The herald., 1897-03-18
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
A Resumption Of the 0Id-Time
Activity
SEVEN NEW HOUSES A DAY
The Record Made During the Week Just
Passed
Real Estate Rapidly Changing Hands and the
New Purchasers Are Buying for linz
SEVEN NEW HOUSES A DAY

seen resumption OF building IN the
city which closely approaches the record
set year or so ago when a fair days
work was expected to run from seven to
ten new houses begun. though at pres
ent the aggregate of investment falls
short of former times The average
during the past week has been exactly
seven new houses day. forty-two per-
mits having been issued during the
week The total estimated value Is $5S.
233. which. while II does not include any
pretentious store building, does embrace
a good proportion Of high-class dwell
ings. and something more than the
usual proportions of comfortable homes
ranging upward from the $4,000 mark.
The most expensive building COM
menced during the week is the hand
some two-story residence to be erected
for Mrs. M. J. Rankin on Twenty-eighth
street between Key West and Hoover,
which will cost 10000, the nearest second
being authorized by permit taken out
for Bishop Montgomery for the erection
of building for church purposes at the
corner of Faurth and Chavez streets at
an outlay of $1,000. There Is a satisfac-
tory number of dwellings ranging from.
$4,000 upward in cost. and still more
which nearly approach that sum. The
list in full follows:
Henry Guenther, dwelling. Central av-
enue between Twentieth and Twenty
first streets, $1,000.
Allison Barlow, dwelling, Griffin ave-
nue. near Main street s1O0c.
d. M. Meyers. dwelling, St. James
street between Leroy and Holly. $500.
d. M. Meyers. dwelling. st James
street between Leroy and Holly. $500.
Jones & Smith, one-story brick build
ing, 21O West Fourth street. $40.
Charles Schaffer, dwelling. corner
Brooklyn avenue and Chicago street,
$780,
W. j. Chichester. two-story dwelling.
Twenty-eighth street between Key
West and Hoover, $4,000.
Mrs. M. J. Rankin, two-story dwelling,
Twenty-eighth street between Key
West and Hoover $4,000.
j. e. Megie. stable and harness room,
Crocker street between Fifth and Sixth,
$50.
Frank z. Rich, dwelling. Toberman
street between Sixteenth and Seven
teenth. s1125.
Mrs. Kate Bull. two-story frame
dwelling, 1910 South Grand avenue. $500.
Frank Lee. two-story tenement, Sem
tous street, between Twelfth and Gi-
rard, $780,
Miss Sarah Lee. two-storx fats,
Twelfth street between Sentous and
James H. Walker. dwelling. 144o
Wright street. $50.
William H. Masser. two-story DWELL
Ing, Bush street between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth, s2500.
William Stromee, raising fire wall. 20S
West Fourth street. $780,
G. E. Mitch, dwelling. Mann street
near Cottage Home. 1929.
Edwin Lewis. dwelling, Winfield street
between Bonnie Brae and Burlington
avenue, $1,000.
Mrs. Sarah Holloway, dwelling, 156
Thirty-seventh street, $1,000.
M. e. Nelson, two-story frame cot
tage, lockwood street near Union ave-
nue., $500.
T. L. shaffner. dwelling, Sunset boule-
ward. $1,000.
Robert j. Adcock. dwelling, SIC South
Sichel street. $500.
Robert j. Adcock. dwelling, 51s South
Sichel street, $500.
Mrs. Mary Augustine, repairing dwell
ing, Fourth street between Lake Shore
and Belmont, $50
A. p. Velzy, two-story dwelling. East
lake avenue near George street, $500.
James v. Akey two-story building
three brick stores with hall above for
societies-southeast corner Central and
Vernon avenues, $4,000.
A. Glassell, raising building and add
ing two rooms, $1,000.
H. c. Brunner. moving house to front
of lot and adding eight rooms, West
Twenty-fourth street between Adams
and Washington, $4,000.
j. s. Sergeant, dwelling, Wilson street
between Tenth and Eleventh. $3.50.
T. D. Mott, removing partitions and
adding two bay windows, ia North
Spring street. 1915.
Thomas McElroy. dwelling, Mateo
street between Fourth and Fifth. $500.
B. Ballerino. repairing brick building,
721h North Alameda street, 5000.
A. v. Slack shop, Cypress street be-
tween Vermont and Palm, $17o.
william Z. Anderson, two-story dwell
ing, West Ninth near Denver avenue.
William E. Anderson. dwelling, West
Ninth street near Denver avenue, $1O5O
J. e. McGinty, dwelling East Twenty
ninth street, near Stanford avenue; $1,000.
Henry Ross. dwelling. 1872 Baldwin
street. $500.
church purposes, corner OF Fourth ana
Chavez streets, $500.
Eva Mirgm, dwelling. Highland,
near Vermont avenue, $780,
Xayer Meenzhuber, dwelling. Truman
street, near Downey avenue, $lSs4.
Mary l.. Piepins. dwelling, Westlake
avenue, between Seventh and Eighth
streets. sos.
Amelia Elliott. dwelling. 1868 Union
avenue, 500.
Same owner, dwelling, 432 west Tweh-
ty-aecond street. $500.
UNCONTRACTED WORK.
The location of the new armory build
ing was definitely decided upon at
meeting held Friday evening. It was
decided to accept the proposition OF
]. 8. Copeland, who agrees to construct
a building to cost $4,000 on his lot on
the northwest corner of Eighth and
Spring streets. II will be three stories
high and iO0x155. the two upper stories
to be occupied by the militia. work is
to commence at once.
Az Thursdays meeting Of the board
of education report OF the building
committee was received and ad-
opted, which provided for an
increase of school rooms. as follows: An
addition Of four rooms to the Sixteenth
street school building; four rooms to the
San Pedro-street school building; six
rooms to the eixth-street school build
ing: four rooms to the Seventh-street
school building; two rooms to the Swain
street echool building; four rooms to the
Santa Te-avenue school building; new
building OF not more than four rooms
in the southerly portion Of the Ninth
ward; new building OF not more than