The herald., 1896-01-09
REAL ESTATE and BUILDING
Permits Issued by the Building
Superintendent
HOLDING UP THE RECORD
No Decrease Ia the Number of New
Homes
Pew Stores and Public Buildings are Com
menced, But the New Population
Must be Housed
HOLDING UP THE RECORD

The weeks operations among the build
ers indicate very prompt revival of activ.
ity after the holiday rest, for during the
six working days ended yesterday exactly
fifty permits for new buildings we're taken
out, covering the erection of buildings of an
estimated total value of $65,934.
This is the dull season in the building
world. Operations are not SO satisfactory
lily carried on during the rainy season, and
though the rains have not put in their ap-
pearance, they are at any time likely to do
SO, and builders generally prefer to wait
for the season which guarantees dry
weather unlil roofs are on. Sufficient
buildings have already been constructed
for the accommodation of tourists who are
likely to arrive, and stores enough TO sup
ply the needs of the mercantile commun-
ity. AS a result, the new buildings are al
most altogether confined 10 dwelling
houses.
During the week a permit was issued to
C. Fou for the erection of one-story brick
structure on Alameda. near Apablasa, to
cost $2730; to I. d. Mott. for repairs and
alterations to the Mott market building on
Main street, near First, at an expense of
$4,000; to Frank Walker. for the construc-
tion of two-story frame flats at the corner
of First and Flower. to cost $4,000, and to
the Los Angeles Railway company, for the
construction of machine shops at the cor
ner of Sixth street and Wolfskill avenue,
TO cost $4,000.
With these exceptions the weeks per-
mits were issued to builders of dwelling
houses, none of them of the superlatively
fine clgss, but most of them of respectable
size and cost and very few of them of the
decidedly cheap kind. The one represent
ing the largest investment is that TO be
e n-l... IL, Il.
Flower street, a two-story frame to cost
$500. l.. L. Bowen will devote $4,000
to home building, the house to be situated
on Bush, near Sixteenth street: Mrs. Ber-
tha Morsch will build two. story dwelling
houses on Santee street. between Eleventh
and Twelfth, the aggregate cost being estl-
mated at $3.50. Among homes somewhat
less expensive is a two-story dwelling to be
erected for Mary NJ. Myers on Thirty-sec-
ond, near Main street, to cost S14SO; A.
M. Green on Kingsley. between Thirty
first and Thirty-second streets, a dwelling
to cost $4,000; H. Spence, Buena Vista
street, in the Cottage Home tract, dwell
ing to cost $500; R. E. Palmer on San
Pedro, near Tweuty-first, a residence cost
ing $1,000; Louisa P. Piersor, at The corner
of Moore and Florida streets, a dwelling to
cost $1135; G. H. Wahlenmaier, corner
Pico street and Maple avenue, dwelling
to cost $1,000; A. Fraser, Solano avenue,
d. G. Wilgus, on Sixteenth, between Main
and Hill, a residence costing 81 500; Laura
Narramore, a dwelling at 4l5 East Twen-
ty-severth street, $1,000; r. H. Reyno Ids,
on Twenty-seventh street, between Maple
avenue and Trinity, $1,000; Hugh Heaney,
two story dwelling, corner of Pasadena ave-
nue. and Truman street, $3.50; q. w. Hard
ing, two-story dwelling on Orange street
near Burlington avenue. to cost $2150; M
q. Pieper, corner Maple avenue and Fif
teenth street, dwelling to cost $500; Mrs
NJ. Borcklin, on Twenty first, between
Figueroa and Twenty-first streets. dwelling
to cost $500; Mrs. Jessie Smith, Macy
near Avila street, dwelling to cost $1,000
Mrs. Scott. Willow street, near Santa Fe
avenue, dwelling to cost $1,000, and Jo
sephine Wilkinson, on College, between
Pearl and New Depot street. dwelling to
cost $3.50.
This steady increase in the number O.
dwelling houses indicates corresponding
increase in the city's population, and it is 81
large as to guarantee that the rate Of growth
is not diminishing, though the list of build
ings is not so long nor made up of SO expen
sive buildings as has been the case for SON,
months past.