved method and the bnilding will bo cleaned with the vacuum va-cuum cleaning process, for which stationary sta-tionary oqnipment will bo installed in the basement and connecting points established es-tablished at convenient points throughout through-out tho building. There will bo two olovators of tho latest electric design. All of tho material used In the structure struc-ture will bo of the very best, as will also bo the workmanship. The building, build-ing, besides filling a long-felt want of the church, will bo a most splendid adornment to the city. |
