The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-19
Permits Issued by the Building
Superintendent.
WAS HOME-BUILDERS WEEK
With Little Activity ia Construction of
Stores
The Number Of Dwellings Increases as Rap
idly as overland Sales and I'm
provements to be Made.

The number OF permits issued from the
office of the city superintendent of build
ing during the week ended yesterday is
smaller than has been clronicled during
any week for a good many months past,
and the amount of capital to be invested
in the proposed new buildings is cores
pondingly small. Notwithstanding such
facts, the list is one to be proud of in any
other community of similar size to Los
Angeles, and when looked at in the light of
the near approach of the holiday season
and the necessity of early provision for the
needs of the winter tourist, the list is sur
prisingly long.
Permits we're issued to the number of
DO. The aggregate estimated cost of the
new buildings is $52 800. In this list is a
permit issued to Nj. L. Bennett for the con-
struction of two-story fat, frame. to be
erected on Court, between Grand and
Bunker Hill avenues, at cost of $500.
But with this single exception, every per-
init issued covers the erection or repair of
a dwelling house, the plain indication be-
ing that the cessation of building opera
tons chiefly or entirely affects the builders
of stores and is likely to he temporary to
cease with the resumption Of the regular
shall have come to an end.
The home builders work this week in
cludes some high class dwellings, the one
representing the largest investment of
money being that to be constructed for
Louis Thorne, on Twenty-eighth street, be-
tween Figueroa and Key West streets. P.
r. Wilson will spend $500 in the moving
and repair of a building now standing at
1852 South Hill street. and which will be
removed to the corner of Tenth street and
Westlake avenue. Less pretentious, but
commodious dwellings, will be erected in
various parts of the city under permits is
sued this week, S. Thomas will huild
home on the northwest corner of Fourth
street and Fremont avenue at q cost of
$500; w. Munroe will erect q dwelling
house on Winfield street, between Burling-
ton and Westlake avenues, at a cost of
Sl4OO; l. w. Phelps is at work on two
story frame dwelling on Ingraham street,
between, between Union avenue and YER
non street. which when completed will cost
5000; Julia B. Mcclellan will put I'D
two-story dwelling on Eighteenth street, be-
tween Oak and Cherry streets, at an outlay
of 81 500; w. r. Gosewich will build two
story home on Fourteenth street, between
Central avenue and Paloma street, which
will represent an outlay of $500; A. W.
Sanborn will build dwelling on Philadel-
phia avenue to cost 81 400: Il. j. Mccarthy
is proceeding with a residence on Hope
stree, between Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth
streets, which will cost $500, and Cora
Bruck has in process of construction on
Trenton street, between Eleventh and Pico,
a dwelling house which will cost $3.50.
The builders who put up houses for rent
have not been idle. |. G.. Howser has con-
tracted for the erection of two dwelling
houses at the corner of Baily street and
Brooklyn avenue, at an aggregate cost of
$1,000, and the johnson and Keoney COM
pany have commenced work on three
buildings, one on Ruth avenue, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, to cost $500; a
second OIL Twenty-eighth, near Stanford
avenue. to cost 500, and a third on Pco
street, near Union avenue, which will cost
$500.
The remainder of the list is made up of
permits issued for the erection of homes,
ranging in cost from 81 600 down, as a rule
quilt for occupancy by the owners, who are
sufficiently anxious to get into their new
quarters as TO lead them to push the work,
whether holiday observances are had or
not.
Though the list of permits is small, it
represents nearly if not quite as great an
increase of population as has been the case
when the number of permits issued was
much greater and the cost of buildings
larger. for the number of permits issued
for houses costing from $1,000
down, in which class is included
large majority of houses built by men who
come to establish new homes and intend
to enter into the business life of the com
munity, is fairly up to the average of pre-
v!ous weeks.
There will hardly be a resumption of the
tremendous activity which has character
lied building operations until it becomes
necessary to make provision for the tourist
season of next year, Operations seem
likely to be confined to dwelling houses for
permanent residents who continue to seek
a better climate than is offered throughout
the east, and to the erection of stores,
manufactures and structures made neces-
sary by the increasing business of the COM
munity. And the weeks operations indi-
cate no dminution of the rate of growth of
the city.