The daily gazette., 1878-10-15
East Side improvements.

sEvENTY-oNE HOUSES IN THE COURSE
OF CONSTRUCTION IN THE SIXTH
AND EIGHTH WARDS.
That portion of the city bounded by
Seventh street onthe south, French stree.
on the west, and the Christiana and
Brandywine rivers on the east and north,
has been the scene of unusual activity in
building operations during the past year.
Previously the most extensive building
operations We're confined to the western
and southwestern sections of the city,
but now the east side is contributing to
the general welfare and prosperity, and
new buildings are going up as if by mag
ic on the vacant and deserted lots.
In a brief trip through the locality,
this morning, GAZETTE reporter count
ed seventy, one dwellings in the course
Of erection, which are described below
ON the north side of Seventh street,
below Pine, Mr.. Il. Milliken is erecting
two three story brick buildings, each lift.
SIN. 2Sft. Gin, with back buildings,
l4Xl3 feet. Mr.. VIM. +. kensinger is
the contractor. These houses will be
Nos. 6O5-I East Seventh street.
George ii. Tindall is erecting for the
Christiana River Improvement Company
ten two story brick houses on the east
side of Poplar street, between Tenth and
Shearnan. They are each l4x30 feet,
with back buildings 10xl0 feet, and cell
ings feet high. They are now being
plastered by Robert McCaulley.
The twenty houses which Mr. Thomas
Doan, OF Coatesyille, Pa, is erecting on
the west side of Pine street, between
Tenth and Eleventh, are rapidly approach
ing completion. Ten of these houses are
ID fl. in. by 2S. with back buildings II
by II feet, and the others are the same
with the exception of the fronts, which
are only 10 feet. Messrs Thorne, Nc
Clenaham and Hettrick are doing the car
penter work, Robert Pyle the brick work
Robert McCaulley the plastering, James
z. johnson the thinning, and X. Armstrong
the painting
q, Il. Guyer is erecting ten three-story
brick houses on the north side of Ninth
street, between Poplar and Lombard,
which are now approaching completion.
They are Is #. q in.x26 feet, with back
buildings l2X9 feet. Jacob u. Webb is
the contractor.
Mr. Guyer is also erecting two houses,
about the same size as the above. on the
east side Of Wilson street. between Ninth
and Tenth.
-Four thee-story brick houses are being
erected on the south side of Ninth street
between Walnut and Poplar, two of
which are for Charles Horn, one for VIM.
Tindali and one for Chas. Tindal. They
are each 16x2S feet, with back buildings
l2XlO feet. VIM. and Charles ..Tindall
are the contractors for all four, and they
are making very handsome structures out
of them.
Spencer E. Jourdan, of the police
FORCE, is erecting brick house and store,
10 by ~ feet, at the ). W. corner OF
Eleventh and Lombard streets. The
man building is two-and- -a-half stories
nigh, and the back building two stories.
b. +. Law is the contractor.
On the south side of Eleventh street
between Poplar and Lombard, Mr..
Ihorne, contractor, is erecting a two
story brick house, 10 by 80 feet, for Jas,
Ryan.
Adioiaing this house, on the west
James Davis is having erected a two
story brick building, II #. in. by 81
feet, with back building II IT. 6 in. nv
10 IT, VIM. 9. Pierce is the contractor,
Harlan Cause is erecting twenty Two.
story brick houses on the east side of
Walnut street, between Eleventh and
twelfth. They are each IA by 28 feet,
with back buildings, 10 by 13 feet. ].
T. ID. Seeds is doing the carpenter work
ior the whole row, and +. e. Simpson
the brick work.
lhis makes a total of seventy-one
houses now in the course of erection.
and when the houses recently finished
are added, it will be found that this sec
ton of the city has been improved by
the erection of fully one hundred houses
during the present year.