The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-09
Costly buildings,

New York never knew such time a. the
present for putting up enormous buildings
at tremendous cost The number of
buildings was greater in some other years,
but single building now may cost as much
as dozen twenty years ago. Four or five
stories was then high now we are not
surprised AT nine or ten stories Men
ton may he made here of II few of
the larger new buildings. Mr. Clark.
OF the Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany, on the west side Of Central Park, an
apartment house for fifty families, at cost
of Sl,jN,OOO The Navarro apartment
house, on Finy-ninth street, iJtcng the
park, will he the most elaborate buildings
OF their kind yet put NJ and will probably
cost about S20O,O0O. In the same neigh.
borhood is the Windcrmcrc apartment
building, now nearly finished, and costing
S350UO. The Hamilton, also an apartment
building, on Third avenue, and on part
OF the ground once known rs Hamilton
square, represents an outlay OF
$4,000. Several other large flats arc going
up at o cost of 100000 to 100000. 1t is not
necessary to speak again of the Vanderbilt
building, which has been described several
times, In the same noighborhood with
them work has already been begun for an
apartment house to be called Kcmp's hotel,
and which will cost 100000 Ogden Goc-
let'snew mansion, on the avenue, is nearly
finished Its cost will be about $iO0, 0oj.
Hall dozen other stylish residences,
varying in cost from 100000 to 1900
900, are going up between tho
Windsor hotel and the Lennox library. The
most costly of the new structures down
town will be the Mills building, on Broad
street, which will represent nj least SO, 900, /.
900. The new Produce Exchange at Bowl
ing Green will cost altogether about s., 600.
900. Near by Boston man is putting M
another building on which the outlay not
counting the cost of the land, will be $500,
900. Cyrus w. Field intends to invest
about the same amount in his new building
on the site of the Washington hotel
Eugene Kelly's building on Becckma,
street, Just back of the new quarters which
Jay Gould is putting up for the World, will
not he finished for less than $4,000. A
new building that Orlando Il. Bolton is put
ting up at Aston place and Broadway, vii
cost $4,000 II is calculated that the tota
cost ofnew buildings this year, between ia,
Battery and Harlem river, will be 0bou
$3h,0O,0OO
The enormous height to which
buildings are now carried wa
not ,t dreamed of twenty year
dkV hNh WV pltNtuN IieThlu nullilll
was put up on the sightor Barnums Muse
um II could be seen plainly from the ferry
boats, and even from the bay. Now IL can
not be seen in its own neighhcrhood, cxcpp
from the front The postonice building, tn
Western Union building, the Evening Pos
building, the Tribune building now make |
ioot-htn beside mountains Most o
tho new buildings are to be from seven L
ton stories high, A ninth or tenth story |
more available now for Office purposes thai
fourth story was before elevators cam
into use, The same " true of the apartment
makes great increase In the cost of buld
iuu, as the walls must be thicke
aud all parts much stronger, but a
buildings put up on the new plan AZ
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