Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01
NEW BUILDINGS FOR 1893.
Homeseekers Consider kansa
Good Place to Live In and Act
Accordingly.

There is TO more valuable aid to n cityS
growth than we'll managed building anu
loan associations and investment compa-
panies that encourage people In building
and owning homes. A city OF homes Is a
ways a good city. both for business pur-
poses and to live in. and Kansas City IS
making rapid strides in lie development
as a city OF homes. Its record in that line
for the last year has been a particularly
proud one.
The city has nineteen building and loan
companies. although the bulk OF the BUSH
ness is handled by less than half that mum
Der. In addition to these. 1t has a score
OF investment companies. Trims ana private
individuals who are doing wonderful Work
in building homes for those OF small means
on the easy payment plan hundfea5 OF
people of limited salary nave seen no"
easy II was TO pay for a home rather tnaA
LAY rent, and in this way the cnoice aGui-
tons all about the city are being well n4ed
with pretty cottages or more ptttenIloGS
homes that furnish a source OF satisfactory
gain TO the investor as well as an easy way
OF securing a home for the purchaser IL
Is a place where all parties TO the ~trdnsac-
ton are gamers, and the citys interests
well protected also.
Some of the companies nave built as high
as seventy-iive homes during the year, oth-
ers have built forty. or less. but al nave
cone a big business and have plenty more
In sight AID il is believed that a thousand
new residences will be erected the present
Year inside the city limits. The leading
Teal estate firms have ample funds 10 hUila
homes for their customers. and they have
plenty of ftaanciers who are willing 10 fur
nish any amount OF cash required Tor sucn
needs.
Owners Of suburban property have found
this plan an easy solution OF dlSpoSllS OF
a portion Of their holdings and largely in,
oreaslnS the value OF what they retain, anu
they, are Using il in u lively way Inc
ample RAPID transit facilities OF the city
and the liberal system OF transfers enable
la 1Drpr= 10 llCa in tho StrhnrhS ana WOTk
downtown and the easy way of acquiring
homes makes the rest OF it easy sailing.
This prevents any congestion or population
downtown and also avoids the evil of the
tenement house district.
BY all odds the proudest gain made in the
city, IN ali OF its wonderful growth during
the past year. was in the number of new
homes buih by those already here and by
the very hrge number OF newcomers. IL
Is estimated by the conservative real es-
tate men that three-fourthS of the new
homes bull, here during the year We're built
by newcomers who Will herceforth become
q part OF the city.
While tlrre were many frame cottages
In the list Of houses built there was a very
fiattering number of fine residences. or
frame and brick that cost from s2.o1 to
$500. While in the list will he found some
that cost q much higher figure. There was
not the same gain in the number OF bust
ness houses that is shown in the list of
homes. but that Is accounted for by the
fact that the business houses We're very
much nearer the number demanded by the
business u the city.
Kansas City has always been a good
place 10 do business in, ana with the beau
LITIGATION md splendid improvements that
are being so vigorously carried out 1t is
also rapidly becoming Il good place TO live
in. just ri the Commercial Club decided
several years ago that ii should be- The
following is a partial list of the better
buildings put up during the year. There
were man others of smaller cost. more
than SEQ fame buildings being erected dur
ing the weir, costing over a million dollars
The bFi6l buildings We're:
Henry u Train. residence 5000.
Mrs. A. B. H. MCGEE. residence. 5000.
J. u. Chambers, residence. 500
s Rosenwald. business. SioN0.
Crutcher & Welsh. residence. $500.
Mae f. Shepherd. residence. S,Gp.
c. c. smith. residence. $1,000.
L. H. Williams. residence. $1,000.
f. w. Smith. business. Sll.Cr0.
Hucke 8 Sexton, residence. S.nnr.
William Eolker. residence. SS,oo0.
Elizabeth Halter. residence. 5000.
J. {. Fetnell. residence. S2e1.
Frank Roster. residence. Ss.cdo.
]. W. Grman, residence. $500.
Z. L. JineS, residence. S4,6G.
O. II. St.VenS, residence. I.J9o.
q. p. V~ndeuburE. residence. $3.50.
] J. Smith. residence, $3.50.
u. c. TIrg. residence. 500.
Fleming K Kettle. residence. s2,oN.
f. \. Smith. residence, S5.p1.