The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-22
bTILDING RECORD FOR YEAR.
nryatiye Estimates Place the Value of Real Estate
at Much More Than SlOO,O

lot beside OF the one last mentioned
lie has the foundation laid and is nj
ready beginning TO put up the wood
work. lie says that he has seven an
plieations for the three apartments.
This house will cost something like
10000 aud will be In every way an up
to'date structure Still another house
has been erected by him this year.
This one is ON Oak Grove avenue. II
Is a single house aud cost about $4,000.
James l., Meany has added double
house TO Clark avenue which Is con
venient and useful. There arc six
rooms and a bath in each tenement,
besides an attic room. The rooms are
finished In hard pine aud lighted with
gas and electricity. Probable cost
$4,000, just beside this house is an.
other Involvement house of Mrs. A.
IL. Harvey. II is not as expensive as
some Of the others but one Of its fea,
lures is location, commanding view
of the Connecticut river in a northerly
and southerly direction for many
miles. This house is valued at about
$4,000. Henry Vale has built sin.
gle house on Maple street that is
spacious and convenient. This house
is not yet completed but the finishing
touches will be added TO il in the near
future This house cost Mr.. Vale in
the neighhorhoOd of $1,000 On Will
liams street two new houses were put
up during the present year, one by
Alex W. Larson and another by Gus.
tav Hertsberg These houses are each
for one family, and are substantially
built. Their estimated cost is $1,000
each. Another house to be taken note
of is that Of Otis Thayer on Highland
street. 1t is a cottage house of a
useful and convenient design; esti.
mated cost $500.
One of the novelties of the year in
the building line is the house of Caleb
b. Lamson ON Highland street. II is
made entirely of cement blocks on the
exterior and is square in design. There
is a small ell in the rear. To many
people this kind of house is matter
of considerable speculation. No doubt
if it stands the wear and tare of the
elements others similar in character
will be erected. OF course, the ma.
terial for building is less costly than
wood, the cost of this house being
about $2500. The only new house OF
the year on Frost street is that of 2.
H. Heffron. 1t is not yet complete but
bids fair to make a cosy home for two
families. This house cost $4,000. On
Green street the only new house IS
that of Thomas Pentland. This IS .
| two story structure containing all
modern improvements. The estimated
cost is $500.
Holden & Martin are putting up a
three story lumber shed at a cost of
so 900 ON their Flat street property,
They are also building twostory
house on Birge street at a cost OF
$4,000. c. +. Mason has rebuilt the
house on the lower end of South Main
street that was partly burned last
spring. He also put up cottage
house on the lot this side of the house
that burned. He has been to an eX'
pense of something over $4,000
George C. Averill has been to large
expense in remodelling his house ON
Main street recently purchased IRON
the b. d. Harris estate, large BRICK
addition has been built on the rear OF
the house and throughout the entire
structure overhauling has taken place
Mr.. Averill is making these changes al
cost of no less than $4,000. Tf'
r. r. Lynch hospital building III Wes'
Brattleboro has also undergone de
cided change during the past year q
new wing extending toward the horti
has been built containing an ezpeh
siye and well equipped operating room
Above this is Series of rooms occu
MED mainly by the employees OF TN
institution. The main part OF TN
building has been remodelled win
view to convenience and sanitation
Every room in the entire building ma
been dressed in new coat o
paint while all the floors nav
, been scraped and polished. Fly Fly
thousand dollars would not cover tn
amount expended in remodelling TN
bosnital i. w. Blodgett has convert
cd one of his large barns on Spruc
street into a tenement house at an eS
pense of over $1,000. Mrs. Gilbert u
smith is now building modern nous
of six apartments. Each of th n,
will be conveniently arranged On
has already received enough applica
tons to fiji several houses of like con
| strnction. John B. Manley has brok
on Ground for a residence on his re
GENTLY purchased lot next to "
, George x. Roberts s house on MAJ
! street, This will be spacious nous
, intended for one family.
In regard to the immediate outioo
l in the price of building material
$ study of the conditions leads one '
/ prophesy that there will be no reaul
, tion in cost. One builder says una
the constant demand for new mouse
q all over the east will keep prices u
E 70 their present level. He says Una
:. the demand for houses was new
n greater and as long as this is kept u
!, no drop in price will be made ~
{ in spite of these conditions the gu
;. look in Brattleboro is that there WI
). be fully as much if not more oullo, ~
$ here the coming year than during Z