Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-22
1916 BANNER
YEAR FOR CITY
IMPROVEMENTS
Large Building Projects Now
Underway Mean Much for
City's Welfare.
HOTEL VAN HORN WILL
BE OPENED OCTOBER 1
Library Commission Advertising
for Plans for Bismarck's
Public Library.

A building investment equivalent to
500 for every man, woman and child
is the Capital City's 1916 pledge of
faith in the future of Bismarck.
The Commercial club in it's bulletin
issued April l predicted $75O,O00
volume of construction for the present
year. The club was then regarded as
trifle over-optimistic, but now, with
the actual evidence before their eyes,
no one in Bismarck doubts that 1916
is the Capital City's greatest building
yearr-to date. Nineteen-seventeen al
ready gives promise of producing even
greater results.
A Few Of the Biggest.
Only a few Of the largest building
projects can be enumerated in news
story limited by the column rule.
Nothing can be said Of the scores 0f
handsome, comfortable homes which
are going up in all parts of the city.
mo effort has been made to itemize
every. structure. The tale cannot be
told finally until the year has closed,
sas the prospects are that construction
work will continue throughout, the fall
and winter.
~ The Hotel Van Horn.
The most notable structure of the
year Is the Hotel Van Horn, designed
by A. Van Horn, for whom it is christ
ened, and built by the Meinicke Build
ing Co. of Bismarck. All exterior
work with the exception of the glaz.
ing is completed. The interior finish
ing is proceeding rapidly, and the
opening date for the new hostelry al
ready has been set, for October l..
The Hotel Van Horn will more near
ly approach absolute re-proofness
than any other structure in North Da-
chkota. There will be nothing in the
building, when finished, except the
furnishings, of an inflamable nature.
The hotel is four stories in height,
covers ground. space so by 100 feet
and contains 100 guest rooms, in addi-
> tion to lobby, dining room, sample
rooms and parlors. Provision already
has been made for 36-foot addition
on the north side of the present build
ing. The annex will contain 100 rooms
and 100 individual baths. The cost
OF the Hotel Van Horn when ready to
open October 1 will be $1OO,OO0.OO.
The Rose Apartments.
In a similar state of near-cOmple.ion
are the Rose apartments, erected by
F.. w. Murphy, just north of the fed
eral building on Third. Three stories
in height and covering a ground space
of 14O by 80 feet, the Rose will pro
vide 1S modern four-room apartments;
wired and piped for both electricity
and gas, with vacuum cleaning and
garbage disposal plants in the base
ment, city heat, dumb walters and all
of the other conveniences dear to the
heart of the flat-dweller. The apart
ments will be ready for occupancy, it
is anticipated, not later than Septem-
ber Is. The investment will exceed
$35,O00OO. John L. Larson is the gen
.eral contractor.
t:', New Hughes Building.
The new Hughes building, at the
corner of Third and Broadway, will!
De 5O Dy lO6 feet, two stories high,
with three modern store-rooms below
and Office suites above. Two of the
store-rooms will front on Broadway
and one large room will face on Third.
Hebron, red-faced rough-cut brick,
similar to that used in the Murphy
building, will be trimmed with gray
Bedford stone. An artistic canopy
will extend over the Office entrance on
Third There will be full basement,
part Of which will be finished of for
a barber-shop, Turkish bath or similar
establishment A. Van Horn is the
architect; the Meinicke Building Co.
has the general contract; the cost will
be 100000. Possession is promised for
October l.
eismarck Public Library.
A site has been selected and the
Bismarck public library commission
has advertised for plans for the
$4,000 Carnegie library, which is to
grace the corner of Thayer and Sixth
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