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

stoned officers quarters, administration
building and brick electric substation.
Toward the close Of the year a permit
was taken out for the fine new Young
Mems Christian association home designed
by Fisher G. Lawrie This building was
because Of the increased MEM
bership and work done by the association
in Omaha and the sale of the old Young
Mems Christian association building. The
new home will be devoted exclusively to
association purposes. Its estimated cost is
10000. The location is at the southwest
corner of Seventeenth and Harvey streets.
The structure will be five stories high 1872
feet wide and 157 feet long, the materials to
be brick stone and terra Gotta
Part Of the new Methodist Episcopal hos
pital at Thirty-sixth and Cunning was built
by ROCKFORD & Gould on plans drawn by
T. r. Kimball. The structures completed
include brick boiler and operating rooms
and foundation for the main building.
which probably will be completed in 1906
To date the expenditures have been about
$1,000
At the Home of the Good Shepherd,
Catholic institution for women and old and
decrepit persons, a large brick addition,
costing $4,000, was built to the convent
feet long ard three stories high, at For
tieth and Jackson streets. John Latenser
drew the plans and William Deverall and
Thomas Herd were the contractors.
The first commercial college to have a
home Of its own was Boyles college. A
handsome structure, costing about $4,000
was built at the southwest corner of
Eighteenth and Harvey streets. The build
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stories high.
In 1905 Rohrbough Bros. followed Boyles'
lead in having constructed for their Omaha
Commercial college four-story brick build
ing at Nineteenth and Farnam streets. It
is 66 feet wide and 1872 feet long, estimated
to cost S35.OOO but decidedly overreaching
this mark. The theater called the Lyric
seats 700.
An improvement that impresses strangers
and the casual visitor to Omaha is the
new Burwood theater at 1872 Harvey street,
built for the Woodward & Burgess Amuse-
ment company in 1905. II exceeded the
estimated cost of s2o, 900, the interior being
finished much finer than the original inten-
lions. Fisher & Lawrie are the archi-
tects and ROCKFORD G. Gould the con-
tractors.
The city has started to build a s25, 400
brick fire engine house on Twenty fourth
street, near Cunning, but operations were
stopped when 1t was discovered that the
bonds to pay for the improvement had
not carried, as enormously certified. The
structure will be put up in 1906. The city
also put up an asphalt repair plant of its
own at Twelfth and Nicholas streets, cost
ing $500. Another city building was a
$500 temporary frame fire engine house
at Twenty-fifth and Cunning, to be used
while waiting for the permanent structure.
Through the benefaction of Count Creigh-
ton notable addition was made to Cregh-
ton university in the new Edward Creighton
institute, better known as the Creighton
Law school. which besides law includes
dentistry and pharmacy. The building is
located at 20S-12 South Eighteenth street
1t cost about $4,000 and was designed and
built by p. j. Creedon & Sons. The struc-
ture Is &C feet wide and 1926 feet deep.
Still another important addition to Creigh-
| ton university has been begun in building
| dormitory Cor students at Twenty-fifth
and California, opposite the main univer-
sity buildings. The structure was made
| possible through the beneicence OF Count
Creighton. It will cost $4,000 and will be
12Sx142 feet and two stories.
The Board of Education erected ore new
school building in 1905, the Beals, at Forty
eighth and Walnut streets, designed by T.
r. Kimball and built without the interven.
| ton of a general contractor. 1t is two
stories, forty-eight feet wide and ninety
! four feet long. 1t has six rooms and cost
about $4,000. The $4,000 eight-room Mon.
| mouth Park school was built partly In
| 1904, but was begun the previous year.
At Emmanuel hospital $500 brick add.
ton, three stories high, was built; also a
$1,000 frame addition to the Deaconess
home at the institution.
In the Catholic parish or the Sacred
| Heart, on the north side two important
educational buildings were erected. The
largest is a four-story brick academy and
convent, costing s1O.5O0, at Twenty-seconc
and Binney streets, for the Dominican
Sisters The other building is s., 900 two
story frame school.
| The Scandinavian Young Women's Chris
tian association built a three-story hom,
for itself at Twenty-sixth and Capitol ave
nue. at cost of $500. /. e Burdick wa!
the architect and c. F. Palm the con
| tractor.
At the Presbyterian Theological seminar,
a 5000 dwelling was added
The Park commission put up $500 pa
vilion at Riverview park.
The Omaha Field club doubled its spac,
under roof with a two-story, 6Ox1OO fee
frame addition, as well as repairing an,
altering the old building, the improvement
on the club grounds at Thirty-eighth ant
Woolworth streets costing s12,5c0
Another new club house is that OF tn
Omaha Racquet club at AS South Seven
teenth. This building is 63x71 feet in siz
and cost $500.
Churches and Church Property.
Several large and expensive churche
were built or begun during the last tw'
Roman Catholic cathedral at Fortieth an,
Burt streets, estimated to cost from $3.50,
900 to 100000. Permits for $4,000 of con
struction have been already taken out
The cathedral, which will be one of tn
finest edifices of its kind In the west, wa
designed by T. r. Kimball. The architec
tural lines are along a modified SPANS
mission type.
The First Baptist church. a handsom
building with Greek lines, was built a
the southeast corner of Twenty -ninth ave
nue. and Harvey street, the estimated cos
being $4,000. It was designed by job
Mcdonald and built by Dan Shane. TIL
dimensions are 6sx120 feet.
The Kountze Memorial Lutheran con
gregation, after selling its old property