Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-04
Busy Times in Building opera

Busy Times in Building operations
 All About she City.
 This winter is . remarkable one, both for its mildnsss and tho unwontsd busy times which prevail in building interests. All about town signs of building activity are ap- parent, and there have been but very few penters were prevented from working by the cold weather.
 Among the notable improvements which have been in progress for some time past and are fast approaching completion is the en- largement of the Wm. Nicely & Co. store premises. By the enlargement of the bases ment one-third more room has been gained, amounting to considerably over an acre of new floor room. The entire building has now a basement underneath from Chapel street to Center. The increased room there.
 by afforded will be appreciated by the
 firm, and the entire second floor of the building corner of Chapel street and Temple will soon be devoted to the upholstery de- pertinent and the carpet department, while tho location of the workroom and storeroom, which is now the front of the second floor, will be changed to the large and we'll lighted room cTedL6u III bu0 OA6em0uoe 4u0 6tc0u boiler now in the basement at about the con- ter of tho building will be transferred to one of the new basement rooms in the rear, and various other changes down stairs will be made. The upholstery department will oc- oupy the front half of the second floor, the carpet department all the rear part. An Otis elevator costing 5000 has been ordered by MT. Malley and will be building, midway between Chapel and Gen. ter streets. It will be run by electricity by an improved mode, and 1t will be the only one of it's kind in this state. Mir. Malley has had plans made fer an elegant new front | for the main store, corner of Chapel and Temple streets. The plans are now in the
 hands of David Fl. Clark, the builder, who has been awarded ths contract for the srsc- tion of this new establishment of the premi-
 ses. The wooden stairs at the entrance of
 the store will give place to granite steps and | the new store front will be about ton feet l nearer the street than the present one, and
 will extend ont to the building line. Tho vestibule pavement will bo laid in mosaic design, and the visitor will on entering the vestibule have on either side of him have . i large plate glass side window, while out in
 front will be on either side two mammoth windows, also of plate glass. The new front will be entirely of plate glass, excepting the frame work for the windows and
 the upper woodwork. The new front Mr. Nalley expects to have completed in four weeks. He is also having plans made for another new front for the other wing of the Nicely store, for the adjoin- ing stores, which are occupied by MT. Fnl- lertGn and Ar. 0. P. Snow. This front will
 be in unison of design with the now front of the main store. MT. D. R. Brown is now
 preparing the plans for this front. Work has been begun by 0. D. Kinney, the mason
 builder, for the erection of MT. Wallace B.
 Fenn's new double brick dwelling on Whit. ney avenue, near Bradley street. The houses will be of brick, handsomely trimmed with stone, and each house will have three hand some bay windows, one on the front, one on the side, and one in the rear. The interior of the building will be finished in choice woods and supplied with the best of modern
 improvements. The main building will be sixty feet front and fifty feel, wide, exolusiye of tho boy windoWs. The trimmipas Will be