THE NEW TRIBUNE BUILDING. 



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The new Tribune Building, now in course of 

 erection, occupies the historic site of THE TRIBUNE, 

 on the corner of Spruce and Nassau-sts., one of the 

 most important central points in the City of New- 

 York aud the most eligible location on Manhattan 

 Island for a great newspaper office. The new 

 Tribune Building will be the largest newspaper 

 office in the world, aud will contain more than four 

 times the space of any other printing-house in 

 the city. When complete it will front 91 feet on 

 Printing-House-square, 100 feet on Spruce-st., and 

 will extend through to Frankfort-st., a clear depth 

 of 168 feet, aud with a front of 29 feet on the street 

 last named. Only a portion of the building, that 

 fronting on Printing- House-square, 91 feet, and on 

 Sprnce-st., 52 feet, is now erecting, and this will be 

 so far completed as to allow its occupation by THE 

 TRIBUNE before the remaining section is begun. 

 In this front building, as well as the completed 

 structure, will be a cellar, basement, and nine 

 stories, excluding the attic. On Printing-House- 

 square, above huge foundations, laid in with 

 granite bond-plates and cap-stones, a majestic 

 tower will rise nearly 260 feet. The main entrance 

 will be in the front of this tower, which, from the 

 starting point of the foundation, 25 feet below the 



sidewalk level, to the top of the finial, will measure 

 285 feet. The bights of the stories areas follows: 

 First story, corner oilier (to be used us Tin: TIUHUNE 

 counting-room), 21 feet, with a rise of 18 inches 

 above the curb at the intersection of Nassau and 

 Spruce-sts.; first story, office north of main en- 

 trance, floor 8 feet 6 inches above the curb 14 

 feet high ; second, 12 feet 6 indios ; third, 1:3 tret : 

 fourth, 11 feet G inches ; fifth, 11 feet ; sixth, 10 feet 

 !) inches ; seventh, 10 feet 6 inches ; eighth (com- 

 posing-room), 20 feet, and ninth, 10 feet. From 1 ho 

 curbstone to the eaves at the top of the outside 

 wall of the west (Sprucc-st.) front will measure 106 

 feet ; the roof is a Mansard, with peaked top, 

 and rises about 40 feet from the eaves to the top of 

 the peak, making the bight from curb to peak on 

 the main front 146 feet. On the Sprnce-st. side 

 the decline of the curb is about five feet, so 

 that the bight at the south-eastern corner will be 

 over 150 feet. Sixty feet from the curb, the tower 

 is corbeled out, projecting from the face of the 

 wall 2 feet 6 inches, and this projection is continued 

 to the top of the masonry of the tower, 196 feet 

 above the curb. At the bight of 150 feet a little 

 balcony appears on the front of the tower, and from 

 this the national flag will bo displayed on suitable 

 occasions. One hundred and sixty-seven feet from 

 the ground will be an immense clock with four dials 

 each 12 feet in diameter, which will be illuminated 

 at night. The figures on the dials are to be cut in 

 granite and gilded. The inside facing wilJ be of 

 plate glass, through which the light from within 

 will display the figures. The tower will be 

 four-sided, and at the point where it rises 

 above the roof will be 17 feet square. It will be of 

 solid masonry to the bight of 196 feet from the curb, 

 and above that point will he of iron covered with 

 slate, rising 64 feet higher. In the lower part of thia 

 spire will bo four arched openings to be reached by 

 a staircase, and from these far-reachinsr views of the 

 city, the bay, and all the surrounding country about 

 may be obtained. 



The construction of the building is of the most 

 substantial and enduring kind, such as shall insure 

 its standing for ages a fit memorial of the great 

 Founder of THE TRIBUNE, and a perpetual testimony 

 to the success of the great journal into which he 

 breathed the breath of life. The foundation walls 

 rest upon a concrete bed 10 feet wide and 18 inches 

 thick, composed of Portland cement, sand, gravel, 

 and stone, a composition novel in this citv, and 

 hardening very quickly into extreme solidity. 

 Upon this concrete is a continued course 

 of granite slabs 18 inches thick, and varying 

 from 10 feet to 6 feet 6 inches in width. Under the 

 piers of the front and the tower walls are other 

 granite slabs over tnese, some of which weigh more 

 than 10 tons. Upon these granite courses the brick 

 work rests. The piers of the front are of so-called 

 Croton pavers' brick, laid in Portland cement, with 

 granite bond-stonea 10 inches thick. The inner walls 

 are of Haverstraw brick, laid in Rosendale cement. 

 On the level of the basement floor starts the granite 

 work of the front extending in solid blocks, bond- 



