The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-04
Big Construction Contract
Will Be Let Here
Soon.
EMBRACE MODERN IDEAS
Work Will Be Started Soon
After the Award Has
Been Made.

AS a result of Investigations and
efforts that have extended over some
time contracts will be let before the
end of this month for the construction
of about $50 houses, almost equally di-
Yided between the South and East
sides of the city. 1t is the intention
to start work Oh these structures as
soon as possible in order that the prob
lem of providing homes for the men
who will be brought here to operate
the new brass mill and by the proposed
enlargement of the Fairmont Mining
Machinery plant may be partially tax
en- care of.
AS result of arrangements which
were completed Saturday tho Fair
mont Mining Machinery company will
acquire title to AZ lots lying in the
strip between Tenth and Twelfth
streets and Virginia avenue, and upon
them the company will erect four, five
and six room dwellings of the most
modern type.
AT the same time this development
is going on the South Side Land COM
pany will build similar houses on %
lots fronting on CASTOR avenue near
South Side park which It owns.
All OF these houses are close to the
Mining Machinery plant. the Lynn pro-
ducer plant and the Monongah Glass
factory. They will be provided with
all the modern appliances and given
attractive setting which will trans
form that end of the city.
On the East side the house building
will be in one huge block near the site
nj 1,n lraGg mill lNyfn ~
between the fifteen new houses built
by the Greater FaifAont Investment
company and Morgantown avenue in
the vicinity of the Brady Meredith
residence and the tunnel.
These houses will be erected by a
corporation which has been arranged
for but has not yet been incorporated.
This corporation has bought from the
Greater FairmOnt Investment company
14O lots and on rs OF these houses will
be built at once. The remaining lots
will be retained for the present to pro-
vide for further development and TO
take care of people who want to erect
their own homes.
The houses on the East side will
also contain all the best ideas in in
dustrial housing which the war taught
American architects, and they will be
surrounded by lawns and made to look
attractive and home like. Dreher
Churchman, Paul and Ford, the well
known Philadelphia firm OF architects
and landscape artists. have prepared
the plans and will have charge of put
ting the land round the houses on both
sides of the river in shape after the
construction work is finished.
This is as far as the housing pro-
gram has gone up to the present, bur
work is continuing upon u project to
construct a block of dwellings on the
Knob Hill section near the Fair
grounds for the employees of the Do
mestic Coke company which is rushing
work on the construction of the by
produces coke plant now going up.
1t is the present intention to award
contracts for all this house construc-
tion at the same time the contract is
let for the buildings of the brass plant
1t is the belief that this will be done
within a fortnight and that construc-
struction will begin as soon as the sue
cessful bidder can get construction
plant on the ground,