Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-06

for MT. Hurlburt. Such building will be I decided improvement to that locality and the tenements being centrally located more than desirable. John Fl. Platt, of the firm of Platt & Thompson, Orange street painters, will build three-story house en Park street near Chapel. The plans were furnished by Ar chitect Russell. It will be of brick, thirty by fifty feet, with high roof and divided into two flats of seven rooms each. It will be finished in stained wood. The cost will be about $6, 1000. Work will be begun soon. A Chapel Street Block Enlargement. MT. J. N. Collins of New York city, owner of Collins block, Chapel street, below Union, and formerly of New Haven, has had plans prepared for an important enlargement of the Collins block in the rear, ,and the work of building it will be contracted for this week and pushed forward, as the work will be completed by May 1st. This will give Mr. George D. Lamb an increase of room, which his constantly increasing busi- ness has long required, although he already occupies, besides the main store, the base ment underneath, the entire second floor \ overhead, part of the second floor over the next store adjoining and the whole of small building in the rear. The new addition will I be about forty feet by sixty, and with the new addition MT. Lamb will have over 2, 800 square feet of flooring for his business. MT. Collins, the owner of the building, was for \ merly of New Haven and is proprietor of | one of the largest retail stores on Fourteenth
 street, New York, employing 125 salesmen ! and saleswomen. Small Boom at Miu River Street. There is quite boom in the building line ! on Mill River street and Beach street in the vicinity of the residence of New Hayen's ! town agent, Mir. Reynolds. MT. John w. filling, the we'll known attorney, is having I erected four houses on Beach street and two
 on Mill River street, and MT. w. J. Atwater, ! the real estate dealer, has also in process of l erection four houses on Mill River street. All | the ten houses are two family frame resi- ! dences, well built and attractive. There are I other dwellings in process of erection in this | section.
 Another on Cedar HiIl Avenue There is quite a building boom on Cedar Hill avenue just across Neck bridge Will liam H. H. Hewitt, the real estate dealer,
 has bought half dozen building lots on the | street and is erecting six frame dwellings | upon it, some of them one story, others two ! story houses One of the largest he has | sold already, although it is not \ yet completed. Lawyer Julius Twiss is also | erecting a couple of houses on land of his on | the same street. These new buildings will | further tend to diminish the identity of | "The Seat of Happiness" one of the noted | old landmarks of Cedar Hill, where Sunday ! school picnics were frequently held in the picnic season.
 0n Whalley Avenue.
 MT. Kimberly, the crockery dealer on
 State street, has nearly completed large
 well built and suitable frame residence on \ Whalley avenue, just above Orchard street,
 on the north side. He intends it for his own \ residence. It will be furnished with all the ! modern improvements.
 Another Small Boom.
 Another small boom is that on Lombard | near Jackson street and Judson near Lom-
 bard. A half dozen or more well built frame houses of attractive appearance have been
 built there. They alter very much for the
 better the appearance of that locality, and in | fact that whole section is rapidly improving
 owing materially to the enterprise and Public Spirit Displayed
 By the Consolidated road in building the iron bridge for the Hartford railroad over James | street, by means of which James street was extended to State, and by its preparation to | build @ similar iron bridge for the Shore Line | railroad over James street in the same neigh | horhood, by means of which James street will be made continuous street to Fair \ Haven. James street when this latter bridge | is built will pass under both the Hartford
 railroad and the Shore Line railroad tracks. Already
 Preparations Begun For continuing the driving of the spiles at ! last fall. Further up about five hundred feet is another important work which is i'm proving this section, viz.: the Jackson street
 railroad bridge. This is one of the most im-
 portant and extensive bridges built in this
 city in years The bridge will be one hundred
 and fifty feet long and span the wide gap \ through which run the Hartford and Air \ Line trains, and where there are various side
 tracks for the freighting. Within a few days I the first section of the bridge has been put in place. This section is fifty feet long and ex- tends from the "Fair Haven side" of the cut
 to the first pier. The piers and abutments
 are massive and imposing in appearance. A Large New Dry House at Winches. ! ter's.
 The large brick kiln dry or dry house which the Winchester Arms Co. began to build late last fall at their works will be com pleted this spring. About half of it was \ erected last fall, and the other half is yet to
 be erected. A building which stands in the \ way will have to be torn down or removed before the kiln dry can be completed. When roomy enough to keep years supply of gun stocks on hand ahead.
 Ramden's New Town Hall. Hamden is to have new town hall that ! it can well afford to be proud of. Architect Brown has just completed the plans. It will and on the site of the old hotel that was de- stroyed by fire some years ago. The main part of the building will be of brick, two ! stories high with slated roof and ornamented ! tile finish. On the first floor will be the ! town clerks and selectmen's ofice The sec ond floor will be one large room, 56 feet by 32, which can be used for court purposes or fer meetings. Opening from the town clerks office is freproof vault, in which the town
 records will be kept. Under this vault
 will be two prisoners cells. The town
 hall will be in the ;, rear of the
 be one story with open timber roof. It will be "A feet by AS and will have two committee rooms in the rear. The inside of the building will be handsomely finished and
 the perfect arrangements will make it a model town building. The contracts have not been awarded as yet and the cost of con struction cannot be asoertained. The Time Extended. The bids for the construction of this new town hall for Hamden were to have been opened yesterday morning. Architect David
 Brown advertised for bids for the construc- bids should have been in at II o'clock yester- day morning. Through a misunderstanding several contractors had not put in their esei-
 mates, and the time was extended until next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
 Jottings.
 F. Hoffman is to build double tenement frame house on De Witt street costing about $3,500.
 N. M. Hoyt's house on Howard avenue is to be remodelled, and Major Keefe is to erect tenement house on Washington street.
 E. D. Sanford is to erect $3,000 double 1 frame tenement on the boulevard.
 F. B. Bunnel is to erect a frame house, 1 4Sx30, near the corner of Whitney avenue l and Gamer street, ten rooms, most of which | will be hard finished. The house will be | pretty one, with bay windows, piazzas, etc. 1 The cost will be about &8, 900.
 J. W. Stueck, of Middletown, is to erect @ | brick house corner of Main and Washington | streets, 64x120 feet.
 George E. Dudley, the dealer in gents fur- nishing goods, is having his store front hand l souely remodelled like the front of Friend E. | Brooks store near by.
 Allen & Tyler are the architects of two | houses soon to be contradictions for R. G. | Osborne, a two family frame tenement on Garden street, between Elm and Martin, to cost about $4 4,O00, the other for E. R. Thonp- son of Platt 6 Thompson, 8, 500 house on Beers street.
 The brick house now being erected on Lyn-