Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-11-23
TOWNS BUILDING RECORD
CLOSE TO $4,000 SPENT DURING
PAST YEAR.
Adams Il Crosby's Now American
Building and Annex Represent Nearly
Half This Amount Many Moderate
Priced Dwellings Erected.

Building and Annex Represent Nearly
Half This Amount Many Moderate
Priced Dwellings Erected,
Building operations in Brattleboro
during the past year have amounted
close to $4,000. Fully half of this
sum is represented by the new Ameri-
can building and annex which Adams <
Crosby have well along toward compile
ton. These two structures, which form
one of the most important additions 10
the town in recent years, will represent
when finished an expenditure of about
5000, aside from the cost of the site
on which they are located. A large
number of the other buildings con
structed in Brattlcboro during 1906 are
moderate.priced dwelling houses, the
kind that indicate steady, healthy
growth in the community. The new
houses are located in various parts OF
the town, although most of them are on
the south side of Milestone brook. No
entirely new factories have been built
in Bratteboro within the past year,
but an important addition to the plant
of the Estey Organ company is now in
process of construction. The Central
Vermont Railroad company built new
freight house early last summer and
Manley Brothers are now charging
their automobile garage in the rear Of
the Brooks house.
A canvass of the town shows that
there are % houses either built during
the past year or at present IN the proc
ess Of construction One of the largest
is the two.tenement house on High
street. built by Orand H. Stickney,
containing Ii rooms and all modern
improvements On the same street j..
II. Henry is putting up new house OF
10 rooms. On Elliot street John j. Aus
tin has built new Involvement house
containing II rooms. The house is fin
ished in birch and hard pine and is
very conveniently arranged. A cottage
house on the same street has been butt
by Carl Nelson and another by Mrs.
Mary Stewart Patrick Brosnahan has
converted barn into tenement house
and finished it in excellent shape. Two
new houses have been built on Pine
street, one BY Egbert Brasor and one
by A. H. Bixby. The Brasor house is a
good-siZed structure containing eight
rooms and finished in hardwood. The
house built for Mr. Bixby is cottage
and finished in maple Since ii was
built it has been sold to Mrs. Adelaide
Randall. c. E. Allen has been putting
up two new houses, one on Oak Grove
| avenue and one on Canal street. Both
| the houses arc of eight rooms and built
for tenements. Mr.. Allen has also
built an addition to his dwelling house.
A single tenement cottage house has
been built by George Croll on Highland
street for Wayne G. Caswell. The
greatest activity of any place in town
is going on in Homestead place, just off
Canal street, where four houses are be-
ing erected They are being built for
William Coombs, Harold l.. Smith, w.
| II. Fletcher and Albert w. Rockwell.
George Eels is building a cottage on
South Main street. Cratus Weather
head has built two-tenement house on
Canal street just beyond The school
house. John Lindsey has built new
tenement house on Brook street. The
value of all the houses being built ag-
gregates nearly 100000
In Centerville Axel Hertzberg has
built cottage house and l.. Nathan
| Whitaker has built similar structure.
| In West Brattleboro Hiram +. Weather
head and Harry o. Miller have built
new dwellings and Mrs Katherine
Evans has built an addition to her
| house.
The addition to Estey IS shop is being
built by George Croll. 1t takes in all
the space between shops and s and is
being built one story higher than the
other shops. When it is finished the in
side walls and roofs of shops and S
will be taken out thus making one
large building. The two outside roofs
of shops 7 and will be built up until
they meet. When the building is fin
ished it will be used for storage, and
around the outside, where the light is
good. benches will be placed. The esti-
| mated cost is between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Central Vermont freight house is
commodiously huilt of corrugated gal
vanized iron. In the south end are 10.
Gated the business offices, and the rest
of the building is taken up with the
freight room, which is large enough to
accommodate the local freight traffic
easily. The building cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. .
The addition to Manley's garage will
make the room for the storage of auto
mobiles nearly double its present capac-
itv. and will cost in the neighborhood
of $4,000. A brick wall will be built
along the west side and the wall of the
present building taken out, thereby
making one large room.
A barn has been built on anal street
by George Danyew in which to keep
the horses and wagons used in his fish
business.