The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-06-09
THREE BURNED OUT
FIRMS WILL ERECT
LARGER BUILDINGS
LOT ON SOUTH GARDEN STREET
is PURCHASED FROM MRS
EVANS.
WAKE HUI / FOR Obj AS&tWIkG
Plans for New Stores Have Been Fin
ished-Work viii Begin Next
Week-No Heating Plant in the
Building.

Building.
By the terms of an arrangement
made on Wednesday afternoon the
three firms of McKennon, Anderson
& Foster, Woodbridge Company and
Dobbins & Ewing acquire the lot
from Mrs. Evans to the rear of their
stores and recently occupied by the
livery stable of Forgey Bros. The
price paid for the lot which fronts
eighty-three feet on South Garden
street, is said to have been $4,000,
or slightly more than $120 per front
foot, certainly a fine tribute to the
value of Columbia real estate.
In making this purchase the firms
mentioned will be enabled to mate
rally enlarge and improve their
property. The lot, which Is eighty
three feet front and ninety-nine feet
deep, was conveyed to a trust compa-
ny In trust or as q holding concern for
the benefit of the three actual own
ers.
The stores Of McKennon, Ander-
son & Foster and Woodbridge Com
pany will run back five feet further
than the old stores did. There will
then be nine foot alley in the rear
of these stores just as there was be-
fore the fire. Dobbins & Ewing will
have a warehouse at the rear of their
store fronting twenty-eight feet on
South Garden and running back nine
ty-nine and joining their store at the
rear. This building will be erected
by the holding trustee and leased for
a period of years to Dobbins & Ewing
This twenty eight feet and the five
feet additional for the length of the
stores will leave fifty feet of the lot
of Garden street vacant, for which
the holders have as yet no plans.
1Hc olO.0 uOuSc VI luc WOluiluSc
Company will be five feet wider than
the old store, that is DR.. Woodbridge
the owner, has acquired from Nc
Kennon, Anderson & Foster five feet
frontage on West Seventh street.
The store Of McKennon, Anderson
& Foster will have an additional
frontage or width of three feet, the
firm having acquired by purchase
from Dobbins e Ewing eight feet of
the west side of their lot This addi- |
tional three feet in width and five
feet in length will give McKennon,
Anderson & Foster additional foor !
space of 2,1S0 square feet in the four
floors of their building.
Counting the warehouse Dobbns &
Ewing will have additional floor
space Of nearly 5000 feet and VOL .
bridge Company will have more than
l 200 feet of additional space.
Work on the three new stores and
the warehouse is expected to COM
mence the first of next week. The
plans have been finished and brick
laying on the foundation will begin al
most at once.
The stores will be three SORES and
the basement, just as before the fire.
Probably the most notable improve
ment will be the absolute absence
of any fire in the building. The
heating plant for the three stores
will be situated beneath the alley in
the rear of the store of McKennon,
Anderson & Foster and the heat con-
veyed from there to the three stores
This will eliminate any danger what
ever from fire from that source. The
alley will be so excavated that it 1
will enable the heating plant to be
placed there and have plenty of room. |
Another big Improvement in the ]
store of McKennon, Anderson G Eos
Ter will be the entrance to the base
nent under the front pavement.
The pavement at this place will be
If pavement glass and will afford
abundant light for the basement and
will be a great convenience to the
store. II
The buildings will be handsome
Ind we'll finished. The interior ar
'angements will be a decided i'm
'rovement over those of the old s
stores. By reason of their addition
Il floor space the firm of McKennon, {
Anderson & Foster will be able to g
lace center tables in their store for 7