The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-06
Topeka JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS
ARCHITECTS ARE. BUSY.
Compelled to Employ Extra Men to
Keep Up With Business.

1.-THE work Of completing drawings
and specifications for buildings con-
templated by Topeka contractors has
kept us mighty busy for the past six
months" said F. c. Squires of the
firm of Holland & Squires. architects,
this morning. 1--WE have been com
PEELED to employ extra men. and even
at that we have not been able to catch
up with our work, and the contractors
are prodding US all the time.
I'VE have furnished the plans for
a number of buildings during the past
year which have been acceptable to the
contractors and which have required
the expenditure of a large amount of
name building, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, was erected at a cost of
$500, and a block north of it on
Kansas avenue is the James Hayden
building which was erected at a cost
of something like $4,000.
ION the opposite side of the street,
at the corner of Seventh street and
kansas avenue, the contractors are
now at work remodeling the Pruden-
tfal Trust company building, and they
will spend over Sc, 900 in this work be-
fore they are ready to move into the
building. We furnished the plans for
Marshall Brothers $4,000 drug store
building on the corner of Second street
ing of Mayor Davis home on Ninth
street and Western avenue which calls
for the expenditure of about $4,000.
1.-THE plans for A. Capper's news
paper building, to be erected on the
corner of Eighth avenue and Jackson
street, calling for the expenditure of
about 100000 have just been COM
pleted, and work is soon to commence
on the construction of the building. We
have just completed drawings for the
E1ks building to be erected on Jackson
and Seventh streets, and they will be
submitted to their building committee
at their Wednesday evening meeting
There has been great demand for
specifications for remOdeling store and
residence properties" continued Mr.
Squires, land while the individual
amounts of such improvements has not
been large, in the aggregate they have
amounted to many thousands of dol
lars. A great many people who have
lived in old houses for years have
caught the improvement fever and are
remodeling their homes and making
them modern.
1.-The past twelve months have been
the busiest in the history of our firm.
and a no time has there been a lull in
the work, and most of the time we
have had from two to half a dozen
big jobs on hand Many of these
state, but Topeka has had the lions
share all the way through, and the end
does not seem to be in sight
Nearly every order which comes to
us~ seems to have a rushs tag attached
to it which accounts for the large
amount of unfinished business which
we have on hands at the present time
though we are doing our best to rush
everything which comes in. At that
we do not seem to be able to catch up
and the end is not in sight. Just when
we think that we are about in sight of
the bottom of the bean three mr. four
orders will reach US at the same time
We have orders for plans for number
of new buildings which we are not at
liberty to give out at this time but
which will be constructed in the city
within the next few months"
c. B. Wingett, of the Wingett Realty
COG Kansas avenue discussing
the present real estate situation in To-
peka, said: mo, do not consider that
We are having a real estate boom or
anything approaching it, but we are in
the midst of a good strong, healthy de-
mand for we'll located homes and bust
ness property, justified by Topeka's con-
stantly increasing population and the
general prosperity of all classes alike
Topeka is not the town of a few years
past; we are now a city, constantly
pushing forward with recognized adj
vantages unnumbered, and not only our
own people, but those from all over the
are now awake to this fact and
realize that if they are to secure a good
home or building site here at a reason
able price, they must do it now. It's a
healthy growth we all like to see; a
growth that will continue. There will
be good money made in Topeka real
estate by those who invest now. The
situation is both pleasing and promis-
Ing for all Topekans. What we need are
more good building sites and 5 to 6
room modern houses