The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
HOME A DAY, Topeka
Great Year IN
HOME Bull dino
Permits for 343 Residences in
Year Just Closed.
This Is One for Nearly Every
Day in 1915.
The CITY SPENT s777,916
Nearly Fifty Per Cent More
Than in 1914.
Two Big Apartment Houses
Help Swell the Total.
Nearly Fifty Per Cent More
Than in 1914.
Two Big Apartment Houses
Help Swell the Total.

Topeka, already known as the city
of homes" ell over Kansas, added 345
homes to its long list during the year
1915. Three hundred and forty-three
homes were built IN Topeka during
the last twelve months-68 more than
were built during 1914, which was
record veal This does not include
several apartment houses built during
the last year, providing homes for
many families
AS further evidence of the home
instinct in Topeka let it be known that
while the total value of all buildings
constructed in 1915 was quarter OF
a million dollars greater than in 1914,
a comparatively small amount OF the
total went into business buildings
Most of it went into homes That
fact accounts for the increase in pop
ulation found by the makers OF the
new directory.
The total amount or money spent
on new buildings in Topeka in 1919
was S777,916 The total amount for
1914 as shown by the building per
mits on file in the office of Joseph
Hanlon, fire marshal. was S547 ESQ.
The total for the last year surprised
Chief Hanlon. He expected it to go
over the figures for 1914 but he dld
not look for a so per cent increase.
There was only one expensive busl-
ness building erected during the year
that Of the Palace Clothing com
pany The p ermit issued for that
building called for an expenditure OF
100000, which was the largest tor
year. ..
If. erected bv Mrs. Warren NJ Crosby
The Crosby building andgthe Palace
building were destroyed by the same
fire. The new Crosby building is cost
ing $4,000. it 5 not yet completed
Big Apartment Houses
The apartment house erected by
nf
Harrison and Huntoon was one OF
the big buildings of the year. 1t cost
$4,000 The apartment built by Ira
Baker on West Eleventh street cost
100000. The three-story building
erected By RchkCpf Brothers on West
Sixth street cost $4,000. The Abe
Jacobson theater building on lower
Kansas avenue comes to $4,000.
The remaining buildings of the more
expensive character are church build
ings. The Lowman Hill church cost
$4,000 and the Swedish Bethel
church cost $4,000. This list covers
all of the larger business or public
buildings erected during the year. The
total cost is small in comparison with
the total amount of the building per-
. rnits issued for the year. The rest of
she money went into homes. garages
arms. etc, but mostly into homes.
While there have been years when
total building permits reached a
dliE her figure there has never been d
wear when they indicated more sub
istantial growth in Topeka than during
G915.
Nearly 500 Permits.
In 1914 the total number of permits
issued was 429 During the year end
ing yesterday the total number was
491.
One noticeable thing about the list
of building permits is the great num-
Der Of residences costing from $4,000
to $4,000. The favOrite Topeka home
appears to be one costing in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. Many cost more
than that but there are comparatively
few listed costing less than $4,000.
on one page of the book containing
the building permits almost every en-
try is that of a residence permit and
every residence is scheduled to cost
$4,000.
The year the Santa F'e office build
ing, the Mills building, the Memorial
hall and the New England building
were constructed was the greatest
building year Topeka has ever known
but the total figures for that year
probably mean less to the city than the
three quarters of a million dollars
spent this year spread over 343 new
homes.