Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-08
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Period Of Development in West
Farnam District.
NEW RESIDENCES PLANNED
-Four Homes Projected In Fashionable
Residence Territory, Transfers
Involved TotnIInE Hun
dred Thousand.

A number Of building sites have been
purchased in the West Farnam street dis
trict since the first Of the year and some
fine residences viii be erected during the
coming summer A. p. Turkey a. Son have
purchased six sites. four OF which will be
built upon. OF these G. NJ Wilhelm OBJ
tanned lot at the corner Of Thirty-ninth
and Davenport, 1O0x155; G. r. Dickson
bought one at Thirty-eighth and Cass 1OOO
ls9; c. f. McGrew bought one at Thirty
ninth and Farnan, 95x137; II. f. williams
purchased one at Fortieth and Dewey ave-
nue., lSX125. on these sites homes will be
built - the purchasers that will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 In addition to this Bishop
WILLIAMS bought the Morris home at the
= corner of Boulevard and Harvey street and
p. p, Peck obtained the f. V. Lewis place
at FOrtieth aud Harvey streets Jerome
MCGEE also bought the property at the cor
ner of Thirty-eighth and Jackson streets
and later sold It to f. p. Hamilton. These
transfers make a lump sum of about $780,
90 that has been paid for real estate in
this section since the first of the year.
\ wv. NJ. Parker sold the building at 1905
Douglas street to David Lipsey for $4,000.
This is a four-story brick structure.
p. A. Baird sold the row OF brick flats
at Eighteenth and Dodge streets to Harold
clifford for $4,000 The deal was made last
week.
1t is reported that an offer of $50 900 was
made for the Drexel hotel property at Six
teenth and Webster streets last week. The
property is owned by L. b. Schreb, who
lives in California The property was
bought by him last year for $4,000
A new coal and building material yard
is being built by p. j. Creedon g. Sons, at
Forty-sixth and Dodge streets. The firm
already has one yard and mill at this
tpolnt and the new yard, with cement 'front.'
'Ings, is being installed across the street.
Within the last few years several new
large material yards have been built around
the Belt line. The remarkable business done
by all of these is indicative OF the growth
of Omaha.
r. J. Creedon & Sons have secured the
contract of building the addition to the
Richardson Drug company building and
work will begin at one. The addition will
be s7x67. two stories and basement, but will
be so built that three more stories may be
added.
The work OF tearing down the old fran,
structure at Tenth and Howard streets
upon whose site a new cight-story COLI
storage building will be erected by DaviC
Cole. is almost completed. The new build
ing will be used in connection with thu
David Cole Creamery company.
The work of wrecking the building at tn,
corner of Fifteenth and Dodge streets
Pacific building, is almost completed, anc
1t is expected that excavation will be
started some time this week.
It is understood that the plans for tn,
new Union Pacific building will call for {
twelve-story structure that will lack bu
five feet OF being as high as the new Cit,
National Bank building, which Is sixteer
stories. 1t is said that this arrangement
is made with the idea of building high cell
ings to assist in procuring as perfect ven
tilation as possible
Sixteenth and Jackson has been finishe,
and the contractors will begin at once OF
the foundation. 1t is expected that tn
building win be finished by September l.
A delay in the work on the Christian
Science church at st. Mary's avenue an,
Twenty-fourth street, has been occasione
by a shortage of steel. Some of the hug
pieces that will go into the construction