The Archive · 1911

The New Building

If it be tree that the "relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses, than on any other attribute of their design " the new Clab may be Sasaibed certainly the most imposing on the ode as a majestic building. Its fron

The design throughout is a rendering of the English renaissance. The front is of artificial stone, made on the works, with the exception of the plinths and colamas, which are of Soochow granite, A handsome iron gateway in the porch opens upon a broad stairway of white Sicilian marble, which leads direct into the Grand Hall. The latter perhaps the most imposing feature of whole building. Tt is 90 ft. long, 39 ft. broad, and 41 ft. 6 in, high, and posting tablatures and arches, and the has 17ft. 9 in. Tonic columns sup-DECO whol amounted by heavy dentilled cornice. and a barelied ceiling of glass. A balcony is formed on the first floor

white marble, in geometrical design.

ann ie floor is of black and On the south side of the hall is the bar. which is 110 ft. 7 in, long, and 39 ft.

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