The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-27
A RECORD WEEK
Best Showing of Year Made in
Building Permits.
Aggregate More Than 500, 900
in Seven Days.
BUILDERS ARE BUSY
Permits Issued for Thirty-Four
Permits Issued for Thirty-Four
Homes This Month.
Some Large Buildings in Course
Of Construction.

amount, $103,S5O, being in excess of
the record for the entire month Of May
1910, by a margin Of a few hundred
dollars.
The grand total in permits for the
month of May thus far is in round
numbers $4,000. OF this amount,
$112,O00 will be expended in the cree
ton of dwellings at an average cost of
SO, 250-thirty- four of them.
The largest item in the list is for the
H. p. Dillon $50, 600 dwelling. and of
course this swells the average cost of
the dwellings to a considerable extent.
Leaving out this item the thirty-three
other dwellings. it will be seen, will be
built at an average cost of slightly less
than $4,000.
More New Homes.
The demand for new homes in To-
peka is little short of marvellous, and
although the season has arrived when
there is usually a slump in the number
of permits issued for the erection of
homes, there seems to be no let up in
their building.
The town pessimist may croak all he
pleases but. he cannot get around fig
ures. Topeka is growing and there is
no denying of the fact. Within just
a few days j. E. Stewart, city cleo
trical inspector has issued more than
a half hundred permits to install cleo
the record has never been more than a
hundred in an entire month.
The contractors of the city who
handle nothing but large jobs in the
early months of 1911 stated that they
were less busy than in two or three
years past Cor the time of The year,
but within the last week or two
number of large propositions have
been begun by the builders.
Work on the reception hospital at
the Asylum has been started by F; M.
Spencer, the contractor. This is a
$45, 900 addition which will be one and
two stories high and constructed of
brick and stone material. The joints
will be of metal and a tile roof will be
added The floors will be of cement
so that the structure will be made as
near fire proof as possible.
There seems to be no end to the
small work that is going on now,' re-
marked Mr. Spencer.
Contractors Start Work.
Construction work On the C. A. r.
Memorial building at tie corner of
Tenth avenue and Jackson streets has
| been in progress this week, AND Leeper
and Smith expect to have things in
readiness by the latter part of Sep
TENDER for the laying of the corner
stone by President Taft. The steel
Orders are rapidly being put in place.
This building, which, when completed,
Will cost ABOUT SOOOsOUU1 Will OC IHS
most pretentious structures of its size
in the capital city.
The board of education will let con-
tracts at the first meeting in June for
the erection of ten thousand dollar
addition to the Monroe school and
twelve thousand addition to the State
Street school.
Work on the new $4,000 addition
to the First NJ. E. church has already
started, and there are several other
churches in the city which will build
within the next few months. The
members of the congregation of the
Westminster Presbyterian church met
a few days ago and decided definitely
to raise money for the erection of a
splendid new church, but as yet no
plans have been formulated 1t is the
general belief, however, that the struc-
ture will cost about $4,000.
Plans will soon be underway for the
raising of enough money to go ahead
with the work on the beautiful new
Grace Cathedral which will cost when
the church made a vow that they
would not go in debt in building the
church edifice, and consequently the
work progresses just as fast as the
funds come in. This will be the most
beautiful church in Topeka and enc
of which the citizens NAV we'll be
proud.
Leeper and Smith, the contractors,
are now putting on the finishing
touches in connection with the work
on the new $4,000 Y. w. CSA. home,
corner Of Van Buren, and Seventh
streets and elaborate preparations are
| being made for the dedicatory exer-
cises and a week of festivities which
Will begin June IA.
The Post Office Addition.
The contract will be let some time in
June for the erection of the 100000
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corner of Fifth and Kansas avenue.
On the State Fair grounds $4,000 is
| being spent in improvements. The new
horse barns have just been completed
at a cost of about $4,000. Work on
| the Mercantile and Arts building,
swine barns, and quarters for race
| horses is now in progress.
/ The first floor of the 100000 four
story building being erected on the old
Copeland hotel site by ]. c. Gordon is
completed and the south wall of
masonry is fast going up.
Work on the L. NJ. Penwell under
taking establishment is progressing
apace.
AS the fact that a permit has been
issued would indicate. the construction
of the H. p. Dillon $4,000 residence at
833 Harrison street has comm enced,
and this will be one OF the really at
tractive homes of the city, a photo
graph of which will look good in any
lIOpeKa advertising 1O1Q6r. TOpeka Is
an active place just now in a building
way.
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued
this week:
Charles H. Ashling one and one
half story dwelling, 275 Garfield
avenue !. ............,... ......-.....s .4ot
H. E. Eversole. two story dwelling,
| 600-602 Monroe street ............... S,50(
H p. Dillon, two story stone and
brick residence, SS1-S33 Harrison
| street 5O,UUN
H. p. Dillon, auto garage, S31-S33
| Harrison street .....-.-..........--.. ], SOt
| First NJ z. Church Society, stone
| and steel addition to church, 409-
as West Sixth avenue .............. 30, 0Ol
Asberry williams, two story dwell
| ing. 1885 Fillmore street .........,.. Eco