The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11
'STILLON THE BOOM
Demand for Residence Property
in Topeka Increases.
People Are Buying Homes for
Themselves.
30 SOLD IN WESTLAWN.
New Houses Snapped Up as
Soon as Completed.
Work Is Also Actively Begun ON
Business Improvements.

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The real estate boom which has been
| on for the past six months, or the past
year for that matter, seems to be- in
| creasing rather than diminishing and
tie demand for new and modern homes
is greater at this time than at any
ether since it commenced. During the
past year hundreds of new homes have
been built by investors and many of
them have been disposed of before they
were completed.
The building boom is not confined to
any quarter of the city nor to the
resident district as numerous improve
ments have been made on Kansas ave-
nue., and others are contemplated. Work
has been resumed on the rebuilding of
the Crawford opera house property,
which will be remodeled and made into
! a modern office building.
Workmen are busiIy engaged III tear
ing down the old Giles building which
joins the Bank of Topeka building on
the north and which is one-of the
cider business buildings in the city. AS
soon as the building is RACED work will
be commenced. on remode1ing the Bank
of Topeka building and it will be en-
larged to just twice the present size
and another story added.
When these improvements have been
completed the property will be sc
changed as to hardly be recogniza BILE
as the south wall will be rebuilt and
an entirely new front will take place of
the present one. The entrance on the
corner will be torn out and the en-
trance will be in the center of the
building ard face directly on Kansas
avenue.
Enlarging Furniture Factory.
A contract, has just been let to
Cuthbert & Sargent for a three story
addition so by $50 feet which will be
added to the Southwestern Furniture
colnpany's building at the corner of
First and Jackson streets; 100000
bricks are On the ground and the work
on the addition which will cost between
six and seven thousand dollars Will
commence at once. About three years
ago the same firm built a one story
brick building for. this company and
the big addition indicates the prosperi
ty the firm has enjoyed since that
time
Plans are now being drawn by con-
tractors for a brick barn which is to be
constructed at once for the Wells Fargo
Express company at a cost of $1,000.
This building will be located between
Fifth and Sixth streets on Adams street
Just back of the offices of the company
near the Santa F'e depot. A portion of
this building which will accommodate
20 head of horses and half that number
of wagons will be two stories in height |
and used for storage purposes
Thirty Houses in WeStlaWn.
The building boom in the Westlawn
district continues and though over thir- |
ty houses have been completed during |
the past year by Mr.. Lyle not one of !
them which is completed Is on the mar
ket, all of them having been sold to |
actual residents. There are six build |
ings now in course of construction and |
half of them will be sold as soon as
completed.
Within two blocks on Lincoln street, |
between Eighth and Ninth streets, seven |
new residences are in. course of construc-
ton costing from two to four thousand
dollars S. E. Bryant has purchased |
two residence properties recently, one |
at 621 Tyler street, of w. z. Connelley,
for which he paid $4,000, the other, Ill |
Polk street. for which he paid Miss NJ.
Wood $500.
The William Clark property, 612 Blu
chanan street, was recently purchased
bv Mrs C. F. Adams of North Topeka,
the consideration being in the neigh
borhood of 81, 900. J. B. Brown has just
moved into a new home at 81 Lincoln
street recently completed at a cost OF
$4,000. Work is now progressing on
So 500 residence at S21 Lincoln street,
which will be occupied by the builder.
c. E. Strauss In the block adjoining
on the south 5. A Maxwell OF the SAN
ia Fe office is CONSTRUCTING aIlooerA
SO, 500 house
1--WE have more buyers than we can
accommodate" said c. E. Strauss of. the
Strauss Agency this morning. who
want modern homes and at that we
have sold over thirty houses in west
lawn. The demand has been phenom-
email for new homes and most OF them
come from people who want modern
homes and have the cash with which
to nav for them. While many or our
sales have been in the Westlawn' addl-
ton we have sold properties in all parts
of the city for the demand has been
greater than Mr.. Lyle anticipated.
'I find that while the demand for
property at the present time is phe-
nomenal that the building boom has
kept pace in a measure. with the de-
nand for new homes" said d. L. La
kin, there has been no let up as far
as the building boom is concerned and
ii has not seemed to have affected the
demand for good city property
just Beginning to Boom.
ST feel" said County Commissioner
William Sterne, chat Topeka is just
to boom and that the
next two years will see more building
than the two years just past, notwith-
standing the number of new houses
which have been completed during
this time The farmers in the terri
Eorv adjacent to the city were never in
better shape financially than at this
time and many of them are retiring or
moving Tito the city to set the advan