El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22


built for DR.. James Vance at Curri
street and Mesa avenue, by the Coles
Building & Real Estate company; J.
u. Bischoff built $500 residence for
J. T. Monroe in Kern Place In Kern
Place also has been built a beautiful
cobblestone twO-stOry residence cost
ing $500 for Mrs. Meta NJ Van Epps.
At cost of over $4,000 Mrs. Van
Epps also built a $500 bungalow in
the same addition V. F. Ware built
a $4,000 residence at 1923 Hawthorne
Place for Victor Carusso. R. f. Nc
Kee built a seven-room dwelling for
Carroll Helmick at Mundy avenue and
West Boulevard, costing $4,000.
Build Many Apartment Houses.
While the tendency of Fl Paso resi-
dents is more and more in the direc-
ton OF home building and the city,
once a community OF renters. has
within a few years became a city OF
home owners, there is still a demand
for apartment houses, and the past
year has seen nearly 500, 900 invested
in structures Of this kind. The fig
ures OF the building inspector show
that fully 80 apartment houses were
built during the year, representing an
investment Of $3.50 00o
One OF the latest to be started IS
the apartment house OF Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A White, AS Prospect avenue The
building viii cost $4,000, and will be
two stories in height with basement.
The general dimensions are SOx112 feet,
the so foot frontage being on Prospect
avenue. The structure will have two
floors in the front and three in the
rear, as the site slopes towards the
rear sufficiently to provide for a num-
Der Of rooms. The building will have
II apartments of from three TO five
rooms each. o. H. Thurman & com
pany prepared the plans.
Handsome Apartments Completed.
ments started during the spring and
completed later in the year was the
Robinson apartment built by R. i.
Rushing, for Mrs. ". F. Robinson, at
San Antonio and St VraiH streets
costing about s35,000 The building
contains 20 three and five-rooTi1 apart
ments, and is in Indian mission style.
The d. Baker Smith apartments at
California and North Oregon streets,
were completed during the year al a
cost OF about $4,000. The building
and the annex contain Is four and six
room apartments.
The Victoria apartments at River and
Oregon streets were also completed
during the year at a cost of about 1885,
600 and contain Is four-room apart
ments- The structure was built by the
PhOenix-El Paso Building company for
n Hazan. The company also built
the Hart apartments in the 2300 block
on Montana street, consisting Of four
four-room apartments and costing &c.
600.
Big Sums in Aparfm. ntE.
The Perry Kirkpatriek Realty com
pany built for ". E. Lambeth at 1924
Epson avenue. an apartment house
costing s26.500 The same company
built a sS2 00C apartment at 1415 East !
San Antonio street for c. s. Pickrell
and known as the Pickrell apartments.
The structure contains 20 apartments.
The company also built a $4,000 com
bination store building and apartment
house for L. F. Booker at the corner
OF Chihuahua and West San Antonio
streets, also q similar building costing
$4,000 for the First National bank at
the same street intersections.
Jolly q Norris built a $4,000 apart
ment for ". H. Austin at the corner
OF Overland and Virginia streets, the
structure containing 25 apartments and
being three stories in height The
building is so constructed that an ad-
dition Of equal size can be built. The
same contractors built for J. D. Blink
ley at Epson avenue and Fisher street,
an $4,000 apartment containing eight
three-room apartments.
Work is. nearing completion on a