Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-10-18
BUILDING NOTES.

Prosperity OF this City rs Indicated by
Building Operations this Season.
G. d. Kinney, mason, and Morris Hayes,
carpenter, have tho contracts for James E.
Kelley's $12 900 block on the corner of Con-
gress avenue and Kossuth street. 1t will
have six tenements.
Joseph Ulch's new brick block on State
street near East is progressing rapidly. It
will contain two stores with driveway be-
tween and four tenements. The cost of the
block is about $4,000.
The excavation for the cellar of the Clerkin
Mcdonald, & Stanley building on Grand
avenue il completed, and Bates & Townsend
are laying the foundation.
Contractors are figuring on Alderman s. s.
Thompson's four-story bakery, to be erected
on York street. r. G. Russell Is the archi-
tect.
Clinton & CLARK and II. w. DeForest,
masons, are contractors for Mrs. Caroline
Moeller's house on Edwards street. F.. A.
Carleton, plumber. Austin and Son are the
architects, and 1t will cost "a ,225.
VIM. A. Lincoln ID to erect q two-story
franc house on Nash street, as owner and
builder, to cost 81, 500.
VIM. f. Armstrong and Edward L. Hine
will each erect two.story frame house on
Greenwich avenue, the formers to cost 81, 900
and the latter's $4,000. II. h. Richards viii
also erect a %, SEQ frame house on the same
avenue.
The brick building for business purposes,
which Mrs. Elizabeth 8. Peck Is having
built on Meadow street will cost about $751;
000.~
N. A. Ludington is to erect two-story
frame house on Grand avenue Ut q cost of
So, 200.
w. II. Morris is having two-story frame
house erected on Aehmun street, to cost
$4,000.
HOW NEW HAVEN Is BUILDING UP.
The Real Estate Record says: The amount
of building that Is being done in New Haven
this season Is q source Of surprise and graft
ication to those who are interested in the
growth of the city. Never before In the
history of the city have SO many buildings
been erected in single season. The num-
Der has already reached $50, against 37S at
the same time last year, and If permits CON-
tinue to be taken out at the present rate the
total for the year will be 600 or over. The
building growth has not been so much in
tho line Of business buildings, but consists
largely of tsnemsnts and residences costing
from q, 900 to $25, 000. Althoug this rapid
increase indicates . steady growth in popula-
ton which is liable to continue at the same
or greater rate, 1t has not been attended by
O corresponding extension of the business
portion of the city. Notwithstanding New
Ravens increase of %, 600 In population in
the last decade, the business portion is prsc-
tically the same as IL was then.
Whatever the residential growth is next
season, present indications are that more
costly buildings will be erected than for
many years past. At least one building will
be erected at Yale university the new gym
nssIum, which will be located on Elm street
and will cost $3.50, 900 or more. Then the
free library cannot much longer occupy Its
present quarters and q new library building
is one of the possibilities for next year. On
site of the old Third church on Church street
will rise in the spring or sooner business
block worthy, it is to be hoped, of its fine
location. Orange street will be improved by
one or two good sized business buildings, and
Meadow street, the coming business thorough
fare, will have two and probably more new
blocks.
Besides these, the proposed new Grace hos
pital may become an established fact within
the year, the new Presbyterian church will
and the College street church has new edi-
fee in contemplation. Then, too, q store of
fine proportions 10 likely to replace the tenn.
porary buildings on Chapel street, next to the
Insurance building. This, excepting the
proposed enlargement of the New Haven
House, In the only new building that il
promised for Chapel street, but the day can
not be far distant when clean sweep must
DC made of the Chapel street rookeries which
occupy the most valuable land in the city.
And il the improvement il still more COM
plete for the delay, the city will be repaid for
waiting,