The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01
MANY NEW HOMES.
Continued from Twentieth Page,)

Braid in the near future. on Thirty.
fourth street, near Barnard.
| Mr.. j. G.. Slater will begin work in g
few days on the three-story brick store
Office and apartment building at tn,
| corners of McDonough, West Broad ant
I Perry streets. The structure will BIZ
of attractive architecture, and an or.
nament to the locality The entire first
floor, with the exception of slight space
will be occupied by Mr.. Slater for his
wholesale and retail grocery business.
The second floor will be partly offices
and apartments. The third floor will
be entirely used for apartments. All
modern equipments will be installed in
the apartments. The plans are now
being prepared by H. w. Witcover,
architect. H
Work on the Sacred Heart Church,
at the corner of Bull and Thirty third
streets. which was stopped temporarily
few weeks ago will be resumed in
about three months and pushed to
completion. The foundations have
been laid and the joists of the floor
put in place. This will be a very
handsome building and add materially
to the architectural beauty of that
section of the city. Mr.. j. r. Eason
has been in charge of the work. Mr..
IL. w. Witcover is the architect.
In few days work on the Germania
Bank building. the new handsome
eight-story building to be erected at
the southwest corner of Bull and Con-
gress streets, will begin. This build
ing will be one of the handsomest Of
fice structures in this section of the
country, and Will be a credit to the
entire city and section, as we'll as an
ornament to the business district. Mr..
Grant wilkins of Atlanta is the con-
tractor. and Mr.. Fl. w. Witcover of
this city the supervising architect.
The new branch Citizens Bank
building, the handsome six-story stone
structure at the northwest corner Of
Liberty and Montgomery streets, is
nearing completion In a few weeks
the exterior structure will be complet-
ed, and work on the interior, which
will be of the finest kind, will be be-
gun. The building will be one of which
Savannah will be proud
Rivers & Gibbes are erecting eight
two-story frame dwellings on East
Broad and Huntington streets The
houses will be we'll fitted and comfort
able and add to the neighborhood.
Mr.. w. r. Leaken is having erected
at Bryan and Farm streets five two
story frame dwellings. They are be-
ing substantially built and will be
comfortable and roomy.
What can be done in the improve
ment of property and the development
of neighborhood by a realization of
possibilities and the will and ability to
take advantage of them, is shown at
Bryan and Lumber streets, where Mr..
Charles F. Fulton has just built some
twenty houses on lot 160x80 feet.
Five of the houses are two STORY.
six-room dwellings, and the remainder
one-story structures OF three or four
rooms. They were built to replace
few tumble-down shanties. and were
SO noticeable an improvement to the
section, as well as the buildings they
replace, that the neighborhood has by
common consent named the place Full
toms Hill"
The property represents AN invest
ment of several thousand dollars. That
1t is good investment Is shown by
the fact that though the houses have
not yet received the last exterior coat
Of paint, the majority of them are al
ready rented. That improvements of
this sort induce and stimulate others
is shown, too, in the number of other
new building operations that have been
begun in the immediate vicinity.
The value of Mr.. Fulton's property
will be enhanced both In attractiveness
and value by new brick sidewalk,
that will extend the entire length of
the buildings and which will take the
place of the old. ungraded earthen
walk that formerly existed.
Numerous other small dwellings are
being erected within the city limits
The building industry will assume
even more active shape within the
next two months. The building of
many other handsome residences Is
being contemplated by prominent citi-
zens and within another two weeks
permits will be issued and many con-
tracts let.