The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-02-09
BUILDING NEARS
F." PEAK LAST NEAR
Minnesota Cities Showed
Greatest Progress
SURVEY IS TAKEN
Most Places Reported 1922 as
Best Twelve Months For
New Structures
Associated Press Dispatch. ]

st. Paul, Mimi, February 2
Figures on home { and business
buildings for 1922 from a group OF
representative Minnesota cities in
dicate that in the matter OF pro-
gress along this line the cities OF
5000 to 10000 population kept
fairly even pace with similar build
ing erected under the permits in
In number of permits issued,
Minneapolis led with 10,510. as
compared with 10, 126 permits in
1921. Total estimated cost OF build :
ing esected under the permits III
1922 was $29,470.450. compared to
S23, 390,055 in 1921.
ST. paul issued 6,51S permits, an
increase of 1877 as compared with
1921; and the estimated cost was
S22,z76,4 57, a rather striking gain
over the estimated cost Of struc-
lures erected in 1921, the total for
that year being $14,362,18l.
Permits At Duluth
Permits issued in Duluth mum :
bered 2,721, an increase of 800 over
the 1921 issue. Estimated total
cost of buildings in 1922 was ST.
843,956, as compared with $685.
aga in 1921.
Saltwater reports only seven
dwellings apd six business struc-
turs erected in 1892, at an estimat-
ed cost of $2S8S,629, as against
$43,6 500 in 1921. In the latter year
all but $1,000 of the amount went
into dwellings, while in 1922 the
amount spent on dwellings was
$27s700.
In Winona, during 1922, forty one
dwellings were erected, at a cost
of $4,000, while only $4,000 went
into business dwellings. The fig
ures represent substantial gain
over 1921, when S72,700 was put
into dwellings and $4,000 into
business structures.
a.. Reports From Mankato
Mankato reports the greatest
number of buildings ever erected in
one year in the city was in 1922,
eleven for business and seventy
dwellings. Total estimated cost in
1922 was $755,040, of which $685.
1921 estimated cost was S819,692,
OF which $425,000 was for public
buildings.
Rochester reports 1879 building
permits in 1922, of which $50 were
for dwellings and 10 for business.
Cost of the latter was estimated
at 100000, while the dwellings
cost $566,OO0.' In 1921 Rochester
citizens put 100000 in dwellings
and 100000 in business structures.
Permits issued in the latter year
totaled 240.
st. Cloud reports 125 new build
ings put up in 1922, as against 10
in 1921. In the latter year $4,000
went into the business structures,
and $275,000 into dwellings,, while
in 1922 $4,000 was spent for bust
ness buildings and $25O,O00 for
dwellings.
= Estimates From Fairmont
Fairmont estimates that $4,000
was put into dwellings in 1922 and
$4,000 into business buildings, a
record somewhat below normal as
to original expenditure; but good
many business plants were enlarg-
ed at considerable cost.
Red Wing has no building code,
but a careful estimate indicates
that about thirty new dwellings
were erected, costing between $4,000
and $4,000 each, with about $685., 1000
worth of new business construction.
Most of the cities mentioned re-
port 1892 as their best year for
building, but st. Cloud had it's ban
ner year in 1919, when 200 new
structures were erected. and Still
water made its best record in 1886,
when the new buildings totaled
eighty.