The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-09
STILL BUILDING.
Notable Structures Going Up In All Parts
of the City.

Notable Structures Going UP In All Parts
of the City.
Notwithstanding the stringency in
the general money market and the fact
that as little money as possible is being
expended all over the country the work
of building residences and business
houses is steadily going on in Roanoke,
showing the people who invest and the
fnaDciers Of the country that Roanoke
is permanent city and it's growth will
continue steadily. The houses, in a
great measure, that are being erected
now are not structures of mushroom
growth, cheap buildings for mporary
use, but are noble piles of iron, brick
and stone, that will long stand TO re sist
tho ravages of time, and that would bo
ornaments to any city in the Union.
One Of the principal buildings that is
now rapidly appros ching completion is
the Virginia College for Young Ladies'
Ii is situated on beautiful plateau of
ten acres, from which the view is sub
lime and forms a ceaseless succession
of magnificent pictures. The campus
is natures art gallery and that deificd
artist has welded his brush with a
liberal hand--mellow tinted hills are
backed by grand mountains whose
weird and solemn grandeur is relieved
by yellow riffs of color, where the pic
turcsque gorges breathe in the golden
sun upon which the Kaleidoscope
scenery feeds.
The building. which is four stories IN
height and has a frontage OF 22S feet
with two wings of q depth of 100 feet
and porch 16x50 feet, is ali completed
on the outside and the inside work is
being done as rapidly as possible.
Frank r. May, the contractor OF the
Roanoke Hospital, has a large mum Der
OF men at work upon that splendid pile
OF stone and brick buildings The main
building is ninety five feet long, forty
four feet wide and sixty feet high. The
outside OF the edifice is nearly com
pleted and as soon as the hospital bonds
for $4,000 are placed, which no doubt
they will be in the near future, an ad
ditional force of hands will be employed
and this magnificent building, mag
nidcent both from an architectural and
charitable standpoint, will be finished,
ready for use during this summer an.
autumn.
Among the handsome new residences
that are continually being built might
be mentioned the homo of A. Z. Staples
on Roanoke street, and the beautiful
house soon to be built for J. Allen
Watts on the Gas and Water tract
Work is progressing as rapidly as
possible on the handsome business
block of Maj. R. II. Day on the old post
cilice and Brunswick Hotel site, to be
known as the Roanoke Underwriters
building, which will greatly add TO the
appearance of CT mpbell avenue and the
city
The construction of the new Fidelity
building "ill be commenced in IL few
days at the corner of Commerce street
and Comptell avenue.
The Clayton block on Salem avenue
west is under construction and il is
noticeable fact that in all parts OF the
city smaller business houses and resi-
dcnces are being built.
The final was put on the steeplc Of
the new Lutheran Church yesterday
The small steeple is ready for the sla.e,
and two coats Of plaster have been put
on. The interior is now ready for the
sand finish
G. Markley IS new business building on
Salem avenue, near the market, is
rapidly approaching completion. The
building will cost about $4,000 The
Roanoke Roofing and Metal Cornice
Company will begin putting on the
the cornice work as soon as the front is
ready.
The Standard Investment Company
have begun the erection of three three
story store buildings on West Salem
avenue with pressed brick and stone
fronts.
NJ. II. Clayton is putting in the brick
for his three story store on West Salem
avenue.