, 1881-07-10
n .I,I1I. 1zIYiI.HING HODM.

| n TIE BUILDING ROOM.
The new Uallneln:lnl Hospital, OH Cottage
| Grove avenue, near Twenty-eighth street,
| now building, will cost $4,000.
L number Of improvements are being
made in the siNth-story of the Palmer uouse,
| tile rooms being changed rs to size
| 4 large pl;,ring-nlil with capital OF
$4,000, has just been started on Nlnety-llftli
street, near the Calumet River, i'll South
| Chicago.
| The Criterion Theatre, OIL Scdgwick and
| Division streets, is ready to be plistered, anu
! will be opened ut the commencement OF Tie
| fall season.
j. W. Doane, the wholesale grocer, is
building Sl23 900 house OIL the corner OF
| Prairie avenue and Eighteenth street. 1t
will be rooted in two weeks.
The walls of the Dridewell are being torn
| down and rebuilt, and the improvement
| when finished will cost S., 200.
| 4 contract for the building of a tWo-foot
brick sewer OIL Indiana avenue, between
| Thlrty-niltll and Fifty-seyenth streets, has
| been let for the SUN Of $lG0:U
| S. ii. Larrla1lc, the commission man, las
| just had plans finished for Il house to be 10
Gated OIL Fiftietl1 street, corner OF Washing
| ton avenue, Hyde Park, 10 cost $1,000:
Dr. Smith is building 4 store anu teNe-
| front, 25x1DO feet, at No. 52G West Madison
street, tt cost S10, 900.
The Foss estate is building three stores,
| stone-front, three stories anu basement. on
Madison. corner OF Loomls street, ~llicfl
will east S:D, 900.
1lessrs. Mc{ir:lw IL Dowlley are at work
OIL liayerley's Theatre, Un Mon1ot street,
! working l,0 men, and report over 0ne-alt
Of the masonry and brick-work finished. The
| roof will he oil III twenty-five slays,
| \ satisfactory, four stories high anti 10
| feet square, to be occupied by William Stew
ems. hts just been started I'll the corner OF
Twcn1y-secontl AMI Throop streets, 10 cost,
when tiniSlcd S1U, ,tWu.
Albert Munger is building four stores on
SedswIrk, cnrllcr 0i division street. which
will cost ;S:;u.0O0, and bG flushed i'll tWU
! weeks. The building will be vi pressed
brick. three stories and basement.
james j. Egan, the architect, has just tin
islled plans for Il S50,000 building, stone
front, five stories and basement, SlNl00 ftct,
10 be- located On the south side of West AlHd,,
ison street, between Union and ualStcd
one of which will bc occupied by j. n:
Sinythe, the furniturt-tlcafcr, and will, with
one already up, make three Ut Il block Ut
five stures to be built.
Work in tearing tiowll tile Old llnverly
'rheatrc-tlle site OF the new First National
Bank Builul1lg-lllS httll pushed i'll dead
earnest Tie roof is oft, and the walls will
be dawn within Il few days. The force ell
ployed numbers l!o men. Nearly ;oO,oop
! structure. III the new bank building which
is to take its place, the Dearborn street fUtil
datiun only will bc used.
West Madison street presents scene Of
remarkable activity III the building line just
1T this tinlr. Ground was broken during the
Wtst week just east Of the new building Of
1le School Board. east uf l[asted street, and
by fall another great lot Of business stores,
with telle.neNtS above, will auOrn the street.
Directly OpuUSlt, Just east Ut the northeast
corner uf Madison and llalsteu streets, Il
llallisonel y-caryttl stare building rose up to
the skyline, 1onr lioors ~, tturl1lS tile week.
Further wesi, especially AZ the southeast cor
her If Madison aud Loon.is streets, other
brick ami stone buildings of the first order
are NOW rising, this one being up to the see
OuG floor. Within h;llf Il block west tllrn,.
other tinc stone buildings will be finished
this summer. Hi. Improvement i'll the al,-
},carallce of the street during the past few
years is certainly Il noticeable one, and that
it is IL bt kept TIP there seems to bt no sort
uf doubt.
Tie I.otllschld building, o1l Monroe street,
west Ot Franklin, nie Of the haNisUnest
structures in Il ls,cality Astounding in fine
business blocks. will bn occupied this week
by the owners, Rothschild IL Co., wholesale
cIulliierS.
The Andrews building, on the northeast
| corner If LII Sale street. and Arcade court,
has been improved by the addition vi Il
fourth !lpor and an elevator l'llc offices OIL
the new tluur were rented before the ct,-
tract for the addition was let-anotiler ill.,
! stante of The tesir:lIlity, Ot La Snle street
| oilict-roonl. With the removal Uf the Board
Of Trade, the vacant spaces III Lii Sale
street, south uf Monroe, may be expected to
till up within 4 short time,
The Hyde Park Board Of Trustees have
ADVERTISED f.,r bids for the construction Of
Inc TN new watcr-works. Tlry viii he Of grand
proportions. aM the appointments uf the
best. Engines will he put il, which will lift
?.W)o,003 :;lln!S per day. The PLANS ar; not
! yet drawn: only tile iItl.tnry step Of t,,'t-
ting estimates ii;1vll1, bS II taken rs yet. The
WORKS are expected 10 cost ah''ut >300.0Uu.
Nnrk will he commenced is soun rs ps's,-
biz, anu it Is tltsisncI to have. everything
completed and in operation by next winter.
". L. Curtis is building Il residence, .o,5Nt'>,
two stories in hight, Of plain Gothic. on Sn:.
perior street, ne:r lass. The front is Of
Philadelphia brick with trimmings ct brown
stone. The exterior and Interior are very
attractive. and the arrangement nf the latter
such AS To colltuce towards the cozy and the
comfortable.
llr. Gregory Vigeant is maturing plans for
Archbishop Fes.!lalss residence OIL Dear
born avenue, near Lincoln Park. The
building will he of stone. and promises to he
one Of tic principal ornaments Of the city
Ills Grace will probably occ'spy it tlls fall.
The ste architect ElaS lust finished .hc
pl:llls fnt the clergy-l:u.lse adjoining tic
Ronlln CATHOLIC Cathedral ut Superior aid
State streets. The nn1tse will aljOin the
Cathedral 1T the southeast corl.cr closely
a!,uttng N, tile cl!anee1 walls. Tie entrance
Will be nn Superior street, with Il frontage
OF ss,nle forty feet, while OH CasS street
the imposing wall will extend lO0 1, feet.
\ prominent feature Of the very ATTRACTIVE
residence will bt Il tower, i'll the Renaissance
style, -risin1 lts:;.r the Intersection vi the
streets. The material will be broken aslllar,
Is ornamental. Within the accommodations
will he sufficient for the \iraT-(ie}ltrlt and