The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-27

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tory, and is finished with natural woods
OF oak, chestnut, cedar, cherry and pine
The four beautifut villas,side by side.
on Union street are ono of the sights Of
the town, and belong respectivelv To
w. Leo Brand, Frank Chalmers. n MT
Worden and Col. Hansbrough. They
contain from eight to twelve rooms
each, and cost all the way from ga. 500
TO $1,000. Whilst no two are exactly
ahke' there is enough similarity in
oesign 70 make pleasing uniformity
without being monotonous.
On Broad street, too, the residences
OF Orrin Oakley. $4,000, Prof. Guy, 81 900,
ana on Pennsylvania avenue those Of
Messrs. Clark, Pugh and Uncommon at
$4,000 each and Mr.. Strayer at 81. 600.
as we'll as that of Mrs. Ferguson on
High street at $4,000, arc all handsome
~ finished, and quite an ornament to
the town. Nor must one overlook tho
fact that many of the new villas on the
Development Heights and tho Boule-
ward are as pretty as pictures from an
architects design book.
Some idea Of the prevailing fancy
in Salem houses may DO obtained from
glance at tho following figures:
Thirty-six houses have been put I'D at
S!,2OD each, twenty-one at $4,000 each,
nineteen at So, 500 and twenty eight
cottages at 5000, most Of these latter in
West Salem, which, in point of numbers,
is ahead in the house-building line,
though for cost and quality of resi-
dences 81 DAD street, Union Street and
pennsylvania avenue lead in the order
named.
BUSINESS HOUSES.
Most of the stores and business blocks
OF the new regime in Salem were COM
menced in the fall of 1890, and finished
in the spring of 1891, still as house
cannot be considered as built until it is
actually finished, it is fair to include
these as belonging to the present year
First and foremost in the list IS the
$4,000 Hickman block, three stories
high, comprising four large stores, with
nifty convenient rooms above, and large
airy collars under all. The front of
this handsome block is largely com
posed of ornamental iron with plate
glass windows, these latter alone cost.
ing $1,000.
On College avenue tho brick stores
owned by Baxter Logan, Popo & Bear,
Handy, Crabtree, billiard e Persinger
have all been finished this year for
$50, 900. Probably five thousand dollars
VIII cover the cost Of the smaller
stores scattered around the different
side streets.
CHURCHES.
Salem, the old Salem of the past fifty
years, has been so we'll supplied with
churches that at present no great need
is felt for more, though the Presbyte-
rlans contemplate putting up n chapel
tho rivar ilnr ah,l
one erected on Seventh and Indiana
streets by the Methodists, with seat
ing capacity of 200, at the usual figure
of thousand dollars.
The Disciples this past fall built a
very pretty little church on the Vic
toria property, at a cost of two thou
sand dollars, seating 800 people.
Whilst on tho subject of churches it
must not be forgotten that at Salem the
Baptists of Virginia have determined
to establish magnificent orphanago.
Already the first building is nearly
ready for it's sixty children and their
ttendants. This ono is to be called
tho John M. Evans cottage. 1t is 5Ox65
ieet' OF brick, four stories high, four
teen rooms, with water piped all over
the house; lighted by gas and heated
by steam, and in the basement is a
commodious French range. This house
cost $4,000 and is claimed to be the
| best and most substantial in the
town, and is a credit to Rev. i. G.. Hob
day, the energetic superintendent, the
foundations of whose house ad Joining
the present building have just been
! laid.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Among the miscellaneous structures
may be counted Queens three-story
brick stable, on Alabama street, capa-
bic of stalling 100 horses and costing
81, 900. Also the new single span
bridge thrown across the Roanoke river
by the Development Company, TO-.
which they paid $4,000. and another
not quite so large for the South Salem
Company at $500.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
1t cannot fail to be interesting to the
readers of THE TINES to know some
thing of the improvements to the streets
of the town, made by some of the land
companies and by the town council.
The Development Company, whose
lands lie on the south side of Roanoke
river, have spent this year $40, 900 in
water works and laying down pipes to
carry water to their dwellings,; another
$4,000 in macadamizing two miles Of
street. and more than thousand dollars
for sidewalks and grading.
The Improvement Company have
spent on grading and street work, So
600; on brick side walks, about one mile
| $4,000, and another mile Of pavements,
| $1,000.
| The Monteiro has put down half a
mile of plank walks, costing them $500
and for street grading and planting
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