The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19
HAMMERS CLINK
A New Home Each Day i'm Capt.
tai City.
Building Permits Granted This
Year Set the Pace.
PROSPECTS ARE ROSY.
Prediction 1910 Will Break
Records Being Fulfilled.
Property Values Are Expected
to Advance Materially.


The contractors and dealers in city
property in Topeka are optimistic.
And why should this not be the case
The month of February was uShered
in with balmy weather and the merry
clink OF the hammer began to be heard
again in all parts of the city, and what
is more, the volume of sound which
has been going up is greater than at
any time in the history of Topeka at
this season of the year.
The prediction which was made at
the close of the year that although
1909 was record breaker as regards
building operations, 1910 will be still
more active seems not to have been an
idle pipe dream Thus far the building
permits issued at the office of the fire
chief have exceeded those granted last
year for the same period, although the
margin has not been great one.
The notable feature in respect to the
permits which have been issued is that
for the most part they have been for
residences. This not only shows that
the people of Topeka are demanding
better homes, but it also indicates a
substantial growth in population.
These dwellings for which permits
have been granted since the first of
the year have been for homes-with
but one or two exceptions-whlch are
not of the most pretentious type, but
The average cost of these houses has
been about S2.5O0-at least, that is
what the permits have called for but
by the time the homes are conn Ieted
and the thousand and one little extras
put in which the plans didn't call for,
it is safe to say that. including the
cost of the land on which they are
built, they will stack up close to the
$500 mark.
A glance over the record in the Office
- Eve oh of rar111ifc granted
to date this month shows that new
buildings are to spring up in the city
valued at about 100000. The figures
entered in the book since the permits
were added up in this column in last
Saturdays issue are particularly salts
factory, aggregating $3S,2SO.
T'wenty-seven thousand dollars of
this amount is to be put in new homes
-13 of them-which means that an
average of almost two permits have
been issued each day for the construc
ton of new homes. Ten thousand dol
lars of the amount was for the new
addition to the Topeka Pure Milk COM
pany, work on which is now in prog
ress. The record for a week follows:
A. T. Grove, addition to dwelling.
1925 Van Buren, street. So
T. H. Brennaman, two story
dwelling, 1918 West street. -. $3.50
Frank Stock, barn at 141S Lane
street 40
ing. 1884 Mulvane street ~ 1900
A. ]. Ham, liz story house, 1882
west Sixteenth street ......... 1900
A. ]. Ham, one story dwelling,
2068 Kansas avenue =. $1,000. 1000
w. H Drant, ~ story dwelling,
POI East Seventh street 1,4OO
A j. Ham, building to be used as
a drug store, Seward avenue
and Grafton street .............. 1,150
Joe Wilson, one story frame
dwelling, $40 German street,. 1000
Mitchell Bros, two story frame
dwelling, 1712 Lincoln street,. $500
Mrs. Mary Barnes, addition to
house at 1925 Lincoln street. 275
W. l. Little, III story dwelling
on College avenue .............. $500
J. E. Banker, two story dwelling
on Fillmore street 500. ..... $500
Geo. C. Beach, 1441 West street,
one story bungalow .-.......... 1900
Geo. A. Real, addition to bust
ness building, 219 East Fourth
avenue :. =. Observation-Disclosures. 1000
John Walrosen, 535 same street,
two story dwelling .......... 1000
Asberry Williams, two story
house, 1886 Fillmore street ..... $3.50
Carl Strecker, addition to dwell
ing 100
F. A. Ross, business building, 119
Kansas avenue :. ......... 500
The Topeka Pure Mix Co.
douglas & Evans building)
two story addition to plant to
be used as a factory and stor-
age building Northumberland. 10000
| A. E. Sage, addition to dwelling lis
| A. j. Dewitt, addition to dwelling 100
Total for week .-............sss , 2so
Amount of permits recorded last
week Observation-Disclosures is, 75O