The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-05
sToREY's CASTLE.
It's Material Will Be Used to Con.
struct Fifty Houses.

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| Down in o little grove of stunted oak
trees lies pile of white marble and brick
which spreads over the space of an acre.
| All day long men Chamber of tho pile, dis
| lodge piece here and there. which they
| drag to other smaller piles in front of ex-
cavations on Vernon and NinCennes
! avenues. A row of new white front
| houses on Vernon avenue, and two others
! on Nincennes. tell where some of the
marble has gone. There are eight or
nine houses altogether They are larger
than the average. Although nearly all of
the material in these structures has come
from the bigpile which the houses overlook
| that has not shrunk much. Neither
! will it have diminished quite one-half
| from its original proportions when the
| building operations now contemplated
into which its components enter shall be
! finished. There will be stuff enough left
to build thirty more houses when the
! twenty now planned are completed.
This big pile of sculptured marble and
brick is the ruins of the mansion started
by Wilbur F. Storey. Back in the early
sos it was the show house on the Grand
Boulevard. The editor of the Times
| owned four and q half acres running along
| Forty-third street from the Grand BOule-
ward back to Nincenues avenue His
mansion stood at the northeastern corner
of the plat on slightly rising ground. 1t
was an imposing mansion, four or five
stories high, built of Vermont marble
that shone in the sunlight. There was no
house i'll Chicago 80 pretentious, although
nowadays there are numbers ON the swell
streets OF the three divisions of the city
| which may be compared to the Storey
castle, as it was called. The mansion
was never completed. A temporary roof
was put on and work suspended several
years before Mr. StOrey's death.
After that event the property was di-
vided among four heirs All the efforts
! that sharp real estate men knew how to
make were directed toward the sale of
the great house. Nobody could be found,
however, who wanted it, and finally il
was decided that the mansion must be
raZed What was TO be done with the
marble, brick and iron that composed it,
| The iron Orders and beams might be sold
but to peddle the brick and stone for
| hauling was likely to be a veEatious and
Improbable job. Why not build houses
with it! was the suggestion made to the
| owners. The latter grabbed at the idea
/ They consulted architects. who made
| measurements. drawings and plans, and
! accompanied them with. u report that
| promised such satisfactory. result that
the OwHers were convinced the idea was
! feasible and prohta BILE. The money was
| found, working plans were got ready,
and operations were begun That was
! months ago.
! To casual observers the great heap
| which marks the site of the Storey house
! Is in confusion. But it isn't. All of the
stones have been classified and set apart
| carefully, though the division lines are so
narrow that all appear as part of mass.
| When window ledge or coping or a
supporting pillar is wanted the workmen
know just where to go to find it, No time
is lost. At the side of the heap of stones
is "a broad, solid pile of brick. This is
used to build the walls Of the houses.
| There were 100000 BRICK in the pile at
first
Mr.. Storey's house cost between 500
600 aud S25000O," said Mr.. Christian
we sold 400 tons of iron beams and grid
ers. The other material taken ont is
worth at least $40 900. It would have cost
us twice as much had we bought it at
first hands and hauled it there Vermont
marble is pretty expensive stone. Esti-
mating five persons as constituting the
average family, the fifty houses when fin
ished will thus afford homes for $50 souls
without counting the number that may be
dOmiciled in the fats. The Storey house
big as IL was, could not have furnished
quarters for half the number. The value
of the Improvement, when fully com
pleted, will probably be s600,0o0.n
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