Evening journal., 1915-12-18
MANY NEW BUILDING
OPERATIONS AHEAD
New Home for Brokers Will
Go Up on Market
Street Soon
MODERN APARTMENT
HOUSE IS PLANNED

Brown and Whiteside. architects,
have completed plans for a new resi-
dence for Hunter Grubb at Seven
teenth street and Greenhill avenue.
Estimates are being asked for and
are to be in by December 27. The
colonial style of architecture has been
followed in the plans. The house will
be 58 by 80 feet. II will be three
stories in height. On the first floor
there will be a livingroom, dining
room, den, breakfast-room, kitchen and
pantry.
On the second and third floors there
will be eight rooms and three baths
There will be a laundry in the base
ment.
Local builders are preparing esti-
mates for the erection of a large stone
house for Philip +. DUPONT near Mem
dinhall, Pa. The plans were made by
Robson Lea Perot, architect, of Phila-
delphia. The house will have two
and half stories and be 114x25 feet
with a wing 23x45 feet. On the first
floor there will be a large hall. dining
room, dining porch. livingroom. li-
brary. pantry, kitchen and servants
diningrOom. There will be six bed
rooms, two dressing-rooms and rlay-
room on the second floor and four
bedrooms on the third floor In the
basement there will be a lundry and
vacuum cleaner. Estimates are to be
in by December %.
Plans for +. ID. Lackey and Com
pany's new brokerage Office and Office
building at No. 923 Market street,
have been posted by Edward Candy
May. architect. Estimates are being
prepared by w. Howard May. w. ID.
Haddock aud Co., A. s. Reed and
Brother Company and J. A. Bader and
Co. and are to be in the hands of the
architect ON December %. The con-
struction will be of red tapestry brick
terra Gotta trimmings and granite
base; floors will he of marble and tile
making semi-fireproof building
Banking screens will be of mahOg-
any with grills of bronze and parti-
tiOns OF glass. There will be three
floors. The brokerage Offices will be
on the first floor. There will be an
entrance from Shipley street.
Plaster cornices are Deing placed in
the council chamber Of the new
I Knights of Columbus Hail. Tenth and
West streets. Front and rear porches
are being erected A new beating sys-
( tenn is being installed.
Bids were received yesterday by the
/ DUPONT Powder Company for the cree
tion of l2-story bungalow ut Bar.
! ley Mill Lane, 1t is similar to the ones
erected at Gibbstown.
W. ID. Haddock & Co. has been award.
ed the contract for the erection of a
layatory for the p, b. & W. Railroad
Company Ia Edge Moor yard. Il will
cost about $1,000
\. 5. Reed and Brother Company il
making rapid progress with the altera
tions TO the residence at Thirteenth ant
Franklin streets formerly owned bv ~
wood G, Jackson, now the property oI
Harvey Whiteman. Il is expected that
the work will be finished by January /.
The snow and unpleasant weather
during the week greatly retarded al
outside building operations. One build
cr said today practically a whole Weel
was lost.
Worl, has been started on the cree
tion Of a second plant by the DUPONT
Powder Company, at Gibbstown.
Charles II. lindall & Son, genera
contractors, have been awarded the con
tract to build an apartment house TO
Mrs. A. +. kierski, formerly of New
York, but now Of Wilmington, at Shall
> cross avenue and Broome street. tn
! house will contain nine apartments AM
roof garden. The apartment will b
finished throughout in white ename
Each floor in the house, with the eN
ception of the bothrooms, will be hard
wood floors bathrooms aud entranc
p halls will be laid in tile. Special atteu
a tion has been given to all modern spac
nj and timo-saving equipments. as well a
fire protection. Those who have see