The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-31
Topeka Gained i'm Building Ac-
tiyity Over March, 1914.
Permits Issued This Month Ag-
gregated Nearly $4,000.
EIGHTEEN NEW DWELLINGS
They Will Be Erected at a Cost
of $4,000.
Local Builders Are Optimistic
Over 1915 Prospects.

Building permits issued at the City
hall in March aggregated $4,000 in
round numbers as against $46,22O in
the same period last year. OF the 40
permits taken out 8 called for the
erection of dwellings, at total eX-
penditure of $4,000, or an average of
nearly $4,000.
The 1915 building season has
opened in nice shape and while no
SkyScraperS are in contemplation nor
any unusually pretentiOus buildings, 1t
it the general opinion among realty
men, contractors, and architects, that
the year will prove much more active
in respect to the erection of buildings
and dwellings than the season of 1914
The Masonic building, the three story
building for Rehkopf Brothers, and
the Lowman Memorial ethodist
church are structures that will be
which will have 100 foot frontage
and which will be the most pretentious
building of the kind in the state, is
now being constructed on West Sixth
avenue between Clay and Buchanan
streets. DR.. o. F. Narcotic has just
taken out permit for an elaborate
Wood1awn avenue, Potwin. The Kan
sas Children's Home society building
at 91S-920 Kansas avenue is nearing
completion.
took out the largest number of per-
mits issued in March by the city fire
chief to any one individual firm-six.
List of Building Permits.
Following is list permits issued in
Bert Ferguson. remodel dwelling.
E. W Grant, two-story dwelling wv
l42S f9l 4i,n street .d;ton 70 'oo
C. H. Phelps, remodel and addi-
ton to DWELLING , 10 Madison st. $50
dwelling, 1415 Clay street. 1000
Polk street 5000
ABB Lincoln street .............. 433
nett. new front second story bust oo
Ed Feyh. shop, liza Lawrence ST.. 125
W. N. Hall, new rear wall of base
ment and first story at bust
ness building, 623 Kansas avenue. 1000
J. NJ. Leeper. auto garage, brick
with iron columns and truss roof. 5000
store building. 5ox5O feet, 5o1-o3
j. Frank ' Barrie s.'ef two-story dwell ''O
ing. 42o-24 Washburn avenue -. o,4OO
1856 Boswell avenue. .........e. 1000
Otis l. Benton, two sleeping porches
1900 West street -....... 400
1O9s Polk street. ........ 1000
f. H. Chase, auto garage 1oes Polk 49,
f a. Haskell, one.story dwelling, oo
Ga HG es1 s'r Sealty Co onestory 0o'
dwelling, 4O1 Laurel avenue -. 1,s0o
Clearinghouse Realty Co., one-story
dwelling, go Underwood avenue. LOGO
clearinghouse Realty Co., one-story
dwelling, :506 Elmwood avenue. 1S00
Clearinghouse Realty Co., story
dwelling, 1917 Harrison street. -. 1900
Clearinghouse Realty Co., 115 East
Thirteenth street ..........-. 1000
Clearinghouse Realty Co, one-story
dwelling, 915 Underwood avenue. 1000
Fred Prout 7S7 Van Buren, street.. 5000
Hugh t. Fisher, auto garage, 415
Greenwood avenue .--......-..--- 200
German BAPTIST church, IL -story
barn. 211 Tyler street. .......... 125
J. T. Custenborder. sleeping porches,
1924 Harrison street .........:. 11o
Frank Krammer, chicken house, 211
Henry Schiller, addition to dwelling.
us Monroe street. Observation-Disclosures. $50
Susie Cooper, addition to dwelling,
171I Fillmore street .............. go
Dr. Eva Harding, remodel and addi-
ton to dwelling, 61S West Tenth
avenue-cOSt not given.
G. o. Knowles, auto garage, 703 Har
riSon street 10
L. p. Kistler. two-story dwelling,
1326-2S Jewell avenue ......... 2,4OO
Sarah X. Mclean, two story dwell
ing, 61S Western avenue. ........ $500
Burton Hill, garage, $40 East Sixth
w. NJ. Forbes & Co. story dwell
ing. 91S Wood street. ............ 1000
DR.. O. F. Narcotic stone and stucco
two-story residence with tile roof,
4:,6 WOodlawn avenue. ........- 10000
Henry Brooks, addition to office