Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31
Other buildings under Mr.. Taylor's
supervision are also to be built this year.

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CLARENCE h. JOHNSTON.
j. Wheelock, Summit avenue, alteration
to frame dwelling, cost 10000.
| Geo. r. Finch, Summit avenue, three
story brick dwelling with stone trimmings.
cost $4,000.
| A. G. Foster, Summit avenue, two story
building. brick and wood, cost $4,000.
c. W. Griggs, Summit avenue, two story
stone house, cost 10000.
| V. NJ. Watkins, Holly avenue, two story
cottage, cost $500.
r. W. johnson, Laurel and Arundel
streets, two story dwelling, cost 10000.
Nine other dwellings for which plans
have been drawn, with stables etc. will
cost $4,000.
Architects are busy at work on plans and
specifications OF: buildings that they do not
wish to enumerate, but it is understood
that as many more buildings as the above
are under way of construction.
| The above list gives total of $780,, 900.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
corner Fourth and Jackson streets, is to be
when finished, one of the most beautiful
buildings in the city. Its dimensions on
the ground are 5Ox1OO feet, the front being
on Jackson street. It is to have a SUBJ
basement of nine feet, basement of ten,
and the first floor will be eighteen and a
| half feet, the three other stories being of
the ordinary height. The building is to
have st. Louis pressed brick facings, with
| ornamented brick and terra Gotta trim
mings, interspersed with a liberal quaint
| ty of cnt stone. 1t is intended that the
basement shall be occupied by bankers,
| brokers, etc. The first floor will be &C.
cupied by the banking company. The
| banking room will average 35x93 feet, be-
| ing forty-three feet wide at its widest part,
and is to be reached by fight of fifteen
steps from jackson street. The vault in
| the rear of the room is to be 6x16 feet in
| side. The three upper stories will be
finished for Offices, the present intention
OF the architect being to use the whole
space in five suites of rooms, The build
| ing, the foundation of which has lust been
laid, is in charge of Architect D. W. Mil
lard, and will cost $4,000. 1t is to be
completed next October.
THE MILLER BLOCK.
| corner Seventh and Robert streets..is still
in the hands of the carpenter and mason.
In another month, however, it will be
| finished. 1t fronts $50 feet on Seventh
street by eighty on Robert. 1t is of pressed
brick and three stories high, and is occu-
pied on the first floor by a clothing house.
drug store, furniture store, a commits
| sion house, and a book and stationery
store. The Offices upstairs are not vet
completed. Its cost was $4,000.
THE GLOBE BU11b1NG,
just now peeping above the ground at the
corner of Fourth and Cedar
streets. is being erected by Com. w. F. and
Col. j. 81. Davidson for the use of the
GLOBE, and will be ready for occupancy.
we are informed by the architect, Mr.. John
c. MacCarthy, on the LIST of August: 1883.
The building is to be 100 feet on Fourth
street by 40 on Cedar, six stories high, of
pressed brick with freestone trimmings.
1t will be heated by steam and have the
best hydraulic pressure elevators. It is not
yet settled what the internal arrangements
and fnishings of the building will be. Its
cost will be 100000.
THE OPERA HOUSE
will have its entrance exactly where the old
one now is, on Wabashaw street. It will
extend back 200 feet and have an ell front
ing on Fourth street. The Opera house
proper will be five stories high, and the
Fourth street ell, which is for business pur-
poses, will be six stories. The building
will be of pressed brick, with stone trim
mings, the kind Of stone to be used not be-
ing yet decided upon. We can, as yet, get
but few particulars of the interior. The
lobby is to be seventeen feet. the auditori-
/ nm VI ~ 70 {ho
is to be 44x8O feet and the curtain open
ing thirty-eight feet wide by thirty eight
feet high. The capacity of the first floor
will be 500, of the balcony 500 and of the
gallery 500. The total cost is expected to
be $15O,OOO, and it will be ready for open
ing Sept. 1.
GILFILLANs FOURTH STREET BUILDING
was completed during the present month.
1t is fifty feet front and extends back 100
feet, is of pressed brick with Ohio stone
trimmings, and five stories high. The
building is not yet fully occupied. The
| cost was $4,000.
BRAKES THIRD STREET BUILDING
was begun in August and will be ready for
use May 1. It has frontage of seventy
! five feet on Third street and extends back
156. 1t is four stories high, with base
ment and sub-basement, is of pressed
brick, with new design of brick trim
mings, will be finished inside with oak and
pine. will have vaults in all the stories,
will be heated by steam. and be fitted with
Hale's passenger elevator. Magee will &C.
cupy the basement and part of the first
| floor, a bank will occupy the remainder of
the first floor and barber shop the re-
mainder of the basement. A portion of
the second floor will be occupied by the
Sioux City land Office. The architect is
Mr.. ]. W. Stevens, and the buildings total
| cost will reach $4,000.
The Fire Record.
During the year 1882 there were 154
alarms of fire, of which thirteen were false.
as against 102 in 1881, of which eight
were false. This department. was changed
into paid department in 1877, and now
consists of chief engineer, an assistant
| engineer. superintendent of fire alarm,
and ffty-fve men, consisting of five
engineers, five firemen, twelve drivers, and
the balance being hose and truck men.
The present chief engineer, R. o. Strong,
Esq. has been the head of the department
since the change was made, and he was