The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-06
THE NEW BUILDINGS.
KENYON Will Extend Front
Street Retail District.
SEVERAL FINE RESIDENCES.
Captain Nugent Will Build Himself .
Home - Mr. Wiestling's Future
Abode-Other Dwellings.

The numerous showers during the week
have made progress slow in the building
line. If this week be fine, quite number
OF new jobs will be started, and work on
those already under way will be pushed
rapidly.
j. G. Kenyon's brick block, which is be-
ing erected at the corner of Front and
Madison streets, is now almost ready for
the first floor joists. This building is
62x120 feet. The foundation is concrete
and the main walls are all brick with
granite trimmings. The first floor above
the basement will have its entrance on
Madison street and will be arranged as one
immense storeroom. The second floor
will be divided into six stores, with en-
frances on Front street. Mr.. Kenyon says
he does not intend to make the building
more than two stories high for the pres
ent, both because the demand for Offices or
lodging rooms is not sufficient to warrant
building the upper stories just now
and because the walls will be more sub
stantial by giving the foundation time to
settle before completing the building. The
estimated cost of the building as it is to be
finished up now is about $4,000. Mr..
Kenyon is having the work all done by
the day. Architect ]. Parkinson made
the plans, John Mcconnell is foreman of
the brick work and G.. w. Webster is fore
man of the carpenter work
If the weather continues fine, the stone
work on the theater building will be begun
about Wednesday. J. K. Lewis has shifted
his residence off the property and this
week he will have it moved to his lot on
Fourth street near Union.
The foundrybuilding which the Allen Il
Nelson Mill Company is erecting on
Charles street near Commercial, is for T.
L. Dwyer & Co. instead of the San Fran
cisco Bridge Company as reported in last
Sundays PosT-lNTELLIGENcER. 1t is to be
used for the manufacture of plumbers
supplies, brass finishings, etc.
Captain James Nugent will begin the
erection of an elegant residence for him.
self at the corner OF Cherry and Twelfth
streets tomorrow. The building will be a
two-and-a-half-story frame with brick
foundation and basement. The elevations
will be very artistic, with a ten-foot porch
running clear across the front, forty feet
on Cherry street and sixty-six feet, the
whole length of the building, on the
Twelfth street side. On one corner a
tower will be erected. atfording fine view
of the bay and Sound and surrounding
mountains. The first floor inside will be
finished with hardwood throughout, and
the hall and stairway will be very elab-
crate. The upper floors will be finished
with cedar. There will be fourteen rooms
in all, and the building will be supplied
with hot water heater and all the mod
ern conveniences. The entire cost will be
about $4,000.
The Seattle Trust Company is building
an artistic seven-room house on Drexel
avenue The style is Romanesque and
the exterior covering is alternately shingie
and clapboards. The principal exterior
feature is the spacious porch, from which
there is beautiful view of Lake Washing
ton and the Cascades, as well as Mount
Rainier. The interior finish is to be very
good. The stairs ascend from the recep-
ton hall and, instead of the ordinary
| newell and balusters, there is hall seat
built next the stairs, the carved end of
which takes the place of newell, and the
| paneled back, which is five feet high, sup
ports the balusters. The panels are curly
| maple set in light cedar. There is a
| splndled arch-way between hall and par
| Tor. The dning-room has an oriel bay
| window and nook for side-board, with
| large well-fitted pantry connecting 1T with
| the kitchen. The interior finish is to be
| OF cedar, with transparent sheliac and oils
| to give it the appearance of light oak. The
| cost will be about 81, 300.
| Architect Z. W. Houghton expects to
| have ] NJ. Wrestling 's.residence, which is
! being erected on the west bluff in West
| Seattle, completed by the middle of July.
The building Is frame, 50x60 feet, two
stories high. The outside is very artisctic
| and the inside, containing eleven rooms.
will be handsomely finished. The recep-
| ton room is 16x33 feet, with panel ed
| wainscoting. There are three massive
iireplaces with pressed brick and stone
mantels. The building will be furnished
| with hot water heating apparatus and the
| balance of the fittings and conveniences
will be in keeping with the general quality
| of the structure. The total cost will be
| about So 600.
Fred Il. Sander is building an addition
| to his residence on Seventh, between
| Cedar and Alder streets 10 harmonic in
style with the existing structure. 1t is
| 24X3o feet and Will cost from g.. 900 to
| $4,000
Miss +. J. Chamberlain is erecting q
two-story frame residence on lot II, block
! II, of kinnear's addition. It is after a
| very neat design and will cost about 81 800.
A two-story frame residence which is be-
ing erected on lots Ii and -, block 8. OF
Rengstorff's addition. is for Joseph II.
Peak. 1t will cost about 81, 900
l.. Mathews Is erecting two-story
frame residence on lot 5, block 10, of East
lake addition. The elevations are OF
artistic design and the inside will he
neatly finished in cedar. The building
| will cost about s. 600
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