The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-12

Hupertiu0u6 uuornment, 4he HVuHs 10
estimated to cost S, 900.
ANoTABLE STRUCTURE.
Among the really notable buildings
now erecting in the city Is the James L.
Hawley building at the corner Of Six
teenth and Main streets. The founda-
tions are the most massive ever built
Tor any house in the city. Mr.. Hawley
has kept inquisitive people guessing toT
several months as to what he intended
to do. When the foundations were
commenced last fall, the walls and piers
were SO heavy that many people ut
once connected them with the very airy
scheme to build q terminal railway
across the Island, and some could even
imagine, they say, iron Orders lying
unon the walls and trains about 70 enter
a depot. Mr.. Hawley knew what he
was about, however, and he and his ar
chitect, Mr.. Willard L. Giesey, have the
plans laid for an immense building,
larger and more substantial than any
thing heretofore planned in Wheeling.
The II stone walls are thirty
six inches thick and at
distances OF twenty-five feet, immense
stone piers have been built in the walls
to support columns and pillars. For
the present a two-story brick building
will be erected, with nine store rooms
on the first floor. The brick walls for
tile south and Market street lines are
twentv-eight inches thick, sufficient to
support an eight-story building. The
roof will be built so that it can be car
ried up with the building when 1t is de-
cided to continue up to the height pro-
vided for in the plans. The founda::
tions are now completed and several
feet of the brick wall has been built.
The Main and Tenth street sides OF the
two-story building will DO OF iron, and
plate glass. The foundations alone have
cost over S, 900, and the two stories Will
have cost 1000 when completed.
I Geo. L. Stifel & Co. g granite front dry
goods palace has been described and
written about SO often as the work pro-
crossed that a further description at
this time seems superAuous. Suffice 1t
to say that it is to-day the most elaborate
and elegantly finished mercantile build
ing in the State. 1t is nearing compile
ton, and the owners hope to occupy 1t
by September at farthest.
The KIieSes-Kraft Go. is building an
addition to Sebastian Welty's residence
in North Wheeling, the probable cost
OF which WILDE about $500. Among
the other work this company has on
hands or has just completed is the fol-
lowing:
A six.room frame house for L. Laupp
on North Front street, Island, cost,
$500; n two-story frame house for ia
cob Reitz in the Eighth ward, cost,
$1,000; two.story frame house for
Philip huffman to cost $500; an adj
dition to the residence OF Harry Sweeney
on Zane street, Island, to cost s., 700; a
new house for Fred Happy on Fifteenth
street to cost about $1,000; q
modern plate glass front for
Henry Bieberson's restaurant on
South street; handsome new
residence in Washington, Pa; exten:.
sive improvements on the residence OF
Frank ]. Hearne, out the National road;
water tower for the Bloch Tobacco
Company, 100feet high, "a feet square at
base and ten feet square at top; an id
dition to the North Wheeling Hospital,
to cost $4,000; carpenter and mill
work for the City Bank building. The
Klieves-Kratt Company has also fur
nished the lumber and mill work for
ten otherlihouses not mentioned here,
andoWBuiIti by local contractors.