Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-19
rrvv uAvHN,s STEADY GROWTH.

fReces-PlMn@ for New Residenees-
 Some of the New Buildings in the |
 Ninth ward = The New sI0,O0O |
 Derby DepOt-NevV Improvements Inn . Neighborfng TOwns-A Fast GroW- l
 Ing Section of New Haven
 Building doesn't seem to suffer much for
 fear of the chaos of eloquence and general
 excitement which the politicians are soon going to set loose among us and the pros- pects of brisk fall work are very bright. Through mid-summer, as usual, the busi-
 ness was somewhat depressed, though not more SO than in former years, and the many houses now being built or soon to be are
 very numerous. This shows an encouraging
 opening of the fall season.
 Work, however, on seashore cottages and buildings at the several resorts was not near \ ly so lively as formerly and builders were doubtful whether it was the coming cam \ paign or general weariness of the pleasures \ at the seaside, but concluded that it was ow- | ing to the cool summer.
 Architect l.. w. Robinson, in the Young Mems Institute building on Chapel street, seems to have his hands full of plans for nice comfortable houses as well as designs for some of the largest edifce that adorn or will adorn our oity.
 His books show that the Webster school is in good progress and will be finished about April 1; the repairs and additions at Dwight Place church recently completed; \ Prof. Ladd's house on Whitney avenue in \ the spring; Simon Birnbaum's block, just plastered; Henry Spittler's houses on East Chapel street, almost done; repairs at New Haven House, nearly finished and ready for plaster work and adornment by Tiffany, of New York; MT. Preston's house, corner of Blatchley avenue and Exchange street, ready ! to plaster.
 Among his many new contracts, work on A the Davenport church enlargement will com mence this week. M. P. Smiths house on Howard avenue has just been begun and will \ be first class fourteen room frame building, \ finished in hard wood and every improve ment.
 Architect Russell has many fine contracts z in and ont of the city. MT. Edwinson's one family frame house in Fair Haven is we'll \ under way and ready to be covered; the $4, 900 house of Fred Shares in Quinnipiac, \ which has it's lower floor finished in hard \ woods, is 35x45, has nine rooms and out wardly fnished in fancy work, is almost dona; James Cayanah began two weeks ago | . handaome frame house having two flats at \ the eorner of Mansfeld and Compton street,
 John Jagger on Woodward avenue has also | c house in process of building.
 Tho elegant new ATmoFy in Wallin9ford ! ia another of the fine structures whoss beau tiful touches, hnes and finishes originated in \ the active brain of Architect Russell. It is 75x100, mnde of brick, and owned by Wal4s lGee 6 Phelps. He has also remodelled the old armory there in Wallace's block, forming
 two elegant lodge rooms for Masons and \ Odd Fellows.
 Some of this architects othez works are the alterations of the Congregational church
 in Salisbury, the changing and improving of
 the pulpit end of the Whitneyville church, recently completed, and building handsome
 chapel and Sunday school addition, 34x52, to \ the Milford Congregational church.
 \ Architect Stelson's work is progressing rapidly. Judge Robinson's elegant new house on Hillhouse avenue, between St. Mary's church and the handsome new Book and Snake club house, has its walls already up and is ready for finishing touches from the hands of the many skilful workmen en- gagged. It will be completed inside of six weeks, but the Judge won't probably move into it before spring. Professor Neimeyer's
 house is also finished and occupied. Other
 houses building are those of James Erickson, @ s, 800, two family house on Cedar street, 46x25;- 8 &, ,600 wo-family house for Dr. J. R. Ford on Shelton avenue; the elegant new ! block of Steele G Damon near the depot in New Britain; this has four stories, eight ten- \ ements, finished in admirable hard woods and will be done by December. J. Fl. Keefe, Washington and Lafayette streets, has almost \ finished his block of tenements, which has been remodeled and fitted up with electrical apparatus for vestibule and other improve ments. The $3, 900 addition to Detective Brewers house on Cottage street is almost I finished. H. H. Thompson, corner Grand avenue and Perkins street, Fair Haven, has \ moved off the old building formerly there | and will shortly erect block of stores and four tenements, to be finished in the spring. Houses which Architects Allen & Tyler have we'll under way are two for B. H. Hos ! ley in Bdauford, one started and plans for \ other being made, both costing SC, 900 or ST. 900; the Forester's opera house there, which is to be used for dances, fairs, shows, etc.,
 having lodge rooms on the second floor and costing $7,000; the handsome house of Mrs. Graham in Mt. Vernon; the brick house of \ B. N. Barney, corner of Lincoln and Trum- bull streets, to be done March 1, and the SIG, 900 frame house of E. H. English on Prospect street, which has eighteen rooms, fancy finished, will will be completed about March 1. This house is new roofsd and ready for the interior work. Mir. Geo. Rock \ we'll is the builder. The house is next above the beautiful English ivy-covered stone resi-. dence of Prof. o. 0. Marsh Of Yale college, \ and nearly opposite the Wincester observa- tory grounds. 1t hes a big generous gable | in front, with bunch of little windows \ looking out from the attic toward the street; has another large gable end looking north ward, and has c roomy porch, pleasant ve- \ randahs and fine situation. Mir. English is \ of the firm of English & Holt, and resides In Il block on Bradley street, near Orange street. The people of New Haven are waking up to the fact fhAs Prospect street is the pretti-
 est and most desirable part of the city for ranidenceB.
 Three lots have been sold within the last few weeks and two houses are in process of construction.
 The New Derky Depot.
 The work of building the new depot for the New Haven and Derby railroad company in
 New Haven is now well started. The firm of
 Smith & Sperry have the contract and Will
 liam J. Thompson, the oldest bricklayer in
 New Haven, laid the first brick. Mir. Sperry
 expects to complete the new depot in two
 months. It will be a very plain structure of North Haven brick, trimmed with granite, \ from Millstone Point. The structure will be | 100 by 25 feet and two stories high, Y 30 feet in all between foundation and raft CTS. The inside will be finished in hard | wood, probably southern pine.
 The depot is parallel with Commerce street, running Boutherly 100 feet from the corner of Silver. From the west end of the depot \ long covered platforms, like those at the Un- ion depot, will extend westerly about 600 | feet. Between these platforms will run sev- eral tracks, all terminating at the depot. \ The waiting room of the depot will be sixty nine feet long and about twenty-one feet wide. The toilet rooms will be situated at
 tho Silver street end while the baggage rooms
 will be on the opposite end, accessible from Commerce and Water streets. In the middle of the western side the telegraph and ticket office will be located and the offices up stairs. The structure will cost in the neighborhood of 91O,O00.
 Some New Builaing i'm the Ninth wards
 There has been of late quite good deal of building in the Ninth ward. While there is not what can be called boom in real estate or of buildings there, yet there has been zkaadv growth for some time Within the