The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-08-24
MANY BUILDINGS
GOING UP At
ANCHORAGE

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town has a record achievement to
ward building progress that has never
before been attained in an Alaska
town. The permanent townsite has
been open to settlement but a month,
and yet along Fourth and Fifth avanues
and on side streets substantial, well
built business houses adorn the town,
indicating faith of the inhabitants in
the future of Anchorage.
Captain Austen Lathrop enjoys the
distinction of erecting the most COM
modious building in the new town.
1t is located at the corner of Fourth
avenue and H. street and contains five
fine roomy store spaces, already leased
for various businesses. The building
is substantially made. The floor is the
best ever placed in an Alaska build
ing.
Finkelstein & Sapiro have about
completed the erection of handsome
roomy store.
Carol & Co. are erecting fine store
building which will be a credit to the
town. The entire 50-foot frontage will
be plate glass. The owners will oc-
cupy part of the building and Sydney
Laurence will occupy the remaining
part as photograph gallery.
McGown, Raich, Rasevich are erect.
ing another fine, big business block.
The corner will be occupied by a
restaurant; the center will be a pool
hall.
c. C. Bush has a neat, comfortable
business place.
The Montana Pool Room is another
swell structure which adds to the
towns improvement.
Mike Reilly's restaurant is place
that would adorn any community ana
w. L. Balch was the builder.
Good hotel accommodations will be
supplied by substantial buildings be-
ng erected by F. w. Redwood, Mrsi.
Martha White, Geo. Crist, E. Richter,
the Riverside and others.
Nearing completion are the splendid
structures of Carl w. Bolte. the hard
ware merchant; c. w. Johnson, the
tent and awning man; Mccullough &
Carlson's store and the Ship Creek
Meat Cos. building.
Policy Brothers are already occupy
ing we'll appointed roomy store ad-
joining Reilly's restaurant.
The Mccain studio has swell To-
cation and fine structure is in course
of building.
Ground is being broke for the Knik
Hardware Co.'s store, which is to be
another substantial, neat building.
The post Office is doing business in
a nifty, well constructed building suit
ed to the purpose.
Deputy Marshal Wardell expects to
commence building the local bastile
within a short time. He has several
large piles of logs in the rear of his
prospective building, which look
threatening to wrong doors.
The bank to be established here will
build on lot 6, block Al.
Brown & Hawkins have erected a
massive warehouse on the waterfront
on Ship creek and contemplate the
erection of a big store building on the
corner of Fourth avenue and E street.
L. o. Nyberg, who bought the first
los offered for sale in new town, is
erecting substantial building with so
foot frontage on Fourth avenue.
Wiseman & Finley have nearly COM
pleted a neat store building 24x40.
"A large number of people have ap-
piled for building permits from the
townsite manager, and in most cases
the buildings are under construction.
Cordovaites figure prominently in the
list as follows:
Block 28-Lot Camille McGown,
Matt Raich and Andrew Masevich,
restaurant and pool room; 5Ox50
frame.
Lot 8-M. Finkelstein, clothing and
gents furnishings: 25x50 frame.
Lot IA. Laska, tailor shop.
Block 29-Lots IL and 13-Capt.
Austen Lathrop, FIVE stores in frame
building 4Sx1OO; also storage 24x46.
Block 3O--Lot 10-Frank Ackles,
boarding house; tent structure tenn
porarily.
Block 40-Lot &C. w. Bolte, gen.
eral hardware store; 20x5O two story
frame.
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