Arizona republican., 1913-02-24
BIG APARTMENT
 HOUSE WILL bE ERECTED HERE
Most Modern Structure of It's Kind in Southwest
 Will Be Commenced on
 North Central Avenue Within Next Few Days

Within Next Few Days Phoenix is to have the most modern l apartment house in the Southwest. | Work upon 9 structure that promises to set the pace for q long time to come. will te commenced sometime this week i on North Central Avenue. Upon his property just North Of Garfield street, ! facing west, W r.. Osborne. of san [ Francisco, will erect an eighteen suite 1 wo-stOry and basement brick and con- | crete structure to cost upwards of S35.- 1 GOO
 l The plans drawn by Contracting Ar l chitect George H. Gallagher and ap- 1 proved by Mir. Osborne, calls for a l building which will compare favorably with any of the modern structures in | the larger cities in the country. There | will be eleven three-room suites. six | twO-room suites and one bachelor 1 quarters. The three-room suites will | consist of d living and sleeping room. | bath room, dressing room and kitchen 1 The two room suites will consist of q 1 living and sleeping room. bath room 1 and kitchen. Each will have it's own 1 separate sleeping porch leading directly 1 from the suite upon the porch.
 Brick and concrete will form the ma 1 terial of the building proper while l hardwood floors and Japanese Oak ! trimmings will be used throughout. ex- l cept in the kitchens. bath and dressing l rooms. where wOGdiith sanitary floors l will be lad, while the zinc tops and | work tables will be dressed with the i sane material. In the cabinet kitchens. 1 as well as in the bath room. will be in stalled a most modern sanitary plumb | ing. The ladies dressing rooms will i be ideal. In that there will be plenty 1 closet space and in each room will be 1 two large in hat boxes.
 The living rooms will each be ! equipped with folding disappearing i beds, writing desks. book cases and 1 built-in wall safes. Each room will 1 have its own private telephone.
 The basement. which extends under 1 the entire structure, will contain pri- vate lockers, one for each tenant and | modern and thoroughly equipped laun- | dry for the joint use of the tenants | While the building will be steam-heat- 1 ed throughout, there will be gas ranges l installed in each of the kitchens The | sleeping porches will be seven feet l deep, all screened and so arranged that i absolute privacy may be obtained Tn | addition to utilizing the basement and 1 first and second floor space and equip ! ping these with every modern cOnven- 1 fence, even the roof will be turned to l good purposes with the establishment | of q garden and evening recreation 1 section thereon This feature. in the | summer time will afford an opportun- l ity with the erection of awnings for 1 house parties and other social affairs ! The front porch will be constructed i in semi colonial style with brick col 1 umns. while the basement foundation | and steps will be of concrete The bal | anCe of the building will be of brick with splattcr- dash finish. The build | ing proper will be forty Sht by one 1 hundred feet and n including the | pOrChes vii cover siXty-twO by one ] hundred feet. Birch panel doors will
 be used throughout. All bath rooms, ! dressing rooms and kitchens will be
 treated with two coats of washable in
 tcror stipple
 MT Osborne has already selected d name for his apartment house. It wifi i be known as tribute to the name of
 the town in which he was born. With 1 the beginning of excavation for the 1 basement sometime this week. MT. 1 Gallagher promises to turn over com 1 plete building in about three months. l Nor Is this the only project Mir. Os-
 borne now has in mind with relation
 to Phoenix. He owns other property on
 l North Central avenue upon which he
 contemplates the erection of an even
 1 larger and more luXuriously equipped
 1 apartment house following close on the
 heels of the completion of this one. It
 is estimated that this larger structure
 will cost anywhere from ninety thous-
 and to one hundred thousand dollars. l Mir. Osborne has expressed himself as
 more than confident of the future of
 1 Phoenix and is exhibiting his confi-
 dence in projecting structures of tho
 l kind referred to