Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Omaha During the Last Twelve Months
Some of the Details of the Constructive
Activity During the Year Just Closed

by ]. B. Mason. B. j. Jobst is the general
contractor. 1t should be ready for use be-
fore spring. The estimated cost is $4,000
A new hve-story brick building, A feet
wide and 1872 feet deep, is almost ready for
the exclusive occupancy of the Schneider
& Mueller Piano company, which outgrew
the old building on the same site. The
]. N. Brown estate put up the new build
ing at a cost of $4,000. The location is
13ll-13 Farnam street.
The growth of the automobile business
in Omaha is illustrated by the investment
of about $4,000 in modern garages last
year. The first to be built was erected by
Mrs. Elizabeth Dufrene for the Powell
Bacon company at Twenty-second and
Farnam streets, costing $500; the second
by r. II. Kimball for himself at Twenty
first and Farnam, $1,000; both of brick and
concrete, designed by T. r. Kimban. The
last was erected for J. ]. Deright by Ed
ward Riley. of brick. at Nineteenth and
Farnam streets, at a cost of $4,000; w. I.
Misner, architect.
other new store and Office buildings in
cude:
Two-story brick at 1872 Howard street
for John Rowe & Co, $500
j. C. Nickel, $500 brick store at 51O-12
North Sixteenth.
c. r. Caughlan. $1,000 brick store at
Sixth and Pierce.
w Farnam Smith, $500 brick stores on
Nineteenth near Farnam.
witashek Bros, $500 brick store Luld-
! ing at 2219-21 Leavenworth street.
II. B. Liggett, two-story brick store at
1913 Jones, $4,000.
! George & Co., $500 brick stores at the
southeast corner OF Twentieth and Far
| nam.
Puritan Laundry company. $3OOo brick
| building for exclusive use at Twcnty-e eighth
and Farnam.
| d. NJ. Upton. $500 two-story brick
store at 22OS Farnam.
! r. N. Burgess, $500 two-story brick at
| 2024 Farnam.
Peter Frenzer, 5000 brick store and pub
Ito hall at Twenty-fourth and Parker.
| c. Smith 5000 brick store at Twenty
third and Leavenworth.
Warehouses and Factories.
The largest permit recently issued for q
| warehouse or factory building was written
close to the end of last year, being for
the eight-story, 1872 feet square, brick ware
house which John A. Creighton is building
| for the Byrne- Hammer dry goods house
1t will be one of the largest structures OF
|
and Howard streets. Charles Cloves is the
architect and Henry Hamann the general
| contractor.
A fine example of the modern warehouse
building was put up in 1905 in the six-story
structure for the Crane company at the
| northeast corner of Tenth and Harvey
| streets. The cost was over $15, 900. The
construction is severe and massive as &c
lines, but one giving great strength and
| permanency. The main part of the build
ing is 132X66 feet, but one-story wing OF
the same size extends on the east side. The
| Omaha branch of the Crane company out
grew its old large quarters on lower Doug
las street and was forced to build to ge
| adequate housing.
After buying the modern, six-story bricl
warehouse formerly occupied by the King
man Implement company at Tenth anC
Farnam streets Allen Bros, wholesal,
grocers, were compelled to build dupli
cate structure adjoining to take care o
their growing business. The new ware
house is sixty-six feet wide and 1872 fee
feet deep and abuts the original building
on the east. Charles Cloves is the archi
tect and the Capital City Brick and Pip
company general contractor.
The most disastrous fire of 1906 destroye,
at Eleventh and Howard and partly burne,
the Willard estate building to the rear OIL
Harvey street. DIR. Mercer immediately
showed his faith in the city by starting
construction of larger and better ware
house on the same site The permit call
for an estimated expenditure of $57, 0O0 tn
building to be FIVE stories high and IL
feet square.
On the other building damaged by tn
fire was put $4,000 in reconstruction an
the addition Of another story. the spac
being required for the tenant, the Xii ker
dali Shoe company
Another fire that was followed by an i'm
provement was the disastrous one that dc
> stroyed the F. l.. Ames estate building a
9OS-14 Jones streets on Thanksgiving, 100
= The owners have replaced it with a fin
new warehouse lightweight feet wide b
/ 1872 feet long and five stories high, cost!n
about $4,000 1t was occupied imnediatel
] by several firms.
= For the American Radiator company,
n B. Pierce put up a four-story brick builC
s ing, 66xl32 feet in 1905, designed 10y job
: Latenser and built by the Capital Cit
n Brick and Pipe company at Tenth an
e Harvey streets. The cost was $4,000.
t Not the least important among the otht
buildings OF John Creighton is a slx-stor,
d 66x132 feet. brick warehouse, designed /
= Architect Cleves, at 1OO7-11 Jones stree
8 The structure had an estimated cost
T $o5,OoO and Parks, Johnson & Parks al
4 the general contractors II was ereots
}. for the tenancy OF the John Deere Pho
: company.
4 The extreme necessity for more war
e house facilities in the jobbing district. d.
y to the increased business, is shown in Il
experience of the Wrght-Wilhelmy har
n ware house. During last year operation
h were begun on an $50. 900 brick structu
{, and an addition to the present quarters
y Tenth and Jackson streets, which It sdjoin
;. Both the new building proper. and Il
{. addition will be six stories nigh tt
l. former is sixty-six feet wide and I32 fe
long. and the latter just half of the
n ground dimensions. John Latenser DIRE
n the plans and the Capital City Brick al
l. Pipe company captured the general CO
g. tract
TO In the rise Of Omaha to the greatest bu