Wichita eagle., 1888-07-08
BUILDING ACTIVITY.
THE AMOUNT OF BUILDING JUST
RECENTLY AND NOW BE-
ING DONE
In Wichita...Eyen More to be Push
ed Forward This Season..
An Excellent Showing.

drive over the city. Let him go ID whatso-
ever direction he viii, on whatsoever street
he may, and he VIII find not only an
amount OF building of all kinds and de
grees that viii surprise and please him. but
he viii also find that the Average charac-
ter Of the buildings just erected and now
being built is far above that OF last season
and it Will not require nearly so man bust
ness houses or residences 10 equal II out
lay those OF a corresponding time last year
Residences going up IN certain
nei.hborhoods this season exceed II
dimensions, in design, in elegance,
in appointments and convenlences
externally and internally and IL expendi-
tCre, those erected last year, in the same
localities. Cuisines houses are being
built OF greater frontage depth and
average height this summer than last.
There are more who are utilizing their
space by putting n Easements, than ever
before. There is greater diversity II the
classes, or the purposes OF these business
houses. u is now not within the rule 10
hear of frontage of SO little as twenty
five feet, but buildings are rather put up IN
blocks of fifty feetf rontage and over
Dhis superiority, this growth OF this sea
sons buildings over those Of last year, ex-
tends to every class of building to be
NAMED. The business blocks are more
substantially and elegantly built. The
manufacturing establishments are more
capacious, more beneficial ando L a larger
scale in every way. Many are being enlars-
ed The church denominations are more eX-
acting in architectural beauty and more
~ a. baf~
newedifces, than was apparent last sea
SON The school buildings OF the city
too, have vastly improved N their
dimensions and designs TO degree which
accurately portrays the advancement IN
all other classes of buildings.
A drive about the city will at once con-
vince any one that has been here for year
past, however slight his interest in his
surroundings may have been year ago,
that this state Of facts exists. And the
lesson 20 be derived from IL all is, that
Wichita as a city is rapidly and steadily
becoming more and more of city in every
way than at any time in her history.
That she is, without any pretentlons and IN
fact unconsciously becoming metropolitan
with a rapidity and steadiness that should
be source OF mutual cOlgratuIatlon 70
Wichita people and their friends.
Without attempting 10 be statistical and
tire its readers with cumbersome tables,
giving names of owners, locations, front
ages, depths, heights and costs OF each
residence or other structures. the EAGLE
has prepared summary of the present sat
i,fa:5l-y coaiitlol o. the Ouilding spirit,
which is now prevalent and growing rap
~ ci- A favx al
and buildings will be mentioned to i'm
press upon and render more vivid IN TIE
mind of the reader the general facts as set
forth in this article. Upon the authority
of one of the very best posted persons ia
the city, Mr.. W. + Green, the city asses
sor, aided and endorsed by personal in
vestigation, the EAGLE announces that
there are today not less than 400 houses in
course of erection in Wichita, and any
one who Will take the trouble TO
satisfy himself will find the number
perhaps q little short. The references will
De more particularly to such buildings as
have Just been begun or are TO DC COM
Inenced in the immediate future.
To begin with, few people realize the
large sums to be expended in single insti-
buttons and single buildings here this
season. When they do. however, they
will appreciate how easily the famous
record of last season cannot only be
equaled, but possibly exoeiled. The GOV
eminent will expend 500, 600 on
its building, the plans for which
have been enlarged from s0x6o feet
| two stories and basement. 10 1l6X60 feet
three stories and basement The county
will expend sa0,G0o on the new court
house and $4,000 on the new Jail There
will be some two or three railroad depots,
general Office buildings, etc, costing III
the aggregate from $3.50, 0Oo TO S400, 900.
| The colleges will expend as much more.
Churches and school houses will add more
than s1Oo, 900. An untold number of man
ufscturing establishments, some Of which
have already begun TO build and others
which will before long. will add very ma
terally.
The scores of business blocks and hun
dreds Of residences, will help swell the ex-
| penditures for permanent Improvements
away up into the millions Of dollars
| All over the city, on every street, there
have gone up, are now going up and are
contracted for large numbers Of handsome
residence. On North Lawrence, Topeka,
| Emporia Fourth aud Waco avenues and
/ Water. and all other streets leading north
| from Douglas, this Is very apparent
| In the territory north OF Thirteenth
! east Of EmpoTia avenue and west Of Chs
| holm creek the territory has been almos;
/ entirely built up during the present SEA
son. The same is true Of tie Kansas and
Pennsylvania additions, just east Of CHS
holm creek and north of 18TH In Logan
and Gettos addition there have been
added scores of new houses The number
contractek for during the past two months
being no less than sixty-ive II these two
| additions paramount has covered the bill
| north of ilth TO nth with the most beautl
full residences in the city and is now build
. ing 10 more rapidly than ever before.
The Burton Car works neighborhood
has had over two hundred houses added Il
the city and thirty TO forty among them
several business houses are nov under
construction or contracted for. The Ala
mo addition was lot thought Of yeaT
ago Il now has nearly forty homes. Be
tween the two rivers tie numbers and
the character of the houses butt viii sur
Prise the most sauguine- Over tfty uex
| roofs are 10 be seen here Riversids pre-
seats couple of scores Of ths finest resi-
denees erected in the city. Sorna
eight ara now being bailt- II TIE
/ neighborhood OF the stock yard
and the Dold packing houses
soma remarkable progress has been made
this summer The Union Hotel, besutl-
/ full three story brick AZ the packing house,
| and the several business blocks aboGs the
/ stock yauds are tke r2ost noticeaole-