Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-06-01
ARCHITECTS HAVE
FEW PLANS READY
Contractors Are Busy Making
Estimates, However, and Some
Large Projects Develop.

While the local architects are not com
planning of lack of work, it so happens
that there is no single one of their pros
poets that is in shape for announcement
this week. although several alteration jobs
are well along toward the bidding stage.
An important announcement WAS made
during the week regarding tho premises
7i3 Market street, extending through to
Shiplev street now occupied as n clothing
store by w. r. Farley Plans made by
John d. Thompson, Jr., architect, provide
for n thorough remodeling OF the building,
converting it into modern restaurant,
for Pappas and Tarahicos, who are already
operating three restaurants here, the
Eureka at Sixth and Shipley, the Presto,
formerly Bacon's, nj Sl7 Market street,
and pappas restaurant, formerly Hollis,
| NJ 3 East Fourth street The cost of tho
alterations is estimated Mt 1000 and
IL is understood that the property has been
leased for fifteen years.
A store building at Maryland avenue
and Linden street, costing $4,000, will
he erected by Sobocinski and Tomchek,
builders. Stanley Soboclnski is tho
| owner
Interior alterations to the house Mt
1918 Market street will be made from
plans bv Wallace f. Hance. architect,
| fitting Ii for use as an apartment. l.. Nj
| Simpler is the owner.
General interior alteration at Eleventh
| and Lombard streets, covering store ana
apartment, are planned for the owner,
Max Siege by Architect w r. llance.
, Similar alterations are planned by the
same architect at 3l3 Fast Thirteenth
street, for Harry Cohen, owner.
Tho lowest bid for the quarantine
| station work Mt Reedy Island was sub
rnitted bv the Charlottesville tNa)
Construction Company,
There has been no change in the plans
| for the office building to I've erected on
| the propertv At Ninth street, running
| from Market 10 King, housing the Della
ware Trust Company on the ground floor,
but like 30 many other projects, it awaits
| the return Of better conditions in the
| material and labor market This an
| nounccmcrt was made at a meeting OF the
| bank officials Thursday evening. The
| mans contemplate a ten-story steel
| frame structure, faced with white marble,
with entrances on Market, King and Ninth
| streets and il is certain that 1T Will Ind
| n host Of applicants for it's accommoda-
| tions when they are finally available.
Five private garages are TO he erected
| on Fulton street near Second nv George
| Ferguson. builder, for the owner, Mrs
| Francis Forbes
| The steel frame work Of tho new grand
tand At the fair grounds, At fIsmere, Is
| being erected this week
Plans and specifications for the ne"
| operations ut Front and Union streets,
| are now in the hands OF several contractors
| for estimate, title having been passed on
Wednesday TO the Wilmington Housing
| Committee.
The name suggested by the planner
John Nolan, is Union Gardens and the
! architects are Rallingcr and Perrot Of
| philadelphia.
The site extends from Union street to
| the Cathedral cemetery. A continuation
of Grant avrnue forms the central feature
OF the layout, making a boulevard
| averaging lbs feet wide through the
| propcrty. following the course of n small
stream which Is expanded into q lake OF
considerable area The buildings are
laid out in various blocks, " following the
contour Of the ground and admitting OF
landscape treatment along park hnes
Altogether 1856 buildings are planned,
providing for 633 individual houses, some
Of which are detached, others double, and
the rest in rows Of from THREE 10 fourteen
Two apartments, a schoolhouse and stores
are included in the scheme.
Several of the detached houses shown
on the plans viii not be built at present
bringing the number scheduled down u
500.
This would be q task of suficien
magnitude if the prcliminarles of gradlng
laying of water, gas and ELECTRIC mains
curling and paving were already accom-
plished facts: but as all this work IS We
10 be done, or perhaps must be carrie
> along at the same time, IT can readily /
| seen that il assumes almost ggant
, proportions, when the conditions
transportation and of restricted produ
> ton in the building trades are realize
1t is understood that the bids, call'
t. for by June 10, are based on lump su
: figures, and this feature may deter son
from estimating who might otherwl
submit tenders.