Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-29
ROANOKE KEEPS PACE5IN
GENERAL I|| run \. Q {.
Magic City Sticks 20 Business Re-
gardiess OF Cry OF Hard
Times. a
HOME BuILpERs KEEP BUSY
Church Folks and Sunday. school
Workers In Roanoke Are Optimis-
+ tic-Nobody Is Afraid in the Live
Mountain Town.

= John Wood. tho optimistic secretary
OF the Roanoke Chamber OF Commerce.
writes from that good city as follows:
Conservative estimates placed upon
building just being completed, now well
, under way and just being started I'm
Roanoke give n total in round number
OF $1,0o0,00o. Two hundred Thousand
dollars will hardly cover operations
entirely separate from the above which
arc reported to have been decided upot,
and which 1t Is expected will be an
nounced In the near future. ad
Foremost among tho activities lust
at this time is Roonoke's new city hall
Work OF excayatins- is almost complete
The building. designed BY Frye & Chos-
terman. of Roanoke, VIM occupy the
centre OF tho square on which the
former city hall. Jail. Police Court ana
other city equipment were located, /,
Will cost S250,00o. The Kind Lumber
COMPANY, OF charlottesvillo. has the
cinerating plant. costing $4,000, Is al
most ready for service. ~
III. NJ. Miller liz associated architect
on the new Young Mems Christian As.
ISOLATION building. Frye & Chesterman
arc architects for the Thurman 6:
noono building. The Young Menis
Christian Association building Is we'll
under way. 1t will cost 100000. The
Thurman & Boone building. q handsome
four-story structure. corner OF Jeffer-
son Street and Church Avenue will cont
$4,000. II Will be occupied by tho S.
IL. He!ronimus Co.. department. store
and Thurman &: Boone. furniture deal
ers. The Ponce de Leon annex, II. 81.
Miller architect. costing about $4,000,
on Campbell Avenue. will provide addi-
tional rooms and several stores
OTHER BUILDINGS OF A MORE
OH LESS BETTER CHARACTER
"othor buildings are Sunday school
addition TO Greene Memorial N. e.
Church, costing $4,000; u residence
and storeroom for DR.. J. #. strIck-
land. $4,000: theatre for II. l.. Rock
hill $4,000; Christ Episcopal Church,
$4,000. OF these. except tho last
named. c. III. Hinnnnt is the architect
Mt. Hinnant is associate architect for
the Christ Church building. Residences
FOR Il. L. Lynn, Charles I. Lunsford and
Joseph II. Sands. II. II. Miller, architect
viii have aggregate value OF about
$4,000. Work WIN begin about Janu-
arS ! on the West End Presbyterian
Church, S. III. Hinnan., architect. and
which VIII cost $4,000. Store build
in8s and dwellings now under construc-
ton will reach 100000 in cost
The Crystal Spring Laundry has just
moved into Its new home. costing $1,000.
Walter 9. Michael. baker. will build a
new plant To cost about $4,000 A
convention and exposition hall, planned
for tho near future, will cost approx.
nately $4,000. NJ. II. Clayton will erect
stores Immediately to replace building
recently burned. The Roanoke RAILWAY
and Electric Company is spending s15,-
600 on improvements neccsaitated BIZ
new street paving. and the Virginia and
Tennessee Telephone Company, $4,000
on underground cable and other work
- Not included In the above nre Il new
garage. $4,000 hotel n store and flat
building. an apartment house, rebuild
ing-just finished. of oolorcd church,
or any OF tho unusually attractive I'M
provements being made in business
houses.
IF. w. Woolworth Co, will take over
the building to be vacated by Thurman
& Boone. and, It Is reported. spend 500
GOO upon 1t before opening. a new
department store. II is reported. will
succeed the s. II. Hcironimus Co, after
considerable outlay upon interior work.
st. Andrews Catholic congregation will
erect second church upon lot pur-
chased for that purpose. and four busi-
ness houses are planned to cost $4,000.
incidentally. renl estate has been
rather active during that period OF
1914 ending November II. In that timo
Loaf deeds were recorded for transfers
within the city proper, carrying a total
value OF S2.997.9S8. Suburban prop
crty transfers, where trading hos been
particularly active. VIII bring this
amount considerably In excess OF s2,-
ooe,noo. IL not to S3.l5o,000."