Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-29

SApehueu III CONSTRUCTING tne UlTee apart
ments
The John L. Kennedy building is com
pleted and ready to be turned over to the
owner. Although the building has been
partially occupied for sometime the finish
ing touches were not complete until this
week. This building depicts the Austrian
style of architecture and is something en-
tirely new in Omaha It presents an ex-
ceedingly attractive appearance and helps
considerably to give a look of prosperity |
to the corner Of Nineteenth and Douglas
streets.
Fisher & Lawrie have completed the |
final plans for the Sanford building at
the corner of Nineteenth and Farnam |
streets and 1t is expected the building will |
be ready for occupancy in sixty days.
1t is interesting to note the changes
that have been made in various store
| fronts in the down town district since the |
first of this year. Merchants who believe |
| in showing their wares to the best ad- |
vantage both in the windows and on the
| floors have called upon owners TO make
changes which have added to the appear
ance and commodiousness of the stores
| The building formerly occupied by the
| Hanson Cafe has been remodelled and on
the ground floor three store rooms have
been made from the one large one used
for a restaurant The Heidelberg cafe
which occupied the south part of the
schlitz hotel building has been converted
into an up-to-date sales room by Orkln
Bros, at much expense. On the south
side of Howard street, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth, the four-story building oe-
cupied by the Rubel Furniture company
has been remodelled into one of the most
/ attractive business homes in the city. The
store next to this building has been put
in shape and Ia occupied by the 1900
} Washer company, new concern, recently
| established here. In the Barker block at
! the corner of Fifteenth and FHrnam street
I the second story has been remodeled for
the Corn Exchange bank. On Fourteenth
end Farnsm streets the store room at the
tearing out the front and putting in at
tractive show windows for the United CT
$ gar company.
Final plans for the Kennedy building
which will be erected for the Union Out
fitting company at Sixteenth and Jackson
streets have been submitted by Fisher &
Lawrie. These call for a seven-story
building instead of for four stories as first
, determined upon. The work of erection is
/. being pushed rapidly. When this structure
: is complete, II will be the, third tallest
= building on sixteenth street and will add
much to the appearance of this street. The
highest building Is the City National bank,
. then comes the Brandeis building.
= The plot for Evans place, the addition
which VIII soon be placed upon the market
has been filed. This tract lies just south
- of Dundee and includes forty-flve acres. 1t
y is believed by real estate men who are
l. interested in the western part of the city
!. that this will be one Of the most beautiful
= residence section of Omaha, A stipula-
:, ton that will be inserted In the purchase
. contracts for lots In this tract is that the
= minimum cost of a residence to be erected
:. be 5000. Property for sale in the West
" Farnam street district is scarce now and II
is believed that the future building will be
done in the direction of Dundee. Fairacres
and Evans place.
&c An illustration OF the increase In the value
= of land nearby is given by the deal recently
l. made by which B. N. lessen sold his farm
ot of 800 acres near Valley, twenty-five miles
ie west of Omaha, for $4,000. The land wal
IN sold to W. c. McCurdy of Massena, Ia
e. ]. II. Dumont & Son and A. @. CrossmaI
ne carried on the negotiations. This farm ha.
Id been sold by the above two agencies tire,
lg times within the last two and one-hal
as years. The first time at $50, 900; the mex
r time at $4s2 and this time at $4,000. Tn,
st land has been improved since the first sal
he by proper cultivation, but little money hal
ne been spent on improvements. The advanc
a. OF 70 per cent in two and one-half year
IL is practically all profit
Es -
n Work will begin this week on the ex
ge tension OF the West Leavenworth street ca
az line to Elmwood park. The present ter
at minus is at Forty-eighth and Leavenwortl
streets, and tracks will be laid one mil
from this point to the entrance of the parh
1 and connect with the new Fremont inter
of urban line. County Surveyor Mcbride ha
lis granted permit for the removal of tn
he pavement on the south side of Leavenwortl
is road 30 that the extension may be mad
A. immediately.
- The vacant lot at the northwest corner q
- Twenty-fifth and Farnam streets was sol
= last week by Mrs. Lille Briggs, widow @
- Clinton II. Briggs to Leonard Everett :
Council Bluffs, for $4,000 Mr.. Leonard ha
ne been buying considerable property Of lat
~ on F'arnam street west of Twenty-fourtl
on for investment.
fic
r. s. Traver has plans completed for
Va large apartment building. taking in III
IN numbers from 116 to 119. inclusive. a
To South Thirty-fifth street. between Dough-
&C. and FarnanE There win be twelve apar
ZEN ments In all. and the building u,,,l ha,,.
es ground measurement of SO by g. 1t wi
me be three stories I'm height ana will 49,
're when finished $4,000 or more.
old os MEETS HARD LUCK TWICI