Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
MANY MILLIONS
IN NEW BLOCKS
ARCHITECTS REPORT PLANS
FOR BIG BUILDINGS
Two Firms Know Of New Structures
Assreestins s3,5oo,oOO In Value, All
Business Property-lneresse
In Home Building


Several weeks ago Octavius Morgan
Of the firm OF Morgan & Walls, archl.
tects, made the statement that ht
knew of plans formed for the eXpendi-
ture Of s.. 800 900 in new business blocks
in Los Angeles during the year 1906
and he added: I'VE have orders fol
several of the new blocks, and 1906 is
to be a banner year for our city in the
building line"
Another firm of architects, Parkinson
e. Bergstrom, is well supplied with
work, orders 1ggregatlng about 81. .000,
600 In value. The new work includes q
six-story brick and steel structure for
Colonel j. II. Norton, S0X145 feet, to
be erected on the southwest corner of
Sixth street and Broadway: also plans
for three-story brick and basement
structure, 50x100 feet, on East Fifth
and Ruth avenue for Harry Gray; also
plans for the reconstruction of the
Martz and Winstel buildings on South
Broadway. recently destroyed by fire;
also plans for the Central building"
a ten-story steel block to be erected
for a syndicate on the southeast cor
ner Of Fifth and Spring streets. The
same architects are receiving bids for
the home for 1.-THE Little Sisters of the
Poor" to be erected in Boyle Heights
by San Francisco philanthropist.
Plans on Tables
Architects continue to be busy draw
ing plans for new improvements
Among those reported to the Builder
and Contractor to date are the follow
ing:
Theodore a. Eisen is preparing draw
ings for a two-story club house build
ing to be erected in the block of ground
bounded by Hoover, Eleventh and
Twelfth streets and Grand View av-
enue for the Mems club OF Christ
church. 1t will be Of English cottage
style, shingled, with stone trimmings.
There will be a large auditorium 70x50
feet with stage. dressing rooms, etc.
A dining room with all accessories,
reading, card and billiard rooms will
also be provided. A first-class gym
nasium equipped with many athletic
appliances will also be installed in this
structure. Stone mantels, hardwood
floors, Oregon pine trim, gas and cleo
tricity and hot air heating are also
specified.
Frank P. Burnham. Pacific Electric
building, is taking bids for a two
story ten-room frame residence to be
built on the west side of Third avenue
between Adams and West Twenty-flfth
street, for Miss Louise Clawson. IT
vii be 32X75 feet, with porte cochere
l4X4l teet, with rooms above.
Charles r. Shattuck has prepared
drawings for the entrance posts, which
will ornament Brand boulevard. ex-
tending from Sixth street, Glendale, to
Casa Verdugo They will be placed
at all intersections and be constructed
of concrete and cobblestones surmount-
ed with electric lights.
The same architect Is also receiving
bids for the erection of a two-story
NsrgfN NFNa.N EE.- 4
the northwest corner of Seventh street
and Wiltshire place.
S. Tilden Norton has prepared plans
for a new store front for the Old
Plantation Distillery company, 10S-110
South Broadway. 1t will be of slashed
grain Oregon pine, parquet oak floors,
beamed ceilings tiled vestibule, pam
eled interior, with German plate mir
rors at sides and rear.
He has also made plans for atera-
tions to store front for Mardenberg
Bros, 250-252 South Main street. An en-
tire new front will be installed
o. L. Goodale is making drawings
for a one-story, siX-rOom frame cot
tage to be constructed on Sunset boule-
ward, near Hoover street, for Fred W.
Gross. 1t will have rustic siding, man.
tel. gas and electric lights, and be fin
ished with Oregon pine. It will have
the convenlences Of a first-class cot
tage.
1t is reported that the I. N. Van
Nuys property at the southwest corner
OF Spring and Seventh streets has been
leased and will he improved with new
store room buildings.
Garrett & Bixby have drawn the
plans for q twO-story frame residence
Of ten rooms, to be built on the corner
OF State street and Michigan avenue
for A w. SWanfeldt
The same architects have also made
plans for one and one-half story,
seVen-room frame residence to be built
for G.. T. Biebehemer at First street
and Mountain View avenue. 1t will
have polished oak floors, cove ceilings,
Oregon pine trim, etc.
They have also made drawings for
three-story apartment building to be
constructed on South Alvarado street,
between Seventh and Eighth streets,
for Lucille A. Whipple
p. W. Ehlers has prepared plans for
n 1ve-room cottage to be built for
Mrs. Emma J.. Harlow on Belmont
avenue near Bellevue avenue. 1t will
have all the convenieuces of an up
to-date home.
He has also prepared drawings for a
siX-room bungalow to be built at South
Pasadena for DIR. Rhone. IL will have
hardwood floors, large brick fireplace,
beamed ceilings, paneled walls and
sanitary plumbing.
The same architect has also made
drawings for pumping station for the
city of Whittier. 1t will be of brick,
4Sx112 feet, mission in design, with
pressed brick front, asbestos roofing
and cement floor.
Marsh & Russell are now making re-
vised plans Of three school buildings
to be constructed at Santa Monica.
One will be a two-story, eight-room
structure and the other two one-story,
four-room buildings, all constructed of
brick.
The same architects have also made
drawings for a seVen-room residence
to be built at Santa Monica for George
f. Doty. 1t will have hardwood floors,
beamed ceilings, brick mantel. ingle
nook. etc.