The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-06

The Catholic bishops residence on Harris
and Lincoln streets is Just complete1 at
cost Of $4,000
| The Industrial Home for the Friendless, at
/ the corner of Drayton and Charlton streeeS,
/ has undergone extensive improvements.
| Within the last three months third story
has been added, and the building has been
1 thoroughly renovated. The outlay will be
/ several thousand dollars.
The building for the general Offices Of the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway,
a three-story brick structure, fronting 200
/ feet on Liberty street and extending back
80 feet to the main shed, will be built this
year and next at an approximate cost of
| 100000.
The Pullman Car Company Office, toilet
/ rooms, engine room and other apartments,
a two-story brick structure on the east side
\ of the new Savannah, Florida and Western
passenger shed, is absut completed at a
\ cost of s., 900.
| The Savannah. Florida and Western rail-
| way transportation department, a two
| story brick building on East Broad street,
on the west side OF the new passenger shed,
| will be completed Nov. l, at a cost of S., 0OO5
The colored Catholic church, on East
| Broad street, will be completed in few
weeks at COST of $4,000.
! The SwedeHborgian church, at Hunting
| don and Drayton streets, work on which
was begun several months ago, will be
| completed Sept. Is, at a cost of So 900.
| The improvements on tho Wesley Monu-
/ mental church, remodelling and furnishing
the upper story, is progressing. The i'm
prOvements will cost several thousand
| dollars
Wilcox, Gibbs IL Co. are erecting a
building on Bay street, near Whitaker, six
stories high for the Savannah Grocery Com
pany, to be completed Nov. l, at a cost of
$25, 900.
S. Guckenhemer is building six stores at
Broughton and Abercorn Streets, to be COM
pleted by Oct. l, at cost of $4,000.
The storehouss for the lower rice mill,
two story on basement, is to be completed
Oct l, at cost Of $4,000.
Solomon Cohen has aDout completed six
three-st0ry brick residences at Jones and
Lincoln streets, at a cost of $40, 900.
Capt. j. II. Johnston is building a hand
some brick residence on Charlton street,
near Abercorn street, to be completed Dec.
l at a cost of $1,000.
NJ. Sternberg will begin work within the
next two months on two hand some resi-
dences on the lots adjoining that of 7. f.
Johnston, on CASTOR street. They will cost
acout $lj, 900
Mrs. Catharine Prenty is building three
two-story dwellings, AZ East Broad and
McDonough sereets, to be completed Sept
10, at a cost of 81, 500.
A. Nj. Carstel has just completed two
story dwelling on McDonough, between
Price and Houston Streets at a cost of
81, 900.
q. ID. Lee has about completed dwell
ing house and store at Habersihn and
Huntingdon streets at a cost of $500
When the now court house and Govern.
mont building nears completion the estate
| of William Swoll will take down the old
frame building at Drayton and York streets
1 md mn -
| block, with offices on the upper floors. The
contemplated building will cost about
| $4,000.
j. o. Smith has nearly completed five
pretty twO-story cottages on Wheaton
street, extended, which will cost S12. 900,
and, although beyond the gas and water
mains, they will be supplied with gas ald
artesian water from private plans.
The residence No. 1872 CASTOR street, pur-
chased from Capt. j. H. Johnston by Jacob
Rauers, Is undergoing extensive repairs and
| VIII be remodeed into one of the finest resi-
dences fronting the park.
X. M. Buffers residence, at DraYton and
Hall streets, has also undergone improve
ments within the last four months.
A two-stsry frame residence and store is
being built for John Cahill at Liberty and
Reynolds. Contractor w. ii. Prudhom ne
estimates the cost at $4,000.
Capt. Won Newton is building two one
story frame houses at Lincoln street and
Henry street lane to cost 81 900.
Norton Frierson is building handsome
residence on Duffy street, between, Di a yton
and Abercorn, to cost about $4,000.
| Solomon Cohen has Just completed a
handsome row Of modern frame tenementS
on Waldburg street, between Abercorn and
| Lincoln, and also row of teaemeutS on
| Waldburg street laue in the rear Of the first
row. This Is one of the handsomest rows
in the southern part of the city.
S. Krouskoff's new residence on Drayton
street, fronting the park extension, between
Gwinnett and Bolton streets, and on the
side of the double residence, which was
bnrned last April, is about ready for oc-
cupancy. Its cost when completed win be
in the neigborhood of 5000.
X. NJ. Oppenheimer is building a fine
residence on Bolton street, between Aber-
corn and Lincoln, adjoining the Home
Building Company's houses, which he will
complete in couple of months, a. cost of
about "a, 900.
St j. r. Yonge has about completed
large store and hall adjoining his drug
store at Duffy and Whitaker streets, at a
cost of 81 900.
A dozsn tenements costing from 5000 to
$500 are going up in the southeastern Sec
ton, and twice that number of still smaller
tenements On Anderson street and in the
| extension several mora spretentlouS houses
are going up, and nudfoer of them are
being bailt by colored people.
John G2rdee lcolored) is building a neat
dwelling on Anderson street, near East
Broad, to cost about $500.
Louis Mirault (colored is bui ding a large
house, aud one Of the finest In that section
on Henry street, near Price, to cost about
$1,000.
ON THE WESTERN SIDE.
The southwestern part of the city has
been musical with the builders hammer
ever since the MORNING NEWS reviewed,
in May last, the activity in the building
line, and detailed at length the various
structures underway at the time.
Many reside ces then nearing COM
pletion are now occupied, and many
less pretentious buildings then Incomplete,
are now pleasant little homes, home
getting seeming to be infectious, and
the infection still spreading. In
many instances the building associa-
tions have afforded the means for those
who had not accumulated enough to build.
or who could not spare from their working
capital the money to invest in home, bur
who found in the installment plan happy
method of gratifying their wishes to stop
rent paying. This has stimulated the build
ing of moderate sized cottages.
a review of the building improvements
now under way, or completed within the
past three months west of Whitaker and