Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-06
MAINE BUILDING NOTES.

According TO all reports, building in
Bar Harbor will be dull this winter.
Otto Nelson, at his woodworking
plant in lower Main street, Bangor. is
having busy season. He has the
contract to furnish the exterior and
| interior finish including doors. stairs.
and abinet work for the Women's dor
mitory ut Colby College. He has also
furnished the exterior and interior i'm
ish for eight houses at Milo, eight at
Newport, four at Hampden. eight in
ana around Bangor, several at Rar
HarLor and one at Bluehill. Mr.. Nell
son is also building this season a fine
dwelling house III Center street. BAN
gor, for Il. II. McCready, train dis
hatcher of the +. 4 \. K. r.. and in the
same locality one for W. X. Hallett
assistant superintendent for the r. &
A. X. K. Mr.. Nelson has also the con-
tract to make over and fit up the new
headquarters of the Public Works "a
in Main street, Bangor.
The Van Buren, Trust & Banking
Company have awarded to E. O. Dash
lebroom of Caribou the contract ia
erect their new building. Work is to
commence at once.
l.. w. Stevens's Woodworking mill
at Fort Fairfield is running to its full
est capacity with large number of
orders in hand. l.. :. Osgood and crew
have recently put in new fIume in
the mill. Other repairs to the dam are
under way ana when completed the
mill will be able to run with much less
steam than formerly.
Euilding operations continue brisk in
Newport and many new houses are go
ing up at the present time. The four
new ones being built by the Newport
Wooden Company in South Elm street
are fast nearing completion. The four
houses all have modern bath rooms
with the best of plumbing and fixtures,
and will prove to be in good demand.
The plasterers have finished their work
and the houses will be ready for occu-
pancy in a short time.
The new Congregational church at
Otter creek has been dedicated. The
church IS a neat building. divided into
an audience room and two smaller
rooms for Sunday-school work. The
basement is heated with furnaces and
is lighted by electricity. The interior
is shcathed four feet all round in hard
pine. The walls are plastercd. cork
finish, the ceiling sheathed and pam
elled, giving very good effect. The
floors are ali pine.
The town of Pattcn il erecting an in
termediHte school huilding which will he
one of the finest OF its class in northern
Maine X will have four large class
rooms on the first floor all finished in
light. natural wood with all modern
school conveniences. On the second floor
there are two rooms which can he finished
off into two large class rooms should oc-
casion demand their use. The plumbing
is of the latest and most approved SAM
ing. The outside finish Will be stained
shingles down to the bottom Of the win
dows from which ii will Toe clapboarded.
There are two large entrances, one at
each end of the building and a large and
spacious hallway running through the
centre of the new building.
Bids have been solicited by the L. S.
Government for the construction of Il
buildings and alterations to one stone
cottage, including plumbing. heating and
electric wiring at Fort Leavitt. Cushing's
island. The bids are to be opened Octo-
her 18th and the work or construction
will commence just as soon as the govern !
ment officials at Washington decide to
whom the contracts shall he awarded. |
These bids call for the construction of a |
series of buildings for the occupancy OF |
the government army officials and soldiers |
10 be stationed on this island. the con- |
tracts call for the expenditure of almost !
$2r10o0 for the buildings alone to say |
nothing of the amount that will have to |
be spent later in the equipment of theSc
buildings. The buildings to be erected |
here are practically duplicates of those |
now on Great Diamond Island at Fort |
Mckinley The buildings include the |
offices and residential buildings of the
offices. and the barracks for the soldiers.
the hospital. engine rooms, etc, for the |
steam heating aud electrical apparatus. |
The work of construction will he pushed |
rapidly forward so that the buildings can
be occupied if possible by another fall.