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Show J. G. McDONALD CHOCOLATE COMPANY Page 3 born architect who emigrated to Utah where he became best known for his residential designs. The J. G. McDonald Chocolate Company Building is a four-story brick and stone factory and office structure with a split-level entrance and raised basement. The building has a post and beam structural system with a single row of posts running the length of the building at midspan. The symmetrical facade combines elements of the Commercial and SUllivanesque styles and is four bays wide. The bays are separated by brick piers which culminate in Roman arches at the third floor level. tion. Each level of the facade has its own unique type of fenestraOn all but the third level, however, the bays are square. first floor bays contain large fixed-sash storefront windows. The The second floor has a row of 2/2 dOUble-hung sash windows with fixed sash transoms above. The windows on the third floor are contained by the arches and have a central 1/1 sash window flanked on either side by 2/2 double-hung sash windows. In the arched area of the bay are quadra- partite window lights held in place by heavy wooden mullions. The fourth floor, which was added about 1909, contains a row of eight small 1/1 double-hung sash windows with sills which rest on the cornice line of the original facade. The facade benefits from detailing which relieves what could otherwise have been an austere composition. Ornamental features |
