Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-17
IMPROVEMENTS
Made and Buildings erected in
Ottumwa since the 1st
Of January 1875.

Ottumwa since the 1st
of January 1875.
Below we give a list of improve
mcnts made and buildings erected in
this city since the first of January
1875,
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Water Power Works--two dams
across the Des Moines River. One
Guard Lock. and Canal or Basin three
fourths of a mile long, 40 feet wide,
$4,000.
BRICK BUILDINGS.
Daggett Il Harper, Oil Mill 4OxS0
feet, three stories high with basement,
wing 12x20 two stories, built Of brick.
Cost of building and machinery $685.
600.
Daggett Il Edgerly, Business House
on Second street, 24xl00, two stories
high, with basement. built of brick.
cost $500.
Congregational Church. Fourth
street, 51xSS feet, spire los feet high,
basement II feet high in the clear. the
audience room to the square IL feet
and over apex of ceiling 90 feet, the
plan is in thc..shape of q Greek Cross :
the basement will contain a Furnace
room, a Sunday School room 36x40,
and two class rooms llxl2 feet, and
finished in the most improved style.
Expense of building $4,000.
School House. ON West Court street,
two stories and basement. Mansard
roof, six school rooms, and play room
in basement. cost, with seats and fur
niturc. about $4,000.
| Ottumwa Iron Works, brick build
ing two stories high, 32N90 feet. Cost
OF building $4,000.
| DIR. Paul Caster, addition TO main
building 30x50. four stories high. and
cost $4,000.
Williamson & Harrow. two brick
business houses 22xG0, corner of Sec.
ond and Court streets, two stories
/ Value, 5000.
/ Gray & Bcdwell. addition to livery
barn. on the corner of Court and
Third streets. 30N60 feet two storic.
high, cost, $1,000.
Joseph IL. Merrill Il Co, Wholesale
Grocery, on the corner of Market and
Third streets. 50Nl00 two stories higl
and good basement. Cost of building
$1,000.
Building on Third street, 20x5O fee
two stories, and basement, Cost O
building $1,000.
Bowen Il Williams. onc-story bricl
building, on northwest side OF Farm
cr's Mills. 20x40 feet, and cost Sl,500
Geo. Mccullough, three bushes
rooms, on the corner of College ant
Main streets, 22x60. each two storic
high, with basement. Cost of build
ings $1,000.
4 q. ID. Tisdale, brick business hous
20iaxS0 feet. two stories high, Mali
street between Market and Greer
J streets, cost $500.
&. G. Warden, addition to stor
room on Main stree, 4Ox22 two stories
main building new front and storic
raised. cost $500.
Ira A. Myers, brick business house
on Main street, 22xS6, two storie
high, with cellar, cost $4,000.
richards block, corner of Marke
and Main streets. 81 feet on Mali
street and los feet on Market, con
tanning four store rooms, two storie
!. high, aud cellars. cost of buildin!
$4,000.
&. L. w. Bachman. three story bricl
) business house 20Xli0, with cellar
cost of building $1,000.
Samuel Maholt. corner of Main ant
Union streets. two brick bushes
houses 20x60 each two stories and base
ment. Cost of buildings $4,000.
Samuel Mahon. two story brio
: business house, cast corner of Mai
and Union streets, 22X60 and COS
$500.
A. ID. Bower, brick business hous
on Main street. between .IeflcrHp
and College, two stories. 22x60, COS
$500.
A. Zapfle. brick business house tw
stories high. ON the corner of Mai
and College streets, 22x60, cost S2,S0t
Chiffon Il Kendall, two brick bust
ness houses. on Market street, wit
basement, 22x46 feet, cost $4,000.
FRAME BUILDINGS.
Martin Oehlschlagcr, bushes
house, frame. two stories. on Mali
I between Marion and Wapcllo street:
, cost $1,000.
III. n. Macoy, Planning mill, corne
!. Second and Washington streets, 50x2S
' two stories high, coS, includin
0 machinery and engine, $500.
| James Crowley, business house
frame, on Main. between Vine an,
: Union streets. lsx40, two stories, cos
! of building $1,000.
] Thadcus Lutz. Main street, tw
' story frame building 20X30 feet use,
for Il business house and dwelling
cost $3.50.
/, Cook u Duckwortl. FIGURING mil
:. i2y56, three stories and basement
+ four run of burrs. cost of building an,
, machinery $4,000. Capacity flo
making eighty barrels of flour ever
twcnty-four hours.
s w. IL. Fetzcr. two story fran
9 dwelling house with basement, BOXES
OH the corner of Fifth and Mario
street, cost 81 200.
l.. Nj. Cooley frame dwelling house
l on the corner of Fourth and Gas
streets. main building 2Sbx52, wit
!, projection. two stories. with cellar
cost $1,000.
5. j.. Durham. frame barn 12XlS
! OH extension of 9th street, cost T65
+, and a frame barn, on Marion stree
4. l2Nl6. cost $50.
N. ID. liinsey, frame, l4N21,
q liNl4, cost 1925, llinsey 4 Ilcdrick
:, addition.
ID Currin, dwelling addition. 1SxfS
!, Court street, value, $50. Barn, 2oxl=
y value. Sl5o
IL. &. CRUDE, Second street, bar
/, 20x21, value $3.50.
: Martha Gephart, dwelling. cornc
Wapello aud 9th streets. 36N2S. tw
stories and basement. rear addition
: l2xl4, $1,000.
Allen johnson. addition, on 4th be
tween Marion and Wapsllo street
a 5000.
q John Erhccker, cuisines. hous,
and dwelling, frame, 20x40, two ste
). ries high. east wing, 16x20, corner Q
u Main and Wapello streets, cost 5000
Q William Kramer, dwelling house o
4 Marion street. between End and 4tl
l0X60. with cellar. cost $1,000.
Z Martin Israel. dwelling house. 16
-, two stories, Fulton Il Mast's add
!, lion. cost. 500.
! IS. III, Harper, dwelling house, o
! Marion street. 32x24 and an l., 16x3:
). two stories high with cellar cost, -
800.
ID. Squire, seminary building, fran,
: two stories, extending "A feet o
: Fourth street, 81 feet on Marion, wit
t rear projection 24xl4, cost $4,000.
D Same, OH rear end of LOT. dweIlin
house. one story remodclled, cos
!. $500. Dwelling. story and Il half, II
modelled, cost $500.
!, III. j. Powell, frame dwellin
house. on Second street, 16x30, an
wing l6S20, story and half on mai
binding, wing one story cost, Sl,O0
J. w. Mccormack. frame rcsidene
7 in Dixon Il Hutchison's add, one ste
e ry, lixa, l. l4xl4, cost $500: on
/, frame dwelling, lIx2l, l. I4xl4, on
story in llinsey 4 IIcdrick's addition
cost $500
: J b. Wickham, frame dwclling,tw
4 stories, OH Second street, lSx3S, anotl
4 er l6N3S, cost 81 200; one frame dwe