St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21


ID. 1872 deeds were filed, the considerations
of which amounted to 1920, OS6.
NOTES.
The location of the new Masonic temple
still continues to be question of absorbing
interest to property owners III the several
localities under consideration. The sites
talked of are Sixth and Hennepin Ninth
and Nicollet. Sixth and First avenue south,
Fourth and Second avenue south. The
location will be decided within week, and
it is understood that the bonuses offered by
parties owning adjacent property will cut
figure.
A warranty deed conveying the building
known as 213 NicOllet avenue. occupied
by Ingram, Olson & Co., and the lease OF
the ground upon which it stands, Robert
Reed. Frank Daily and P. II. Bettman to
C. NJ. Pond. consideration $4,000, was
yesterday filed with the register OF deeds.
1t is reported that the Illinois Central
road is making purchases IN the vicinity OF
Tenth avenue south, and on the East
side
Rebecca E. Holt has sold the front 1872
feet of lots 1 and2, block 10, MatteSOn's
addition. to Charles May for 49,
BUILDING ITEMS.
B. A. Lee has decided to erect at the
corner of Nicollet avenue and Ninth street,
fye-story pressed brick and brown stone
building. which will be adapted for use as
hotel The Nicollet avenue side will have
a frontage of forty-fOur feet and will be oil
vided in two store rooms on the first floor.
The Ninth street side will have frontage
of 1O2 feet, and will contain the office,
entrance and dining room on the first floor.
The remaining floors will be divided into
seventy-five sleeping rooms. The cost of
the building will be $780,
The work of remodeling the st. James
hotel is well under way. The building is
being lowered to the level of the sidewalk.
An addition is being built at the rear which
will double the number of rooms. A bill
lard room is also to be added. A hand
some cornice and bay windows are also to
be added. The cost of these Improvements
will be So, 600.
Plymouth church is to be remodeled and
enlarged An addition 44x50, two stories
high, is to be built and in the auditorium
the galleries will be remodeied, double
stairway will be added, and the pulpit plat
form set back. The whole interior will
then be braced. The expenditure will be
about SIS, 900.
The Minneapolis Bottling company is
building a factory three stories high, 5OX60
feet, on Thirty-eighth avenue south, be-
tween Twenty-siXth and Twenty-seventh
streets, which will cost $15,O 900.
Work has been commenced on the sew
enty-siX-foot extension Of the Window
block, which is to be four stories high and
of corresponding style of architecture.
The cost will be $50, 600.
It is reported that W. P. Steele proposes
to erect brick and stone block five stories
high, with 122 feet front on Second street
SOUTH between First and Second avenues,
at a cost of $4,000
4 building for the new Minnesota hos
pital and medical college will be built in
the vicinity of St. Barnabas' hospital, which
will be of brick, three stories high.
J. e. Wheeler is to build three-story
brick-veneer store and tenement building
on the corner of Franklin and Sixteenth
avenue south to cost $1,000.
The l.. T. Soule Elevator company is
building an elevator at the corner of Tenth
street and Second avenues south at cost of
$40, 900.
c.. F. Haglin will erect three-story
brick of ten rooms on Fourth avenue, be-
tween Eighth and Ninth streets, to cost
S6,5
J. 81. Tousley is building a ten-room
house on Stevens avenue, near Lake street,
at cost Of $4,000.
LAST WEEKS PERMITS.