On Your Right— Ladies and Gentlemen— Is the New Home of the Packard Motor Car Company of Philadelphia, one of the Most Complete and Magnificent Edifices of its Kind
PHILADELPHIA is to have a Packard sales and service building that will rank with New York's, in character if not in size. Contracts have been let for the erection of the building herewith depicted. Construction will be pushed and we hope it will not be long before the Packard Motor Car Company of Philadelphia is adequately housed and ready to handle any end of its business in a manner that will honor the name Packard and be a shining example of Packard service. Just now the Philadelphia company suffers from want of room, of which there will be plenty in the new place and also ground for expansion. The new building will be on the east side of Broad Street and will extend from Wood to Pearl Streets. It will be 75 by 165 feet, eight stories and basement. The construction is fire proof, the structural steel frame work being fireproofed with concrete and having reinforced concrete floors. The street fronts will be white glazed terra cotta and iron. Steel window sash will be used throughout. Over the main entrance on Broad Street will extend an ornamental iron marquise. This entrance leads into a salesroom two stories in height and with an area of .3,200 square feet. The room will have a high wainscoting of oak and an ornamental plaster beamed ceiling. Immediately at the rear of the sales room on the first floor will be offices and back of them a general service room 4,200 square feet in extent. On the second floor will be additional offices, a chauffeur's room and a large stock room. The remaining floors will be devoted to repairing, repainting and upholstering, over hauling, rebuilding bodies, storage, etc. Carriage washes are provided on two floors, there are good-sized blacksmith and machine shops and there is a cleaning room in conjunction with the shops. Two large freight and one passenger elevator will be provided, besides a dumb waiter extending the full height of the building.
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