The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18
NO END OF LIFE
Million Dollar Mark Passed in
Building Permits for Year.
November, 1910, Record Already
Exceeded This Month.
LAND MARKET ACTIVE
Much Property is Changing
Hands in Topeka.
Pinehurst Addition Was Placed
on the Market Today.

on the Market Today.
The million dollar mark has beer
passed in respect to building permits
issued this year. There seems to be
no Iet-up in building operations, and
the permits issued so far this month
aggregating nearly $4,000, are in ex-
= cess of those issued in the entire
month of November, 1910. Last yeaI
was next to the most active year in
the history of Topeka as regards i'm
prOvements
In the last two weeks more than
$50, 600 is the total valuation of build
ings for which the permits call This
includes eight new dwellings, and two
larger structures which will be used
as fiat and tenement building, re-
speCtiVely. The former is being erect
ed by Thomas 0. Jones at 154-15S
East Sixth avenue, and will cost So
600, and the latter is being built at the
northwest corner of Ram and Hun
tocn streets by George W. Reed, and
will be used as a business and tene-
ment structure. It will be built OF
brick and will cost $4,000.
Greatest in History.
This is probably the greatest year
in the history of Topeka as far as the
erection of new dwellings is concerned.
No one hints that a record can be
claimed in respect to the building OF
large business structures as the num-
Der of big contracts let in the city has
not compared with those let In the
two preceding seasons.
While the time of year has arrived
when the permit office is generally not
particularly busy, things are still lively,
there. and there are prospects of many
more new houses being started TINS
fall.
one firm. as stated elsewhere in this
column, is building q number of bung-
allows. which are becoming more pop
ular than ever in Topeka. G. z. Olan-
1 der is building three $4,000 dwellings
SQn Van Buren, street The CARING
house Realty Co. is putting up dwell
ings as fast as they can handle them
Building Items.
The contract for the new 100000
hospital at Mulvane. Kan, has been
let to F. NJ. Spencer of this city, and
when completed will be one of the
finest and best equipped hospital
buildings in this part of the country
The structure will be two stories
high with basement, and the material
which VII be used will be brick and
reinforced concrete The finish VIII
be Debble-daSh- The building VIII De
as near fireproof as it is possible to
make a structure.
I,eeper & Smith have a force of men
steadily employed on the construction
work of the G. A r. Memorial build
ing at the corner of Tenth avenue
y
has now been put in place to allow
person to picture the fine appearance
of the building when finished
F NJ. Spencer, the contractor. states
that the work on the new $4,000 tank
Dom of the Mutual Ice company, at
f112 East First street. is practically
completed: also that the ice storage
plant of the Topeka Cold Storage, Ice
and Fuel company, which is costing
$4,000 to build. at First and Jackson
streets, will be completed within 10
days.
There are many improvements in
progress along Kansas avenue. The
City Hand Laundry company is now
in its new home on the east side of the
street, 900 block, Kansas avenue The
property cost upwards of $4,000 and
as much more money has been put
into the reconstruction of the building
and new machinery.
Bungalows Are Popular.
The Shawnee Agency has bought a
building site at 1871 Central Park
avenue and will erect fve-room
bungalow on the property. The same
firm is erecting a Six-rOom attractive
bungalow at 1771 Garfield avenue the
special features of this dwelling will
be a sleeping porch, a den and a tile
roof The bungalow will cost $4,000.
The Topeka Transfer company is
now doing business in their new $685.
600 concrete warehouse at the corner
tvo-story structure with high base
ment and absolutely fireproof. The
ground floor measurements are look
100 feet. Frank Spencer, the contract
or. is just having the finishing touches
administered. The architect who de-
signed the structure was n. p Mel
son The office will remain in the old
building at 4O6-416 East Sixth street
this winter The firm now has three
warehouses having had built three
years ago a building at SOC East Sixth
street.
The Shawnee Agency is erecting two
bungalows between Quincy and Mon
Ne streets on East Seventeenth street.
one indication of the excellent con-
dition of business in Topeka in the
mast year. comparatively speaking, is !
the fact that the transfer companies
have been doing more business than
ever before The improvements that
have been in the process of making in
the last few months have necessitated
the hauling of supplies and machinery
"Our October business was the larg-