The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-30
PUTTING Up HOUSES
Busy Builders al Work All
Over Town.
BOOM IN RESIDENCES
Investors Trying TO Meet a
Lively Demand.

The greatest thing in Wichita today is
the building of residences For while
I'll Of Wichita people ana thousands of
outsiders are looking at the numerous
large brick business blocks that are
being built here, there is another side
that is making even greater progress.
Wichita has hundreds who are not salts
fed with the cramped quarters they are
occupying, as a result OF the scarcity of
houses. And increasing the demand is
the rapidly growing population.
Two and three unfinished rooms COM
mand rents that were formerly paid for
TaUch larger houses and are hard to get
at that. There is not q house ia the town
that is not rented or engaged before It is
finished. Men with money have watched
the development; have studied its pro-
gress and have concluded that as long as
Wichita's wholesale district continues 10
grow and the various manufacturing es-
Establishments are building greater every
DAY, the demand for houses viii continue
The result is everyone who can. is
building a good substantial house Of
some kind on his property. Many are
building for homes and great number
are building houses to rent.
North. south, east and west. the town
is building and getting larger. Every
vacant lot is eyed hungrily by some one
who desires a home. The best and most
assuring feature Of this is the fact that
sll are being built by men who have the
money to Pay for what they are getting
and great many are building for their
own homes
The number Of residence buildings that
are in the process of construction Is mar
vellous. The following list of residence
houses Is taken from a list that is very
Small as compared with the total area
covered by the city and does not embrace
the sections that are the busiest It is
Just sample, just an example Of the
great boom in the building Of homes
Wichita has ever experienced.
1t comprises a district from Main street
90 the river, south Of Central
The houses which have been built in
the past month or are now in the hands /
of the contractors, are:
Mr.. T A Mcpherson is erecting two |
six-room cottages that will cost about |
5000 each. at 343 and 945 Sherman avenue. |
He Is building them as an investment.
Mr.. J. futile has just erected a fine /
seven-room house at sO7 West Central /
which cost about 1900. It was built as
an investment
Mr.. James Volt is erecting a two
room building at 40 James street.
Mr.. Harry Amey, OF 304 South Water. /
has just finished a fine ave-room cottage
st S24 North Water street. It cost about /
$500. Mr.. Arney built the house as an
investment.
MI Henry Schwerdberger is building a
two-story house at a cost OF about $500
on go South Water street.
Henry Grafton and Dryden are build
ing two fine six-room modern cottages at
702 and 734 South Water street Mr.. L. G.
Chamberlain is the contractor. They viii
cost about s, 300 each.
The same firm and contractor are
building an eight-room cottage in the
ninth block on South Lawrence that VIII
cost about $1,000
l. NJ. Reed is building a five-room cot
tage at IA South Orchard street. West
Side It VIII cost about $500 and viii be
Mr.. Reeds home.
D. F. Coffee has just completed two
double houses on Dewey avenue. a six
room house at 2E, and an eIght-room
house at 245. The former cost 81 900 and
the latter $500. Mr.. Coffee is al. present
building two more houses Of the same
pattern at IA and 74S South Water street.
One is an eight-roon house that win
cost S1,sco. Mr. Coffee IS doing his own
contracting and is building as an invest
ment.
Mr.. John Schott is building a home at
l201 South Water street. which will cost
about 81 900. Ledbetter * Yowell are the
contractors.
Mr.. S. c. Wilson IS building q two-room
house at 1889 South Water: cost. $3.50
Mr.. Frank Harson is building a neat
four-room cottage at 1879 South Main.
He is building II as a home
Mr.. F. Hsycroft S building q fine seven
room cottage at 1889 South Main street
tnat viii cost Sl,f0o. Mr.. Haycroft is
building it himself.
A. Z. AIcAIees is building a four-room
cottage at 1888 South Main as an invest
ment The property will cost nearly
81, a9o when completed.
Mr.. Moses Jay Is erecting a fine 12-room
modern cottage, with all conveniences.
that viii cost nearly $4,000. Stoy 6 Fran
els are the contractors.
Stoy & Francis have the contract 10 !
bald a ive-room cottage on English and ]
Market 10 cost $3.50. II is the property ]
OF Mr.. T. @. Parham
Horace Williams IS building q seven !
room house al 40 South Market street
for Mr.. T. Sexton. TO cost about 81 900.
Mr.. Chris shores is building a three
room house for r. Beard ar S25 South
Market street that viii cost $500.
ar. c. J. Michael has contracts for two
fine hve-room cottages a. 945 and s+7
South Market street that viii cost about
$1,000. Mr.. Abram Carr is building them
as an investment and VII soon build two {
more AT about the same cost. on the cor
ner of Gilbert and Market
Mr.. Walter Payne VIII also erect Il
house 10 cost about $3.50 at 1901 South
Market
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