The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-02
Building News Of
 Busy Bridgeport
East Main str

East Main street in the vicinity ot Barnum avenue is to see extensive building operations during the next few months. From plans drawn by Leonard Asheim for the new banking house of the American Bank & Trust Go. work on the new structure will commence at once on the west side of the street few hundred feet o1 Barnum avenue On the east side O, the street just north of the East Side Post Office Peter Dave, the painter and proprietor of the Bijou theatre in Fairfield avenue, will soon com mence the construction of a new building which will be devoted wholly to a moving picture theatre. On the northwest corner of East Main and Arctic streets Samuel Dave is plan. ming to erect one of the handsome es' moving picture theatres in the city MT. Dave will not run the theatre himself but he is said to have leased the building to responsible persons who will conduct it, the lease cover. ing period of ten years. Ground is to be broken in a short time for a new factory building which Gregory street. It will be of brick and six stories high, new departure for the company which has always built three story buildings in the past. The building will be of brick fire proof construction and equipped with high speed elevators.
 Work was commenced upon large addition to the plant of A. & B. Hen kels lace factory in Connecticut ave- nue.
 ceiver Albert J. Merritt of the Bridge port Real Estate Investm ent Go. was authorized to sell five acres of land in Long Hill and a hydraulic crusher to Samuel Trimmer for $500. The lat ter's hid was the highest offered for the property. The property in ques- tion belonged to the Concrete Block & Construction Co. which was a sub- sidiary company of the first named company.
 The contract has been let for a two family house in Washington terrace for J. H. Cook.
 Plans are nearly ready to figure for a handsome two family house to be erected in Vine street for J. H. Schrade.
 Plans are now being figured for a one-family house which James Watts of Mountain Grove street intends to build in Higgins street.
 Work has been commenced on the prorosed alterations to the Main street bank building of the City Savings bank The a 'terations will greatly change the appearance of the structure and bring the banking room of the institution down to the ground floor of the struc- ture.
 Work is under way upon a three family house in Sixth street for Frank August. Each floor will have five rooms.
 w. F. Chatlos, the hustling builder, has taken out the contract to build two double houses for himself in Un- ion avenue.
 Plans have been completed for a brick apartment house which Vincenzo Auri To will build for himself in Church street It will be arranged for six four-rOomed apartments.
 The contract has been let for two- family frame house which E. E. Thomas will build in Noble avenue.
 Work is under way upon a three family house in Marion street, for Herman Jackel.
 The contract has been let for cot tage fin Wi'mot Place for F. G. Gould ing of Carroll Court.
 Plans are being drawn for an ad- dition which John J. Nevins will build to his house at 760 Iranistan avenue.
 During the past week building per- rnits with an aggregate value of $47,- 675 were issued by the Building Com mission, as follows:
 Swift & Co.,, brick shed, east side of Water street.
 Marsh Bros. two three family frame dwellings, south side of Merriam St.
 H. Rosenberg. frame addition to dwelling east side of Taft avenue
 Allie M. Rich, one family frame dwelling, west side of Central avenue.
 Harry D. Johnson, two family frame dwelling, Huntington road and Bos- ton avenue.
 H. l.. Blackman & Son, frame ga- rage, private 2261 North avenue.
 Hall estate, alter store and brick building, Fairfield avenue and Main street.
 Louis Josephson. two family frame dwelling and store, East Main street and Louisava street.
 Carl Berger, frame balcony, west side of Hancock avenue.
 William Luckner, frame balcony, south side of Benham avenue.
 Enoch P. Hincks, brick factory