St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

for property in that whole region is very
great and constantly increasing.
Several parties are after the south.
west corner of Seventh and Cedar
streets. The lot is eighty-six feet front
OH Seventh street and 100 feet deep OF
| Cedar. The sum offered for it is
| S125,G
1t looks now as though the locating OF
| the Peoples church in the vicinity OF
Pleasant avenue and Third street will
have considerable influence in increas.
| ing the value of all the property i'll that
vicinity.
The people who have been occupying
| the buildings ON the northeast corner OF
Robert and Fourth streets are being
moved out as fast as possible i'll order
that the structures located there can be
moved off as quickly as possible to make
room for new buildings that are to take
their places.
The work of excavating on Robert
street, in the rear of the building on
the northeast corner of Robert and Sew
enth streets, is progressing as fast as
could be expected with the ground
frozen solid
A deal involving the establishment of
large tobacco factory in West st. Paul
has just been completed. This concern
will come here from Cleveland, o. Ii
will employ about 100 hands.
b. f. Wright has contracted for the
erection of double house OH st. An
thony hill, to cost $4,000. He has also
plans made for block of nine houses
to be erected on the corner OF Dale
street and Marshall avenue. The latter
will cost about $4,000.
Work is to be commenced imme-
diately on the block to be erected for
fats OH st. Peter street, adjoining the
Windsor hotel.
The work of removing the burned
goods and rubbish from the upper
stories of the Ryan block on the north
west corner of Third and WacOuta
streets is still going on as rapidly as
possible, with view to commence re-
building as soon as the spring weather
will permit.
Men are at work removing the straw
and other material that was placed last
fall on the piers and stonework of the
foundations for the New York Life In
Surance building on the corner OF Min
neSota and Sixth streets.
Dr.. J. B. Lewis will build this spring
an expensive and costly residence on
Prescott street, in West st. Paul.
Cullen d HoltOn sold lots 10, II and
u, in block %, Banning d Olivier's adj
ditiOn, to Arthur B. French, of st. Peter,
for $1,000.
Paul Martin has had plans made for
three-storv brick tenement, to be erected
OH East Congress street.
DR.. j. b. Darling, as soon as the
weather will permit, will erect a two
and a half story frame dwelling Oh the
northwest corner of Clinton avenue and
Winifred street.
The intention that several of our
wealthy people had of erecting, OH the
northwest corner of College avenue and
Third street, an expensive block of flats,
has been abandoned. That part of town
looks too much as though it would be a
business point to suit them.
Men commenced work tearing down
the buildings Oh the northeast corner of
Robert and Fourth streets to make room
for new block that is to be erected
there. The same may be said of the
corner of st. Peter and Exchange
streets, where a large apartment house
is to be erected, to cost $4,000. The
plans for this structure are already pre-
pared.
The West side, that is West st. Paul,
from Dakota avenue clear around the
bluff to South st. Paul, proposes to do
an enormous amount of building the
coming season, which will far surpaSS
all the building in the previous history
of the ward. People are so anxious to
get at it that they can hardly wait for
the snow and frost to disappear.