Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-17
THE BUILDING BOOM,
n PASSING GLANCE ATTHE GROWTH
OF ST. PAUL,

With Brief Mention of Palatial Business
Blocks and Some of the Thousands of
Houses Which Are Being Added to the
City-Indications that During the Year
Three Million Dollars VIII Have Been
Expended in Adding Not Less Than Two
Thousand Buildings to the Capital City
of the New Northwest.
Saturday has come to be regarded as a
dull day for newspaper reporters in st.
Paul. And, therefore, just to keep him
self busy and satisfy his desire to con-
tribute something to the volume of inter-
esting matter expected every Sunday
morning. by reades rof the GLOBE, one of
the reportorial staff set out yesterday af
ternoon to gather some detailed informa
ton regarding the building "boom" in
st. Paul, which he had observed in his
daily rounds.
The inquiries of the reporter, extend
ing over only limited part of the broad
area of ST. Paul, resulted in information
that beside the great number of buildings
in progress hundreds more are contracted
to be built this year for which prepare
tions are just beginning to be made, and
Notwithstanding late advances in cost of
material and labor the architects are all
busy with plans for future building. One
of the principal contractors Of the city re-
marked yesterday that the extraordinary
building operations of last winter, when
building was carried forward through
unusual storms and cold, would be re-
peated the coming winter throughout the
city; and leading architect asserted
that the building plans yet to be made
public this season, but now withheld, for
prudential reasons, would more than keep
UP the building boom of last fall and this
summer. In this connection it may be
stated that among the improvements soon
to be begun will be four story block on
Fourth street, to cost $1,000, a
manufacturing building to cover a ground
space of $50 by 200 feet, and number of
expensive residences and several blocks of
tenement houses.
While it is matter of frequent COM
plant that the property owners of St. Paul
are not providing tenement houses for
wages earners-men who cannot afford to
pay more than ten or twenty dollars a
month for houses-and it is fact that
many people have been turned away from
the city because they could not obtain
houses here at rents they could afford to
tenement houses have been added to the
city within six months past, all of which
have been taken as fast as ready for occu-
pancy. Furthermore, in all the suburbs
of the city the wages earners are building
their own homes, and in this our building
societies are greatly helping. The next
tax assessment and the next census will
show great increase of the city, from
the building of tenements and cottage
homes.
Turning to his note book the reporter
finds the following list of new buildings,
made up in his afternoon round:
BUSINESS HOUSES.
Mannheimer Bros, dry goods dealers,
are building a block at the corner of
Third and Minnesota streets, of which
they will occupy the first floor ION the
Third street leveI and easements for
their business, while the upper floors will
be finished for Offices. The building
will be faced on the Third and Minnesota
street fronts with Ohio stone, and will
be four stories above Third street and five
stories at Bench street, Is feet on Third
by 40 feet deep. 1t will be finished
early this season and will cost about
$4,000.
B. Presley & Co., dealers in fruits, ETC..
are building on East Third street, be-
tween Minnesota and Robert streets, a
double store, a feet front by 80 feet
deep, four stories The front will be of
St. Louis pressed brick, with Ohio stone
trimmings. Estimated cost, 100000.
H. Greve is building, next below Pres
ley's, single store above a stone base
ment, Kick, with Kasota cut-stone front,
four stefies, 25x77 feet. Estimated cost,
$4,000.
DR.. John Steele is building, at the cor
ner of Wabashaw and Seventh streets, a
three story brick, so feet'on Wabashaw by
100 feet deep, and three story brick build
ing in the rear, Al feet on Seventh street,
by 80 feet deep. Both with stone base
ments, lighted from the streets. Es-
timated cost Of the two, $4,000.
N. W. Kittson is building brick adj
dition to the Clarendon hotel, corner of
Sixth and Wabashaw streets, at the rear
on Sixth street, 44xlO0 feet, three stories,
brick. Estimated cost, $4,000.
Henry Niehaus, owner of the store
building adjoining Presley, on East
Third street, is building a rear ad-
dition, 25x30 feet. three stories, and
is lowering the floor, putting in new
front, etc., which will cost about $4,000.
The second and third stories of the
Alley block West Third street, are being
altered over for gentlemen's lodging
rooms, with hot and cold water in each
room and other modern Improvements at
cost of about 500.
Andrew Brown is building at the cor
ner of Fourth and Rice streets, four
story frame building for hotel, which
was described in the GLOBE few weeks
ago. Estimated cost, $4,000.
The Union depot now approaching
completion, was begun last year. Esti-
mated cost, 1925, 900.
The city market building, begun last
year and finished in March last, cost about