Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
ANOTHER NEW BLOCK
IN BUSINESS DISTRICT.
ERECTED By THE GERMAN
INSURANCE COMPANY.
NORTH OF THE OPERA HOUSE
ON Market Street. Replacing the Two
One story Structures Now stand
ing There-Action Taken ut
Meeting of the Board of Directors
Held neutrality-suspicious. on Chap
line street Property.

The disposition TO erect only large,
substantial structures in the business
district, thereby utilizing all the avail
able ground space TO the greatest ad-
vantage. was further evidenced yester-
day afternoon at a meeting of The
bOalu OF Directors OF the German Fire
Insurance Company, held In the ONCE
0. the company on Fourteenth ST. Get,
when it was aee.ded TO erect a seven
Story building on Market street.
me German Insurance Company
owned the Opera House property on
FOurteenth and Market streets until
very recently, when it was sold to the
v est Virginia Printing Company. The
new owners will remove their big
printing and binding establishment and
their newspaper ofaces into the build
lis 10 occupy it Dy October LIST, 1902.
be German company's property ex-
tended on Market street up TO the
Building OF c. Hess &c sons. 1t en-
braces the one-story frame structures
w occupied by Neil Quinn, sa oonist,
Franz Laupp and confectionery and
L Hannah Bros. cigar factory. These
tidngs viii be torn down and re-
paced with a substantial, modern,
s-yen-story business block. The work
WI be started early in the spring, 1t is
Understood.
The company has long had such a
owe in contemplation and the tenants
o. .4arket street have been unable to
lease the property for any long period.
The German Company has not found
t. Opera House sufficiently profitable,
considering the value of property in
Il same neighborhood, and it has been
generally understood that the theatre
would be discontinued as soon as
" modern theatre was erected and
o7ened. The proposed new building
VII be handsome addition TO the
Narket street business houses. Two
0 eer handsome structures have core
II this simmer, the c. r. Held build
il an the Bader & Maurer stag hotel,
the latter of which will be ready for
onnancy about the first of the year.
Desirable business locations on Mar
ket street are becoming scarcer each
var. There is still some unimproved
ai estate, however, and some un-
slightly buildings which will doubtless
b replaced by others within the next
fCW years.
70 is understood that the Trusehel
estate contemplates the erection of
b ness house on the site now occu-
p d b. the Poyal Blue restaurant end
the Wheeling Bakery. The half block
on the east side of Market south of
Fourteenth street from the corner to
tire alley will be the only available
rcal estate for business purposes. A
portion of it is owned by syndicate
co a0sed of Jere A. Miller and others,
who are understood 10 have no imme-
Gi1te plans for building.
While tho retail business district is
in a contested condition there is a
tendency to go north of Twelfth. which
h9s manifested itself in recent years.
ard latteriy disposition to go east of
MARKET street. It is understood that
within tho past few months options
hn~n heon taken unon several pieces of
Chapline street residence property, I'M
d r The imnression presumably. that
the 9oerd of Trade Theatre Company's
row building will be the entering
vedge to transform that quiet thor
o '@hfare into portion of the business
district