Arizona republican., 1913-06-09
MUCH BUILDING |S PLANNED F0R
 SUMMER OF 1913
Architects and Contractors Are Busy Completing Work Already Under Way or Preparing to Begin
 Construction of Structures

There was a time when the ap- proach of the warmer period in
 Phoenix brought about a let-up in building operations, put this is some thing which can hardly obtain the present summer judging from the extensive work in progress or soon to be undertaken. There is the biz three story concrete building the Pratt Gilbert company is soon to start on South Central avenue, the handsome office building and ware house of the Arizona Eastern which will soon be under way, a large ! apartment house on West Washing
 ton street hardly a block from that | already begun on West Adams street.
 the proba bility that the completion of St Mary's Catholic church at cost of s90,0O0 will soon begin, bids to be opened on June 19 for the erection Of the big Korrick building to be the home of the New York store a First and Washington streets. while every architect in Phoenix and many out side are engaged upon plans for scores of dwellings and smaller busi- 1 hess properties. And this is a most \ incomplete summary of all the work that is likely to be finished or under | way before the usual autumn influx of visitors.
 I Every builder in Phoenix admits that conditions in construction lines
 were never better There have been | times when a few larger jobs were in prospect than are known of just now. but as whole the outlook is 1 most suspicious.
 he of .aIIo oh | ten days ago created void in the circle of contractors who do things in Phoenix but it is now known that 1 Roy A. Gray. who was in partnership | with MT. Gallagher, both an archi i tect and as a contractor, will carry | out the work planned for the firm of Gallagher X Co, and that the | prestige of the dead win remain as lone of the most valuable assets to i tle younger man who was for years | so closely associated with the Tore i most contractor of this section. | For Gallagher X Co. Mir. Gray is carrying on the work of completing | no small number of large contracts. The Blenheim apartment house on i North Central avenue. being erected | for w. F. Osborne. has reached the
 stage where only the inside trimming | <r ] pected that this work will be finished I by the end of the week and the j building be in readiness to turn over I to the owner.
 l On the same avenue the work of
 erecting the handsome s10.O00 Nickels I residence had progressed on Satur I day to the point where the con crete foundations had been completed I and the work of laying brick will be | comenced today.
 Il The work on the big Wakelin II Grocer company's warehouse and \ wholesale grocery department is be- ! ing rushed, the columns and girders l for the concrete floors being now in EI the course of erection.
 I Among the more important new
 contracts in the hands of this con
 cern is that of the erection of a
 most important addition to the Sis
 ters Hospital. MT Gray has been
 commissioned by the sisters to draft
 plans providing for a new front for
 the main building At present this
 structure sets twenty-two feet inside the property line. It is planned to
 erect a two story addition to the
 front, giving two new office rooms
 and two new reception rooms on the
 first floor, with two twelve bed dor
 mitorie5 upon the second floor. One
 dormitory will be devoted to male
 patients and the other to women pa
 tients.
 There are at present no dOrmitOries
 in St. JOseph's hospital. It is now planned that with dormitories or
 small wards, it will be possible to provide a few beds for those whose means make it a burden to pay even the exceedingly reasonable rates now charged for the single rooms. It will also make it possible to give better care by reason of the fact that nurs- es assigned to the dormitories will 2 have all their patients constantly under their eyes and be able to at tend 10 their every want without de lay.
 I In the construction of the proposed addition the mission style will bC utilized brick being used with plaster l finish In this way the front of the main building will be made to cor [ respond in appearance with that Oi n the exterior of the annex which is
 strictly mission and of very pleasing n appearance. It is the further plan tC e ultimately splatterdash the entire a main building. giving an appearance : of uniformity and stability. During the first week of Jun'
 | Building Inspector Howard B. Claf . lin issued about ten permits, the az h grega+e showing buildings contem : plated the value of which will no = fall far short of S75,000. At thi D rate there is no reason to believe tha
 a lull is due in building operations