The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-31
MANYNEWBUILDINGS.
Business Blocks and Residences
Now Going Up.
orneR s,o STOCKS PLANNED.
Wessane - 60 0ssss ussshsss DsDss
-1Asss xsw 0nss ~ 80 sesa.
uss-phnllDs csopaey.

The amount u bnlldinR now goan9 On IN
oeassis b larger than q the corresponding
tine tor The pAes thfso years. according 20
Asures complied In Tie o6ies Of the super
astendsne o. buiIdanes. No less than
tusivs Iafxs bTick blocks ars going forward
In various stages Of psoRresa, sud one has
East bsen completed. Some Of thsm are
soaring compissioe. some ere veil under
vay and some ars scarcely begun. bat I'll
hare been carried steadily forward. and
others ars being planned 70 b begun .
Ditsls later in the season. The twelve
buitdines are: Herman Chapin's block
Soe department stores. Second street, be-
tween Spring and Madison; Leary-waiksr
buijdsne. across the street from the Shove;
Union Truss Compamy's block. corner Sec
oud snd Main; Kinnsar- Brawiey building.
corner Of Third and Main: John Collins
block. Second and James: Athletic Club
buiiding. Front street: Dobson 4 Dsnsonb
block. adjoining the above and the Ar
ltnston hotel; the Prosch building. Ninth
aud James stsssts: 6chwabAcher's block,
Yeoler avenue and Commercial streets. 20
- occupied August -: Ysslef block. Yes
jer avenue and Commercial street. receive
Ing We inside finish; Presbytsrisn church.
Fourth and 6sescs: cascsds school. Pom
thus addition. The Kenyon block on
Front street hes bssa competed.
Speaking Of the amount Of building nov
bsing done In Seattle superintendent of
Buiidings Helm yesterday said:
'sTaks it on Beacon Hill. through
Squire Park addition and on west Of
Madison street, between Jones and Hyde
stroets. there are oil Of twenty live tine
dwaliing houses going up, some OF which
are about completed. They are eli good
elass houses and cost from 5000 to s.. 900
each, Thsn east Of thsse. In the Rento n
Hin addition, the 6ackman- Phillips Com
pauy erected nine dwellings this season.
some Of which are yet unfinished. Mr..
Ames, Of Port Gamble. II figuring on put
ting mp . row Of tenements on Twelfth
street.. between Charles and Piummer.
1he Union Electric Company has post
ponsd the erection Of IT. plant at Charles
and Eighth streets until next year.
On acoount Of the dimculty they
led in getting IN alley condemned.
Il u condemned now. but too late
. build that class Of building this year.
lt VIII cover l20x2sO fest. and b the finest
eaestric plant In this section OF country.
The building will b two-storiss in height.
With the engines and boilers below and
the elsctsic machinsry above. Then there
ess several projscts hanging fire awaiting
some definite action BY the Great Northern
toward building IL depot The Ssckman-
Phillips Company proposes 10 erect fine
hotsl on the half block on she south side
81 Main street, between Fifth and Sixth
streets, and ID only waiting for the Great
Northern. Tho same company will build
h8lck block On the southwest corner OF
Main and Fifth streets, and y now consid-
sring plans for brick block on the SOUTH
esst corner Of Second and Pike streets.
Many OF these new buildings will nm.
doubleday b started this fall"