The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-01
CT. FALLS. GROWING.
More Than AT Any Time Before
This Year-Fine Business
Blocks Going Up.
THE COMING CITY OFTHE WEST.
Great Falls a City of Homes-Many
Are Being Built All Over
Town

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There is more building, says the
Leader. in course of erection IN
Great Falls than at any other time
this year. 1t speaks volumes for the
faith residents and outsiders have IN
the city's future prosperity. On
nearly every avenue and on many Of
the streets in the city proper, work
men are busy on store and Office
buildings or on private residences.
I'm some instances the foundations
for commodious business properties
are we'll under way, and III a numb
err of cases the structures themselves
are nearly completed and ready for
occupancy.
The same can be said of the build
inc activity to be seen IN almost ev-
erv portion of the residence part of
the city. Dwellings that will cost
anywhere from $500 to $4,000 and
ever more on the north and south
sides are rapidly approaching com
pletion. These signs of activity
should with just pride the bosom of
every lover of the town and impress
every visitor with the idea that
Great Falls is experiencing a healthy
solid growth.
1t also establishes the fact that
the city can justly lay claim to the
title of being essentially a city of
homes and not the temporary abld-
inc place of "a horde belonging to
that shifting class of humanity so
common in Young western cities.
The strength of a city lies in its fire
sides and happy homes and the same
is applicable to the stability OF a
city.
Among business blocks recently
erected precedence should be award
ed the Vaughn building on Central
n which is about finished and
will be ready for occupancy by the
first of the coming month.
In point of architectural beauty
the front of this building has no RI
val in this city. When the other
stories of the First National Bank
building are built that structure
NAV be awarded the palm, but until
then the Vaughn building will hold
the honor. 1t is "a question whether
any other city in the state can boast
of such handsome fronts as those OF
= the Vaughn and First National Bank
buildings. The second story to the
bnilding opposite the Park hotel Is
unique in design and presents Il
/ handsome appearance which Is
4 bound to attract attetlon from
! strangers the minute they see it
3 This building is nearly completed on
, the outside and will probably be fin
! ished throughout by the middle OF
: next month and possibly sooner.
. Work is progressing rapidly on
! the foundation for the Ford building.
The bids for the construction of the
building will be opened at noon
i Monday at the office of Architect
White. The front will be of gray
) sandstone and it promises to be one
/ of the handsome fronts of the city
Work on the Murphy, Maclay x
, Co.'S corner, adjoining the Ford
building, commenced to-day when
excavation was started. The build
! ING will have a brick front and fol
3 the present will be one story high
: though the foundation will be built
: solid enough for a four story build.
mo. The contract for the eXcavat
r INC for the Phelps build,
Il ing and for the masonry work was
awarded yesterday to Frank Coombs
The foundation will 90 down to
depth of twenty feet, resting on bee
q rock. This will make work on tina
part of the building quite an under
taking. The plans for the construc
ton have not been entirely agreed
upon in, detail but the architect
? hone to have them finished and read
for the contractors to bid upon in
few DAYS. 1t will be after the styl'
of the French renaissance and be
yond doubt one Of the handsomes
h and most practically designed struc
lures in the state. 1t will be tw,
stories in height but with foundation
strong enough for a six-story build
ing. a great advantage it will pos
II sess will be what is known in archi
ir lecture as eight weIIs.' There viii
1T be two of these which will max,
Of every office on the second story a
ID light as could be desired. There
will be six stores on the first foo
e and twenty-eight offices in the secon,
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