The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-23
BUILDERS ARE BUSY
NEW BUILDINGS GOING UP ALE
OVER THE CITY.
MANY HANDSOME DWELLINGS
SOME OF SAvANNAH's PRosPEC-
TIVE IMPROVEMENTS.


savannah and New City Hall In
sight-The Present improvements
Principally in the Southern and
Southeastern and southwestern
SectiOns-The Development of the
River Front by Manufacturing
Enterprises.
A healthful activity that shows con-
fdence in the future of the city and a
desire to make investments or estab-
fish residences, Is apparent in an OBJ
servation of Savannah's building prog
ress. There have been periods when
many more buildings have been in
course of construction, but it is a note
worthy fact in connection with the i'm
provements now being made that many
of the houses are designed by the own
ers as their own residences.
The Morning News has prepared a
summary of building, which shows
widespread development-develop
that is not confined to any particular
section. 1t is significant, however, that
the eastern and the western sections OF
the city are making greater strides
than formerly, and the proportion of
| houses being erected in those sections
| is relatively much greater than was
the case a few years ago.
With the upbuilding of that section
of the city south of Anderson street
and between Abercorn and Barnard,
the prices of building lots have scared
| upward, forcing many, who desired to
build, to seek lots to the east or west
This has been largely responsible for
the increase in building that may be
noted in the eastern and western sec
! lions.
A measure has just been passed by
the City Council that is relied upon
| to greatly improve the eastern sec
ton of the city, especially Collinsville
and the Meadows. This is a provision
for sidewalks. which are to be laid on
several of the streets running through
that section. The rapid development
of the unimproved property is looked
| for after the sidewalks have been laid
AS was the case in the southern sec
ton, where sidewalks were laid three
or four years ago, the eastern section
| will be made much more desirable than
now The sidewalks were regarded as
offering every prospect of rapid devel-
| opment in the southern section, and
those who opposed them have since
seen the wisdom that was shown in es-
| tablishing them.
The New Union Station.
Probably the most important build
ing improvement in the city is the new
union station on West Broad street,
now practically completed, and which
| will be opened some time next month
| for business. The approximate cost
of the station and it's approaches, ex-
elusive of the land and the tracks, is
| $3.50, 900.
The impetus given to building
in that section of the city by the con-
struction of the station and the trend
of business in that direction is appar-
ent in the number of new buildings
that have been erected and the general
| Improvement of the streets and build
| ings. The paving of West Broad
street south of Liberty will add to the
! development of that section. All
| through the railroad section there is an
addition of improvements. The large
wholesale houses that have been built
in the Central Railroad yards are an
! evidence of the drift of business that
way. In the railroad section
on the eastern side of the city the
probable conversion of the present
Plant System passenger shed into
| freight warehouses will be a marked
Improvement.
Extending the City.
There is also good deal of building
on the outskirts of the city, east and
west. West of the Ocean Steamship
wharves the development of the river
| front property as O. manufacturing sec
ton within the last few years has been
remarkable. Comparatively a few
| years ago the limit was a short dis
lance west Of the Ocean Steamship
Company's property. Now the river
front is lined with factories way past
the old city water-works.
While the development of the river
front property, east of the city, has
not been as great, the addition of the
| new fertilizer factory, the extension of
the railroad warehouse sheds and the
Plant System tracks has added largely
to the value of the property.
prOvements in Prospect
With the Marine Hospital, which is
now assured, the prospective public
library building, drawbridge over the
river to the Seaboard Air Line termi-
nails on Hutchinsons Island. and the
consequent development of the valua
BILE river front property north of the
Savannah and west of the Seaboard's
Wharves and warehouses, and the
probable building of a new city hall.
as the result of the bridge, will in
the course of the next year or two
add hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the city.
Contractors Busy.
Architects and contractors say there
is an active inquiry in regard to build
ing and the indications are that the
coming season and year will witness
the erection of more new buildings
than have been erected in Savannah
within the same period for many years.
In the section of the city south of
Anderson, and~between Abercorn and
Barnard number of handsome resi-
dences have been completed within the
last few months and a number are now
in course of construction.
Mr.. A. A. Aveilhe is erecting a seven-
room frame house at the northeast
corner of Whitaker and Thirty-ninth
streets. The house fronts on Whita-
ker street. The framing is up. and
the storm sheathing has been put on
The house is going up under the SUI
perintendence of Mr.. William Noonan
1t will cost about So, 500
On the west side of Bull street he
tween Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth
Mrs. G. Henken is building a six-room
residence for her own use. Mr. J. T
Cross is the contractor. The house is
nearing completion, the painters being
at work upon it. 1t will cost about
$500.
On the southeast corner of Thirtv-