Union Block - Offices and Flats - East Main Street - Missoula Weekly Gazette 7 Jan 1891

 

THE UNION BLOCK - ( I. J. Galbraith, Architect.)

The Union block is being erected jointly by Messts. F. G. Higgins, T. L. Greenough and Wm. H Houston. The building has a frontage of 138 feet by 90 feet deep, and will cost when completed $100,000. The foundation walls are built and building is designed for store roons, offices and flats, the basement front rooms to be used for stores or offices; the first floor for store rooms exclusively. The second story front rooms are in suites of offices, with open plate glass fronts, the large lights being swung on top and bottom pivots. The interior of each block has an open court from second story to roof, with flats of five and six rooms surrounding the courts. The entire front of the building will be of (Chicago) Anderson pressed brick, laid in black cement, with native granite, polished and carved. The front entrance Tower will be supported with Clarks Island granite plinths, carved caps and lintels, carried up prominently and roofed with vitrified tile. The first and second story fronts of stores and offices will be finished in polished white oak. All the store front vestibules and the main entrance entrance vestibule will have floors alternating in black and white marble; the main entrance corridors will be finished in red oak. The building will be fitted with both passenger and freight elevators, and will be fitted up with three separate steam heating plants, lavatory rooms, closets and pantries and electric light. The structure is located on East Main street neatly opposite the Higgins block, and will prove a valuable acquisition to that portion of the city.