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The Logic 
 of Fireproof Windows 
 
 BaAkRY<G.KNISELY: CO: 
 273-275 S. Canal Street 
 Chicago, Ill. 
 
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 HARRY C.. WNISELY —COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 THE BORLAND BUILDING 
 
 CHICAGO 
 Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge C. Everett Clark Co. 
 
 Architects Gen'l Contractors 
 
 Thirteen floors of this building equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.'s 
 Fireproof Windows. 
 
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HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 To the Architectural Profession, Builders and Owners: 
 
 N fireproof windows, as in every other 
 manufactured product, there are differ- 
 ent degrees of excellence. 
 
 These differences are due partly to va- 
 riations in the design of construction, more 
 largely to variations in workmanship. 
 
 Our windows, we believe, present 
 points of superior excellence in designing. 
 These we are always glad to explain. 
 
 Most particularly we solicit business on 
 the ground of thorough, careful work- 
 manship. 
 
 No skimping or “skinning,” is permitted 
 on our work. It is a standing order in our 
 factory, that "good enough" is not sufficient. 
 Every window must be fully up to the 
 standard; must be the best that can be 
 made. 
 
 Of course this is easy to say. Any 
 one can say it. We believe we can 
 prove it to the satisfaction of any prospec- 
 tive customer, if given the opportunity. 
 
 HARRY C. KNISELY 
 COMPANY 
 
 273 South Canal Street Chicago 
 
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 HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 The photograph shows the interior view before the test 
 
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PARR ay CaoNINISELY: COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 The Reason Why 
 
 HIRTY-ONE. per cent of all fire 
 losses are due to the "exposure 
 
 hazard." 
 
 This statement is based on the accur- 
 ate records of fire insurance experience 
 for a period of twenty years. 
 
 It means that if your building is ever 
 damaged or destroyed by fire, the chances 
 are one in three that the loss will be 
 caused by a fire in your neighbor's 
 building. 
 
 It means that if you adopt every known 
 safeguard against fire in your own build- 
 ing, but fail to protect yourself against 
 fire in an adjoining building, the odds are 
 still one to two that you will suffer serious 
 fire loss. 
 
 It means that if you do protect your 
 building against fire from the exterior, that 
 you reduce by one third the danger of 
 fire loss to your property. 
 
 You will thereby reduce your fire in- 
 surance charges by a reduction in rate, 
 proportionate to the decrease in hazard. 
 
 Windows of wire glass with correctly 
 made metal sashes are recognized by fire 
 underwriters as the best protection against 
 
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 Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 The photograph shows exterior view before the test 
 
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HARRY! (C.. KRNISELY: COMPANY, -CHICAGO 
 
 exterior fires and rates are made accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 It is a curious comment upon popular 
 ideas regarding so called "fireproof" 
 buildings that comparatively little consid- 
 eration is given to this question of window 
 protection. 
 
 On every hand we see these fireproof 
 buildings being erected. They are given 
 really fireproof walls, floors and partitions 
 of brick, concrete or tile, with windows 
 of common glass in wooden sashes, in- 
 viting fire from surrounding combustible 
 buildings to enter at every window. 
 
 Imagine building a vault of solid 
 masonry, to protect valuables from fire 
 and then cutting a hole in the wall of the 
 vault, filling that opening with a window 
 of plain glass and wood sash, while all 
 around this vault is wooden office furni- 
 ture and combustible goods of every 
 description! 
 
 How secure would the contents of such 
 a vault be? 
 
 Now, we do not need windows for in- 
 terior vaults, but we must have them for 
 buildings. 
 
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 HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 Photograph shows exterior view after the test. Note the excellent 
 condition of the metal frame and sash. 
 
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PeAR. RN) Cie KR NISELY. COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 There are only two conditions under 
 which a building does not require fire- 
 resisting window openings. | 
 
 First, when the walls of the building 
 are of combustible material (wood) in 
 which case the walls would burn away 
 from the window, and 
 
 Second, when a building is entirely 
 isolated on all sides and separated by 
 wide spaces from any other building or 
 source of fire and will always be thus 
 isolated. 
 
