Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-04
BUILDING OPERATIONS.

MT. George Hugo, formerly in the grocery ! business on Edwards street and a brother of ex-Town Clerk Philip Hugo, has bought of Mir. J. Burton Hine a tract of land on Ed 1 wards street about 40 feet front, opposite No. S's engine house, and will erect four
 handsome frame houses upon the purchase. The houses will be we'll built and equipped l with various modern improvements, and l work upon them will be commenced in 8 1 week or two.
 MT. William Costello, the grocer who ! bought tract of land on State street just l above Edwards street couple of years ago, 1 and erected large three story frame dwell I ing house upon it, is about to erect an SS, 900 l brick block three stories high on the remain der of the lot, corner State and Mechanic 1 street. It will contain one or more stores. l The architect is Henry Austin. Fifteen years 1 ago there were two or three stores in this l locality. Now there are about twenty-five ! stores in the locality within radius of less 1 than 8 quarter of a mile. There are grocery l stores, boot and shoe stores, larger beer res- ! taurants, tin store, jewelry store, two drug stores, two fancy goods stores, plumb- | ing store, several meat markets, etc.
 This section is growing so rapidly that a new school house is required, and is to be l erected, and the board of education are now 1 looking for a suitable lot 150x150 or therea- l bouts on which to erect it. The present school house on Edwards street, though en- ] larged few years ago to double it's former | size, is crowded with scholars. The Skinner I school is insufficient for the throngs that ! wish to attend there, and the Humprey street ! school isn't big enough.
 Prominent real estate dealers speaking in reeapitulation of the notable increase of building work done in New Haven in the year 1888, say that they anticipate an unusu- o1I-- Is--.I- | -aoI AoAo
 ing season. They speak of the growth of the city as very healthy one, and especially so as it marks the continued natural spreading out and substantial growth
 of the city. And the growth is
 not confined to any one section in particular,
 as it is equally extensive and marked in
 the sections north of Edwards street, foot of
 East Rock, in the section known as Newhall-
 vile, in the Cedar Hill section, and in the
 Howard avenue and City Point section; while
 Fair Haven, as usual, is not at all behind,
 and in fact is still growing as fast as any part
 of our old and honored Elm City. IL is a
 matter of interest to many when taking a
 ride in the State street horse cars, or walk
 ing out to Cedar Hill, to see how building
 has been booming there in the past few
 months, with the five or six new houses that
 Mr. Hewitt has built on Cedar Hill avenue
 near its intersection with State street, and
 the five or six that he has just completed
 on State street on the lot corner of Ferry
 street, formerly owned by ex-President
 Ralph Park, now of Hartford, brother of
 Chief Justice Park; beside the three that Lawyer Julius Twiss has erected lately on Cedar Hill avenue, upper end, near the brewery, and the two or three near by that the Concordia society has erected as an in- vestment of their society funds. There are various other houses newly built or not yet fnished in this section, including brick house on State street not far from Warren
 p1oan Vrn inh Mr. fhah hrial ry1Ea turer is building for rental
 Then take the fine level section north of Edwards street, east of Orange street and l west of Mechanic street, well known among old residents as the Foster property. More l than thirty houses were erected in this local- 1 ity last year, all of them neat and tasty in l appearance, and most of them built by thrif- l ty forehanded mechanics, who take great l pride in their homes and in improving the | surroundings. Most of the new houses erect ed last year are between Orange and Foster | streets Among them are the followingi Conrad Rausch, an enterprising young grocer, occupies as a store part of a three story frame house on Foster street, corner of Avon. MT. Ginty, the mason, has a new ten or twelve room frame house on Foster street, corner of Eagle. On Avon street is quite long line of pretty new two-family houses which were erected mostly by workingmen, number of whom are German Americans. MT. Baumel the machinist, has one of these on Avon. The remarkably rapid growth of this section is seen from the fact that two years ago Avon street (which runs from Orange to Foster streets) had only one house upon it. It has now ten houses upon its north side and five
 upon the south side. Builders McWilliams
 & Arthur, who built several of these houses, !
 built five or six more last season on Cottage street and vicinity. Mrs. Schatz has erected l two-story frame house on Cottage street l adjoining her homo place. Detective Brew l CTS enlargement of his house makes it ] one of the largest and most embellished in l that vicinity. MT. Wright, foreman at the l Diamond Match company's, has erected 8 ! nice new house on Cottage street; has also l MT. William Hofer, employed at Shoninger | 6 Co.'s piano and organ shop. Officer 1 Treadwel! Smith, of the police precinct, l built substantial addition to his home, the 1 pear orchard of which is noted in that neigh | borhood and a sore temptation to the small l boys of the locality in pear time. MT. Tref 1 ry, the druggist on State street, corner of 1 Edwards, occupies the new Schatz house on Cottage street. These are few instances in | the building boom in that section. On Ed | wards, Mir. O'Gorman, proprietor of the lamp | store on State street near Kellogg's gun | store, has erected for his own occupation a | substantial, well-built 12 or 14 room resi- l dence. The improvements on Whitney ave- l nue and St. Roman street speak we'll for those | streets and the same may be said in regard l to Prof. Niemeyer's new house and that of l Miss Porter on Lawrence street, near Orange | street.
 Of course the new residence, which is on | Whitney avenue, corner of Bishop street, being erected for Robert A. Brown, presi- dent of the New Haven Manufacturing con- prny, will be one of the notable new resi- dences for the 1889 list. Ground was brok- en for the cellar a few weeks ago by Builder c. D. Kinney, and owing to the long contin- uation of the remarkably fine winter weath- CT this year the masons were not interrupted l and rapidly got the entire and massive stone work and brick partition work all finished and the superstructure is now up and the finishing of the interior is progressing. MT. filings new house on Whitney avenue, cor her of Gamer street, is a handsome one and we'll built in all respects, and, though much smaller than MT. R. A. Browns or the Downes residence, corner of Edwards street, is a roomy, good sized residence. The Brown residence is to be finished inside by l MT. D. H. Clark, who has the carpenter con tract, with red oak aud ash and will be very handsomely equipped in every respect. c. Rabanus, the State street cigar dealer has @ sixteen-room house nearly done for rental ] on Nash street near Lawrence. Coming up State street toward the city is the new and l we'll built frame house on Humphrey close to State which the widow of the late Band Leader Felsburg is building on land which she bought of the widow of the late Captain Frank Tiesing; and on State near Pearl Thomas Kelly is building another brick block and right opposite are the three handsome and tasteful large frame houses which the Messrs. Brill, father and son, built and which are nearly finished. Rev. Dr. Munger, pastor of the United church, is having plans prepared by L. W. Robinson. Dr. Munger proposes to erect a fine house, with all modern improvement on Prospect street.
 Mr.Robinson has also plans for four story warehouse to be erected on WestWater street by F. A. Catlin; brick block, three houses, to be built on George street, just west of Webster school a six-tenement brick block on Fair street and plans for five frame dwell ing houses varying in cost from $3,0OO to s8,0O0.
 He is busy with his assistants in preparing the plans for the new parish building for St. Pauls church. The edifce will be of stone of the style of architecture of the church and will have room for the Sunday school and study for the rector. Over $21, ,000 has been A.EA AI. I