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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 53 ca
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54 THE ARCHITECT AND EXCIXIUIR Skyscraper with Many Novel Features OXE of the most iiiii(;iie co-oi)crative ai)artiiuMU houses of which NewYork city could boast for many years i)ast lias been projected forerection on fark avenue, extending from Iifty-first to l-ifty-secondstreet. It will embody features that have jjrown largely from the reijula-tions of the new buildinj^ code and the necessity for a solution of theservant and living problems, which, it may be remarked parenthetically,are more acute than ever. The i)lans, which have been pre;)ared by Messrs.Starrett & \an \leck, call for a structure nineteen stories high andcontaining duplex apartments ranging from twenty-two rooms or moredown to two rooms with bath and pantry. Above the 150-ft. building line the structure is to terrace back 15 ft. atevery two stories, so that the cKcupants of the duplex ajjartments abovethe 150-ft. line will have gardens, pergolas, loggias and out-of-door sleep-ing porclies, which will belong to t

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