 If your building is in either one of 
 these two classes you do not need fire- 
 resisting windows. 
 
 If it is not, you not only need windows 
 which are proof against fire, but it would 
 be a serious error if you did not have 
 them installed. 
 
 It would be an error in two ways. 
 First, in not taking advantage of a means 
 of eliminating one-third of the fire risk 
 on your property. Second, in not taking 
 advantage of a means of reducing your 
 fire insurance charges to such an extent, 
 that, even if your property were never 
 threatened by fire you would still have a 
 
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 Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 Photograph shows exterior view before the test 
 
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 RRIY C22 Rk NISELY COMPANY, 
 
 constant saving every year equivalent to a 
 saving on the original cost of the build- 
 ing. 
 
 To illustrate this second point: Sup- 
 pose your building equipped with ordinary 
 wood sash windows cost $75,000, 
 contents of building valued at $100,000, 
 total $175,000. Your insurance rate, 
 say, would be $1.50 per $100.00 and 
 you would insure for full value. Insur- 
 ance cost to you would be twenty-six 
 hundred and twenty-five dollars per year 
 and this would be a fixed, permanent 
 charge every year. 
 
 Now suppose you substituted Harry 
 C. Knisely Co. Fireproof windows at an 
 
 - extra cost, say, of $3,000, enabling you 
 
 to get an insurance rate of $1.00 per 
 hundred. Your yearly insurance charge 
 would then be seventeen hundred and 
 eighty dollars on a valuation of $1 78,000, 
 
 a saving of $845 a year. 
 
 In less than four years you would save 
 the additional cost of the fireproof win- 
 
 ‘dows and every year thereafter this 
 
 saving would be "velvet." In other 
 
 words if your building should never be in 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
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HARRY oC..VKNISELDY COMPANY, “CHICAGO 
 
 Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 Photograph shows interior view before the test 
 
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BAR RY Cay KNISELY. | COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 danger by fire from aneighbor, you would 
 save an appreciable sum and if your 
 neighbor should have a fire, your building 
 and its contents would be saved. 
 
 In an article in “Concrete and Con- 
 structional Engineering, ’’ of London, Sep- 
 tember 1906, Captain John Stephen 
 Sewell, who made the official report for 
 the United States Government on the 
 causes and conditions of the San Francis- 
 co fire says: 
 
 “The question of window protection 
 is by all odds the most important. Had 
 the fire been kept out of the ‘fireproof’ 
 buildings in San Francisco, none of the 
 weakness in either concrete or hollow 
 tiles would have been developed and even 
 the flimsy commercial type would have 
 been on the whole good enough.” * * 
 
 The serious problem in congested dis- 
 tricts of large cities is not only the secur- 
 ing of a ‘fireproof’ covering for the steel 
 frame, or a ‘fireproof’ construction which 
 will have such resistance that it will come 
 through a fierce fire undamaged, but is 
 the devising of means of excluding an 
 external fire.” 
 
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 Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 
 
 Photograph shows interior view after the test. Note the excellent 
 condition of metal frame and sash. 
 
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HARRY: Cy, (RNISELY “COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 This point has been the predominating 
 lesson drawn by every authority who has 
 pointed out the cause for the spread of 
 the San Francisco conflagration. 
 
 We are prepared to prove to the sat- 
 isfaction of every interested builder or 
 architect, that our Metal Window Sash 
 and Frames, glazed with wire glass, will 
 resist an exterior fire successfully and keep 
 fire out of any building protected by our 
 window construction. We will prove it 
 by reference to fires through which our 
 Window Construction has_ successfully 
 passed. We will prove it by actual test. 
 
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 HARRY C. KNISELY CO."S STANDARD AUTOMATIC 
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 CHMNISELY: GOM PANY, 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 Extracts from the specifications of the National Board of 
 Underwriters for the manufacture of 
 
 Fireproof Windows 
 
 Metal frames containing sash or glass 
 are not to be more than 5 feet wide nor 
 more than 9 feet high at their highest 
 point. 
 
