Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-14
BUILDING OPERATIONS.

JOtttngs Here and There About the
 City Improvements i'm Progress -
 Why a ScaRoIding in the old Pa-
 viliOn was Taken Down. Builders say they have to now, in figuring
 on contracts, add ten per cent. to the old
 prices on account of the increase of wages paid, ten per cent about covering the ad- vance. This of course refers to the cost of labor.
 Preparations are being made by MT. Good
 ale, who bought the land on State street be- tween Skinner School and Merwin's hall, to
 build upon it block of six houses MT. Thompson, of Platt & Thompson, painters and paper hangers on Orange street
 near Center. is preparing to build $7,000
 house on the lot recently purchased by him
 on Orange street above Lawrence street. MT. Morgan, the State street merchant,
 has broken ground for the erection of an $8, 900 residence on Orange street, west side, l just this side of the Deacon Bartlett resi- dence. Several other new houses are soon to | be built on Orange street. Three new small | cottage houses are being erected on Linden street near Orange. Alderman R. M. Sheri- dan, the druggist, has two new houses near l ly finished on Cottage street near Orange. Two of the most notable houses now in progress of completion in the city are the new residences of MT. George T. Bradley of Benedict & Co.,, on West Chapel street next
 east Of R. P. Cowles' residence, and the new residence which is being erected on Howe
 street by Mir D. B. Cruttenden, the feed dealer. MT. Bradley's is much admired by critics as one of the prettiest and most taste- ful houses of it's size in the city. The mason
 builder, MT. c. D. Kinney, has nearly com pleted his work upon it. The house of MT. Grut dan 611ilf Iouf fbo hui1 16ar de near where the old Howe street church stood
 and next to Dr. A. B. Smiths. The quality of the brick is exceptionally fine and it is
 quite large house, tasteful in design.
 MT. Cruttenden will occupy the lower part. The front attic window design is very unique
 and elaborate and requires very artistic and skilled work, having two lower arches and an upper arch, together with "wheel win dow" above the lower arches, with other decorative and delicate work. The interior
 fitting of the house as to patent grates and steam heat, hues, pipes, etc., is very superl- or. MT. Cruttenden has 8 large new barn in the rear of his lot where a number of horses could be stabled. The house and chimneys are set off with the pretty ornamental brick which have come into fashion considerably of late years.
 John J. Dinnan, the Orange street gun smith, is about to erect handsome three story frame dwelling on Broad street, which
 he will occupy with his family as soon as completed.
 MT. J. B. Sargent said yesterday thst the reason the company had taken the scaffold- ing down from the old Pavilion building on Water street was that he had given up his intention of building another story to the structure, owing to the unexpected downfall in the business prospect. When spring was opening with it's promising outlook for busi- ness the concern determined to add another story tc the building, but the turn taken in business affairs had upset calculations, and so the eularging of the building was post poned indefinitely.
 MT. A. c. Andrews will soon erect nice house on Orange street near Cottage, to cost s4, 800.
 Joseph Hubinger will soon erect $7,O00 house on Elm street near Nott-a frame
 house with tower and bay windows, and 6 piazza on three sides, roof and trimmings of slate.
 Dr. Augustus B. Smith has taken out 8 permit to build brick dwelling, 36x6O, with slate roof, on Howe street corner of Martin, few doors from the doctors residence. Teresa Cunningham has received a permit to build brick barn on Franklin street cor
 ner of William, and Dwight Chapman one to erect frame barn on Maltby street near Pine, and Andrew McManus one to erect a frame house, 23x40, on Ashmun street near corner of Gregory
 Major Leverett G. Hemingway, fsrmerly a
 of the Hartford City Guard, and who was
 major of the Eighteenth Connecticut Heavy
 artillery, is erecting brick building near
 Hillman's on Chapel street, in the rear to be
 used by him in connection with his creamery business in Woodhridoe