St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-01

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THN satisfactory. if not
brilliant and
-I n snowy one. The
.n4ri ,rnm transfers and per-
Nh IN phr mits to date keep
7sSasi~-Nsl! M up prettywell with
~, I'M "a L the same period of
NE''N' 1885, notwithstand-
ing there has been
an acknowledged
i >SHs1a falling off in the
4 IcesSSSSsa. trade and manu-
: featuring in the
| Northwest during the first months
! of 1899. The building inspector has
issued up to April 20 permits which ag-
gregate 81, $40, 929, against little in eX-
cess of 100000 for the first four
months of 1883. The building opera
!; tons covered by these permits
are of the usual miscellaneous
nature, dwellings,, stores, etc..
number OF buildings which may be sig
nalized by individual mention. The
New \ ork life insurance building which
has not naterialized as yet is. however,
an assured fact since Il $4,000 permit
Tor the brick and iron work in the
foundation has been taken out. and
according to the local representatives of
the company work will not lag until the
building is completed. The structure.
which is to have a frontage of $50 feet
7 on Fifth street and ninety on Second
avenue south. will be of brown stone
and granite for the first three stories,
and above that Of red brick with brown
stone trimmings. The main entrance
VIII be on Fifth street, and will be ap-
preached by broad flight of stone steps
that will give the front an imposing APP
pearance. The interior will be equal to
the exterior in solidity and magniiicence.
The main hallway on the first floor will
he thirty-siX feet wide. The floors will
be tiled and the ceilings of marble. Ele-
3. giant and broad stairWayS will ornament
the building, but the attractive thing to
tenants will be the presence OF four i'm
proved elevators. The building will be
entirely devoted TO offices except the
first floor which contains an arcade, de-
voted to the accommodation of shops and
stands. The cost of the building is eS-
timated at about S1.000,000.
). There are many other large buildings
{ going up for which the permits were
taken out year ago, such as the i'm
menSe Masonic temple on Hennepin
avenue anu ttNlu StIttt, tlt LOdI dilQ
Guaranty building next to the postof1ice
and the pOstoffice itself, which is slowly
approaching completion. The Y. M. c.
A. building, on Tenth street and Mary
Place. has made substantial progress,
and the public building has progressed
far enough so that the board hope toput
the library, part OF which is ready, in
this fall
The permits of the first months of
1889 do not record any very large or eX-
penSive buildings but many SubStan-
tial CUES, of which the most costly will
be the elevator of the United States
Grain company, on Twenty-third street,
between Fourth and Fifth streets. 1t is
10 have a capacity of 100000 bushels
and to cost 100000.
The board of education will again be
one of the largest builders in the city,
showing that the pressure tor school
room, which is an index of the growth
in population, remains undiminished.
The board has already taken out per-
mits for three school buildings which
will cost $4,000, $4,000 building on
TWenty-thlrd avenue south, near Frank
lin, one to cost $50, 600 on Twenty-eighth
street and Clinton avenue, and another
of the same cost on Girard avenue and
Twelfth street north.
Tenement rows have become favor
tie style of residence building in Mime
apols. The rental agents indicate
Shat there is an increasing demand for
them among that class of tenants who
; can afford lake residences in the sum-
, lner and who prefer to be within easy
reach OF the business center in the win
ter. Building Inspector HaZenfS books
show that more than 100000 has al
MI IN 1,jc al n
buildings. A few of the most note
worthy tenement rows may be particu-
larized. George Ell. Rust is putting up
an ornamental and solid row of three
story brick and stone tenements on
Hawthorne avenue, between Tenth and
Twelfth streets. which will cost $4,000;
off on the northeast side Of Eighteenth
street and Ninth avenue, A. Bergman
is erecting a somewhat similar row to
cost $4,000. George Ii. Brown has be-
gun on Eighth street at Twelfth avenue
and on Ninth street at Ninth avenue,
two tenement rows that will cost SAC, 900
each when completed. There are, IN
addition to these buildings, n. Conrodt,
on Jackson street and % Airline north
east, s23,o09; W. III. Lynn, S01-5
Fifteenth street east, $4,000; Mrs. Car
penter and Mrs. jenkins, 155S-1564 Hen
apartment house, 2o25-27 Fourth
avenue south, $4,000; d. D. McDonel,
Al to II Eighth street south, $4,000:
Isaac Well. 81 Washington avenue
north. stores and tenement. $4,000;
Arthur Deck, Fifteenth street and Chi.
J cago avenue, $4,000. Valuable store
and hotel buildings are going up IN
many parts of the city. They are
neither tall nor expensive, but they are
all substantial and serve to beautify
and improve their neighbOrhood and
build up the city. A few examples of
this class of buildings are the Bush &
Custin produce Exchange Oh First
street and First avenue north; f. B.
Mills four-story hotel on Fourth ave-
= hue and Grant street; j. f. Collom's
100000 row of stores on Second street
north, and l.. T. Manages $4,000
warehouse on First street and
First avenue north. Fine dwellings
are scarce in tie building Inspectors
books, the best represented there thus
far being II. e. Ladd's two-and-one-
half story stone dwelling, which he will
erect at 131 Oak Grove street, at a cost
of $4,000. Church building operations
I are also little bit quiet, the largest
permit for this class of building being
the Bloomington Avenue Presbyterian
church, which is putting up a new
house of worship, at cost of S34 900.
The leading builders report business
comparatively good, and the outlook for
the seasons work fairly satisfactory,
though all acknowledge it will not be a
boom year in building.
SUBURBAN PROPERTY.