Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-03
BUILDING PLANS.
Much Will Be Done in The
City This Year.
Additions to Public Buildings
and Industrial Plants.
Numerous DweIlings.--The Electric
Railroad Extensions.

Augusta seems assured OF Il build
ing Doom of no mean proportions the
coming summer for if half the build
lnss are erected that are now proposed
there Will be many thousands OF
dollars expended. Some Of the work
IS already started. the addition to the
shoc-shop, the Gage mill on Bond
Brook, the rcmodclling of the Augusta
Trust Co. building and several new
dwellings,
Miller q Mayo and CoOmbS & Gibbs
Lewiston architects are at present
making sketches for the addition and
alterations to the court house The
kennebec Light & Heat Co is at
present advertising for bids of Work
on its gas plant. Extensive improve
ments are to be made at the Insane
hospital in the remodclling and fire.
proofing of the first male wing and q
building for the criminal insane is to
be erected.
An addition to the Cony High school
building is being talked Of. Then
there is also a building for the ac-
conmodatior Of the nurses OF the Au-
gusta City hospital as provided for in
the will of the late J. Manchester
Haynes. This with the work at the
Insane hospital will keep the east side
of the river busy during the summer
and late into the fall.
The recent agitation in the Lcssla-
ture concerning the changing Of the
scat of government has been the
means of bringing about marked i'm
provements in the hotel properties.
TO n
which has taken over the Augusta
House property propose TO entirely
remodel it and build an extensive new
wing.
The residential section OF the city is
to undergo a marked change. Already
several cellars are in process Of cx-
cavation. in spite Of the fact that the
frost is not yet out Of the ground and
in several other cases the stone for the
foundations is being hauled. This
unusual activity may be ascribed to
causes, first the addition to the shoe
shop and consequent demand for the
better class of tenement property and
second, the unusual continued pros
perty of the people Of the city who
are thus enabled to build private
residences for their own occupation.
There is every reason to believe that
this boom will continue, for the
advent Of the new Lewiston, Augusta
& Waterville Street Railway and the
building of the new electric railroad to
Waterville with their extensions and
improved car service cannot fail TO
make the city as we'll as the outlying
districts more busy ard attractive,
and the quicker communication will
make them near ncighbors, each to
the other.
The region about Augusta, with thc
| beautiful lakes and farming country
| have always attracted the summer
| tourist and the electric railroad com
| munication has served to place these
| resorts within the reach of the man OF
| small means. Where few years ago
| if was looked upon as an extravaganza
| for a working man to send his family
| into the country during the hot weeks
| of July and August it is now looked
anon as a duty. This has populated
| the shores Of the knnncbec lakes with
| a throng Of people Of moderate means
who come to the nearest market, Au-
| rusta. for their supplies. 1t is easily
| seen that Augusta is thus greatly
| benefited by any improvements II
| communication with the country
| around her