Evening journal., 1914-03-21
REALTY TRADE
GROWS BETTER
With Passing Of Snow City
Contractors Will Get
Busy Again
CONCORD HEIGHTS WORK
IS GETTING UNDER WAY


hopes Of many contractors that the
usual spring building boom would
get an early start this year. Last
week saw a considerable increase In
the number OF Jobs sent out for bids
and all Of the contractors reported
that they were getting about all the
Job work they could attend to.
About the largest job to go out for
bids during the week is a new house
for VIII am c. Spruance, Jr., to be
erected at Seventeenth and Brinkley
avenue. The house will be one Of the
most handsome in that vicinity which
is saying a good deal, as that section
of the city is rapidly building up with
fine houses. The Spruance house will
be OF BRICK and will cost close to $780,
600. Il will be three stories high with
a basement and will contain about IA
rooms and four baths. The interior
will be finished In hardwood with
hardwood floors and elaborate decora-
tions.
The house VIII be so by 80 feet.
On the first floor will be parlor, living
room, reception hall, d.ningroom,
kitchen, two pantries, maids room
and a lavatory. On the second floor
vii be bedrooms. baths, sewing room
and a sun porch. On the third floor
will be bedrooms and a billiard room.
In the basement will be a storage
room. laundry and heater room. A.
S. Reed and Brother are the contrac-
tors.
]. and J. Kennedy, architects, will
put two Jobs out for bids next week
One of them is alterations to the
hotel at Ninth and DUPONT streets for
John Malarkey. The addition will be
two stories high and will contain six
rooms. The old floors in the hotel will
be lowered, a new toilet built, the
walls papered and the wood work
painted and the building completely
renovated. The other job is an addi-
ton and alterations on the residence
of Paul Steinke at Fourteenth and
King streets. The house will be made
into apartments. a description OF
which was printed in these columns
last week. Because OF some delay the
Job was not sent out for bids this
week.
Modern Garage Almost Ready.
The new garage for Alfred I. du-
Pont which. is being built on his es-
tate on the Concord Turnpike Is al
most finished and will be one Of the
most modern garages In the State. The
build ng is two stories high and Is
, built of stone on a concrete founda-
. ton. II will accommodate sixteen
e automobiles and vii contain ma
r chine shop, room for washing cars
}. elevator and sleeping quarters fol
: chauffeurs.
Z. On the first floor viii be the garagl
: proper with floor space for the auto
: mobiles, a room and an open runway
7 for the washing OF the machines and
+ a working pit. equipped with cleo
. trical devices for supplying light &c
the men who will work on the cars.
There will be patent machines for
! washing the cars without scratching
/, them and an up-to-date tire repair
plant. On the second floor will be a
machine shop which will compare
favorably with any shop in any gar
, age in the State. It will be thoroughly
equipped with machinery for repairs
, to the machines and will allow Mr.
duPont's own machinists to work on
his foreign cars, instead Of taking
them to a garage.
The sleeping quarters will be COM
plete in every detail and will be com
Portable for his large corps OF
chauffeurs. The quarters Will con-
tain baths, electric lights and all
modern conveniences. An electric
power plant may be located in the
. basement of the garage.
Workmen are busy this week put
ting roofs on the houses that were
unroofed on Ferris street during the
severe storm several weeks ago. Th'
4 houses, in some cases, were badly
damaged, the cell ngs on the seconC
floors being cracked and making Il
necessary for them to be re-plas
tered.
Harvey d. Blackwell, is building ;
two-story residence for Hyman Roth
stein, at No. Mechanic street. i
will cost about $500
The iive-story hotel for Mrs. Geo
H. Simon, at Eighth and King SITS.
is nearing completion and viii be one
{ of the most attractive Of the smaller
hotels about the city. II was de
signed BY Roscoe Cook Tindall ant
: is being built by Charles J. Dough
erty.
81 NOIk Ou Aut lounuotichc AoA va
a Farmers Bank at Third and Marke
n streets, is progressing rapidly ant
BY the end of the week the work ol
the walls will be started. W. Howard
I, May is the contractor.
= Brinkloe and Gaming, architects
!: have prepared plans for apartmen
and a store for Thomas n. Stayton
= at Fourth and French streets. Mr
ID Stayton owns the building and will
!. have II remodeled. The plans hav
a. not been sent to the contractors.
= Town Hall for Milford.
Leon w. Crawford. architect ha
:. prepared plans for one Of the mos
T. undue public buildings in the Unitel
States. They are for the new mu
I: nicipal building to be built by Mil
I. ford and will span the Mispillion riy
II er. The building will be of concrete
brick and steel, built on concrete pill
= ing and will form an arch over tn
+ river high enough not to interfer
X with navigation on the river. Mi
Crawford has just gotten back fror
!, Milford where he made a survey @
4 the river and the site of the buildin
=. and the plans will be forwarded I
the Secretary of War at Washingto
as his perm 'ssion for the erection G
is the buildings must be obtained be
e fore IL can be built. The building wi
~ contain the offices OF the mayor, Cit
Il Council and committee rooms, tn
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