The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31

houses to be built at the corner OF
Eleventh and Harrison Mr.. Robert
son has had both foreign ana local
architects at work planning for the
most complete and up to date apart
ments that it is possible to build. The
east has been colhted for suggestions
to make these apartments, when built,
the last word in both convenience and
comfort. They will cost $4,000.
Work on the new Masonic library,
corner of Eighth and Harrison, is to
be started in a short time and the
plans for this structure call for one of
the most handsome buildings in To-
peka. 1t will he thoroughly modern
ard fireproof in every respect. Sew
eral new features in library buildings,
such as steel vaults and shelves,
overhead book carriers and other nov
el but convenient arrangements will
be installed. The interior of the new
library will be beautifully decorated,
as it is planned to have both walls and
ceilings carry works of art from prom
inent artists.
When completed the library will
cost 100000.
Grace Cathedral.
Financial arrangements are about
complete, which insure early COM
pletion of Grace Cathedral, and work
toward this enc will soon begin.
When finished, Topeka can proudly
boast of another beautiful church add
ed to its already big list. The work
of completion is to cost $4,000.
Next Sunday. April 2, will witness
the laying of the cornerstone of the
Swedish Bethel Mission church, cor
ner Sixth ana Harrison. With the
building of this beautiful church,
which will be of pseudo-Goth1c
design of architecture. will come the
elimination of the high and expensive
design of roof. arches and pinnacles.
This is a distinct innovation in church
building for Topeka and it is predict
ed that it will be popular in future
structures of this kind. The plans call
for the expenditure of $500
The Santa Fe has appropriated
$150.OOO, all to be spent on their
shops in Topeka this summer. Sew
enty thousand dollars will be used for
an extension to the blacksmith shop,
$4,000 will go towards a revision OF
the sewer system and $4,000 has not
as yet been placed but will be used for
the betterment of the shops and build
ings.
The city is doing its full share to-
wards the boom for at the end of the
present school year it is planned to
begin work on the new Lincoln school.
At the tap of the bell for the summer
vacation wreckers will begin work on
the old structure and the building of
the new school will be pushed at high
speed until Topeka can boast of an
other last word in schools One
hundred thousand dollars has been ap-
propriated for the Lincoln school.
One must not forget the agitation
now going on for the building of
new auditorium to cost 100000. The
fate of this project will soon be evil
dent.
One significant fact presents itself
with reference to the building now go
ing on in Topeka and that is the wide
area it covers. No one locality or class
of buildings is being exploded. Homo
owners are growing more numerous
every day and as they constitute the
foundation for a well governed ana
ordered city, Topeka surely has that
foundation.
1t is the general opinion of builders
and contra ctors that today there are
more buildings being erected and con-
tracted for by full so per cent than
was the case at this time last year,
hence the statement, Topeka has ID
building boom.
Monarch House Paint at Forbes
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