The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-28
Real Estate
WATCH The DIRT FLY
Prospects Are for a Busy Building
Season When Frost Is
Gone.
Already There Are Plans Under Sc
rious Consideration for Some
Big improvements.

| 10 build or not Is the question which is
agitating all classes in Minneapolis from
/ the worlxingmen who wishes to build
small house to the manufacturer VINO
! contemplates an industrial plant.
u Even after fundsasenoughg are in hand.
several questions deter the prospective
builder from making immediate prepare
/ tions to begin work when frost IS ouS
| of the ground. Whether present income
| from stocks and bonds is better and more
4 secure than the returns on real estate
is one question and whether when nail
through the job the contractor VIII nave
a labor difficulty on his hands IS anothsf
doubtful. proposition
The architect is perhaps the first man
connected with the building trades TO
know what the prospect is for Minneap-
jolis in the way Of 1903 building. Sug
| gestives sketches and estimates are usual
Ely ordered before any decision is made.
| William Charming Whitney. the. archl-
! tect notices this year that people are
building and VIZ build a much better
| class of houses and a more expensive one
than has been ordered in the past few
years. More money is being spent on
| both the exterior and the interior of
4 dwellings and customers are showing less
| attention to the looping off of little ex-
| penseS.
Mr.. Whitney believes that now is the
time to build. 1t is little use to wait
longer as, in his opinion, ma terials will
| present time While is=individua1 lines
may change for the better the general
run of materials will remain firm.
! One tendency mahifesting itself in
Minneapolis pleases the architect. Mr..
| Whitney says this is also noticeable all
over the country as evidenced in the
architectural magazines, and rightly so,
Al, A.. .-
with the completion of the plans for the
house and buildings, but that it extends
to landscapng Of the plot upon which the
/ house stands. In other words it gives
the architect an opportunity to make the
setting for his architectural work, so that
4 it will appear to the best advantage
Lines may be entirely ruined by the mis-
fsetting of a tree or by some atrocious
1 piece of gardening.
In the east the tendency is toward
some arrangement for, a sort of outdoor
seclusion for the owner Of a house and
his family. In the Minneapolis arrange
| rnent lawns are open from one end of the
block to the other. and rarely has at
! tempt been made to beautify the lawn
| other than by the planting of an occa-.
sl iona tree and the cropping Of the grass.
ing of hedges and the building or orna 2
mental brick walls. The artistic designs
for landscaping takessstlle form even in
narrow lots of regular QUILTING of
walks and drives and the correct dis
tribntion of Shrubs. dover beds and trees
with refernce tpsfhe general design Of the
Ibuidings.g srgss IiA
Bushes. AeedsssM ore Room.
! In business way plans are fermentng
! for all sorts of warehouses, factories and
Z / 6iroS
have been made alriady, such as those of
the =Phaurn cigar factory on First avenue
I N and the Pauly factory on Fourth ave-
I"nue@ N. The Plant Rubber company's
building on First avenue N will be an
other addition to this street, which is
rapidly becoming a wholesale center.
1 Two grocery house and another scisar
manufacturing firm have been discuss
ing building plans for some time. In each
/. case the deal is hampered entirely by
bitches in the real estate negotiations In
fact, the inability to make terms with
certain owners of property, or to buy at
| all, is delaying at the present moment
the erection Of a handsome bank build
ing, not to be the equal Of the North
western National bank house on First
avenue S. but still credit to the city.
Sketches have been made for COM
bination hotel and apartment building on
First avenue. A hotel man has been
sibe that the plan may be discovered to
be not money maker. The idea was to
have apartments in suites.
The Eten-year lease just made on the
oneida block precludeS the sale of the
building to a man who expected to tear
down good part Of it, remodel and
establish therein his-business Offices This
man is something of an iconoclast. He
has been seeking quarters for some time
and has not yet found a salab1e building
In the financial center which he would
not tear down to make over for his own
purposes.
Hotel and Flat Expansion.
: Stories are floating about the real
:, has been purchased for a hotel and tina t
s750,000 has been raised to. put UP the
building. The Windsor hotel owners are
considering improvements to their prop
erty.
$ Barring a financial ins,tfficiency, Min
neapolts Will have at least one and per
: haps two new magnificent combined
: apartment and fiat buildings IF either
:, scheme is put through it is probable that
the other will be dropped because either
would absorb all of the best paying fiat
tiers not already provided for The idea
in each case is to put up such a build
ing as will not deteriorate appreciably
y with age.
The building permit record has not
yet begun to swell the spring contracts,
but 1t is believed that in short time
the general activity Will be very evident
especially If the spring is early. III