The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-17
MANY new ONES.
Topeka Contractors viii Be
Busy This Season.
Number Of Residences Are
Already Contracted For.
WORK is ALREADY ON.
Several New Houses Now Being
Erected in Orchard Place.
Business Houses to Be Rebuilt
and RemOdeIed.

This years building in Topeka is to be +
principally residence construction but of
its kind there is promise of being an
abundance. Already the rip saw and
hammer are active and the end of the
present building season will see compile /
ted 20 or 80 of Topeka's best dwelling
houses. scattered from the Orchard
Place addition to Potwin. The more ex- !
pensive buildings will include a $4,000
addition to Ingleside and $4,000 house
on Buchanan street to be put up by G.
w. Merriam, the new member of the
Merriam Mortgage company with 3
possibility of the construction of a fed
Grated clubs building to cost somewhere !
in the neighborhood of $4,000
Plans are complete for the interior re-
modelling of the three story Manspeaker
building at eos Kansas avenue but the
estimate of cost for the work has not
been concluded. The two upper floors
of the building are to be completed for
modern office rooms with the accom-
panying conveniences. No change will
be made in the exterior of the building.
Architect L. NJ. Wood has designed the
interior arrangement and the work on
the building viii be done during the lat
ter part of the present spring. This
years building plans do not seem to
include many improvements for the
business part of town, including the re-
modelling of the Bank OF Topeka build
ing. The residence building is fully as
active as it has been at any time during
the past four or five years.
Just at this time Orchard Place ad-
dition is filling up more rapidly than
any other one locality. The boom that
that tract of land has been given by its
a residence 5S n
questionably paying, and paying we'll.
Work is being done upon several
houses on Harrison street and Topeka
avenue and plans for dozen more arc
made and the contracts let Within q
year Orchard Place win be closely built
with the best class of dwelling houses.
ranging in cost from 81, 200 to 5000.
Among the numerous builders who
propose to invade Orchard Place addi-
ton during the present year are Col F.
5. Savage OF the Santa Fe and e1-State
Treasurer Frank Grimes, whose houses
are now nearing completion on Harris1n
street On Harrison street also Franz
Edison, A. 0. Harrison, F. \. Strickrot1
w, 5 McClntock. Charles L. GauIt X
T. Roby, H. S. Knox and Amos Long
aker are planning to build or have made
ARRANGEMENTS for doing so.
A o. Rosser and A. L. Erickson will
build on Topeka avenue, a block west.
while l.. b. Whitteker and Mr.. LePont
have picked out places for homes at the
corner of Fifteenth and Van Buren,
streets. George Baker will also build
near that corner. Western avenue viii
get some Of the new houses, P. J. Col
vile and L. B. Maxwell of the Santa
Fe being among the prospective build
ers on that street. Some of these men
toned have already gotten their houses
under construction. A. NJ. Rodgers will
build on Western avenue while J. c.
Darling is making preparations to To-
cate on Harrison street between Thir-
teen and Fourteenth, which is not prop
erly in Orchard Place addition. r. L.
Thomas win erect a beautiful cottage
on Quincy street near Eighth avenue
A few of the houses above mentioned
are built on speculation but the larger
part viii be occupied by their owners.
Elmer Barnes of the Barnes real estate
company is now building on Clay
street near the southeast corner of
HuntOOp street. Charles W. Short of
the Santa Fe and c. W Merriam of
/ the Merriam Mortgage company Will
/ build in what is now coming to be call
/ ed Governors Square" near the cor
ner of Eighth street and Buchanan.
These last mentioned houses will be
among the most expensive Of any men
toned. MI Merriam intends to put
about $4,000 into his new home 1t IS
to be built in the so-called Colonial
style of architecture.
Potwin which has seen no new build
ing for the past twelve or fifteen years.
is to have one fine new home, that now
/ being built by NJ J. Goebrecht. who
now lives on Woodlawn avenue. He has
disposed of the property he now occu-
pies and is building on the opposite side
of the street between Fourth and Fifth
streets DR. D. NJ Fisk of Washburr
college is building a residence on College
/ avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets. President Norman Plass of
Washburn is figuring on a new house.
but has not selected its location. It may
be built on the college campus.
The addition to Ingieside is designed for
] caring Tor the inmates of the l0SfifFfl
which is now in an overcrowded condition.
The addition will be three stories in height,
to be erected on the east side of the pres
ent building. and viii cost $4,000. There
are other houses of greater or less value
to be built about Topeka this summer but
their projectors do not care to have their
plans made known. All the architects Of
fees in Topeka are busy. although several
Of them are at work upon plans for build
ings in other Kansas towns.