The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-26
POINTS OF PROGRESS.

menced. A large number Of improve
ments are being made 10 the way of bust
ness blocks and residences. We give
below q brief sketch of some of the lat
ter already commenced or recently fin-
ished:
VIM. Kerr is living In n cottage re-
Gently completed at 40 Union street.
A cottage recently completed al 1877
Congress is the residence OF Mrs. 8. J.
Dunn.
Mr.. Hastings is constructing cottage,
which is about completed, AZ the head o ?
State street.
W. II. Morehouse has put in the foun-
dalton for a new house on Neosho street,
north OF Ninth avenue.
Nelson Churchill has a new two story
residence under root at 1928 Commercial.
Il is 1sx2s. and will make a pleasant
home.
The large new residence Of r. d.
Thomas on Twelfth avenue, Is under
root. II will csntain eleven rooms and
cost 81 900
At so Cottonwood street Geo. Baker
has almost completed . neat one-storY
fve-room cottage, which will make q
pretty home.
The new house of Geo. Glover on the
extension Of Merchants street, completed
In the winter, is bsIng improved by the
grading of the lawn.
II. j. Loomis has for a few months
been residing in his new home, neat
five-room cottage, with good cellar, at
III Congress, corner Twelfth.
A new four-room cottage is being con-
structed at 11S Cottonwood by Vim.
Lawson. Isaiah Haas is the contractor.
the residence will cost 5000
Geo. f. Meyer lately finished hand
some cottage at 146 Neosho. 1t is one
and q half stories, containing seven
rooms, aud Of very coy appearance.
w. s. Campbell Is building a resi-;
dence which he will soon occupy, at 1873
Union street. 1t is q two-story frame
house with nine rooms aud will cost
$1,000.
John Orr's residence, at 100 Market,
near Twelfth, which was commenced
some time since. is about completed.
1t Is neat one story frame building,
with SIX rooms.
On Rural street, between Ninth and
Tenth, J. G. Pe.tingIll has recently I'm
ished q two-story residence. 1t has q
bay window, is neatly flashed and pre-.
sents good appearance.
r. l.. Bradley Is living IN a new frame
cottage just fiHished at 152 Sylvan street
Mr.. Bradley is the gentleman who wa
burned out of his house and home on
Congress street quite recently.
A very pretty wo.story frame resi-
dence with seven rooms has just been
built by l.. G. Mallory. on 126 Cotton
wood. II Is OF the Queen Am style oI
architecture, and when flushed vii
cost 81 500.
A neat, two story frame building witt
ten rooms has been completed at II:
Merchants Street, corner Twelfth. It IL
used as private boarding house, and Il
known as Normal Hall e. Z. Brown II
the owner and proprietor.
Ii. Williams has just finished a two
story frame residence at 81 Marke
street. The house has eight rooms ano
east and north frontage. The house cos
$500. Its first occupants are our new
probate Judge, Col harrington, and hi
family.
ID. II. Stones resIdepce, at l51 Neo
shO, WAS completed ard occupied til,
first of the year. 1t is one of the mos
substantial new residences in that par
OF the city. Its two-story frame witt
eight rooms and a good cellar, aud wa
built alta cost of 81 200.
Another large new residence, which Il
under roof and will be fipished In a few
weeks, Is that of T. F. Byrnes, 80 Elk
change. corner of Fifth Ii is a two
story frame, with twelve rooms, and YER
substantially constructed at an expens
of $500. g. W. MeIgs is the con
tractor.
Messrs. Sam and Joe Murphy are II,
ing In handsome home completed thi
spTiag at 100 Exchange street. Thi
residence is a two story frame and
tastetully planned and flashed. IL h5
agood basement aud thirteen rooms wit
all the convenIences of the modern hom
1t was constructed at a cost of So 900
In Perley's addition at the head ,
Market, X. j. RudIsill has complete
an elegant two-stOry residence, contain
ing eleven rooms. II Is a handsom
house and adds much 10 the desirabiltI
at that part OF the city, This house CO
$4,000. Adjacent NJ. Knox h,
simultaneously constructed a resideut
Of he same style and size.
j. l.. Robinson is building n larI
frame two story residence, with busine
rooms included, at IS Cottonwood, CO
ner of Sixth. The longest dimension
are 40x34. The building Will be ne
and substantial. 1t is under roof and
last approaching completing. The ca
is estimated at $500 The busine
rooms will be used by Mr. Robinson 4
q grocery store and meat market.
The fioest of the new residences 7
Gently commenced and approachiI
completion is that of C.. L. Severy
the corner of Seventh and Neosho.
IS a two story frame residence with
good cellar and an attic. 1t has eig
rooms, and is model for beauty al
convenience. The parlor, hall, siltiI
room and dining room are all commur
Gated by double sliding doors. tt
front stairway aud hall are to be fms
ed in walnut aud the latter TO ha'
cathedral glass windows to the nor,
The parlor is TO be finished
mahogany, The sitting room with nat,
al wood trimming, the dining room
walnut, oGe spare room IN ash, anoth
IN cherry and the family bed room
cherry. The windows are single pa
glass. Those IN the main part of I
ouse are 10 be provided with insi
shutters. The bay window exten
through both stories being to the sou
of the sitting room aud family bed roc
which are both elegant aud commodio
apartments. The casing in all the roo
IS to correspond with the TIL
beautiful verandas in East La
style, the fancy wood VIC
for both as well as the elegant d. a
front doors which have no supertors
beauty in the city, were brought fir,
Racine, Wis. The entire building abe
and below will be heated by furnaces
the basement, the parlor and slit
room, having CRATES also. The hous,
provided with Bathroom. pan'ries, 1
and both hot aud cold water. The YER
das, the one on the southeast with cor
entrance, and all covered with tiles
two different slate colnrs, aud the CAB
especially the east one, which is of nc
design and very pretty, give the
terrier al exceedingly attractive
tasty appearance and reflects credit
all c"1csrued. The architect was Ct
w Squires.