The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-22
BUILDING BOOM
 IS EXPECTED IN WATERBURY SOON
Architects in Brass Center Expect Great Activities
 in Near Future.

next nine or ten months holds out for Waterbury, in the way of additional business, dwellings and commercial buildings are included, is just now the subject of much speculation. Some are of the opinion that little building will or can be done while others state that a pretty good sized boom will soon get under way. At any rate near ly everyone is optimistic about the outlook. This was ascertained by a visit to 9 number of local architects yesterday. That there was as much building going on in Waterbury just now in any Connecticut city; that there really was more activity than in New Haven, and that the public is gradually becoming accustomed to the hardships met with in building during the past winter
 All of which means, in the words of a prominent local architect, that a pretty well defined building boom is almost sure to be in progress in Wa terbury by the fall at least. The ar chitects are being kept rather busy today. Buildings are going up along East Main street, and in the Highland Park section. It is expected that when the property in Sinonsville re- gently bought by a big New York real ty firm is cut up into house lots and the streets planned, the boom will be on full blast.
 C. Jerome Bailey, an architect at 63 Bank street, who also has offices in New Haven, states that there is a good deal of activity in this city at present. MT Bailey has bee in the habit of dividing his time between Waterbury and New Hoven for some years past, but for the past few weeks all of his time has been spent in this city, for he states. Waterbury is at present more active in the building line than the Elm city.
 MT. Bailey said yesterday that he noticed a good deal of garages were being planned for and erected in Wa terbury- He has just completed plans for two garages this week. One of these is for a resident of the Highland Park section, Edward H. Cowles. The plans call for a building 36 100 feet with space for twenty automobiles. Plans for another garage for. one or two private cars were also completed by MT. Bailey.
 MT. Bailey stated that he thought there was a good deal of activity in building Hines in Waterbury just now. He said that some time ago he had drawn up a number of sketches but the rising cost of building materials, the freight embargo against those ma terials and the difficulty found in pro- curing labor has almost given the in vestors a confirmed case of t'co1d feet" Now however, he stated, they were gradually getting accustomed to
 
 up from all three of those quarters things are beginning to look brighter again. There is more activity now, he said, than at any time in the past three or four months. He has just finished plans for a, four-family brick house on the corner of Baldwin and Madison street, This will be mod ern tenement dwelling throughout and will have three stores on the ground floor over which will be two stor1es Bailey has also completed sketches for an aditionaI story on a two-srory dwelling on Orange street.
 A seven-famiIy apartment house has also just been planned out by him. This will be on Cook street ad- jacent to North Main street, and will be of the most modern type through out. Also the style of archictecture will be unique. The plans calling for seven apartments each containing six rooms. The plans for the basement have all been completed and are ready for contractors figures, and the work should be. undertaken in the near future.
 By the fall there should be a pret- ty good building boom on in Water bury said MT. Bailey. s"The builders are getting used to the high cost of materials now and will soon start to build in real earnest. The freight em- bargo should be lifted almost any day and from now on think the labor question will constantly improve
 Architect Edw. E. Benedict, of 51 Leavenworth street, stated yesterday that he thought there was consider able business abou. the city. He had been quite busy, he said, with plans for buildings in other cities outside of the state and had given but little time of late to things in Waterbury. He stated that the only thing of local interest being done by his firm was preparing plans for repairs on the Ho- tel Connecticut. which was practically | destroyed by fire on the night of Jan. 8.
 wilfred E. Griggs was of the opin- ion that there might be a decided i'm provenent in Waterbury at any time. l Things were in terrible condition at present, he said, and they would have to either get much better or much worse.
 He stated that with the price of building materials away up, the diff 1 culty experienced in getting materials to this city on account of the railroad embargo together with the labor situ ation, the builders were pretty we'll frightened ou& of building. It was not going to last much longer. he said, and there is a good chance for a | building boom to get under way. he believes.