Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
NEW FOUR STORY
CONCRETE BLOCK
BUILDING TO BE ERECTED ON
CROKER STREET
PARocHIAL PLANS ADDITIONAL
ROOMS
Architect Receives Bids for BraWIey
SchooI-Plans Under Way for
$4,000 Residence and
Chino Building

Plans are being prepared for a
large four-story reinforced concrete
store and apartment building to be
erected at East Fifth and Croker
streets. Plans were completed last
week for an addition of one story to
the parochial building, Union avenue
and Court street, to be used for Sun
day school purposes. Bids are now
being received for a new school at
Brawley, plans having been COM
pIeted last week Plans are being pre-
pared for a $4,000 residence to be built
in the Oak Knoll tract, South Pasa-
dena; also for the new Chino high
school.
The Builder and Contractor reports
among the architects as follows:
Mrs. Thomas Goss, 917 South Hope
street, has had plans drawn by M. l..
Frick for two-story, basement and
attic brick and frame residence, to be
constructed on West Twenty-eighth
street, west of Figueroa street. 1t will
contain sixteen rooms. The first story
exterior facing will be of blue brick.
and the second story Shingled. The
dining and living rooms and reception
hall will have beamed ceilings and pam
eled walls; there will be quarter
sawed red oak flooring on lower floor
and pine in bedrooms. Deadening felt
ing There will be a galvanized iron
skylight to shed light upon an art
class ceiling in the second story hall.
The front windows will be of plate
glass and inside trim of pine. Fur
mace, highest grade of enameled
plumbing fixtures, gas and electricity,
and an instantaneous hot water heat
er are included in the specifications.
All work will be done by the. day.
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building, is preparing plans for a four
story reinforced concrete store and
rooming house to be erected on the
southwest corner of East Fifth and
Croker streets for F. B. Wilde, the
former frame structure on this site
having been destroyed by fire. 1t will
be 95x110 feet in size, and will contain
five store rooms on the ground floor
and 135 rooms on the upper floors, be-
sides the bath rooms, storage rooms,
etc. Plate glass will be used for store
fronts. and the exterior walls will be
faced with pressed brick. Pine, stained,
will be used for interior trim; there
will be an electric elevator a lavatory,
hot and cold water, gas and electricity
and closet in every room. The entire
building will be heated by steam. The
plans will be ready for contractors in
about ten days.
Story and Half Bungalow
Architect Frank NJ Tyler, 600 Union
Trust building, has drawn plans for a
story and a half seven-room frame
residence to be erected on Fourth ave-
nue., near Sixteenth street. for L. n.
Pontious. 1t will have stone porch
front and pillars, hardwood floors,
beams, furnace, etc.
The same architect is also drawing
plans for two-story nine-room frame
residence to be erected at Fourth and
Mariposa streets for L. N. Beach. II
will have stone porch, hardwood floors
furnace heat, first-class plumbing, etc
The same architect has also complet-
ed plans for f1ve-room bungalow tc
be erected on Sunset boulevard, near
Echo Park road, for W. B. Lacy.
Architect S. Tilden Norton, 316 Byrne
building, has completed plans for the
erection of an additional story to the
parochial building to be built on the
corner of Union avenue and Court
street, for the Church of Our Lady OF
the Loretto. The new addition will be
used for Sunday school purposes and
will be divided into four class rooms
The first floor will contain an audi
torium, with adjoining social rooms
Martin Madden has the contract.
Architects Neher & Shilling, Pacific
Electric building, are preparing plans
of a two-story frame residence to be
erected on Manhattan place, near Dor
chester avenue, for S. w. Huber. IT
will contain eleven rooms and two
baths It will have brick foundation
chimneys, etc, stone porch columns
cement porch and steps, hardwood
floors and trim, furnace heat, open