The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03

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building will be, converted lntq z ,o dgtI
for the New England Electric NenIS
Comnanv' which will operate automo-
biles for pleasure and business pun
poses. urosb
At the corner of Bedford and WASH
ington streets, Boston, Norcross BIOS,
are building for the Massachusetts |
general hospital a building to pc occq
pied by the dry goods house OF IIoss y
Strauss. The building is of seven stoI
ries. of brick and limestone, anu WIZ
cost $4,000 according to the plalls VI
Architects Peabody & Stearns. II
now nearing completion ana WIN
ready for occupancy by the peslH
ming of the new year.
Resides these enormous buildings on
which the firm is working in BOSTON,
there are a number of smaller CON
tracts. among them the magnlnceht
residence of Lester Leland on Beacon
street, after plans by Little & Brown
The contract price is $50, 900. The hrm
is making alterations in the residence
of G. w Armstrong, at cost OF $lV'0VV.
The enormous low service pumping
station for the city of Boston at Chest-
nut hill reservoir is a structure On
which the firm is pushing work rapidly
1t is being built for the metropolitan
water board, at a cost of quarter OF
a million of dollars, after plans py
Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.
Among the many residences now be-
ing built by the firm is the magnlncent
mansion for Mrs. Herman Oelrlchs, AT
Newport, R. l., at a cost for the mere
structure of 100000 The stately, YET
coy house will be of marble and terra
Gotta, and is now one-haf completed
1t will be conspicuous among the many
magnificent residences and estates at
Newport for architectural beauty, and
the plans, by McKim, Mead q White
have yet failed to elicit any criticism
from even experts.
OF recent years Norcross Brothers
have constructed more public buildings
of note than any other firm of con-
tractors in the country. At Madison,
N. j., is being built public library OF
Milford pink granite at a cost OF
S12, 600 At Stonington, Conn.,, the firm
| is erecting the public library, at cost
of $4,000 1t is to be of the famous
Stony Creek granite, with buff brick
and limestone.
Ground has just been broken by
the company for the erection of the
100000 public library for Jersey
City. N. j. 1t is after plans by Brite
& Bacon, and is to be of Stony Greek
red granite, entirely from Norcross
Brothers own quarries.
Milford granite is being used in the
construction of the immense passenger
station of the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad at Albany, n. Y,
Norcross Brothers now have the build
| ing well on the way to completion, and
when finished it will cost the railroad
$3.50, 900. ..-+
At Middlebury, Vt. the. Worcester
concern is building the library for Mid
ldlebury College, at a cost of $1,000.
The Vermont marble of which the
structure is to be erected, is just now
ready for setting. The library was
designed by York & Sawyer and is a
model of its character.
The astronomical observatory of Wei
lesley College, donated by Mrs. Sarah
| Within of Whitinsville, is nearing COM
pletion, and workmen Of the Worcester
| firm will have the building ready for
use this fall.
| In New York city, Norcross Brothers
are just beginning work on the Lying
| in hospitaI, recently given the city by
J. P. Morgan. Plans are by R. H. Rob
ertson, and call for a brick and lime
stone building, which will cost $780,
| 000
All thesc are but the largest and most
1 ltIlpOIt dLL VI Tie Dultulll6 OpCldllOlAO Va
this immense business, which is of
| Worcester origin and of Worcester
| growth.
The quarries at East Longmeadow
are under a rush of big contracts, the
| largest of which are cutting and furn-
ishing brownstone for huge apartment
house in Utica, N. Y. The structure
will contain modern apartments, and
| the entire front, which is 400 feet long
will be of sandstone, from the. Norcross
quarries There is also being cut a,
these quarries stone for the extension
of the Gilmore Opera House at Spring
| field
This gives but a small idea Of the
enormity Of the business being con-
| ducteo quietly and easily by the Nor
| cross Brothers. Smaller contracts are
numerous, and a detailed enumeration
of the operations of the famous firm OF
| builders would fill book of good pro-
portions.
Here is a partial list of recent build
ings erected by the firm:-
Hampden county court house, Spring
| field, Mass, $4,000: Woburn library, $50,
| $50, go; Crane memorial library, Quincy,
| Mass, $4,000; Albany city hall, Albany,
n. Y, 1926, 900; Allegheny county court
house and jail. Pittsburg Pa, $500, 600;
Cincinnati chamber of commerce, $570, 900;
Howard memorial library. New Orleans,
sos, COO; Maiden library, $4,000; Union R
r. station, Hartford, Conn, $220,O00; B; &
600; stone R, r. bridge, Springfield Mass,
$4,000; stations for N. Y. C. & H. r. R
r. Co., at Irvington. Riverdale and Dobbs
Ferry, y; X. $4,000; Exchange building
Boston, $l,600, coo; Ames Washington street
building, Boston. $625, 000 Amos Lincoln
street building Boston, $3.50 900; New Lon,
don, Conn New London public library
$4,000: Springfield, o., Warder public libra
ry. $4,000; Union League club house, New
York city. S255,000; Boston art club house
$4,000; Algonquin club house, Boston
500, coo; residence of Annie w sherman
| Newport, sac, 900; Boston residence of Oil
yer Ames, S6S0o0; Boston residence of C
A. Whittier, 100000: residence of Grang
Sard. Jr., Albany, $4,000; block for UnioI
theological seminary, New York, $60, 900
residence of 3. H. Warder, Washington
D. c., $112.000; Great1Barrington Kellogg
terrace, $4,000; Boston, John F. An
drew's residence, $4,000; G. G. Converse
Boston. Mass, residence, $55, 900; residenc
Of John e. Thayer South Lancaster, $S5,
900; residence of j. j. Glessner, Chicago
$50, 900; Dedham, Mass, residence Of A
w. Nickerson, SIS, 900; Springfield, o.
residence of A. S. Bushnell, 100000; Cam
bridge. Mass, residence of Edwin H. Alb
bott, 100000 Worcester high school, $40,
600; Latin high school, Boston. $l70, 600
Harvard university. Agassiz laboratory
| IInA Ndld uiiNclStlyt
s91 900; Harvard university, law school
Sl36O0O; Harvard university, Sever hall
10000; Harvard university, Perkins hall
$4,000 Harvard university Conant hall
$4,000: Harvard university, Fogg art mu
scum, s150.0O0; Union theological semina
ry, New York city, $2S6OO0 Vermont uni
renceville school, New Jersey, 1920, 00O
Durfee high school, Fall River, Mass
10000 Grouse memorial college, SYRIA
euse, N. T., 1920. 900; Osborn memorial hall
Conn. Williams memorial institute $40
600; Crompton's block, Worcester, Mass
$4,000; Cheney block, Hartford Conn,
Turner building, St. Louis Mo- sos 000
Marshall Field building, Chicago, $500 900
New York life insurance building, Omaha
x150 000 New York lifa inei,rar * III \ - :