The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-11
iIATTLE ERECTING TWO HOMES EACH DAY in THE YEAR.

next to the Collins block .aat represented
| sia.1. TIE Sunset Telephone and Teie-
| graph Company finished the new block
I Third avenue, near Spring at & cost OF
Sizye. James J. Htlis building at the
| corner % Jackson street and Second ave-
! nue. south IS gradually being reared and
when II Is completed viii have cost $4,000.
a peculiar fat Is that ali OF the store
space has been rented already. Several
companies owning water front buildings
have improved their property at cost Of
several thousand dollars. improvements
In other sections have been equally mani
fest. One thing that must not be lost
sight OF Is, the army post barracks which
are nearly completed. The government
has expended something like So 900 for the
barracks. etc. The Vulcan iron works have
nearly completed their osriding on the
tide lands which cost $4,000.
The residences which have been built
have averaged 81 go. Some have been less
and many a great deal more, but a con-
servatiye average places them at the above
amount. They range all the way from
one to two and a half stories. 1t would be
difficult TO make average of the size
In stories OF the residences.
Two Notable improvements.
Steadily but surely there have been at
least two improvements going on which
the general public has not been able TO
see. They are the improvements on the
Denny hotel and the Great Northern build
ings near Smith cove. AT the Denny hotel
force OF at least fifty carpenters. plumb
ers and painters have been basily at work
converting the large buieurg from an un-
slightly structure to a splendid editice. Over
S2o.Vv has been spent so far and this
amount does not include the grading and
beautifylng of the grounds. When every
thing has been completed the Denny Hotel
Company will grade Third avenue from
Pike street to Stewart. Out at Smith cove
one must see the work being done to thor
oughly grasp the full; wort>1- The estimate
OF the cost would be exceedingly hard to
figure. The work outlined is going to be
followed according To the pans. and posi-
bly, several Improvements will suggest
themselves
More I'm Prospect.
AS TO the prospective building the out
look Is brighter than for that just being
completed. Two. and possibly three large
bricks Second avenue. will be COM
menced not later than March. One viii
cost, according 70 present specifications
$l1n OW. TIE other two Will cost In the
neighoorhood OF $4,000 each. August Mel
horn Will build two more stories to his
building TO cost perhaps not less than $i5,-
Gu.
Two handsome blocks are among the
buildingswhich are to be built on the water
front One viii be a six-story brick and
viii cost about $4,000 and the other is a
stone block to cost $4,000. A large ware
house and dock improvements are con-
templated by company. but nothing GER
tain would be given for publication. The
large building to be occupied by the Sno-
Qualmie Power Company, will cost all the
way from So. to $4,000. Nothing defin-
tie could be got as estimate. The founda-
ton work has already begun The inn
provements of the Pacific Coast Company
will amount to at least 600 and posi-
bly, more. Several Eastern parties have
been in the city recently or have had
representatives here looking for sites on
tho tide fats. One large Eastern company
has plans for the erection OF six-story
building to cost between $4,000 and s3o,oco
The foundation work for the block to be
built on Second avenue. between Union
and Pike street. has begun and the build
Ing when completed Will be two stories
and will be valued at sis,0Ao. The West
minister Presbyterian church is erecting
an edifce TO cost $3.50. At the present
time arrangements have been made to put
$3.50 into IL and the inside finishing will
be done later next year.
The construction OF the assay Office will
be looked forward TO with considerable
interest An appropriation of &5oeoo viii
be asked for Besides those mentioned
there are plans for many more large build
ings but there was nothing certain wheth-
er they would be built next year or not.
Many Residences Projected.
The residence estimates are quite as
cheerful as those of the business blocks.
one very peculiar feature Is that two
thirds OF the residences are being erected
within the limits bounded by Madison street.
Terry avenue on the west, Twents-third
avenue on the east and as far north as
the City park. One house IS being erected
In the Squire tract and several Others
viii follow in month two. On Queen
Anne hiil several residences are being
erected and the pans for more are in the
hands OF contractors On Rainier Heights
! several handsome homes viii be built be-
fore the summer months aave arrived.
| one architect has plans for eight dwellings,
to cost seo,o each 10 he erected during
/ February. ON East Olive II s-.ts1 residence
| viii lee built during March. ON Belmont
! avenue wei known merchant will erect
| "A residence to cost $3.50 with ali modern
improvements Two residences VAL soon
/ -. built on Fourteenth avenue to cost
! 81 80 each. In North Seattle Ave one and
/ n half story houses wiil he hult costing
! s. epa In conversation with many OF the
contractors who are building residences
( they stated that they had contracts fer
houses that woui3 carry them into next
winter Considering that not third OF
TIE plans for the future aye in the hands
+ az TIE architects II Is exceedingly diiiiculty
&c reach an estimate that wo0id IN any
Wy 30 correct
/ 10 where one viii in the clty linsts il
{ IL Impossible 80 look In sny direction and