The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-14
Indications Are That More
Building Will Be Done in
Richmond This Year Than
in Previous Years.
TOTAL OF PERMITS
SO FAR is $4,000
Evans Announces That He
May Build At Tenth and
Main-Number of Resi-
dences Will Be Erected.

From the present indications. the
building prospects for this year are
exceedingly bright and it is probable
that the costs of buildings and the
number of buildings erected in Rich
mond will exceed that of former years.
In less than three months building
permits totalliny $4,000 have
been taken out from the Office of City
Controller McMahan. The usaul build
ing season has not started, the months
of May. June and July being the larg-
est in this department, according to
city hall records.
Building permits amounting to
about 100000 were taken out last
year and it is expected that this years
building will exceed that amount by
at least a hundred thousand dollars.
A large number of residences will be
erected this year. one company having
already signified its intention of
building fourteen houses costing on
an average of $4,000 Several home
building societies have been started in
Richmond with the idea of erecting
homes for people who can pay for
them in rental fees.
$4,000 Warehouse.
The largest permit taken out this
year was that of Miller Brothers
Hardware company who will build a
brick warehouse on Fort Wayne ave-
nue. costing about $4,000. ! This per-
NIT was given February 21. 1t will
be completed within a few months.
The old building has been razed and
the excavations started for the new
warehouse.
The Pilot Motor Car company on
January Is, secured a permit to build
an addition to the present factor, the
estimated cost being $1,000.
d. w. Walters of the Richmond
Steam Laundry will build a concrete
building for the use of the laundry on
South Sixth street. The cost is esti-
mated at $4,000. This is the only
concrete structure for which a permit
has been given so far this year.
Erecting Residences.
| The largest single residence for
which a permit has been given is that
of w. E. Morris who will erect a
dwelling house at 1928 North E street
near Glen Miller park. A. W. Blick-
wedel will build a double house at
601-603 South Seventh street costing
| $500. A double house costing $2,S00
| will be built by T w Hadley at 1910
| 1912 North E street.
Laban Johnson, representing a
kokomo contracting firm, will finance
the erection of fourteen houses in
West Richmond near the car barn of
the T H. | and E. traction company.
/ Additional ground will be purchased
later and more houses will be erected.
Local contractors will build the
houses which will be built for the
workingmen.
The Mcclure building on Main
street, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets is nearing completion. This
building cost about 100000 and is
the newest business block in the city.
1t was built by Elwood MCGUIRE.
Evans May Build.
According to John A. Evans, a large
business block may be built this year
at the corner of Tenth and Main
streets opposite the Westcott Hotel.
Mr.. Evans has not, as yet, decided
finally to erect a building on the
ground but the prospects are very
| favorable
Members of the frm of the Miller
Kemper company one of the largest
contracting concerns in the city state
that the prospects this year are bet
ter than ever before and that an ex-
ceptionally large number of dwelling
houses will be built in 1913