West Jersey Pioneer

Another new residence is going up on West Commerce Street. Wm. C. Whitaker has scarcely finished one contract before two or three others are on the wing. He has agreed to put up a modern frame building for Edwin M. Ware, on the South West corner of Commerce and Giles Sts., 40x46. The building will be two stories high, with a commodious attic and dormer windows. Ground floor - Parlor, 14x20; sitting room, 14x17; dining room, 14x18; pantry 7x9; kitchen, 14x15, main hall, 7 feet wide; side hall. 4ft Bin. The lower story will be 11 feet and the second story 10 feet in the clear when finished, the sharp roof will be covered with slate, and the flat with tin. The sitting room will be beautified by an octagon bay window, the parlor and dining room, with square bay windows. There will be four gable ends, with one double window in each end, a large water tank will supply, water throughout the building, and gas pipes are to be run from cellar to garret wherever convenience requires. A large two story shed. under which will be a cistern, will have a force pump leading into the bath room of the second story. The second story of the shed will be open for promenading and a neat railing placed around the whole, to guard against accidents. The parlor, sitting room and hall are to have cornices and elaborate plaster centres of suitable designs; open stairway, heart pine steps, walnut newell post, moulded rail ash balustrades, all to be finished up with circle at the top. Clothes presses and cupboards with shelving, drawers, strips and hooks, the doors are all to be heavy moulded both sides, hung with three hinges, and fastened with mortice locks and white knobs. All the windows will be double, hung on axle pulleys and patent cord, and fastened with Judd's sash fasteners. In the parlor and sitting rooms there will be panels under the windows moulded to correspond with the doors. There will be folding-doors from parlor to hall, and likewise from sitting room; all to be finished and moulded in good style The building will be another addition to the many fine structures, of which Mr Whitaker richly deserves the credit of builder and architect.