St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-08
THE TRANSITION STATE.
Real Estate Men Are Waiting for Defi-
mite Weather.
OUTLOOK CONTINUES GOOD.
Some Of the Floating Talk Of Buying
and Selling---New Buildings y
Hustling Along. -

The weather of the past few days,
beautiful Tin comparison to what we
have been suffering from as it was,is
really delusion as far as real estate is
concerned; that is, it is not weather
that is by any means pleasant for real
estate operations, which are naturally
out of doors. No dealer or agent would
think of taking prospective purchaser
to the suburban districts to see resi-
dence property, because in this transi-
ton period, between the great extremes
of heat and cold, the roads are in a
scandalous condition, the grass plots
have jaundiced look and the whole
aspect of nature is in such a condition
that the would-be buyer of Minneapolis
dirt would become melancholy and fade
away without buying cents worth.
The condition of the real estate mar
ket is not melancholy though by long,
and holds it's own with that perSiStency
and reliability as the special dispense
ton of acquiring fortunes in rapid and
conservative manner that has made
Minneapolis celebrated all over the
world as the place for the safe invest
ment of money in this our earth'S dirt.
All the men in the business, the great
big guns, and the smaller fry as well,
look to a good, steady business this
coming season on which they have just
about launched. Everything points
that way; inquiry is constant in all the
Offices; trading, which has been the
principal winter mode of business, con-
tinues active, and when the flowers of
May are in bloom, then, but not till
then, will the full business boom be on
in real get-up, lively, earnest style.
AMONG THE BUILDERS
and architects a fair business is re-
ported. A good deal of actual work is
already begun, and the offices are busiIy
engaged in getting out plans and de-
signs.
DIR. E. 7. Tier intends building sub
stantial residence block of pressed
brick, to be handsomely trimmed and
finished off, furnished with all The latest
sanitary and scientific arrangements to
make home comfortable and con-
venient, at the corner of Ninth street
and Fourth avenue south. w. III. Denis
will be the architect, and the cost will
be in the neighborhood of 100000.
Among the other work this well knwn
architect has on hand at present is a
design for four-story building to be
made of red brick and of considerable
dimensions, being 1913 feet front by 1872,
to be erected this summer i'll Mankato.
He has also the designs all ready for
bank building, which will be very hand
some, and which will be put up in Lis
bon, Oak, at an early date. The build
ing on Fifth street, between Nicollet
and Hennepin avenues, which is rap
idly nearing completion, will be oceu-
pied by Bracket, the grocery man. 1t
will be only two stories high, and al
though no particular ornament to the
street, is a solid, substantial looking
structure. Its cost is estimated to be
about $4,000.
REALTY GOSSIP.
A great deal of activity is beginning
to be manifested in West Minneapolis,
in the neighborhood of the West Min
neapolis Threshing Machine company.
Just as soon as the weather permits, a
drug store will be erected. A numberjof
boarding houses and stores will also'be
put up, and ere the summer comes a
town will spring by magic into existence
in the far West end.
At the office of Haley Bros. the neat
little church of the colored people on
Ninth avenues, between Twenty second
and Twenty-third streets seut h, was re-
ported in a fair way towards compile
t ion. The foundations areglaid, and the
work will be pushed OH as fast as pos
Sible.
Messrs. Brown Bros. have ordered
the Messrs. Haley to erect for them a
commodlous cottage at Minnetonka,
which they will use as a residence and
summer resort.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis road
have leased the. whole seventh floor of
the Boston block for office purposes. so
there will be sudd Ell exodus of all the
present tenants.
IF is A RUMOR.
At late hour rumor struck the
GLOBE office. A rumor at best is
vague, volatile and gauzy kind of a
creature, but when it beckoned-the re-
porter, as in duty-bound, chased it, and
ran it to death, and this is what it is
worth: A large syndicate with untold
wealth back of it, is prospecting to plat
$40 acres into a bran-neW sub urb. with
parks and boulevards, and all the ac-
cessarieS to handsome and fashionable
residence district.