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Show i AN ARTISTIC CLUB HOUSE. Th Unlqno and Lnxtirloot ITont of On of New Ywrk'a Mt Fumou Club. Tbenew house of tho Century is built a mile and a half farther uptown than Its old one. occupying a spuco 1U0 feet square on the north side of Forty-third street, a little distance from its junction with Filth avenue, nt tho point where the process of degrading that royal road into a shopping 6treet seems for the moment to have paused. Its style is that Italian Renaissance brought into such vogue of Into years for both pub-; pub-; lie and private buildings. Tho material Is a pale bricU, in color a littlo wanner than gray, rather colder than yellow, somewhat raw as yet, but promising mellowness with time, and relieved over much of its surface with terra eotta ornamentation or-namentation of a harmonizing tint. It rises to the height of three stones, the lowest one Unbilled In dressed gray stone crossed by narrow horizontal bands of terracotta, forming Kuch nn elevation as to servo for a massive baso to the whole structure, and each of the upper ones gaining in height upon the one below it. Tho entrance is through a graceful nnd stately arch of pray stone, piercing tho two lower stories, and supporting at tho base of the third a bruad entablature crowned with an exquisite recessed loggia, which, after the Florentine manner, is open to tlio air. and with which tho diuing room connects. Low pilasters, parting the window bays, two on each side, reliove tho Ilatness of tho front nnd inclose spaces enriched but not crowded with wreaths and other decorative forms in terra cottn. Tho effect yielded by the simple contour, pure lines and largo treatment of surface of the building, aided by its color, Is that of blended dignity and delicacy. The interior arrangement preserves throughout that scheme of large communicating com-municating spaces which made so agreeable a feature in tho old building. At the rear of tho ground tloor, given to offices und strangers rooms, a broad stairway mounts on each si do to a plut-fonu, plut-fonu, midway of the height of this story, giving access tolhe gallery, detached de-tached from the main structure, built nearly across the width of tho ground, and lighted from above and on throe sides. The billiard room is below the gallery. Turning again toward tho front, the double stairway rises to the second Door, divided into spacious halls for meetings und conversation, and, gaining gain-ing the third floor, leads to tho library and the dining room and smoking rooms. Following the plan of nit modern mod-ern clubs, which civilization is strangely slow in adapting to private houses, the processes and odors of cooking are confined con-fined to the region just below tho roof, j It is curious that the ridgepole nnd the hearth, both of which were once synonyms syno-nyms for the home, should at length have met in one ptaco. An air of severe simplicity reigns In these marble lined halls and oak wainscoted wain-scoted apartments, relieved by color of onyx panels, by graceful curves of classic clas-sic chimney pieces, by columns of dark wood and veined marble, nnd by tho gilding of capital and balustrade. 80 free are the spaces that from almost any point there opens n striking perspective per-spective of arch nnd pillar and stairway. stair-way. The many members who have surveyed the world of clubdom from Calcutta to San Francisco pronounce the Century's new homo to be, nmong buildings so occupied, unique nnd complete. com-plete. A, R. Miicdonough in Century, |