Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
BUILDING RECORD FOR YEAR

66X12S feet In size and three stories high, at
Eighth and Harvey streets. For the new
est process plant in Omaha, that Of the
Andrew Wood company. John 1. Redick
built a two-story brick building on Douglas
near Twelfth at an estimated cost of
5000
The Adams & Kelly company had tn have
more room and built a $4,000 brick ware
house. 132x155 feet in size and four stories
high, at Thirteenth and Nicholas streets.
In the spring Of 1904 the Omaha Casket
coinpanys factory was completely de-
stroyed by windstorm. In October new
structure was begun at Seventeenth and
lizard streets to cost $4,000. 1t is to be
66x99 feet in size and three stories high,
with an addition.
L. G.. Doup built a three story brick build
ing for his mattress factory at Thirteenth
and Nicholas streets. The estimated cost
was $1,000 and the structure SO feet wide
by 1872 feet long
Work was started in August by A. c..
Drelbus for his new brick warehouse,
erected for the Dreibus Candy company at
5OS-12 South Ninth street The estimated
cost is $4,000 for the three-story building.
which covers an ordinary sized lot. J. p.
Guth is the architect and ]. d. Shellberg
contractor.
Construction was started in the fall on a
three-story building for the 1. A. Medlar
Printing company, which found leased quar-
tcrs too cramped. The estimated cost is
$1,000, Fisher e Lawrie architects and p.
Kunz contractor
| The a. l. Root Printing company found
it necessary to put up a three-story brick
building at 12lO-12 Howard street, exclu-
sively for its own use, in 1904. The cost
was $4,000, F. A. Henninger architect and
r. b. Carter general contractor.
| The Val Blatz Brewing company spent
altogether in 1906 about $4,000 on new build
| ings in Omaha. The principal structure is
a brick office and storeroom at Eighth and
| Douglas costing $4,000.
In the last two years the Storz Brewing
company spent about $1,000 on new build
ings in Omaha, the Krug Brewing company
$4,000. including an addition to the bottling
works; Metz Bros. $4,000 and the ]. Gund
! Brewing company $500.
To care for a new industry in the city
distilled water and the manufacture of ice
from it, the Omaha Distilled Water, Ice and
Cold Storage company put up a building al
sixth and Jones estimated to cost $40, 500.
{ The Union Pacific Railway company in
! 1905 started the big engagements to its
| immense shops by the investment of $50 OOi
in three lesser structures. The largest Is
a new brick Office building on the shoI
grounds 50xl70 feet in size and two stories
high, to cost $4,000 The others are brick
iron house aPd brick stripping shed, eact
estimated to cost $1,000
The Chicago Great Western built bricl
veneered freight depot, 1926 feet long, at 80
South Sixteenth street, Anderson Bros.
contractors. The Cudahy Packing com
pany, having need for larger quarters fol
the Omaha retail branch, put up a $40 oOt
| brick warehouse at the southeast corner
of Fourteenth and Jones street w. A
Gordon built a $1,000 brick warehouse a.
2a07-22O9 lizard street for his express ant
| delivery company. Sunderland Brothers
spent $500 on buildings in charging theil
coal and material yards at Twenty fourth
and Taylor streets.
Other buildings of the warehouse anC
| factory class include:
Schermerhorn Brothers, Sixth and Jones
$500.
p. ]. Creedon and sons, frame planning
mill at Forty-sixth and Dodge, $1,000
The Alfred Bloom company. brick ad
dition to factory. $500.
John l. Redick, warehouse at Thirteenth
and lizard. 5000.
fourth and Spring. $500.
Balbach & Hagedorn, planning mill a
Forty-fifth and Cunning, $780,
Great Western Granite company, build
ings at 9O2 South Sixteenth, $500.
T. f. Stroud, factory buildings, Twentieth
and Belt Line, 1880.
]. Fred Smith, improved brick kiln a
Twenty-third and Woolworth avenue, $40
600.
Grain Elevators.
While the records show that during 1870
100000 was invested in new grain elevators
this does not exhibit the magnitude of de
velopment of Omaha as a grain marke
since the foundation of the Omaha grail
exchange. The large Updike elevator re
Gently finished is located in South Omaha
and some dealers who transact all thei
business here. have put up their elevator
in Council Bluffs.
The 1000 0O0- bushel building of the Inde
pendent Elevator company estimated t
cost Si5.0C0 consists of eight immens
steel cylindrical tanks each 166 feet high
and one building of iron The site is nea
Twenty ninth and Bancroft streets.
Two other elevators built were estimate
to cost $4,000 each. They are those G
Merriam G. Holmquist at Fifteenth an
Henderson and the Crowell Lumber an
Grain company at Thirteenth and OhiC
Beth are iron-covered structures Ak
feet in ground dimensions. The former
1873 feet high and the latter 1872 feet. Seele!
Son & company built the Merriam
Holmquist elevator and the Barrett
Record company of Minneapolis, the othe
The first elevator to be completed sui
sequont to the establishment of a genuin
grain market in Omaha was that Of III
Nebraska-Iowa Grain company at Gibson
1t is covered with corrugated iron an
: was estimated to cost $4,000
Public and Semi-PubIic Buildings.
z An immense amount of money has bee
a spent In schools clubs, theaters and a
a kinds of public and semi-public building
v during the years 1904 and 1905. BY far II
greatest contributor is the United Sta,
; government Counting aside the $3.50
a brick warehouse at Twenty-second ar
a Hickory streets. built In 1904 by NJ. Keef
. on plans drawn by w. T. Misner. the fet
q eral government has taken out buildir
a permits for construction estimated to CO
4 $3.50, 500 in the rehabilitation OF Fort Omaf
; for a signal corps station.
a Operations began last summer at Flo
a Omaha and are continuing as rapidly
y the weather will permit. The buildings a
q thorized include mess hail. stable. wage