 All frames in excess of these dimen- 
 sions must be reinforced and divided by 
 mullions or transom bars, consisting of a 
 5-inch I beam, protected by not less than 
 2 inches of concrete on flanges and at least 
 2% inches next to the web. I beams to 
 be properly fastened to iron work of the 
 building or to extend into the masonry at 
 least 24 inches at each end. 
 
 In new buildings the reinforcing mem- 
 bers should be installed as the building 
 
 is erected. 
 
 No single light of glass will exceed 
 720 square inches in area or be more than 
 48 inches in either dimension. 
 
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 ATORIES’ INSPECTORS. BEAR THIS LABEL 
 
 Section of Chicago Building Ordinance Relating to 
 Fireproof Windows 
 
 SECTION 632 
 
 (Doors and Windows. When Required to Be Closed. 
 Fire Resisting Glass.) 
 
 Wherever the distance between doors and windows in buildings of Classes I., II., IV., 
 V., VII. and VIII., on opposite sides of alleys or courts shall be less than thirty feet, or 
 wherever the distance between such doors and windows and any inside lot line of any lot 
 upon which any such building is erected is less than fifteen feet, or wherever the distance 
 between such doors and windows and the alley line (where the alley is less than thirty feet 
 wide) is less than fifteen feet, such windows and the glazed portion of such doors shall be 
 made of fire-resisting glass, set in frames of incombustible material. 
 
 Where the windows in buildings of Clase ont lot line courts are {ess than two fest 
 from the lot line the sashes shall be stationary. 
 
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BAR RYO Cue cKINISELY COMPANY, 4CHICAGO 
 
 Instructions for Measuring Window Openings 
 
 LLE VATION 
 
 PLAN 
 A—Width (outside) D—Offset in Brick Jamb 
 B — Height E—Thickness of Wall 
 C — Spring of Arch F —Reveal 
 
 G— Width (inside) 
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HARRY: <C.. -KNISELY: . COMPANY; +\CHIGAGO 
 
 HARRY C. KNISELY CO.’S STANDARD SINGLE SASH 
 PIVOTED WINDOW 
 
 This style of window can be made with hinged sash 
 
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 CHICAGO 
 
 - Partial List of Buildings 
 
 Equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.’s 
 Fireproof Windows | 
 
 BUILDING 
 
 LOCATION 
 
 ARCHITECT 
 
 Ruprecht Bldg., 10 Sty. Mercantile. . 
 Wi'Gs Ritchie Come se ral siacane es « 
 GeH > Hanson Pactoryncx kine: 5 +3 
 Borland Bldg., 18 Sty. Office Bldg. . 
 Hirsch Wickwire Co., 10 Sty. Mer. . 
 Garrett Institute, Library 
 Electric Vehicle Co....... 
 Woods Motor Veh. Co........... 
 Watson Smith 
 Port Edwards Fibre Co., Paper Mill. 
 Aluminum Mfg. Co 
 Gale. Mig. Cox aki mesiin.ccn et es 
 Freer Estate, 10 Sty. Mercantile ... 
 
 Evanston Public Library 
 Metropolitan Elevated R.R........ 
 McCormick Harv. Co...........- 
 
 Hull House 
 American School of Correspondence. 
 Thompson Chem. Co........ ty 
 Eclipse Mach. & Boiler Co......... 
 EeastoniGuCo oso Arn act he a a 
 Jos. Downey, Bldg. Commissioner. . . 
 Sherwin-Williams Co., Paint Mills . 
 
 Chicago Telephone Co............ 
 Chicago Carriage Trimming Co...... 
 
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 Port Edwards, Wis. . 
 Two Rivers, Wis. .... 
 Albion, Mich....... 
 
