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New Building For
Lismore
CONSTRUCTION COMMENCED
A commencement has been made with the erec
tion of an imposing block of modern shops and fiats
for Mr. J. C. Fredericks, at the corner of Keen and
Conway streets, Lismore. The building will incor
porate the most modern trends in architectural de
sign and cinstruction. It will comprise reinforced
concrete foundations, suspended reinforced first floor,
brick internal and external walls, and tiled roof.
NEW SHOPS & FLATS
Perspective view of how the .sho[;i and flats being erected at the corne r of Keen and Conway streets, Lismore, f er Mr. J. C. Fredericks will look whe n completed. Help
Perspective view of how the shops and flats being erected at the corner of Keen and Conway streets,
Lismore, for Mr. J. C. Fredericks will look when completed.
The building externally will be
faced with Wunderlich light red
mottle texture brick with specially
moulded bricks to match, and
darker coloured rusticated courses
forming a base to the building.
The dominant features of the
building will be the octagonally
designed bay window projections
above the awning to the Keen and
Conway-street frontages. These
will be finished at the top with
pattern brickwork and with small
coloured brickettes laid vertically
over each window.
Striking Entrance
The main entrance to the flats
from Conway-street will have three
rows of rounded bull nose bricks en
closing it, with modern wrought iron
grilles to the windows flanking the
doorway. Immediately above the en
trance will be three tall and slender
amber coloured leadlight windows
lighting the main stairhall.
The roof of the building will be
covered with Wunderlich semi-glazed
terra cotta mottled tiles.
Ground Floor
The whole of the ground floor will
be used for shops. The main corner
position will be set up as a modern
butcher's shop and will be occupied
by Mr. Fredericks, who will also
occupy the smallgoods shop adjoining.
The third shop will be let.
The butcher's and smallgoods shops
will be conducted in conjunction,
a large plate-glass partition separating
the two shops. A sliding plate-glass
servery window will form part of this
partition for serving between shops.
The walls of each shop will be tiled
from the floor to a height of seven
feet with 6in. x 6in. cream glazed
tiles. Hie remainder of the walls
and the ceiling will be enamelled to
match.
The counters will be faced with
cream Vitrolite with marble tops and
fitted with chromium plated basket
rails.
The shop fronts will have large
plate glass windows with concealed
lighting, surrounded with cream
carrara structural glass and metal
mouldings. The shop doors will be
of the self-closing type with chromium
plated bars and kick plates.
The cantilever awning will have
Wunderlich fascia mouldings and
modern block lettering. The ceiling
of the awning will be treated with
art metal designed to take floodlights.
Two Modem Flats
The first floor will house two modern
flats, and concrete flat roof and area
at the rear.
The flats are approached by means
of the main stairhall, which will have
polished tallow-wood floors. From
this stair hall doors lead to the en
trance hall of each flat. A cloak
cupboard will be provided in this hall
and glazed double doors lead direct
to the lounge room. A dining balcony
will form a continuation of the lounge
room, the two rooms combined having
a length of 27 feet.
The bath room is placed between
the two bedrooms and these are all
entered by means of a separate lobby
in which is placed a linen press. The
bath room walls and floor will be
tiled, and the shaving cabinet, with
large bevelled mirror, placed im
mediately above the pedestal basin
with an electric bracket light over
head.
The kitchens, which will be con
siderably longer than they are wide,
are set out along the whole of one
side of the building. They are com
plete with stove, china cupboard,
store cupboard and brooms cupboard.
The dished terazzo draining board
and sink, with cupboards underneath,
will be set in front of the window.
Adjoining the kitchen will be a break
fast nook containing a table 4ft. 6in.
long with seats built in each side.
The tradesmen's entrance to the
flats will be from the rear.
The architect is Mr. Raymond G.
Powell, A.A.T.C., of 33 Hunter-street,
Sydney, and the builder, Mr. J. Mac
Kinnon, of Lismore.
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