The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-01
TIKI BUILDING ROOM.
The tharacter of Those Being Erect
cd-Real EState-List OF Per.
mitS Issued During the
Past Month, Etc.

From time TO time during the past year
the HERALD has published accounts Of the
progress of building in this city, and at pres.
ent the spirit Of improvement in this line is
decidedly on the increase. Greater interest is
being manifested than heretofore, and both
the resident population and newcomers are
giving evidences of their faith in the bright
future of Dallas by investing their money in
real estate and buildings. For the past elk
months the supply of residences and bust
ness houses have by no means been equal to
the demand, and notwithstanding the fact
that so large a number OF buildings have
been erected during the past year, it is i'm
possible to find vacant hou:e of
any description. Though late ia the
season nearly rs many building permits have,
with the exception Of the past month, which
has been accompanied by such rainy, cold
weather as to greatly rctRrd work, been
issued as there was in the forepsrt OF the sea-
son. There are d number OF large business
buildings projected which are soon to DO
erected, should the weather not prove too
bad. During the past month, owing to the
weather, but comparatively few permits were
applied for, and the majority Of these have
been for dwellings and houses on a smaller
scale.
There has been marked i'm provement in
tha way of architecture in those lately
erected, and the character and styles of them
are superior to those heretofore built. An
effort at ornamentation is cropping out, and
the dwellings, though the most Of them are
on the cottage plan, are more attractive.
REAL ESTATE
has, Of course, kept pa, with the building
aud property has increased largely in value.
Though buyers from abroad have not de-
creased in numbers, the resident buyers
are on the increase. The residents
are better able than ever before
TO invest in real estate. Tho majority
, of them have made money ana have saved it,
and they show their faith in the future Of
Dallas by putting it in dirt. There is ten
dency on the part of some to speculate, YET
the majority purchase with the intention To
build. A business man who purchased 8
piece of property during this month last year
for 81 900, sold one-half of it yesterday fol
$4,000, which goes to show what IN increase
there has been in the value of ground, especi
ally that suitable for building purposes.
The following permits issued by City En-
gineer Thatcher during the past month are
but few owing, as before stated, to the bad
weather, which almost entirely suspended
building:
$. Mayer, frame barn andstsble, one anC
a-hslf story high, corner Caategral and Live
Oak streets; cost, $3.50.
Barbara Prick, one.story frame dwelling
coruer Bryan and Olive streets; cost, $500
Middleton Bros, two-story stone store
house, "A 10 by 200 feet, running through
from Main to Elm, between Murphy AM
Sycamore streets; cost, Sl4 600.
j. W. Crowdus, q two story stone building
so by so feet, on Elm, between Murphy snt
Sycamore; cost, Sc 500.
j. Casey one-story frame dwelling cor
ner Elm and Pearl streets cost, $500.
Mrs. @. T. Pointer, neat one-story cot
tege, west Of Good street, fronting the Pscif
road reservation; cost, $1,000.
j. E. Harry ono-sIory frame dwelling Of
Eas' Masten, and north Of Ross avenue; cost
$3.50.
T. Hunt, one story frame dwelling, corne
: of Polk street and Akard avenue; COS
$1,000.
IL. Koch, oue-story frame dwelling, COZ
ner of Marilla and Akard avenue; COS
, 5000.
w. Carter, large barn, corner of Ro.
avenue and Harwood street; cost, $780,