The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-02
NEW BUILDINGS GOING UP.
MORE HOUSES TO BE BUILT THIS
SUMMER THAN IN YEARS.

Contracts for the Summer and
FaII-Loan and building Compa-
mics Offering Inducements to PeO-
PIE to Build Homes-ReaI Estate
Men Say There Is an Active In
quiry for Lots and Lumber Deal
ers Feel the Impetus.
The prospects are that there will BE-
more building in Savannah this spring and
summer than there has been in years.
Builders are already busy with work,
and are figuring on plans for buildings 10
be erected during the summer and fail.
One builder has eight houses now under
contract and is figuring on eight more.
Permits were issued by the clerk of eoun-
Gil last month for fifteen houses.
Lumber dealers say their orders for
building material are larger now than
they have been for several years. Real
estate men say there is an active in
quiry for building lots. North of Anderson /
street there is hardly a desirable building
lot to be had within the reach of people of
moderate means. What few vacant lots !
there are are held by the owners at high
prices or for building purposes.
In spite of the fact that 1t is out of the
renting season, there is more of a demand
for desirable houses than can be supplied
Several well known German investors are
preparing to build houses renting for $25
to $40 a month. Houses at that price are
more in demand than any other, except
the low-priced tenements. The SIS to SS5
and $40 houses are rented to a good class
of tenants and in many respects houses
at that price are more profitable than
those renting for higher price.
The loan and building companies which
have not heretofore been anxious for bus
mess, and have Accommodations, are offer
ing inducements to prospective purchasers
of lots for building purposes.
There are fewer idle carpenters and
bricklayers in the city now than there has
been in a long time. The building that is
now going on and that in prospect is
mostly in the central part OF the city, that
is, north of Anderson street, and between
East Broad and West Broad streets. At
present there is very little building in the
suburbs, though a number of handsome
houses are to be erected in the southern
extension and east of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway in the sum
mer and fall.
Among the houses now in course of
erection are two three-story brick dwell
ings for Hon. Pope Barrow on Jones
street, between Abercorn and Lincoln
streets, next to Mr.. Barrow's present
residence. The work is being done by
Winton & Burgess. Two handsome
houses are also in course of erection by
Col. William Rogers, one at Gwinnett
and Lincoln streets and the other on
Lincoln street just south of Gwinnett.
The work is being done by Mr.. Henry
Bartlett. Ground was broken yesterday
for two three-story brick dwellings
for Mr. John G. Rowland on
South Broad street, opposite firemen's
hall. They will be built by Mr.. j. A. Sui
livan, and will be completed in about
! four months. Mr.. j. f. Hoffman will also
build four brick houses, two at Tattnall
| and Gordon streets, fronting Gordon, one
a store and the other a dwelling, and
two dwellings on Waldburg street, near
jefferson street. Ground will be broken
in about two weeks for these houses.
The work will be done by Mr.. Sullivan.
Mrs. w. c. Burnham is building a two
| story dwelling at Bull street and Duffy
| street lane fronting Bull street. This
work is also being done by Mr. Sullivan
and will be finished in month. Mrs.
Burnham is contemplating erecting a sec
| ond dwelling on Henry street. Two pratic-
! ally new dwellings have been built from
| the old two-story and basement house at
Bryan and Habersham streets. The work
has been under way for some time by Mr..
| Sullivan and is about complete: The prop
erty is owned by Miss Ida Henderson.
Mr. John Juchter is building handsome
| dwelling at Gwinnett and Montgomery
streets. The Second Presbyterian church
has about completed handsome parson-
age Just north of the church at Anderson
and Barnard streets, fronting Barnard.
The work is being done by Mr.. w. c.
| Smallwood
The two-story store dwelling
and the double dwelling. at
| Bull and Second streets and adjoining
the corner on Bull street, about COM
| pleted are among the leading improve
ments in that section of the city.
Mr. Henry McAlpin has been contemplat-
ing for some time the erection of a row
of brick dwellings on Hull street, near
Barnard, and it is expected they will be
commenced in a short while. The houses
will be two stories, modern in design, and
will be completed by Oct. l.
| A number of small tenements have re-
Gently been built in the southern section
Mr. Sullivan has just completed a row of
six new-plan tenements on Charles street.
for Mr.. Charles Hohenstein, and several
others are about to be built.
A row of one-story stores is about COM
pleted on West Broad street, on the site
! Of J. F. Guilmartin & Co.. stables, which
were burned some time ago. The stores
| front West Broad. In their rear will be
the stock stables covering nearly an entire
block.
The store at Montgomery and Liberty
streets is being remodeled and made into
two stores fronting on Liberty street. The
work is being done by Sullivan.
Besides the new houses going up a good
many houses are being remodeled. The
tendency for some time has been to
remodel old-style and plain dwellings into
modern styles, adding piazzas porches
4 and ornamental work.
In the business part of the city there Is
! good deal of remodeling under way All
Of this work furnishes employment to
/ labor and adds to the value of city prop
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