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 Chicago steve. a aha 
 
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 .| Huehl & Schmid 
 
 A. E. Robinson: 
 
 C. O. Hansen 
 
 Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge 
 Jenney, Mundie & Jensen 
 Chas. R. Ayars 
 
 R. E. Schmidt 
 
 W. A. Otis 
 
 Huehl & Schmid 
 
 V. W. Coddington 
 
 J. C. Llewellyn 
 
 Fritz Foltz 
 
 Phillips, Rogers & Woodyatt 
 
 Pond & Pond 
 Pond & Pond 
 
 J. F. Knudson 
 W. F. Gubbins 
 Huehl & Schmid 
 E. A. Hogenson 
 H. E. Stevens 
 Pond & Pond 
 C. A. Eckstorm 
 
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PPAR RY? C.0 -KNISELY:« COMPANY .7CHICAGO 
 
 Reinforcement for Windows over 5 feet wide 
 or over 9 feet high 
 
 Mullion for Pivoted Window 
 
 Transom Bar for 
 
 Pivoted Window 
 
 Transom Bar for Sliding 
 Sash Window Mullion for Sliding Sash Window 
 
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 Partial List of Buildings 
 
 KNISELY COMPANY, 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 Equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.’s 
 Fireproof Windows 
 
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 BUILDING LOCATION ARCHITECT 
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 Kenwood Institute............ ... Chicaga?2ere0e ooen W. A. Otis 
 Ward-Corby Co..... celine a ae Ghicaga ty cites ket R. C. Fletcher 
 College Theater .......... Ghicago: 4.57.) aie J. E. O. Pridmore 
 Scovill: Bumames: OSS aes iss Chicago... a eae E. A. Hogenson 
 Hardinge: Bigs. oo, Ses ss oe ess Chicaco:: cons. ae 
 Spiegel-May-Stern Co. . SC hICaGO sarths: anced Treat & Alschuler 
 Chicago City RailwayCo .... ... Chicago's Si <.2 aan Company Architect 
 Illinois Leather Company...... ... Chicaga oysclacnies 
 Giles Building ..5 a2 Os aes Chicago ati ayaa. W. W. Clay 
 C2E SU OMY chee ings hts Galesburg, Ill... .... Company Architect 
 fac eet re CUT Gry aa cree ran ee Cedar Rapids, Ia .. 
 Dayton Spice Mills Co... ... .... Dayton, Ohio ......| Schenck & Williams 
 Torpedo Bldg., WsS Gove: os & Fort Totten, NES Ye coc Lient.-Cols\Wva-L. Marshall 
 Kingai 60Go: ese sees ses Bi ae ls Indianapolis, Ind .. 
 J JS Sebtee So Beat, See Chicago veeene. is ace Postle & Mahler 
 Sprague, Warner & Co........... Chicago ees ais eas ‘C, A. Eckstorm 
 Phettze Bldg ioinccetae ot a allo 4 Wp Indianapolis. ...... 
 American Terra-Cotta Co., Factory. .| Terra Cotta, Ill. ... | W.D. Gates 
 McAvoy-Houghton, Office Bldg .. | Chicago er eer B. R. E. Schmidt 
 Quick & Willis, Factory .......... Moline Wey 0 <3 
 Fifteld Bldg rns 08 sunset Cone cnn 5 Beloit. Wis.axt. ates: Henry Lord Gay 
 Medinah Temple....... ........ Chicagacttacas .| Huehl & Schmid 
 Hanchett Paper Co., Warehouse ....| Chicago........... Dean & Dean 
 Fort Dearborn Bldg., 15 Sty. Office 
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 COURT ELEVATIONS OF L. C. P. FREER ESTATE BLDG., CHICAGO 
 Fritz Foltz, Architect 
 
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 ALLEY ELEVATIONS OF L. C. P. FREER ESTATE BUILDINGS 
 CHICAGO 
 
 This photograph shows a good comparison between the unsightly iron shutters and the 
 neat appearance of the fireproof windows 
 
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 HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 TORPEDO BUILDING, U. S. GOVERNMENT ; 
 FORT TOTTEN, N. Y. 
 
 IienneColawWwaly Marshall, Architect 
 
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PARRY -C.o (RNISEL.Y “COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
 EVANSTON, ILL. 
 
 Chas. R. Ayars, Architect 
 
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 HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 
 
 EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 EVANSTON, ILL. 
 
 Phillips, Rogers & Woodyatt, Architects 
 
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 @ Contracts taken in any 
 part of the United States 
 or Canada. 
 
 @ Send us your require- 
 ments by mail, or express 
 plans at our expense for 
 
 quotations. 
 
 Harry C. Knisely Co. 
 
 273-275 S. Canal Street 
 Chicago, Ill. 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
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