Alterations: Art Club Albert Square Manchester

MANCHESTER - Considerable additions and alterations have been made in the Arts Club premises in Albert-square, and the whole of the rooms have been redecorated. The club now consists of a large smoke room, dining room, private dining-room, and committee room; billiard-room for two tables, card and dressing room, as may be required, lavatories wc’s, etc.; bar, manager's sitting-room and bedroom, service-rooms, etc. There is a spacious corridor on each floor communicating with the staircase hall which has been inclosed for the private use of the club. Dinner lifts have been provided from the kitchen, which is on the upper floor to the service room on the second or dining-room floor. The smoke-room on the first floor has been materially increased in size. The decorations and furnishing have been carried out by Messrs Kendal, Milne, and Co., and the constructive works by Messrs. Southern and Sons, under the superintendence of the architect, William Dawes, of Cooper Street, Manchester, and London. [Building News 18 October 1889 Page 542]

Reference           Building News 18 October 1889 Page 542