The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08

To HAVEANEW
WARE HOUSE
AN EXPENDITURE OF $4,000 TO
BE MADE HERE.
Company Has Secured a Location at
the Corner of Front and Spring
Streets; Local Capital Has Been
interested; B. F. Pay Is the Presi-
dent of Building Company, W. D.
Willard Secretary and Treasurer.

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dent of Building Company, w. D.
Willard Secretary and Treasurer.
Work began yesterday on a business
block that will be one of the largest
in the city. 1t is to be erected by the
international Building company, which
was recently organized in this city for
the purpose of putting up the building,
which has been leased for period of
years by the International Harvester
company for its warehouse and offices.
The building and grounds will cost
$4,000, and the Improvement will add
greatly to the appearance of North
Front street, for it is to be located
at the corner of Front and Spring
streets.
The international Harvester COM
pany's lease on the building at the
foot of Jackson street, where its
warehoue is at present located, has
expired, and the lease of the grounds
by the company owning the building
will expire next year, and the Omaha
railway company which owns the
grounds, desires to make use of it it.
self. For this reason the building will
have to be moved to some other loca-
ton.
As the international Harvester COM
pany had to move out of it's ware
house, it became a question whether
its distributing plant could be kept
in Mankato, and other towns made
offers to get it. The company does
not erect its own buildings, as that
would mean the investment of too
much money. 1t takes long time leases.
Under the circumstances, the Interna-
tional Building company was organized
by Mankato people to erect build
ing and lease it to the company.
Building Corporation Formed.
A corporation was formed with B.
F. Pay president, j. B. Nielsen vice
president, w. d. Willard secretary and
treasurer, and these gentlemen and
Frank Fowler and DIR. j. A. Hielscher
as directors. Most of the stock has
already been subscribed for by these
gentlemen and others, but there is
little still remaining, that can be
had by anyone looking for an invest
ment. The capital stock is placed at
$4,000, and the corporation is en-
powered to purchase land, build and
sell or lease buildings, etc.
The building company has just closed
the purchase of the southwest corner
at Front and Spring streets, of the
heirs of the late Servetious Schroeder.
The property comprises a full lot, &c
feet wide by l57A feet deep. The
company will erect a building upon
this, with a frontage of sc feet on
Front street and depth of l46 feet
on Spring street, with loading plat
form at the rear, ten feet or more
wide, to the c. & n w. railway track.
Will Erect Fine Building.
The new building will be three
stories and high basement high, and
the floors and columns will be con-
structed of reinforced concrete, follow
ing the Turner system, or mushroom
system, of fire proof construction. Each
floor will be built to stand load of
500 pounds to the square foot. The
walls will be of brick, faced with paw
ing brick, and the window trimmings
will be of stone. The basement will
stand four feet above the sidewalk
and the exposed wall will be of range
rock. The building will be of the
most modern and durable construction
possible, and will be equipped with
steam heat, electric lights and an
electric elevator from the basement to
the third floor, having carrying ca
pacity of 5000 pounds. 1t will be the
first building of this construction, to
be erected in Mankato, and will be
ornate in design
The basement and second and third
floors will be used for storage pur-
poses. The front one third of the first
floor will be divided into offices. The
next one third will be used as a SAM
pie room, and the rear one-third as
shipping room, the loading platform
being just back of this. The building
will have about $4,000 square feet of
storage, which will give the Harvester
company large increase over its pres
emit facilities, which are scattered
about.
Architect Schippel prepared the
plans, and j. B. Nielsen & Co. have the
contract for the erection of the build
ing The building is under contract to
be completed by March 1, and work
upon it will proceed all winter.
Carrie Ellefson is occupying an old
frame house on the property pur-
chased by the company and refuses to
move, but little difficulty is antici-
pated on account of this, and the
work of excavating around her will
proceed.
No Sectional Feeling.
The construction of this building on
North Front street mainly by capital
from the south half of the city shows
that there is no such thing as sectional
feeling in the south half of the city,
and it ought to operate to dispel such
feeling in the north half of the
city. The putting up of this building
will probably be followed by the erec-