The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-01
MANYNEW BUILDINGS
BEING ERECTED, OR FOR WHICH
PLANS HAVE BEEN DRAWN.
BUSY SEASON IN PROSPECT.
WORK ENOUGH IN SIGHT TO LAST
ALL WINTER.

Also PIanned-Union Society and
Conservation Mickxa Israel
Among Builders of These-W. c. It.
U. to Erect $4,000 Home-Many
Small Houses Also i'm Process of
Construction.
More building is going on in Savan-
| nah than there has been in long time,
| and architects and builders say, that,
| from the demands for plans and bids,
| there will be a plenty of work dur
| ing the entire winter. 1t used to be
the theory, said one architect yester-
| day, that spring and summer were the
seasons for building, and that for
some reason it could. not be done dur
| ing cold weather. This, he said, has
been disproved during the last two or
three years. While it is fact that
| in parts of the country further north.
the climate makes it impossible, or
at least impracticable to do such work
| in the dead of winter, the climate In
Savannah is such that it is really more
economical to build in the winter
| months because the workmen are able
to do more work in a day than when
the thermometer is up in the nineties.
This theory it would seem is being
borne out by the condition of the build
ing trade at present. Not only are there
many buildings now in the course of
erection that cannot be finished before
| cold weather, but others will be started
at time that will not allow of their
completion before the middle of winter
The building that is now being done
| is confined to no one section of the
| city, nor does it consist only of build
| ing on hitherto unimproved lots. Aside
| from the more important buildings,
| such as the new Chatham Academy,
which, has just been completed, the
Union depot, of which several descrip
lions have already appeared in the
| Morning News, there are a number of
large buildings being erected:
Four brick, two-story buildings on
| the west side of Whitaker street, be-
tween York and York lane. the lower
| stories of which will be used for stores
and the upper stories for dwelling pur
poses, are being built by the Union So
ciety, to be completed about Nov. 1,
| at cost of about $1,000. Mr.. J. r.
Eason is the contractor.
| Three double tenement, two-story
houses are being built at Anderson and
Lincoln by Miss F. T. Prendergast. Mr.
P. Sugden is the designer and Henry
Bartlett the contractor They will be
completed about Nov. l, at a cost of
about $13, 900.
| Mr.. Sugden is the achitect also of
the two-story frame dwelling houses
| being built by Mr.. ]. E. Willink on
Barnard street, south of Thirty-eighth.
| They will be finished in ten days. The
cost is $4,000.
Still another building, for which the
same architect furnished the plans, is
a three-story brick residence being
| built by Mr.. A. D. Harden on Liberty
street, near Lincoln. The cost of this
is $4,000 1t will be finished by Oct. Is.
| Plans were furnished also for two
| story frame dwelling now being built
| by Mrs. Mary Williams on Thirty
| sixth street. near Drayton, which will
cost $4,000 and be ready for occupancy
about the middle of November.
| About the midzle of September Mr..
| G. S. Haines will begin the erection
| of two-story frame dwelling at Bar
nard and Thirty-sixth street, which
| will cost about $5,000 and plans have
| been furnished by Mr.. Sugden also for
a two-story frame dwelling that will
be built at Thirty-seventh and Dray
ton streets by Mrs. E. Schuster. The
cost will be $4,000. Work will be begun
| about Oct. 1.
| Work will be commenced this week
on four three story brick stores, built
| for the Congregation Mickva Israel, on
| the east side of Montgomery street, be-
| tween Congress and st. Julian streets.
| They will be completed about Feb. /.
Mr.. H, w. Witcover is the architect.
| Another important work of which
1 IT, t. -. t.
| modelling of the Sorrel building, which
| practically will be finished about Oct.
! !. Mr.. Witcover drew the plans also
| for the dormitory of the colored col
lege at Thunderbolt, which will be fin
ished in thirty days. The cost of this
building will be $4,000.
An important building on which
work will begin about the middle of
| this month is that for the Woman's
| Christian Temperance Union three
story stone and brick building, to be
erected at Liberty street, near West
| Broad, and which will cost nearly. if
not quite $4,000. Plans for this work
were furnished by Mr.. Henry Urban.
Mr.. Walter c. Petty is building a
two-story frame residence at Barnard
and Thirty-fourth streets, at cost of
| $4,000.
On Barnard and Thirty-third streets
Mr.. ]. F. O'Brien is building a two
story frame dwelling, to be finished
within month, of (which the cost is
$4,000. Mrs. w. B. McMurray is hav-
ing similar dwelling built at OFT and
| Henry streets, at a cost of $500. This
also will be finished by Oct. /.
Other buildings that are being erect
ed and which have already been men
toned in the Morning News are two
two-story brick stores at Broughton
and Drayton streets, by Mr.. Pope Bar
row, and a row of apartment houses
at Taylor and Lincoln streets, of which
Mr.. ]. c. Postell is the agent and
which are about completed.
In addition to these, there are a num-
Der of small houses in course of con-
struction and a large amount of re-
| pair work. Permits for buildings and
| for repairs during last month num-
bered forty-six, against thirty-seven for
| August of last year.
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Last Excursion of the Season 20
Augusta, Ca, September o, 1901.