Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
NO IDLE PERIODS
IN BUILDING LINE
IN LOS ANGELES
IMPROVEMENT ENTERPRISES
MOVING RAPIDLY
NEW STRUCTURES FOR EXPAND
ING BUSINESS SECTION
Six=story Apartment House, Corner
Tenth and Figueroa-$27, 900 for
Womans Chapter Houses,
Six in Number

The glad holiday season has nor IN
terfered with building enterprises in
Los Angeles and the suburbs. The
sound of the saw and the hatchet has
been heard with the usual regularity
and new roofs on fine residences and
bungalows have appeared. in about the
same number as during any other
similar period in the year, and while
the mechanics and laborers have been
at work, members of their families,
with apparently a plentiful supply of
cash, have been busy in the stores
as members Of the grand army Ce
gift hunters and buyers. Evidence Of
continued activity in building Is shown
in the following improvements com
pleted and under way:
five-story building is nearing cem-
pletiOn on Sixth street just west OF
Figueroa, for the Lee Brothers 1t
will cost close to $4,000. There viii
be store rooms on ground floor and
nearly 100 rooms above, the plans be.
ing made for a family hotel. The ho-
tel section has been leased by /. JOS
eph. The building was put up by the
Boi ber Bradley Construction company,
and plans were by Morgan and Walls.
1t is announced by Mrs. z. A. Spauld-
/ ing, western coast manager for the
chapter houses will be erected in and
near Los Angeles, at a cost of S27. 600,
during the year 1910. The buildings
Will be located as follows: Los An
geles, $4,000; Pasadena. $1,000, Po-
mona, $4,000; Corning, $25OO; Big Pine,
$1,000, and Compton, $1,000.
Four apartment houses, each four
stories and basement, will be erected
by George b. Upp at the soHthGst
/ RI Of Nfs.ut ,t,s
after plans prepared by Train and VIII
| liams The site for these improve
ments Is 121x155 feet. Each building
will be 40x105 feet in size, aud oe
pressed brick frontage. The struc-
lures will contain about fifty rooms
each and cost an aggregate Of 100000.
A seven-room bungalow is to be
built on a hillside at Bairdstown for
George W. Baird, to cost about $4,000.
Plans are by Scott Quintin. This sec
tion Of the nearby suburbs of Los An
geles is seeing rapid development. 1t
is on the car line to Pasadena ami
other foothill cities and may soon be
annexed to this city.
Construction of a one-story brick
building, 52x100, to contain three stores
and cost $4,000. has commenced on the
north side of West Eighth street, about
midway between Broadway and Hill.
1llb DullullS Will DC OppDSilI lIlb
Hamburger building, and next east to
the two-story brick structure which
is being erected by the Wilcox estate.
The building will be erected for
Thomas Higgins. A. L. Haley, inc, is
the architect.
The lot on the northeast corner of
Tenth and Figueroa streets, is to bo
improved at once by J. c. H. Jvius,
the owner, by the erection of six
story and basement apartment house,
to cost $S0.000..
The building will embody practically
all of the conveniences of a well-ap-
pointed hotel Plans for the structure,
which are now being drawn in the
offices OF A. l.. Haley, architect, inc,
call for a building 100x130 feet.
The building viii contain 200 rooms.
IT will be of class G construction, of
brick and in an adapted mission type
of architecture. 1t will conform strict
~ with the Burnett building laws and
with tho revised construction ordinan-
cos. The Figueroa frontage on tho
first floor will be divided iIto stores.
the main entrance being on Tenth
street.
The loby will bo 2Sx60 feet and
treated in marble wainscotlng with
tile floors and beamed ceilings. Large
lounging and billiard rooms and q.
cafe are also provided for. Convent
cpces will include vacuum cleaning,
steam heat and a refrigerator plant.