The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-03-29
GREAT Dig BUILDING
YEAR Is LAUNCHED
WORK STARTED THIS WEEK ON
FINE DWELLINGS IN ALL
PARTS OF CITY.
REFLECTS ClTY'S GROWTH
SUNSHINE LENDS IMPETUS TO
SPRING CAMPAIGN--LARGER
STRUCTURES SOON.

Sunshine of the present week has
-inaugurated what is expected to be
by far the greatest building year in
Madison's existence. Contractors,
lumber dealers and business men gen
orally are agreed that present indi-
cations fo%reshadow a building cam
paign, which in both volume and in
the class of structures to be erected,
has never before been approached in
the city.
Besides the tens of thousands OF
dollars hat will be involved in the
larger buildings in prospect for this
year, such as the proposed new fed
eral building, training school at the
State Normal, west wing to the Cen
trail school, two new theaters, COM
bination store and apartment build
ings, the erection of substantial
dwellings has started this week in
practically all quarters of the city.
Forty thousand dollars is the con-
seryatively estimated cost of resi-
dences, work on which has been
started during the last few days, or
will be commenced in the course of
a week or so. 1t is believed that the
Mayfield store building and the pro-
posed moving picture house, on North
Egan avenue, e~Xcavating for both Of
which buildings is now under way,
will add at least 100000, which
would bring the total of early season
construction up to the 100000 fig
ure.
Following are some of the building
improvements already in progress OF
to be started within a few days:
j. G. Schultz today commenced
work on a garage on the site Mr..
Schultz has purchased for a home in
Kennedy's park. Work on a modern
two-story, nine room residence will
be started by Willis White, contrac-
tor, as soon as the garage is com
pleted.
Plans are being completed for a
modern, tWo-story eight Don frame
residence for III. j. Munro, at the cor
ner of Washington avenue and Fifth
street. Ex~cayating is to be started in
a week or SO.
l.. T.. Paulson, contractor, has
commenced the construction of a
two-story, eight room, modern resi-
dence for Gus Weise on East Third
street.
To make room for a modern dwell
ing, which he will erect there at once,
Rudolph Schmidt is removing an old
building from the property known
as the Clough site, in the east part
of town.
II. Dirksen is preparing to remodel
his residence on West Fifth street.
Preliminary to erecting a two
story, eight room modern house on
Tenth street, George Davis is dis
mantling a barn on his property.
r.. Verlo has the contract for CON
structing for Claude Tyrrell a mod
ern, two-story eight oom residence,
to be erected on Egan avenue, west
of the State Normal school.
Work will be commenced at once
by the Home Development company
on five up to date dwellings in their
addition in the west part of the
city. The houses will be five or six
rooms each. The contract for two Of
the dwellings was let.
Fred Duncan, modern dwelling,
West Seventh street.
Within q week or so, Charles Simp-
son will start the erection of a four
room dwelling, with full basement,
on Lee avenue, east of the Garfield
school building.
Ole Helmey, frame dwelling, sos
Liberty venue
N. II. Dingman has started %excavat-
ing for six dwelling houses. Four
modern, frame dwellings of five
rooms each are being erected on East
Fourth street, and two six room,
frame dwellings are to be built by
Mr.. Dingman on South Egan venue
others who are contemplating
erecting houses as Don as possible
are:
Edward O. Fletre, dwelling, Sum
nit addition.
w. G.. Birr, dwelling, Summit adj
dition.
Cora May Peters, dwelling. South
Egan II
Walter Winter, dwelling, Harth
avenue.
w. w. Cummings, dwelling, Sum
nit addition.