The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-03
REAL ESTATE and BUILDING
Progress as Shown by the
Building Permits
A MODERATELY BUSY WEEK
Buildings of All Kinds Represented in
the List
Some OF the Sales Of Lands Reported, To-
gether With improvements In
tended to Be nade
A MODERATELY BUSY WEEK

Anyone laobring under the impression
that the Los Angeles building boom is
dying out may quickly have that illusion
dspelled by few moments spent in the
examination of the records in the office
of Superintendent of Buildings Strange.
During the past week no unusual activ-
ity has been displayed in building mat
tiers. either ia the sudden increase OF
building in special localities or in start
ing strikingly large buildings in the bust
ness section. But great steadiness of
operation has been shown in the erection
of buildings ranging from the cheapest
of sheds tn moderately prete1tious bust
ness blocks, and the total amount of worl,
for which permits were taken out has
been kept fairly up to the record, both
as to mum Dor of buildings and in amount
of money invested.
For the seven days ended yesterday rs
permits were issued. the total estimated
cost of the new buildings being sos,
410. OF this list the most expensive block
is that to be erected on the east side OF
Broadway, between Fifth and Sixth
streets, by Samuel McCallum. 1t is to be
of brick, three stories IN height and will
cost, plumbing not included, SIS. OO0.
The block Will be used for stores and
lodging house.
Los Angeles is evidently OF the opinion
that the big Nebraska corn crop Will be
disposed of at remuneratve prices and
that the prosperous farmer intends to
maze his way numerously to the Pacific
coast. At any rate. preparations are
frar Z hn
Mississippi valley and from the far east
when he gets here. as is shown by
the increased proportion of lodg-
ing houses represented in the list of
building permits. Among the buildings
of this class are flats to be erected Tor
William Ferguson on Clay street, BE-
tween Third and Fourth streets, at a
cost OF $4,000; another for W. H. Ross
on Winston street, between Los Angeles
and Wall to cost $1,000; a pig lodging
house for G. w. r. and Julia S. Ford to
be erected On Hill street. oetween
Second and Third, at an outlay of $1,000 ;
and still larger one upon which work
has Just commencei, on the south SIDE
of Second street, between Hill and Olive.
The building Will be three-story
frame, with basem ent and will cost $4,000.
In the line of residences, while there
are none of the extra ornamental and
extra expensive kind, there is good
proportion of structures handsome enough
to cause comment on the part Of the Wis
erect two-story dwelling house on
Twenty ghth street, near Flgueroa, at a
cost OF $5O00 and McGarvin " White will
make additlona to dwelling at 220 and 222
South Spring street, at an expense of
$4,000. The johnson & keeney company
have gone into the dwelling house busi-
ness rather extensively daring the week,
having taken out permits for the erection
of four dwellings,, as follows: One on
Twenty-tirst street, near Washington,
to cost $1,000; one ca the lot adjoining,
10 cost like. amoant; one on Ruth ave-
nue.. between Fifth and Sixth streets, TO
cost 1920, and one on Towne aven1e
between Fifth and Sixth streets, TO cost
$lf00. H. d Godfrey will baIld two
story dwelling at the corner of Ninth
and Flower streets, to cost $500; T..
Stills took out permit to build O resi-
dence on Hope street. Between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, at a cost OF $3l00; Mrs.
Annie Jenkins will also build two
story dwelling on A.varaoo street, near
Sixth, at cost of $4,000, and DR.. Walter
Lindley will erect a handsome residence
on Grand avenue, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets, at al outlay of $500.
In addition to the buildings mem
toned, there is large namber Of more
modest homes. ranging IN cost from
$500 to $500, and an equally large mum !.
her of cheaper houses, which are yet of
satisfactory kind.
The city grows, rapidly and symmetri-
cally; and whether or not the population
of Los Angeles is to be considerably in
creased by the establishment of 1.-The
greater Los Angeles. as the result OF to-
to be big city, inhabited by prosper
ORC manila