The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-12
Home Building Activity in To-
peka Continues Apace.
INCREASE IN LAND VALUES
While Houses Spring Up Prices
Advance Steadily.
Real Estate Men Discuss Con-
ditiOns and Prospects.

building permits issued in 1912 by the
| fire chief The figures late today were
| $S15,3 42.
This showing would not be remark
able, however, were it not for the
fact that more than a half million
| dollars of this amount has been or is
being expended in the erection of new
homes that can be counted not II
| scores, but in hundreds.
The boom in housebuilding is not or
the wane, Notwithstanding the lateness
in the season. Permits were issued
this week for a half dozen dwellings
which will cost in the aggregate, $12,-
$50.
The permit for the remodeling of the
Crosby Brothers building will help to
column in the permit book Then ASIDE
from this scores of other buildings and
dwellings are now being planned.
In respect to the erection of large
business buildings the showing has not
been so good as in several previous
seasons, but that is due to the tace
that several large office and other
buildings were erected within a period
of two or three seasons, and the de-
mand for the time being was met
Nearly $50 dwellings have been erect
ed by two realty firms this season, the
Shawnee Agency and the Clearinghouse
company, for the most part on the IN
stallment plan of payment.
However, many persons have had
their homes built paying cash.
Property Values Increasing.
While all this building has been in
progress the value of properties has
been increasing. 1t is exceedingly
difficult to purchase a desirable
downtown residential site. Along
the outskirts of the city in the add1-
tons which have been placed on the
market in the last two or three years
the prices have SCARED.
The Gage park zoo has had its eff
feet on the price of land between the
city proper and the popular park. The
prospect of the installation of an cleo
trio line to the park has also had its
effect.
Inside of five years predict said
N. B. Burge, who is interested in Pine
hurst west of the city limits, that
Gage park will be taken in as a part
of the city, In less than ten years.
said c. B. Wingett, president of the
Topeka Real. Estate Dealers assocla-
ton, there will be houses of class AL
around Gage park
A prominent business man in To-
peka recently purchased through the
Wingett Land company rs acre
tract of land from Henry Pitcher, and
an additional five acres from X.
Woh1er. The purchase price was 1925
an acre. Mr.. Pitcher purchased sixty
acres of land including the rs acres in
this transaction at $110 an acre but
eighteen months ago. The balance
of the sixty acres he sold at from
5000 to 1925 an acre. The business
man who made the purchase in que5-
ton did it as a matter of speculation.
He expects the property to double n
value in the next few years.
81 have found business good this
year. said George NJ. Noodle, the
realty man. There has been more
trading of property this year than
have ever seen.
1.-The general conditions in Topeka
have been comparatively favorable"
said w. A. Neiswanger of the firm of
Wilson & Neiswanger, land conse-
uuently much real estate has changed
hands,
Recent Transactions.
Sales of the Shawnee Agency: A
teenth street to A. W. Vogel, consider
alton $2,750; a five room bungalow at
523 Scotland avenue to w. f. GuHey
S1,S75; a four room bungalow at 514
Scotland avenue to LIE Roy Mason. ST.
600; five room cottage at 1417 Mad
ison street to E. NJ. George, $1,65O; a
six room dwelling at Michigan and
avenues in Highland Park,
to S. Cooper; (building) dwelling at
1857 Garfield avenue, $4,000.
The following sales have been made
by Wilson & Neiswanger recently
their salesman, ]. ]. Hender-
son: w. G. Shaw to Mrs. Alice N.
Kingman, house No. 1922 Mulvane
street, $4,000; F. E. Vest to J. M.
Quail two vacant lots on College ave-
nue. at $1,000; C. D. Lusby to F. NJ.
Pribble jr., house No. 1855 Mulvane
street, $4,000; F. E. Vest to S. E. Bar
ker, bungalow at 1912 Mulvane street,
at $1,000; VIM. Perryman to Edith
Station Young, 1888 Central Park
avenue, $4,000.
The purchasers of the properties
sold through Wilson & Neiswanger
were with but one exception out of
town people. Mrs. Kingman has lived
in the city a year or two. She came
here to place her children in Wash |
burn college
Building Permits.
Following is a list of building per-
mits issued this week:
Carl c. Witt, frame garage, 3lS Ken -
Fred Buechner, brick business build
ing, 925 North Kansas avenue..-.-- 2,ooo |
Mo Monroe Street 500 300
r2s Garfield drhehdf avenue emu S's $500
3ss-ss5 Vest Fourth street. 200,
Miss Bertha Hampstead, addition to
dwelling, 1893 Morris avenue.....-.- BIC !
Henry E. Felker, one story dwelling,
500 East Fifth street. $50
A. c. Coblentz, barn, 1211 Quincy
Thomas B. Frost. two story dwell
ing, $40 West Tenth avenue $500 /
Thomas B. Frost, auto garage, $40
West Tenth avenue. -...-...-.--.---.. 500 /
Five small items. ....-.......-..-........ 500
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