The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-01
Number off, Structures Erected.
or Projected Never De- /.
fore sEqtlalled. \,
VA YEARS SPLENDID RECORD!
Tic Character Of the Buildings
Rcyolutionized- SlSy-Scrapers
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II boom times, seen Sucflt q. pcrlou on nuliu-
Ing. structures completed or begun In
Che twelve months ending last night rep
resent an expenditure of ncnrly two and
one-half million dollars--to be as exact az
possible, $2,425, 900.
/, has existed, nor does any exist to-day.
Tho vast sum Invested In the improve
" fnent Of real estate Is the outcome Of
G the Enthusiastically. the forced.-growtlh
the city. With q conservatism for winch
Richmond is we'll known, she has clung
stolidly to her old business homes and
s residences. When other cities were tear-
ing these down and erecting finer ana
Z moro convenient houses, with the I'M
portant aim In view of saving time,
i Richmond resisted the impulse with
conplacency. But the soundslof the ham
,ner and tile saw In cities to the north
and 10 the south have been SO constant
4 and the tramp Of progress about her 80
Inspiring and SO stirring. that her 5luHber
III this particular has boon broken .fors
tools have been ringing In the cars OF
4 The populace as never be fore. /. 81
# Sky -SCTsAP1IaS 81 NOW.
Not only has great advance been made
E In tho number Of strnctures erected or
3n course OF erection but their t oia l'' :
ter has been rcvolutionized. 4
aIordecai. In his Richmond In By
Conc Days says there were but one or
I, two four-story buildings lii the city In.
Ills day. and they had reached their
abnormal height by the Irish process OF
going down, the streets having been cut
y down. leaving their cellars above ground.
Until within the past i've or ten years
few buildings In tho city were OF more
than three stories, and the great maJority
were three stories highlor lesa. To-day
the corner OF Tenth and Main streets y 3.
will be eight stories. Yet another, me
..richmondi, Hotel. at the f. corner Of
Ninth and Grace. is eight stories. e.
Tho annex to Mnrphy.s hotel Is equaliy
rs high. The contract VIII 20 AWARDED .l!si
the 18th OF this. month by the mutual
Assurance Society Of Virginia FOR inc
erection OF an office building at the cor
uer of Ninth and Main Streets. wnlen
rSill be nine stories a Dove GROUND On Mali
Street. with basement and celiar pe
meath. making all told structure OF
- LEE DISTRICT
1,.hil. improvements have been confined
s 4 !, no section OF the city, they have been
more conspicuous in the Ice DISTRICT;
N where no less than one hundred ana
Twenty-Five residences have sLeen begun
a or completed In the past year. Inc
average cost OF zach OF these new homes
IN new residential Territory Is certain
IF; IS 600 pos sibly more. nSking the totnl
cost. at the minimum efdmatc, & stSs,ooo,
or considerably more, Than llalf 9. nllilohi
B do,luis.
eously, improved business places nave nay,
feen keeping pace with tho new resl-E
itani.as Old factories and Old stores
,,re being torn down and OLD lhccnNen'
fences thrust aside for the modern stru Us.
3 1urc with the latest desirable nell'sF Ao oi
t1ving time. s5s4 -. y, u,
4 ,-nnd bricks In the walls and they made
Ihosc wallis thick and stalwart; they
.,ften gave their structures iron fronts:
,To.Lav the aim Is to build OF steel ana
stone. to build against storms anu
flames against time and tho increasing
needs of progress. T.,
co,,rse OF erection or completed DURING
14s, as nearly correct as ~ IS possipic
t-nesIert,eld Apartment House, $3.50 ,ooo..t
"a, hSdrai ar the Sacred Heart. Laurel
street between Floyd and Park Avenues 'ell y
I'll Z. II, Jenkins Dookbndery. West Broad a''
's. Two three I1 Story dwellings on Franklin
west OF Jefferson, $50 900. ~.
Joseph ". Laune,s undertaking. rooms
Two three story houses on Broad Street,
west OF Jefferson. 81 900 for THO TWO.
Beth Anaba Synagogue, sSlai1n'td ana
Rose.negk Brewing Company. Improve
,nents to brewery. With enhancement ems y
z S5O. 55s Z. .o- 80
iiickos residence, improyemas;n n,S $of
eetween Broad and Grace, occuplcd py
Miller anil Rhoads, sSS GOO. 80 -,
impn,e nap15.sth Guri on slS 1mn,ittee,s
building, 5 on adjoining site; $2s,oN -.
Memorial Hospital. Twelfth and Broad
streets, $3.50 ,O0o. $50,
81 Three dwellings facing ChlmooraSo
~ h
llartly Block, Louisiana street. FUTON
-Four Klrkwood residences. 90 T we u.
eighth ana Franklin strccts, SZV'VVos 10y
r. IT, Hardesty. brick. dwelling facing
jefferson Park. 50, 900, ..,,,. y.
{. Charles r. R3rauer, brick dwelling rae
II Il tf'wo Dick dwellings, 1wenty-third and
& Hiarshull, $4,000 for the two.
q; ,castebbers, NO. 100 East Nam ''ll1
Henry VI: Rountrcc. fuctory. Broad and
Nieiimond Hotel Ninth and Grace
'' j. NJ. campuelf, Tenth and Broad i'm
proyenlents, s2,5D0.
r. W, Wood and Sons seed Warehouse,
Gle, sGResapeako and Ohio freight depot,
1t n, Jones AMI sons. warehouse; s25, 900
Whittet and Shenpersoa, Eighth between
American National Bank, Tentl aud
souith Ssnig Biscuit works, Fifth and Byrd
I $4,000
Galeskl building eled BY yitlgss sS SIS SIS
Ten stores and four dwellings, by RICH
mond Realty and Development COMPANY.
Fifth and sixth, s35, 900 Tor stores, $4,000
4. for dwelllngs;T total SOL 0OO.
tsoyenanter Building, Main between
,lTifthf and Sixth s. 0NJ. 3t '5asyteh
Virginia State Insurance Company's OF,
ice. Fifth and Main, northwes corncri
n 10000. al I. Z. a
Iredegar Works Company rebuilding
q tfter fire, S25, COO \; 81 ij
CEDAR Works $50 600, f55G . 4
Apartment house. Second anu FRANKLIN,
\ slO,WO. J,
s. II. Halves, dwelling in county. s14 900.
Cell building at peniteptiary:, se$o 900,
George y. Cousins, No, '6Ql South Laurel
G Charles u Cousins, No. COS South Laurel
Street, $1,000. Isl
Charles H., Phillips. anartment house.
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