The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-29
MANY NEW BUILDINGS
NEW HAVEN'S CoNTINUED STEADY
 AND RAPID GROWTH.


 Process of Erection or Soon to be Erected
 Improvement on Temple strcet-At
 Cedar Hill-The Enlargement of the
 County JaiI-New Haven Chair Factory
 EnlarGement-yarious Other Changes.
 MT. John Pigott, brother of ex-Con- gressman Pigott, is erecting four two family houses on Cedar Hill avenue, Two of the houses are nearly com pleted. W. I. Harday of Lloyd street has contracted for the woodwork and John B. Began is doing the plumbing. The houses are to have all modern improvements and the tenements are five rooms each.
 Officer Patrick Reilly of Station ? is erecting three-story brick building at the corner of Maltby Place and Grand avenue. The building is to be fitted on the ground floor for store and the two upper floors are to have tenements of six rooms each. Gallag- her & Reilly are doing the mason work, the plumbing and gas fitting being contracted for by John B. Began.
 MT. Began has also the plumbing contract for three one-family houses which are being erected on Bassett street, near Dixwell avenue, by s. w. Hart, superintendent of the Hancock Life Insurance company in this city. MT Woodin of Highwood has the con- tract for the woodwork. The houses are frame dwellings.
 Still another contract which MT. Began has for plumbing is in the new house of Philip Schulhafer on the cor ner of State and May streets Con- tractor Sperry is doing the woodwork on the building, which is to have three stories, the ground floor to be fitted for a store. On the other floors are. to be tenements of five rooms each. l MT w. D. Judsop the real estate dealer, has just completed four-fam- | fly house on Edgewood avenue, near l Dwight street. The building is the | property of Asa L. Fabrique of Town send avenue (annex). The tenements are fitted with modern improvements | The mason work was by Nugent x Graham, the woodwork by w. J.. Healy and the plumbing and heating l by John B. Began.
 1 The work of tearing down the old 1 Gerry homestead on the corner of Tenn pie and Wall streets is nearly com | pleted. Some time ago the property was sold at auction in order to settle | up the Gerry estate and the purchasers 1 subsequently sold to Samuel and James | S. Hemingway, teller and assistant tel | Ter, respectively, of the Second Ma | tional bank They had plans drawn | for double house. which will be a very handsome structure.
 | George M. Grant was awarded the contract for building the residence and Tuesday the work of demolishing the | old house was begun.
 The new structure will have front
 age on Temple street of 54 feet and
 will run back on Wall street a dis
 tance of 84 feet It will be three stories in height and up to the second
 story the front will be of Longmea dow
 stone, while above will be Philadelnia red pressed brick trimmed with Long, meadow stone and terra cotta.
 Samuel Hemingway with his family
 will occupy one side and his brother
 the other side of the house. The sides
 will be similar in the arrangement ot
 rooms and all other details On the
 first floor there will be reception
 nall, parlofs, library, dining room and kitchen, while the other two floors will
 be devoted to bed rooms, etc.
 The contract calls for the connie.
 tion of the new building on or before
 May 1, 1S96
 Robert Lutz, the Crown street mar
 ketman, has purchased a lot on tn, |. corner of Howard avenue and Firs
 street and intends building a store ant
 dwelling. He will locate there as sooI as the building is completed. Architec : Robinson is making plans and speoifi } cations for the building, which will b. 30x54. No contracts are let vet. MT } Lutz will probably run grocery in con
 nection with his meat business. T THE COUNTY JAIL. The plans and specifications for tn county jail alterations in this city ar
 ready for estimates. It is proposed t
 expend about $75.000. The plan now i
 to have new workshop built in tn rear of the main jail building, abuttin, the long corridors. It is then propose to have the machinery moved from tn present shop on the east side of the iaj to the new building. The shop will the be converted into jail with 100 addi tional cells in it. There are now f7 cells in the institution and that mum Il Der is not nearly adequate. It is be
 lieved, however, that the addition C 100 more will accommodate all. Iro y cells have practically been agreed upo : by the commissioners because of san
 tary reasons as well as on account ( a their safety.
 BUILDING PERMITS. f Willis L. Mix, George street, fram f house 35x5O, cost $6,OOO The work ( - erecting the house has begun.
 James McNamara, State street, two - family frame house 2Sx40, cost $2, 800. O Michael Kane, State street, two-fan Ii fly frame house 2Sx40, cost $2, 800. Q w. H. Mcdonald, 121 Wolcott stree
 two-tenement frame house 27x51, COS
 $4,0O0.
 Peter Lendroth, State street, fran