The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-25
new BUILDINGS GOING UP.
Builders Busy and Improvements in
Progress ALI Over the City,

More Activity in Building Now Than
at Any Time Within the Last Year
and Half-The Tendency to Mod
ernize Old Time Residences-Con-
tractors Looking Forward to Busy
Season.
There is more activity in building now
particularly in the residence section of
the city, than there has been at any time
within the last year aud half. The ac-
tivity is as much in the improvement of
old property as in the erection of new
houses.
There is a general tendency to modern
ize dwellings and all over the city orna-
mental balconies, stained glass windows,
decorative porches and similar additions
are being made to add to the appearance
OF houses once plain and unattractive in
their exterior, however pleasant and COM
Portable they may have been inside. The
painters are having more work now than
during any summer in years.
AS an instance of the tendency to i'm
provement, on one block On Henry street,
in which there are nineteen houses, four
have been built within short time, three
have been remodeled and ten have
been reprinted and otherwise improved.
There is a decided activity in building
=. A. Warning is erecting a handsome
dwelling at Bolton and Price streets for
the estate of Waring, and has just begun
the erection of two tenements at Duffy
and Habersham streets. Mr.. J. G. Pudcr
is erecting a dwelling on Drayton street,
between New Houston and Duffy streets,
opposite the Telfair Hospital Miss
Muller is also about to erect house at
Habersham and Duffy streets. Other
improvements already mentioned in the
MORNING News are MIR. j. Il. Saussy,
Jr.'s pretty cottage on Henry street,
Mrs. Russells handsome house on
Anderson street, Mr.. Warnings new house
at Price and New Houston streets, Mr.
w. J. Lindsay's residence at Bolton and
Abercorn streets, the Bethel African
Methodist Episcopal church at East
Broad and Gwinnett street lane, Mr..
LoveL's residence fronting Thomas park
south of Anderson street, the Old Folks
Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor on
Seventh street, MIR. j. Q. Slater's resi-
dence on New Houston street, between
Drayton and Abercorn, and Mr.. Martin
Cooleys three houses at Whitaker and
Henry streets
Maj ]. A Crowther has just begun the
erection of a residence on Whitaker
street, between Hall and Huntingdon,
fronting the park, to be completed in the
fall Mr.. w. w. Chisholm has completed
the remOdellng of brick tenement at
Abercorn street and Gordon street lane
into an attractive cottage. Capt. j. l..
johnson is remodeling and improving the
interior Of his residence at Abercorn and
Charlton streets Other Improvements
in the way Of additions and decorations
are going on all through the city. The
work on the new public building, the
foundations of which are now in progress,
the Wilcox Il Gibbs Guano Company's
buildings on Bay street, now nearly com
pleted, and the Electric Light company's
new building furnish employment to a
large number of men.
Contractors and builders, who have
had dull year or more, are looking,
! forward to more building in the next
twelve months shan has been done in the
last two years. Small tenement houses
are going up all the time in the suburb
| portions If the city, but from now on a
| season of substantial building is looked
| for. Dwellings and residences erected
now are more pretentious than those of
| five or ten years ago, and they add more
| to the appearance of the city.