The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-05
THE NEW BUILDINGS.
Work Being Pushed on Several Big
Business Blocks-Residencs Rows.

Business BIocks-Residencs Rows.
Twenty-one permits were issued from
the building inspectors Office last week,
the estimate cost of improvements being
about $1S,2 One was for $500, one for
$4,000, one for $3.50 and the others were
all under 81 900.
The carpenter work on the new theater
will be completed to-day. There was a
force Of forty men at work there Saturday,
but this entire force will now be taken out
of the theater proper and pnt to work fin
ishing up the Rainier club roeIns. The
mill work for the club rooms is expected
to-day, and Foreman Spence gays he is
confident they will be entirely finished
before Christmas.
The Yesler building on PioBeer Place
will soon be ready for the roof. The wet
great deal. but with few good days the
walls will be up ready for the ceiling
joists. Work is progressing slowly on
Yesier's other building, at the corner of
Yesler avenue and South Third street.
Thomas Clancy, sr.'s, building at the
corner of South Third and Washington
streets is now ready for the inside finish
ing work.
J. G. Kenyon's brick block ct the corner
of Front aud Madison is complsted and
nearly ready for occupancy. Mr. Ken
yon's other brick building, which is being
put up two blocks further up Fro.lt street,
is up to the level of Front street.. and the
second story partition studs are up.
A. McDonald's one-story brick On Front
street, near Madison, will be reaay for oc-
cupancy in about ten days.
The walls of Bonney & Stewart's new
brick building at the corner of columbia
and Third streets are up to the street level,
and the first floor joists have been laid.
o. ]. Treen has begun the erection of q
number Of line dwellings on the EAST side
of Lake Union, some of them being down
on the hillside overlooking the Jake and
others upon the top of the hill. Work has
already been begun on three. the aggre-
gate cost of which will be nearly $4,000.
The contract will be let for three more in
a few days, and plans are just being pre-
pared for four more. NJ. +. Qeinbey is
architect on this work. One Of these
houses is being built for +. l.. Feglrt, and
is now almost completed. 1t il nine
room one-story frame cottage, situated at
the head of Wall street. 1t will cost about
$1,000 aside from the other improvements
on the property.
Another, for which a permit las just
been issued, is an elegant two-stor4 frame
dwelling near the corner of Albert and
Franklin streets. 1t will have y stone
foundation and basement. The front and
side elevations are rather artistic. with
a spindle-arch porch running froal about
the middle of the front around ana about
halfway back on the side. The inside
will be finished in hardwood ana cedar.
The cost will be about $1,000. The build
ing, on which work has already seen be-
gun. is a three-row compartment house.
1t will have stone foundation ard base.
ments. will be two stories high aad each
compartment Will contain eight rosfns. 1t
is located on Albert street near franklin,
and will be one of the finest STRUCTURE in
the vicinity. The inside will he snished
in cedar and ardwood, and il sill be
plastered with rock plaster. The csst will
be s. 600.
{. l.. Intermela has taken out permit
to build $3.50 frame double residence at
the corner of Eighth and Marion streets.
II will he two stories high, with & brick
foundation and basement. 1t eill be
nicely finished inside with natural cedar