The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-02
BUILDING NOTES.
largo Number of Handsome Structures
Being Erected.


A Largo Number of Handsome Structures
Being Erected.
Work on double building, the large
structure on Salem avenue, of which
Wilson Il Higgins are the architects,
and which is being built by Kirk, Green.
baum & Maer, is being rapidly pushed
forward. The walls of the first story
are now about completed. The build
ing fronts fifty feet on Salem avenue,
runs back to the depth of eighty. five
feet, will be three stories high and
built Of brown and buff brick and TRIM
med with brown stone. The first story
will be divided into two com partments
which will be occupied as stores. The
second story will be arranged for offices
and storage rooms for the stores below,
and the third story will be designed
especially for lodge rooms.
The foundations of new addition to
tho courthouse, OF which Wilson & Hug.
gins are the architects, are now being
laid and work on the building will be
pushed rapidly so that it will be ready
for occupancy by the fall term of court.
The contract of the Belmont school
house, which will be finely situated on
knoll in the southeastern part OF the
city, has been let to Menafee e Ware
who have already commenced work on
the building. The architects, Wilson
& Higgins, have designed in this
structure model school building. 1t
will contain eight large class rooms
capable of seating fifty pupils each and
an assembly room that will easily seat
one hundred and fifty people. The ar
chitects in planning the building devoted
especial attention to all sanitary condi-
tions, and it will be fitted up with all
modern appliances.
The foundations for the electric car
shed on Earnest avenue have been laid.
and the structure will be completed
within month. The building will be
OF brick and galvanized iron, and is to
be ninety.seven by ninety-th three feet.
When completed it will prove quite an
ornament to that part of the town. Will
son IL higgins are the architects and
+. r. May the contractor.
The contract for George McBain's
handsome residence in the southwestern
part Of the city will BIO let in a dav or
SO. The building. as designed by Will
son e Higgins, Will be a two story
structure of the colonial style of archi-
lecture, will comprise nine large rooms,
and will be furnished throughout with
all modern appliances. When COM
pleted it will be one of the handsomest
residences in that quarter of the city.
Tho Hastings Court room is being
greatly improved by cutting light
shaft through the center of the room,
which will thoroughly ventilate it.
The large and handsome house of o.
II. Roger, located on the Gas and Water
Company's property, has just been com
pleted, and it is an ornament to that
section Of the city. 1t is two story
structure, comprising sixteen large
rooms, and is fitted up with all modern
appliances. In designing this residence
M. Fielding. Jr., and w. L. Reid, the
architects, sought to plan model home,
and have succeeded most thoroughly in
doing SO.
The finishing touches were Yesterday
added to the Terry building, and this
morning the structure, which would be
credit to any city, stands complete, a
monument to the pluck, energy and en-
terprise of Roanoke citizens and to the
skill of its architects and builders.
The lumber and brick for THE TIMES
building are being received, and work
will be pushed rapidly forward to it's
ompletion.
The Second Presbyterian Church,
located on the corner of Roanoke street
and Tenth avenue 8. W.. is being rapidly
pushed to completion. The building is
designed for permanent Sunday-school
building, but will be occupied tenn
porarily as church. 1t has seating
capacity of about three hundred, and
has three large class rooms entering
into the auditorium. The structure is
colonial in style. and was designed by
the architects Wilson & Higgins, of
this citv