The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-06-11
REMARKABLE BOOM STRIKES THE
CITY AND SPREADS OVER
SUBURBS.
HERALD REPORTER TAKES DRIVE
A Few Handsome Structures Going up
But Majority Are Homes to Cost
on Average Of Eighteen Hundred
DcIlsrs-Get Out And See.


every property owner TO in some way
improve his place. as it We're, rival his
neighbor in appearance This is so
with nearly every locality in the city.
bat especially is ii so with the SUI
burbs. OF Greater Columbia.
In the city proper there is not much
building going on. The chief improve
ment is being done in the way of
building concrete sidewalks. beautify-
ing the lawns, building curbings, and
using the paint brush to great ex-
tent and advantage.
Columbia naturally has advantages
that lends a certain beauty to its
homes and with this little artificial
! help added to a place makes vast
difference. One only has to take a
stroll drought the streets Of the city
and then walk out into the suburbs
! to see what great improvements are
being made It is greater in the out
skirts than in the city proper, from
the fact there is more room for build
ing. In the city proper there are very
| few desirable lots on which to build
nice dwelling houses, but still there
are several in course Of construction,
A Herald reporter drove through the
town Wednesday and was pleasantly
surprised to find the number OF houses
that had just been completed and that
were in course of erection. This num-
Der exceeds sixty houses and cottages.
The price for erection of these houses
will run from 5000 to $4,000, making
an average of about $500. or a total
of s10S,0 spent for home building
within the last nine months and the
most of this has been done in the last
six months.
The most noted in the city proper
is the handsome brick veneer two
story house being built by DR.. J. A.
Edwards on Eighth street and the ten
room two-story boarding house being
built by Jasper Neeley on the lot be-
tween South Main and South Garden
streets near the Union Passenger sta
ton
West End has a two-story concrete
block house in course of erection, by
Dr. Cant formerly of Arkansas, and J.
H. Huckaby has just completed a
handsome concrete residence. In adj
dition to these there are a few small
cottages and nearly two miles of con-
crete walk.
In South Columbia the great
er part of the house building has been
done. In the Rainey Addition, two or
twelve new cottages have been erect
ed and several more lots laid off and
lumber on the ground for the building
of more. In the other parts of South
Columbia twelve more new houses
come under the reporters observation
and there isn't doubt but that some
were overlooked.
On Highland Park avenue, a new
addition to Columbia, ten new houses
have recently been completed and
nearly every house in the section re-
painted and the premises all cleaned
and blue grass shows resplendently.
This section of the town promises to
be one of the coming resident locali-
ties.
In the Woodside Addition on Maple
Ash avenue, eight new houses have
been erected and two more are IN ,
the course of erection and all streets
and alleys are being made frst-class
thoroughfares.
For the past five years Riverside,
which has population now OF about
three hundred, has been growing rap
idly and new houses are going up all
the time. Five new homes have re-
Gently been built, among the number
is a concrete block cottage. Not only
is Riverside building up from resi-
dent standpoint, but there are now
four manufacturing establishments in
full operation. The j. B. Ashton
Flour Mills, the J. B. Ashton Ice Fac.
tory, w. ]. Cakes Chair and Furniture
Factory, and Tom Simpsons Brick
Yard and Lime Kiln.
A man has only to walk out few
blocks from his daily work in the
store or office to see what has been
and is being done by the other half of
the town
In connection with this wonderful
growth of the town within the past
nine months II is but justice to say
that this enterprislng movement on
the part of property owners is due to
a certain extent to the untiring efforts
Of the real estate men of Columbia,
and there has never been a man or