Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-31
NEW HOUSES BUILT.
The Number of Buildings Erected in
Pittsburg for 80 is 3,241.
AFINsR STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE
Materials Used of Good Quality and Excel
lent Taste Shown.
LiGHT-oOLORED PAINT is A FEATURE

Pittsburg is growing and the evidences
of the TACT, as in any healthy youth, are
shown in the growing panes which shine
from the walls OF the buildings put up
within the year. Assistant Building In.
spector J. A A. Brown said yesterday:
"I have not the slightest doubt that when
the years estimate is finished accurately it
will show 5000, 900 advance over last year,
the aggregate cost of the buildings for 1889
reaching close on to 100000. This is
very good showing, and / am
glad to be able to record it,
more especially as the builders for some
years had become careless in taking out the
permits, and had to be chased up after the
contracts were about half completed. No
man who does his duty as Q Building In
spector can judge of the material in either
brick or stone wall after it has been built,
pointed and finished. condemned several
loads of brick to-day which were to have
been put into chimney, while if the Chin
new had been built, faced with good brick
and made to look pretty, it would be i'm
possible TO detect the bad material except
by shining up the inside and punching
holes through. Since last J July, however,
the builders have been coming into line and
taking out permits in time, which enables
us to keep an accurate record of the progress
of the city"
Just at this moment Councilman Evans,
of the Twenty-seventh ward, entered the
Office, and corroborated Captain Browns
statement by getting oat q permit for
building upon which he had been some time
at work.
THREE BUILDINGS IN FORTY YEARS.
The building operations for the year 1889
reveal some very startling if not amusing
facts. One building has been put up in the
Thirty-third ward, the third within 40
years. Those who will remember Con-
troller Morrow's sarcastic remarks about
the Assessors bill for doing the work be-
tween the Smithfield street and the Point
bridges on one street will appreciate the
reason why so few buildings have been
erected in an almost exclusively manu-
featuring district of very few blocks
In extent. The total number
of buildings erected up to yesterday was
3,241 during the year, as against 2, ,616 for
1888. The appreciation in value, as noted
above, lies not so much in the larger num-
ber of places put up as in the superior style
of architecture, and the improvement in the
material resulting from a close watch by the
Building Inspectors.
Another fact visible to the naked eye, as
Inspector Hoffman puts it, is the general
cleanliness of the buildings and the bright
effect of the light-colored paint which some
years ago would have been a waste OF money.
Seven years ago building painted white
would be curiosity during its brief career
in that hue, while to-day the sun flashes
down rays upon thousands of such houses
all raised since the advent of natural gas.
THE RECORD BY MONTHS.
In order to show the relation which one
month bears to another in the building
trade and the materials of which the new
honses are constructed, the following table
has been compiled from the records in the
Building Inspectors Office, the material of
the buildings being placed at the top of
each column: