The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-12-23

dhdio anu luulCdleS the =
growth and prosperity which +
+ Mankato is enjoying. No city !
the size of Mankato in the !.
= northwest can show a better +
I! record. Next season will wit +
+ ness the construction of a i
number of large buildings in ].
+ this city-not to mention the ].
+ residential improvements that ].
/" are contemplated. /.
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The building record in Mankato
the past year has kept up to it's
former standard, and fully 100000
has been expended for new buildings,
additions to old ones, remodeling,
etc., and in the city and private
work of a permanent nature. The
Free Press has not secured the
smaller building list for publica-
ton this year, for various reasons,
one of which is the reluctance of
many persons to have value placed
come to the notice of the assessor.
But a careful scrutiny of the build
ing permits issued the past year,
and the books OF the various archi-
tects and interviews with some of
the leading contractors leads to the
belief that fully half million dol
lars was expended in Mankato
the past season in the way of per-
manent improvements.
Not as many residences as usual,
and perhaps not as many stores,
have been erected, but several large
buildings for other purposes have
been erected, which add greatly to
the appearance of the city and bring
up the building record Never has
there been such a season for build
ing. From the first of March until
now workmen have not had to lay
Off six days on account of the wealth
er. 1t is stated that the contractor
erecting the Rapidan dam has lost
only eight hours time on account
of the weather. Many Of the larger
buildings are still in course of cree.
ton, workmen laying brick and stone
in the open air.
The largest single building i'm
provement is the new high school
building, the contract price for the
erection of which is something like
$4,000. This building is now up
to the attic in places, and will soon
be enclosed, at the present rate of
progress. 1t is a magnificent struc-
ture, and will fill the wants of the
city for the next thirty years at
least, at the present rate of the
city's growth.
Elks Building Near Completion.
The $4,000 Elks' club building is
well along toward completion, hay
ing been fully enclosed, and the roof
completed. Work is now in progress
in the interior. H. M. Byllesby &
Co., erected a new building at the
gas and electric light plant and made
other improvements in the city at
a cost of $4,000 There was eX-
pended on the Lutheran Ladies' SEM
mary about $500 the present sea-
son, with a prospect of large ex-
penditure next year. Work has been
begun on a $4,000 club house that
the German Catholic society has I'M
dertaken to put up, and which will
be completed the coming year.
The largest improvement made in
the city by the railroads was the
erection of it's new freight depot by
the Omaha road, at cost of $4,000
but the road spent many thousands
more in filling the ground where the
building stands and in rearranging
its tracks. G.. w. Jessup spent $12,-
900 i'll erecting a large warehouse
near the foot of Poplar street This
is brick structure, like the freight
depot and the other buildings men,
toned.
Mrs. j. W. Kuebler is engaged
in erecting a building to contain
four flats on South Fourth street, to
cost $4,000 The brick and tile work
is now up to the second floor. John
G. Gerlich has completed large
duplex fiat building at a cost of
about $4,000 on North Broad street
A. G. Malchow erected q two
story brick store building on North
Front street at cost of about
$4,000, and Thomas A. Sherk is
completing brick double store
building on South Front street at
cost of about $4,000.
The Mankato Automobile company
has completed garage building OF
cement blocks on South Second
street at a cost of $4,000, and John
Page, Jr., is erecting hack and
bus barn on South Second street
at a cost of about $4,000 and has it
nearly completed.
In the Business District.
William G. Hoerr rebuilt the build
ing now occupied by the Mankato
CANDY. Kitchen at an axpeneo of