Art Club Building, Philadelphia, Pa.. Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, Frank Miles Day, Architect. .J. H. Vindrim, Architect. Masonic Building, Pittsburgh, l'a., Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, Archi tects. OFFICE BUILDINGS. Ames Building, cor. School and Washington Sts., Boston......Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, Ar chitects. chitects. Chamber of Commerce, Boston...Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, Ar Fiske Building, Boston, Mass.... Peabody & Stearns, Architects. N. Y. Mutual Life Insurance Company's Building, Boston Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill. Peabody & Stearns, Architects. W. W. Boyington, Architect. Pullman Building, Chicago, Ill. .S. S. Beman, Architect. The New York Life Insurance Bradley, Winslow & Wetherell, . McKim, Mead & White, Archi Equitable Building, New York . . George B. Post, Architect. pany's Building, New York ...C. W. Clinton, Architect. Produce Exchange Building, New York.. Times Building, New York .George B. Post, Architect. . George B. Post, Architect. United Bank Build'g, New York. Peabody & Stearns, Architects. World Building, New York.....George B. Post, Architect. D. O. Mills Block, San Francisco, Cal.. .....Burnham & Root, Architects. New York Life Insurance Company's Buildings, Montreal, St. Paul, and Minneapolis... .Babb, Cook & Willard, Archi tects. HOTELS AND APARTMENT HOUSES. William Washburn, Architect. Revere House, Boston... Tremont House, Boston.. . William Washburn, Architect. The Hollendon Hotel, Cleveland, George F. Hammond, Architect. Midland Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., Burnham & Root, Architects. Aurelia Apartment House, Fifth Avenue, New York... Fifth Avenue Hotel, Fifth Ave., New York The Hotel Imperial, Broadway and 32d St., New York .. The Yosemite, Park Ave., New Victoria Hotel, New York.. .D. & J. Jardine, Architects. William Washburn, Architect. .McKim, Mead & White, Architects. . McKim, Mead & White, Archi tects. William Washburn, Architect. Hotel Ontario, Salt Lake City ... Adler & Sulivan, Architects. tine, Fla.. Carrère & Hastings, Architects. The Alcazar, St. Augustine. Fla., Carrère & Hastings, Architects. COST OF BUILDINGS PER CUBIC FOOT. The most accurate method of estimating the cost of any proposed building, before the plans and specifications are sufficiently complete for taking off the actual quantities, is by means of the cubic contents. Two buildings built in the same style, and for the same purpose, of the same materials, and on the same scale of wages and prices of materials, should cost the same, or very nearly the same, per cubic foot, although one building be somewhat larger than the other and of different shape. It therefore follows that if we know the cost per cubic foot of different classes of buildings, in different localities, we can approx imate quite closely the cost of any proposed building by multiplying its cubic contents in feet by the known cost per cubic foot of a similar building already built in that locality. Conversely, if the cost of a proposed building must be kept absolutely within a certain sum, the size of the building should be proportioned so that the cubic contents shall not exceed the quotient obtained by dividing the amount appropriated by the average cost per cubic foot of similar buildings. Even then it may be found, when the bids are opened, that they exceed the appropriation, but the excess will probably not be so great but that the necessary reductions can be made without altering the main features of the building. In estimating the cost by the cubic contents, it is of course necessary that the contents be computed on the same basis, in both the proposed building and the one already built. In the following examples, the cubic contents are computed from the basement or cellar floor, to the average height of a flat roof, or, if a pitch roof, the finished portion of the attic is included, or that part which might be finished, but mere air-spaces and open porches are not included. Vaults and areas under sidewalks, etc., are included as part of the basement. All measurements are to the outside of the walls and foundations. Cost does not, as a rule, include the architect's fee. A few of the examples, that were not compiled by the author, may not be computed closely by the above rule, but it is to be presumed that they are. The contents of the Government buildings include all space, whether finished or not. included within the outside lines of the walls and roof, and above the cellar bottom, including all areas and foundations. The cost of the Government buildings does not include the heating apparatus, vaults, site, and approaches. EXAMPLES OF THE COST OF BUILDINGS PER CUBIC FOOT. COMPILED BY THE AUTHOR.. CHARACTER OF CONSTRUCTION AND NAME OF BUILDING. DATE. FINISH. COST PER Auditorium Build ing, Chicago. Rookery Building, 1886 Masonic Temple, 1891 Seven stories; pitch roof, iron and marble and oak finish. Thirteen stories; granite and Ohio' Nine stories; granite front; flat Ten stories; flat roof; massive gran- Two massive stone fronts; fire-) Two stories and basement; tile 1887-9 (See description, p. 601.) Eleven stories; flat roof; fire-proof Twenty stories; pitch roof; gran- Old Colony Building, Chicago. 1893-4 N. Y. Life Insurance Building, La 1893-4 Salle and Monroe Streets, Chicago. Schiller Building, or 1891 Chicago. 36 36 32 58 41 47 301% |