REAL ESTATE RECORD AND BUILDERS' GUIDE. VOL. XYII. NEW YOEK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1876. No. 418. Published Weekly by leading varieties of this stone are known by the vided In connection with the Police Court, with a room names of "Berlin," "Amherst" and "Berea" for oflBcers in charge of those awaiting trial, for whosi THE REAL ESTATE RECORD ASSOCIATION. two large rooms are arranged—one for males and the C. W. SWEET .PKESIDENT AND TBEASUEER sand stones. The Berhn stone possesses a fine other for females. PRESTON I. SWEET SEOBETABT. and firm texture, rendering it durable and par­ The Police Magistrate's entrance will be on Tenth L. ISRAELS BUSINESS MA.NAGEB ticularly adapted to ornamental purposes. Its street, where offices for himself and his clerks are lo­ TERMS. color is a light gray tint, and when used for cated. The rooms for the Judge of the Civil Court will ONE YEAR, ill advance....$10 00. be on the second floor, adjoining the Court Room, with trimmings it affords a pleasing contrast with an entrance under the small tower on Sixth avenue, Communications should be addressed to brick or a darker stone. It withstands a press­ C. ^W. STV-IEJET, which leads also to the rooms for the janitor in the third I? ure of over 10,000 pounds to the cubic inch—a floor. The clerks of the Civil Court will reach the offices Nos. 345 AND 347 BBOADWATT degree of strength superior to that of many provided for them by the principal staircase, and in the kinds of marble. As it can be wrought into the third floor, over these offices, and in communication OUE BUILDING MATEEIAL. with them by a small turret staircase, there will be a most ornamental designs for capitals, pediments fire and burglar proof room to hold the records of the and other architectural decorations, some of our Court. Water closets for the public wiU be located near THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, IN SIXTH best architects have selected Berlin of all sand the principal entrance, on the ground floor, and on the AVENUE—ITS WORKMANSHIP. ETC., ETC. stone for their finest edificas. The latest in­ second floor, adjoining the landing. Our attention having been called in laat week's stance of this kind wiU be found in the The tower for the fire bell, called for by the Act of issue by "An Admirer of Kuskin" to super­ the Legislature, will be placed at the acute angle formed abundance of excellent building material found THTRD TODICIAIJ DISTBICT C0T7ET, by the junction of Tenth street with Sixth avenue. |The in this country, we must admit that there exists where the architect, Mr. F. C. Withers, has room for the lookout will be reached by a separate spiral stone staircase, with a private entrance on Tenth no excuse for the cities of the United States not used it to a great extent—^to such an extent, in­ street, the floor of which will be nearly one hundred to present the iinest specimens in the entire deed, that the stone bands, which look so orna­ feet from the sidewalk, and therefore above the ridges world. From the Atlantic to the Pacific there are mental, form themselves an intricate part of the of the roofs, so that an uninterrupted view of the neigh­ exhaustless deposits of granite, marble, and the wall, and are not simply ornaments. This build­ borhood may be obtained. Over this room wUl be placed the fire bell, and the whole will be surmounted various sand stones are found in easily accessi­ ing is probably one of the very few ever erected by a pyramidal roof, with a total height to its apex of ble localities. Our exceedingly variable climate, in this city which has been honestly built for, one hundred and seventy-five feet. Between the build­ particularly in the Northern tier of States, ren­ and in behalf of, the municipal government. It ings occupied by the Courts and the prison will be an ders marble one of the Jeast appropriate mate­ will be an ornament to that section of the city, inclosed yard, entered by an archway, so that the pris­ but also a credit to those connected with its oners can be conveyed to and from the prison without rials for exterior walls on account of its dis­ publicity. The public entrance to the prison will be on coloration. The Concord, N. H., and the Quincy, erection, from the Commissioners down to the Tenth street, and will lead directly from the porch into Mass., granites have been favorite materials for meanest mechanic. The Messrs. J. K. & J. A. a guard room, 24 feet by 14 feet. Adjoining this will be a number of years; but they cannot withstand ex­ Horgan, whose contract calls for over $116,000 a room for the Keeper. On the same floor will be two posure to intense heat, as has been unfortunately of masonry and brickwork, state that,in all their large waiting rooms for male and female prisoners. Ac­ commodation wiU be provided for twenty-nine female demonstrated at the Chicago and Boston fires. experience of twenty-seven years, they do not and flfty-eight male prisoners in separate cells, each 8 Notwithstanding the long rows of brown stone know of a single building where every detail is feet by 5X feet. Those for the females will be on the dwellings in the city of New York have made so accurately watched, where every expenditure second floor, arranged in two tiers, and those for the that stone peculiarly popular in our midst, it has been so carefully weighed. From early males on the floor above, ia four tiers. begins to be admitted, now more and more, that morning tiU evening they can be found at the The cells will be placed back to beck, the dividing th^ dark color of the stone detracts from the building, personally superintending the brick­ wall being nsed for ventilating purposes, separate flues effect of arehitectaral ornamentation. It scales laying which is progressing finely, and by next being carried from every cell to a large central shaft, in which is placed the iron smoke-flue from the furnaces. An off, also, and crumbles, and a considerable por­ fall they hope to have their contiract fulfilled to elevator worked by steam, eight and a half feet by six and tion of it cannot resist the action of the elements. the very letter. Messrs. M. C. Henry & Co., the a halt feet, will be used to convey the prisoners to their re­ Nova Scotia and New Brunswick furnish a stone-cutters, speak in excellent terms of the spective quarters, as well as to carry up the food from Ohio stone above alluded to, enabling them to the kitchen, which is to be in the basement. The cells free stone which has come into quite general will be eight feet from the outer walls, which are set adoption within a few years. The drab color of give a sharp, clear outline, even to the most deli­ back ten feet from the street line, and contain the large the Dorchester stone is quite popular, especially cate designs, and,the architect points particu­ windows for general light. A fence-wall fourteen feet in the dry goods districts, many buildings in larly to this stone-cutting work as the best ever high will surround the building. Church and adjacent streets having been built done in this city. We add a complete descrip­ The rooms for the keepers are arranged at the entrances with that stone. There" it has stood the test of tion of the buQding, as furnished to our reporter to the male and female quarters, and, in connection from official sources: with each, there will be two larger cells for the detention years, like the building of H. B. Claflin & Co. of such persons as it may be considered advisable to The Mechanics' Bank now stands twenty-two The Court House, bell tower and prison of the Third keep separate from the ordinary class of prisoners. A years ; thp limes buildiiig nineteen years, and Judicial District, New York, for the erection of which- small airing court, 30 feet by 20 feet, is provided in the so are numerous others built from this stone. Messrs. Heinry Hobart Porter, Edward Berrian, and roof, so that those prisoners who are detained for any- William Dodge were appointed Oommiasioners, in length of time may be able to take.iiir and exercise with­ Some of the best descripitions of sand stone December. 1873, by the late Mayor Havemeyer, are now out the possibility of escape or corsmunication with any come ftom the Western States, where they have approaching completion on the triangle formed by one outBide. Provision will be made for the cleanliness long been extremely popular for building pur- Sixth avenue. West Tenth street and Greenwich avenue. of the inmates, bath-rooms and lavatories being pro­ posiBS. Ohio is particularly rich in sand stone The entrance to the Court Rooms will be on Sixth vided. formations. With the increase of transportation avenue, through a large, ornamental archway into a The buUdipgB are in the Gothic style, adapted to porch, 16 feet square; from thence, on the left> through facilities, this m&terial is coming rapidly iato modem uses, and, while rich and ornate, so far as the a vestibule of the same dimenaions, to the Police Court Court House is concerned, will be free from everything greater use in various sections of the. country. on the ground floor, and, on the right, by an octagonal meretricious.