The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-01
Homes, Schools and Busi-
ness Houses Galore
Went Up.
PROSPERITY RESULTS
Residences Ranked First In
Value Of Construction
Activities Begun.

Residences, thousands ~ fine.
comfortable dwelling placoa. have
been the prime result of tho net
building activities OF tho city during
tho year just past. rho Tulsa that
has always Impressed the passing
stranger by It's large number of tow
ering skyscmpers. has now taken on
ner fame az ci,y OF beautiful
hom@s.
"It Is the best place on earth TO
make money" That has always been
the comment heard OF Tulsa In the
hotel Hobbies OF tho ontirc country
But there are greater attractions
than those Of making money, and
Tulsans have realized that they must
make their city recognized as n good
place In which to live and rear
family.
IIomea moro and better homes,
have always been tho greatest need
OF Tulsa, from IN days OF the early
pioneer until the present. Thus n
is that the year that is most import
ant In her civic life In tho year that
does most to answer that need and
bring to the city tho greatest mum
ber OF homcA
Nineteen nineteen has been dis
tinctly n home building year. Tut
Of greater number Of resldcncos
than ever before In tho history OF
the city, II has Witnessed stimulated
building activity In every line. In
1919 Tulsa resumed her stride In
civic growth, a stride that had been
but temporarily sackened owing 10
the great struggle into which Tulsa,
like all America, throw her re-
sources.
with surprising rapidlty Tulsa
righted herself after tho war and
resumed her former progress. With
In a short time n was predicted that
1919 would he tho greatest building
year in the life Of the city. win n
total OF s9.473,t3 In building per
mits issued by city Building Inspec-
tor Thomas Clark, the total building
OF the year surpassed by more than
S1,O0O,000 the record breaking year
Q! 1912 when = to:s! os ss,3sG,;s: .fi
permits were Issued. This year saw
the completion of Just 81 .092,9bl
moro buildings within tho limits OF
The city proper than any previous
year.
comparison Of the past years
record with that of 1918 shows
clearly the effect OF tho world war
on tho growth OF the city. building
In 1919 surpassed the building OF
1918 by st,626.O73. Building In 1918
totalet but s4.s47,37O, which, al
though remarkable for war time
record. was s3,533,i22 less than the
preceding year.
Greater building means greater
prosperity for the city I'm many ways.
Every structure created work for
number OF mechanics and trades
men. Figures secured by Chief Clerk
w. A. O'Brien of tho city building
department. from the various union
labor organizations OF the city. show
that the following tradcamen and
laborers were employed In the year y
construction program: 92S chrpen-
ters. 4Si painters, 2Gb brick masons
2S stone masons. $50 plnsterers, 15G
cement workers, $50 plumbers, so
Hthcrs 25 tile settlers $50 ciectri-
clans, 81 sheet metal workers. 90
structural iron workers, go roofcrH
$50 brick lahorers, 400 common Ia
horers, 50 lumbermen and 100 team
sters,
or the .e,A7a,A42 In permits Is
sued In 1919, H6S9.6i5 of those
permits were issued for the con
struction OF residences. Many of
them were small dwellings and
some were palatiHl mansions, but
all of them were homes lnvestiRn
tion shows that surprisingly large
number OF the 10,0S7 residences
were occupied by their owners on
completion and that a much smaller
number OF them we're built for spec
ulatlon.
Garages run close second on tho
numbc. OF residences erected, In
many eases the permit for the cree
ton Of garage Is included In tho
residence permit, For this reason,
although the number of garage per
mits issued is much smaller than tho
number Of residences, there havo
been practically as many garages
built I'm Tulsa as there have been
residences. The 69i private garages
FOR which permits were issued I'm
1919 were constructed n: total
cost OF s356,S69
Schools took third place in the
years building values There were
erected $50 buildings costing In the
aggregate s672 500. Most OF the
buildings were on tho unit plan,