Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-24
BEING ERECTED.
SOME PUBLIC AND BUSINESS BUILD
INGS IN WICHITA.
Partial List of More Noticeable Ones
General Outlook for Additional
Building in 188o-New Feat
ures of the Building
Spirit

|
ing this city and in speaking of the
amount of building now in progress in
| Wichita, said, that there are now being
invested in improvements in Wichita
such sums OF money as would create
feverish excitement in any city Of her
size. The people of Wichita, however,
/ have become so accustomed to
seeing piles of building material
| in almost every street, that they pay
| little attention to the same. Without
stopping to call attention to the three
| hundred or more residences just complet-
ed or nearing completion in various parts
| of the city, mention of the public buildings
| and business houses will serve to impress
a resident of Wichita even with the
| amount of building actually in progress,
to say nothing of the amount assured or
contemplated in the spring, and which
will be some very substantial business
blocks. Should the Oklahoma Territory
be ordered opened. by this congress, the
amount of building to be done in Wichita
during the coming season, will probably
exceed anything ever seen in such a city.
The amount TO DE done under any circum
stances is much greater than anyone
would suppose.
Although not strictly in the line of
building the S265, 900 being invested in a
sewer system, is permanent improve
ment Street paving to the extent Of sew
eral hundred thousand dollars will soon
come. CURLING and guttering to the
amount of some $1,000 may be put upon
the list. The government building is to cost
500, 900, probably more before it is done,
is being rushed. The court house costing
$3.50, 900 has reached the second story. The
| Whitaker Packing house, worth nearly
800, 009 These being the most important
now in course of construction are men-
toned and their cost given to enable a
person to form some idea of the extensive
improvements now being made in Wichita.
There are a great many business houses
now being built throughout the city and
they are being built for some definite pur-
pose. In nearly every instance some firm,
new or old, is waiting for the completion
the new building, and TO this condition of
things is due the fact that store rooms are
not going up in blocks or punches, as is
always the mark of speculative building.
The building now going on, although ex-
tensive, is all legitimate. If the status of
necton had not, in the beginning of this
article, been prescribed TO include only
certain degrees of completion, the public
attention might be called to whole blocks,
whose frontage has been go chauged in the
past six months as to entirely renew the
appearance Of that portion OF the street.
About the Burton car works,
especially south of them, business
houses and residences have hidden
the prairie in the past six months.
East of the Whitaker packing house are
being erected now Catholic church and
store building. A two story frame bakery
and store building on the east side Of
Topeka south of Dolds is nearly finished.
On the south side of East Oak street two
two-story brick store rooms just west OF
Topeka avenue, On North Main, at the
corner of Park, Hale Cowley is erecting a
brick store building. j. S. P. Gordon's
two new stone front. three story buildings
opposite the northwest corner of the
court house square, have reached the
third story. The Rossler stone front two
story brick, wholesale wall paper house.
on the east side Of North Main, above Sec
ond street, is built to the second floor.
same block, but nearer second street, is
nearing completion The new Citizens
Electric Light company's new plant, LOOK
100 feet, on the corner # Third and Wich-
tia streets, is progressing rapidly. The
Bryan Fruit company's new three-story
wholesale house on the west side of North
Main, south of Second street. will be under
roof IN few days. Tony Bruhn's new
three-story wholesale building 50X140,
on North Water above the Whole
sale Grocer company's building.
is rising rapidly. On South Water just
south of Williams street, new two story
brick office building is being erected.
Judge A. A Glenn has just finished
brick business house on the south side of
West Douglas avenue, west Of Main.
LLOYD b. Ferrele has begun the erection of
three three story brick business rooms on
the east side of North Market opposite the
Smith-Skinner-W alters-Snively block. The
new livery barn on the east side of North
Lawrence avenue is being erected by
Messrs Lewis & Williams, and will be
the largest in the city. The Wichita Cor
nice works, now ON East Douglas avenue,
have purchased lot on the west side of
of the block, and it will at once erect three
story brick cornice works Some eight or
more two story brick business houses have
just been finished on Chicago avenue, on
the West Side. There are others, but
without any effort to compile a full list of
the buildings now in progress, those above
mentioned were noticed recently from
time to time.
When spring opens here in good earnest
there will be begun some buildings, which,
by their number and their character as
well, will surprise even the people of
Wichita. These buildings will not only
be to supply the legitimate demand for
more and better business houses. but will |
be to provide suitable buildings for new
concerns of a wholesale character that will |
locate here. In a letter from prominent |
business man in Cincinnati to Secretary |
Pierce of the board of trade, the former /!
said that he noticed By the EAGLE that |
Messrs. w T. Bishop & Sons, of Cincinnati, |
had located in Wichita. He added that |
this city was fortunate in getting branch |
of that great tobacco and cigar house, but |
their coming was only starter. as other |
wholesale houses in that city would very |
new feature of the permanent Improve |
ments to be constructed in Wichita dur |
ing the coming season will be by class |
whose actions will indicate not only the |
for keeping pace with this city's |
growth. but the faith they have in its con- |
tiuuance The building of not less than |
three new railway depots Of magnificent |
proportions Is hera intimated. Without |
any pretentions to Dragging, it can be |
said that Wichita will surprise all by the |