Moulding and interior finish

To keep pace with the rapid progress in artistic building designs, and to show our patrons the latest and neatest styles of finish, to supply the demands of modern Architecture and to make it possible for the humblest to obtain a pretty home at a moderate outlay, has been our object in issuing this, the third and enlarged edition of our Trade Catalogue.

We take pleasure in announcing that our trade has been fully maintained, and steadily improved in the past, and we have enlarged our facilities to accommodate our increasing patronage. Relative to modern structures, Louisville and the South have kept abreast of the times, and anyone familiar with the situation must admit that the South and the West are both far in advance of the East in the matter of artistic designs, pretty homes from the humble cottage to the handsome mansion, surrounded by lovely lawns, flower beds, trees and shrubs, all of which tends to lighten the burden of the toiler, to make our homes more happy and bring us nearer to the goal to which mankind is striving, and to that far off Divine event toward which the whole
creation moves.

Having gained a prestige in this respect by reason of a more abundant supply of greener fields than is allotted to our brethren in Eastern cities, we do not propose to permit them to outrun us in the race in future days, and, therefore, we have contributed not only our means, but years of toil and study to stimulate a desire on the part of our people to obtain a broader knowledge of the Building Arts.

We trust our patrons will appreciate our efforts in establishing a repository where can be obtained on demand all the necessary material for the construction of an ordinary building from the foundation to the finish. During the last few years, we have frequently accommodated customers by loading on cars all the material required to complete a house on the day that the order was placed. Our large plant with unsurpassed railroad facilities and the immense stock of Lumber and Building material we carry, alone enable us to do this. In this publication will be found an illustration of finished material only, as it is unnecessary to list ordinary stock with which everyone is more or less familiar.

To enlarge upon a few items more definitely, we would call attention to our extraordinary list of plain house Mouldings, many patterns of which cannot be found in any other publication, but are constantly in demand of late years. We particularly desire to attract the attention of Architects and Builders to our new designs in narrow casing and base both plain and carved with blocks to match, because we believe that the time has come when narrow, neat and tasty designs must take the place of the old and wider styles.

Our stock of Embossed and Carved Mouldings and Fini.sh is unsurpassed, and we hope that the genuine carved work will soon be brought into general use by reason of its excellent finish and of its moderate cost.

Our Turned Mouldings, Beads, Pressed Ornaments, ornamental carved and plain Blocks are in great demand and we feel proud of the fact that we are the sole proprietors and manufacturers of the renowned Pressed Wood Ornaments with their increasing demand at home and abroad. This line alone comprises four machines and 260 various steel dies, which have been obtained at an enormous outlay of capital.

Our line of Turned Art Spindles, Rosettes, and material for Fret work, both for outdoor and interior Fini.sh, is an entirely new feature, as no other house is known to carry these in stock.

Our designs in Columns, modern and classic, are unsurpassed, and these together with our new designs in Gable Finish, Scroll Work, Hoods and Brackets (put up and knocked down). Porches, Bay Windows and Cornices, enable many to improve in their structural designs, where an Architect cannot readily be consulted.

Not barring the largest manufacturers in the Northwest, none of our competitors carry so large a stock of Frames, Inside Blinds. Lattice Doors, Picket Gates, Ladders, Trucks. Building Paper and Roofing as may be found at any time in our warehouses. We lead them all in designs of Four to Nine Panel Doors, Glass Doors, Solid Panel Moulded Doors, Art Moulded and Cottage Front Doors. Store Fronts and Fixtures. Interior Finish both in hard and soft woods, Cupboards and Presses, Hot House and Green House Stock, Fret-work, Balusters, Newel and Stair-work, Hardwood Flooring, Mantels and Glass.

We take particular pride in our Veneered products and when this class of work leaves our factory, it contains nothing less than a polished finish. Day by day the cost of producing Veneered Doors and Hardwood Floors and Finish, is being lessened until soon every humble home will contain a room or two elegantly finished in hardwoods.

Relative to Interior Finish, particularly hardwood, much of the work is now done at the factory which was formerly done at the building, and the work so made, can be put up in place in less time and at less expense.

To those of our customers doing work in remoter sections, where the advantages of an Architect must be forborne, this book will be found doubly valuable, and even in Cities and larger Villages, where the service of an Architect can be had, our Catalogue will be found a help both to the designer and the builder.

Parties contemplating building should always, where practicable, engage an Architect, not only to plan, but to superintend the erection of their work. Many persons make a mistake by gaining a little knowledge of work and material, and then endeavor to look after its erection themselves, and in many instances their inexperience causes a greater financial loss in errors and   poor workmanship, than all the fees of superintending the work by an Architect would amount to and the structure stands as an eyesore long to be regretted.

Parties desiring it can have all the lumber framed and the finishing lumber joined so the work can be readily put up in place, and for distant shipment, the difference in weight will be almost sufficient to pay for the labor.

Appreciating fully the liberal patronage bestowed upon us in the past, we shall always endeavor to merit the good will and patronage of our friends in the future by our continued efforts to serve them promptly and to give them entire satisfaction.