The Somerset reporter., 1908-01-30
Skowhegan's Building Enterprises
in 1907.

Not as much building was done in
Skowhegan last year az had been
done in each of the three years pre-
ceding, the figures for the four years
ending in 1907 being as follows. 1904,
sl0s,OO 1905, $4,000; 1905, s1s3, 600;
1907, $40, 400 1t should be noted that
1905 was about a normal year for
building activity and that 1907 was
not far behind. The large figures of
1904 and 1906 have special reasons for
their totals. In the former year the
South Channel Bridge was under
construction and the rebuilding of the
Court house was going on; in 1906
came the building operations to re-
place the extraordinary fire losses of
the year before, which had been
about spas, GOO.
Dwelling house. property, the com
pletion of which fell within the We r
of 1907, not enumerated in our review
of the previous year, is represented
by the following list: S. Z. Holley,
Center street; John Nutting, Mount
Pleasant avenue; Alex Goulette,
French street, Tuffield Laney; double
tenement house,, Archie Pumlow,
Ira A. Norton and Paul Laney, North
avenue; Cleyis Bufort and Chas.
Briggs, Somerset Park; Fred c. Dun
lap, Cross street. Important addi-
tions and repairs have also been made
by the following owners of dwelling
house property; L. w. Weston,
Weston street; Mrs. D. NJ. Bacon,
Island avenue; M. T. Pooler, Middle
road Forrest Goodwin and +. P.
Viles, Madison avenue; A. B. Lamb
and w, c. Eaton, Turner avenue;
Frank Pennell, West Front street; A
q. Blunt, Water street.
The work thus far done ON the
foundation of the Municipal Building
may be estimated at $3.50 in value
and the portion of the work done by
the Coburn Hall Association Edward
n. Merrill on the new Merrill block
during the year of 1867, was some
thing like the same amount. Other
owners of business property made
important additions and betterments
as follows j. +. Pooler, Court street
addition to store; Griffin 4 Jewett
Fargrieves Block, rebuilt; Lewis
Coal Company, new coal shed; Gould
& Clark, new store; John d. Symons
block.
RkGArfrUIAIIoN.
New Dwelling house property $4,000
Addi' ioi 5 and repairs to dwelling
house property Io,4oC
Pr portion oi work done on Merrill
block IN 1907 $4,000
Proportion =, I work done on Munti
pal Building in 1907 t5,cce
Other structural enterprises not in
cluded IN The above ILooC
$4,000
At the present time All unusually
large number of important structural
enterprises are under way and the
season of 1908 promises to be very
long one in the building line. Among
the more important may be mention
ed the Municipal Building the block
on Water street to be erected by j
Palmer Merrill, the block at the
corner of Madison avenue and Water
sire cts which will be built by Griffin
& Sampson. There is also a likeli-
hood that the wooden buildings
known as the Dodge prop rty, be-
tween the Philbrick Ward block and
the location at present occupied 10y
Arnold & 'Currier grocery, may be
replaced by new brick block
Should this be done, Skowhegan's +
cup of self satisfaction would really
overflow as with the other new
buildings above mentioned, it would
displace the last wooden structure on
Water street between the PostofiicC
block and Madison avenue, and leave
all the business portion of Water
street practically free from every
thing except buildings OF the modern
type.
Marriage Reception.