The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-07

the building all the time. and the con-
tractors hope to nave it completed by
August 1. Its cost will approximate
SIG, 6,0U0.
The extension and remodeling of the
federal building will be a close second
to the building of the auditorium in the
matter of the money expended The
appropriation made for it by congress
is $4,000. but the bid made by Charles
Moses, of Chicago, to whom the con-
tract was awarded, is $40, 600 less than
that figure but the balance may be ex-
pended in some other manner. Work on
the extension will begin as soon as the
structural steel can be procured.
A number of other buildings of a
business nature are in course of erec-
ton, or soon Will be. Mrs. SellS-Green-
span will in a short time begin the erec-
tion of a wholesale building at the cor
ner of Third street and Kansas avenue
to be occupied by the Nave-McCord
Mercantile company. 1t Will be 80 by
$50 feet and 2 stories high. Mrs Green
span is also remodelling her residence
on Quincy street into colonial resi-
dence.
Two new buildings are in course of
erection on Quincy street, between Fifth
and Sixth, and both of them will be
pressed brick fronts. One will be oc-
cupied by W. T. Lawless for a livery
barn, and the other will be occupied by
DeMoss & Penwell's undertaking estab-
lishment.
A new carriage factory, two stories
llSn ana WIN a pressed D11ck front, IS
in course of erection by T. T. Lannan
just south of Fifth street on Jackson,
and Seery & Morton have erected a
large addition to their implement house
on Sixth avenue east.
New residences are going up by the
dozen in all parts of the city. Since
prosperity is once again in Kansas
many people have been seized with a
desire to own their own homes Real
estate dealers say that many of the
bargains in residence properties that
were offered last fall have been taken,
and eastern people who own property in
Topeka that they are anxious to get rid
of have had little trouble in finding
purchasers if the price has been com
mensurate with the value.
AS a rule the most desirable properties
| that have been offered for sale in the
past have been sold, and the sale of
vacant lots is now beginning to increase
and people are building their own homes
on them.
The majority of the houses which are
| being built are, of course, modest cot
| tageS, although there are a considerable
number of residences of the more elab-
| crate class. Practically none are being
| built for rental purposes; every house
| will be occupied by the man who owns
| it.
The building and loan associations are
| doing more business in the way of aid
ing in the building of homes than they
| have done before for years. Since jan
uary 1 the Shawnee Building and Loan
| association has made loans for thirteen
! new houses, and it has six new applica-
tions under consideration. The cost OF
these houses range all the way from $500
to $4,000, but the average is about $1,000
| The Capitol Building and Loan as
sociation is assisting in the erection OF
ten new houses at the present time, and
has five more pending for the near fu-
ture. Some of these are little cottages
| of perhaps three rooms, and they range
from $500 up in cost. The people the
| building and loan associations aid the
| most are those who work for a stated
| salary, and who save a certain amount
monthly to apply on a home.
I'm addition to the large number OF
| houses that are being built said c. s
| Elliott, of the Capitol association, u
| have been surprised in going around
| over the city to see the large number OF
| improvements that are being made in
houses already built. In almost every
| block there are houses which are either
oeing remodeled or to which additions
| are being built.
This is a very 1atteTing showing fol
Topeka. for it is evidence that the city
is becoming a city of homes-homes
owned by the people who occupy then
and who will take pride in improving
their premises and the streets on which
they live.