The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-25
NEW FLATS GOING UP
OVER 100000 TO BE SPENT ON
NEW APARTMENT
HOUSES
BUILDING BOOM CONTINUES
Contractors Are Certain of Being
Kept Busy Until Well
Into the Winter
Months.

With the latter part of October gener-
ally comes cessation of active building
operations, but local contractors are con-
hdent mat the present building boom will
keep up we'll into the winter
Every ARCHITECT in the city is busy. and
some of the contractors have taken work
to an extent which precludes any posi-
bility of 1t being completed this year.
Possibly the biggest Improvements to
be projected this year In the apartment
house line are three large fiat buildings
which will be erected jointly by M ].
O'Net, of st. Paul, and Carl Peterson.
of Minneapolis. They will cost their own
ers about $4,000. The structures will be
erected at Dayton and Nelson avenues
and will have a frontage of SO feet on
the latter thoroughfare and go feet on
Dayton The three buildings Will ba d.
Y1ded into eighteen fats of six end seven
rooms each. Pressed brick and marble
viii enter largely into the construction
Of all the buildings The interior finish
lrgs will be the handsomest on the mill
Another big fiat building proposed, snd
for which plans are at present being
drawn by Louis Lockwood, is one to be
erected On St. Adams and Grand avenue
by d. ?. Roussopoulous. The building
will be of pressed brick, three stories high
and divided into six apartments. 1t is
hoped to have the building completed this
winter. The structure will cost $4,000.
The st. Stanislaus congregation is pre-
pairing to put $4,000 into a new school
building to be erected at Western and
Goodrich avenues 1t will consist of two
stories and q basement and contain four
rooms and an assembly hall. The build
Ing will be constructed of pressed brick,
with cut stone trimmings Z. J. Donohue
is preparing the plans, and hopes to have
them completed so as to allow work on
the building to be started this year.
Another parochiaI school building con-
templated is one for Rev. Mr.. Mcter's
congregation at Thomas and Gaultier
streets. 1t will be $3.50 feet in size. of
pressed and ornamental brick, and will
contain nine school rooms. The improve
ment will represent an expenditure If S20,-
00O
st. Vincent's church, on Virginia street,
is also to have a new school building.
The contract has been placed With the
Butler-Ryan company, and the cost will
reach SIS, 000
In respect to residences, the number
now in course of construction and con-
templated is heavy, and includes MANY
of high cost. Among the number reported
this week for which plans are being pre-
pared is one for G. L. Cox, to be located
on Laurel avenue at cost of IS, coo; ~one
for j. G. Murphy, Portland and Oxford
avenues, cost $4,000. and a brick addition
to their building by the Memorial Evan
gelical church, on Sixth street, at a cost
Of $4,000 The latter will be a residence.
and will be occupied by the pastor, A. j.
D. Haupt
Reed & Stem are preparing plans for
the addition of two stories to the Open
helm building, on East Fourth street The
cost will be about $1,000
NEW TRAIN SHED.
OF permanent improvements, the union
depot possibly represents the heaviest ex-
penditure, and in order that it may be
completed this year, men will be kept
working well into the winter. One of the
biggest items of cost in the work is the
addition to the train shed, the contract
for which was secured by the american
Bridge Company Of Minneapolis last
week. The addition will be $40 feet long
and will have a width of 80 feet. Under
the contract it must be completed be-
fore the close Of the year