Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-05-02
HAUSER AVENUE HOUSES
Flager, Davis, Vail and Talmage Will
Erect Pretty Mansions Nutting
Avenue Being Extended.

4 the enterprislng capital OF Carbon county
/ will present many new business blocks
/ and residences in course OF completion.
! The Picket has from time to time mac,
announcement Of the business blocks
/ which will be erected IN Billings avenue,
| which, but for the decision of the Fisher
Mercantile company not to build this
year, would have made a solid block
from the Spotford hotel corner to the
corner opposite the court house. Ba A
these several buildings are not the only
ones the erection Of which will reflect
the prosperity Of Red Lodge and itS5
citizens. I'm a residence way, too, thsN
city will boom and there will be almost
as much Of a change and Improvement
A in Hauser avenue, the recognized resi-
dent street OF the city, as there Will bc
4 in the business thoroughfare Oft Billings
avenue.
-Four excellent houses are Slated fol
erection upon the avenue mentioned.
Beginning opposite the depot n. u. Davis
contemplates the removal Of his present
residence from its corner and the erec-
ton thereon Of handsome, modern
house. Further north on the tAenue AZ.
d. Flager will build a new residence on
the corner next to George II. Bailey S
/ house W. A. Talmage has some plans
drawn upon which he is getting esti-
mates which will mean the erection Of a
house to cost something like S350O Mr..
Talmage and B. p. Vail contemplate
the erection of residences on lots adjoin,
ing each other. The lots are on the east
side of Hauser avenue and at the ex-
: treme northern limit of the present resi-
dence section Mr.. Vail has not fully
decided upon the erection OF his resi-
dence this year, but if he does not build
the present season he will build next
year. Besides these houses there will
be quite a little building activity in the
, residence section near the Rocky Fork
mine. During the week Of the strike
many of the miners put in their idle
time fixing up their houses and beautify
ing their yards Lumber dealers report
that there was brisk demand that week
for lumber and that the population
which largely does their own carpenter
work were busy as beavers with hammer
and nails. Among the lesser buildings
which have already gone up this season
is neat little S7OO cottage built by w
+. Ross on the edge Of the bluff, back q
the Congregational church. Lumber
dealers report that there are severa
other smaller houses which will proba
bly, be built this summer
OF the residences slated to be built ir
Hauser avenue the coming season that
of Mr.. Flager's is the only one progressed
to the extent Of having the plans adopt
ed for it's construction. These plans arr
the work of SethiD. Hunneywell, a young
architect who came to the city few
months ago from ST. Joseph, Mich
The house will cost about $1,000. II
will be colonial in design, 26X43, two ane
one-half stories high. The basemen
will be a., feet deep, the first foo
8 feet high, the second floor Sla ant
/: the upper floor 8 feet in height. At th'
!: entrance on the first floor there will be
!; fine polished staircase of red oak. Th
: living rooms, consisting Of the parlor
: dining room and kitchen, will be upol
this floor, while upon the second foo
there will be four bedrooms and a bath
room. The upper floor will be finished
off with dormer windows and will b
used as billiard room. The house wi
be heated with a hot air furnace in tn
basement and will be supplied with a
modern conyeniences. The contract fo
the erection of the house has not ye
been let.
i As to B. E. Wallis house, the lot
which he owns in Hauser avenue al
being fixed preparatory to building, bu
there has nothing definite been done q
yet toward the drawing of plans
Mr.. Hunneywell has erected a ne;
81 500 cottage just beyond Willia'
Closes residence in the south end I
town. It is Of seven rooms and built
the latest Queen Anne style.
An improvement which means muc
to the city is that inaugurated by w.
Nutting in the opening up of Word av
nue. and connecting it with the brewer
hill road, thus making q new thorough
fare into the city. The road exten,
back Of the property Of D. G. O'Sh'
. and w. F. Meyer. Tho avenue has be,
81 on tho map ol the city. but heretofore