Evening journal., 1916-03-11
Double THE SIZE
OF Smith BUILDING
Contract to Go Out Soon
Tor Big Market Street
Improvement
ENLARGE LACKEY
SUMMER RESIDENCE

tcnSiNe alterations 10 NJ. BfaunSten
end Company's department store, No.
Gl2 Market street. have been compiet-
. ed by john J. Kennedy architect. The
present building. known as the Smith
Building. will be extended to King
street. enlarging IL TO about twice its
present size. To make way for the
addition the store buildings on King
street, occupied by the Grand Union
Tea Company and Childs' Grocery
Company. will be demolished.
The following contractors are pre-
pairing estimates on tho work: j. A..
Bader and Company. John E. Ilealy
and Son. w. d. HaddOck and Com
Dany. A. S. Reed and Brother Com
pany. Charles II. Tindall and Son and
Joyce and Kerrigan. Estimates arc
20 be in by March l6.
The new store building will be As
feet wide and $50 feet in depth and
the new portion will be constructed
OF brick. steel and terra Gotta. The
main building~will. as at present. lie
four stories i'm height and the King
street portion two stories. An attract
i've feature will be the store front on
Market street. where the entrances 10
The store will be twenty-five feet deep
and be banked on each side by large
nlate glass show cases Of the latest
design. r. will be a daylight store
nm abundance OF light being assured
hy skylights Of loaded glass each 15X3O
feet The front of the King street
buildings will be constructed Of terra
Gotta and steel sash.
W. d. Haddock and Company have
4 4 ..N e. NO
modelling the large residence Of Franl
D. Lackey on the Philadelphia pike
near Grubb's Road The building Is
constructed Of stone and is OF the
colonial style OF architecture. The
plans for the remodeling Of the
building were made by Edward Canbl
May. architect
Brown and Whteside. architects
have completed plans for a stor'
huildlng on West Ninth street nea
Tatnall. adjoining the new Goldey Col
lego building. and also plans for I
garage Immediately in the rear OF th'
building, which will have a drivewa.
from Tatnall street in the rear of tn
Goldey College building. The storl
building will be 35X27 feet and tw'
stories in height and have a terrazz
floor. II will be constructed OF brick
The garage will be 35X27 feet ant
will be one story in height. IL vii
have large skylight and a cemen
floor Estimates are being asked 70
on the work. The owners name
being withheld. The property o
which the buildings will be erecte
IS part of the plot purchased by IN
Ninth Street Company from the Ortf
odoN Friends.
The Jacob Myers and Sons Compan
Is estimating on plans for a three
story house. 35XS2 feet, and two
story garage. 20x30 feet, for Mrs. Vic
cor DUPONT.
A. S. Reed and Brother Compan
have been awarded the contract fo
the erection of saw mill for the j
semi Bancroft and Sons Company q
Shallcross avenue and Scott street.
will be 25 by 80 feet and will be col
structed of brick with metal frame
plans have been drawn for the ere
ton of a one-stOry Office addition
the four-story main factory buildin
of ] Z. Rhodes and Sons at Elevent
and Grant avenue. Bids are bein
asked for. The addition will he
by 81 feet.
Edward Candy May, architect.
drawing plans for colonial residen'
at Churchhill, Va.
John ]. Kennedy. architect, wi
have plans ready on Monday for
suburban residence to cost 100000. /
will complete plans in week for
,itv residence to cost $4,000.
The William Freebooter Baking Cor
pany has awarded 20 the Hasba'
Contracting Company a contract 4
the erection of a two-stOry stab
building. 80 by 1902 feet at Thirteen
and Lincoln streets. The plans we
made by Peuckert and Wunder, arcl
tects of Philadelphia.
Rapid progress is being made in q
erection of the DUPONT building anne
The steel work has been practical
completed and the concrete floors a
now being put in The addition W
extend toward Eleventh street to q
line of the airshaft I'm the prese
building thereby making 1t lar
enough for two rows of offices on ca
floor with a corridor running betwee
The corridor on the Tenth street p'
ton Of the present building will
continued through the addition.
Ground was broken today by 10
T.. Healy and Son for al apartme
house for e. c. Hardesty at Thirteen
and Washington streets. stea
showed is being used.