The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-15
Isaac J. Cook Is Negotiating With
George w. Brown for Site
at Sixteenth Street.
OLIVE STREET APARTMENTS.
Contractors Announce Ground
Will Be Broken for the Buck
ingham and Twelfth Street
Hostelries on March 1.

Isaac 7. Cook. manage of the Chemical
building, whose recent achievement was the
closing of a deal whereby the Frisco Rail-
road will erect a handsome office building
at n cost of $4,000 upon the site of the
present Emile building, at the southwest
corner of Ninth and Olive streets, is per-
fecting plans for another first-class hotel in
the business district of Washington avenue.
1t is said that the capitalists represented
by Mr.. Cook may purchase from George w.
Brown, president of the Brown Shoe Com
pany. his lot on the south side of Wash
inston avenue at Sixteenth street.
The plans call for a hotel to contain 800
rooms. and the cost of the building. indie
pendent of the lot, will be more than $780,
900. The lot has a frontage of about 200
1eet and Is almost as deep. The deal may
be closed this week.
Though the erection of the new 81, 200, 900
hotel on Twelfth from Locust to ST. Charles
street has been assured by the Ways and
Means Committee of the Worlds Fair.
generally recognized that this hosiery will
not supply the demand for first-class ac-
commodations in the business district.
1t Is also said that If another downtown
hotel is to be built, the Washington avenue
district is to be preferred. The Sixteenth
houses, and will appeal to persons who de-
sire to stop Just on the euge of the COM
mercial beehive. 1t Is also convenient to
Union Station, and has excellent street-car
facilities.
TWELFTH STREET HOTEL.
The most important event of the week. in
the estimation of realty men, was the an
nouncement of plans for the $1,000. 900 hotel,
which the gentlemen composing the Ways
and Means of the Exposition had
worked hard for four weeks to launch.
From the first 1t was recognized that when
Festus ]; Wade. chairman of the committee.
and president of the Mercantile Trust Com
pany, decided that the big hotel must be
built. and undertook to carry out this pro-
iect. success was assured. The entire com-
rniftee and AdoIDhuS R,lSch in partictlar
also have been congratulated upon their
broad public spirit and unselfsh zeal in an
enterprise which will greatly relieve the no.
tel situation.
Mr.. Wade went further than the common
effort to raise funds. He made a tour of
the principal cities in the East, carrying
with him representatives of Barnett, Haynes
& Barnett, architects. and studied the con-
struction of the best hotels to be found. The
architects will use the best features of the
buildings inspected, and then improve upon
them. The result, it is said. will be a hotel
in st. Louis that will have few equals and
no superior Of its size anywhere.
The building is to contain 400 rooms.
twelve stories, entirely devoted to hotel
purposes. and Barnett. Haynes & Barnett
for the structure surely will begin
March l. The building is to be finished in
ated with the Building Trades Council
have agreed TO work night and day to this
end.
OLIVE STREET APARTMENTS.
1t was stated at the office of the Hon-
mann Construction Company, which has The
contract for the Buckingham Hotel. West
Pine and Kings highway. that bios for the
subcontracts will be opened on the 18th Of
this month: and construction will begin on
March l.. The hotel is to cost more than
s1.00o.00o. and will be managed by Henry
Weaver of the Planters.
Doctor George NJ; Phillips. who is having
the Bluegrass Bachelor Apartments erect.
ed at Olive and Sarah streets. has had
Frank A Hueser. architect. of No. 20z7
Wash street. to complete the plans for a
s200. 1000 apartment house at the Northwest
corner of Olive and Newstead avenue. He
purchased the lot, 155xI.S feet, through the