The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26

VIII Exceed $26, 900, 900
of Last Year.
Beams and Orders fall in
place and thousands Of Indian
apolis workers are busy con-
tributing to what promises to
be one Of the most active spring
seasons for construction in the
city's history, according to Bert
j. Westover, building commits
sioner.
The city building department is
confronted with business that prom
ises to raise the 1926 total building
valuation higher than last years
$26,o00,0oo mark
Although actual permits are a lit
tie lower In valuation than during
1925, Westover said reports from
architects and builders offices are
they are planning for a number Of
big buildings and apartments.
From 500 to 600 houses now are
under construction according to de-
partment estimates, while records
show scores of apartment houses be-
ing erected.
There is an unusual boom in re-
ligious edifices, according to West
m2ver, q number of fine churches and
8 associated schools having been pro-
jected.
With the housing boom is asso-
ciated the construction of big bust
ness buildings.
Work has begun on the War Me
mortal plaza main building. between
Meridian and Pennsylvania and
Vermont and Michigan SITS, which
intimately will involve 100000 ex-
penditure.
Then the $25o,o00 Indiana Ma
tiona1 Guard Armory, in the 700
block ON N. Pennsylvania st. is we'll
under way Finishing touches to
the $1,000, 900 Chamber of Commerce
Bldg, Meridian St.. between New
York and Vermont SITS, are being
effected.
Another spring building enterprise
is the 100000 four-story addition
for the Real Silk Hosiery Mills near
the present plant.
Business Structures
Construction is scheduled soon on
the $3.50, 10000 business edif1ce the
F7shback Coffee Company has under
taken at Delaware and McCarty SITS.
The Standard Oil Company is con-
structing On Office building and ware
house at Harding st. and oliver Ave.
On Fall Creek the Indianapolis
Water Company is building six
million-gallon reservoir.
The huge Spink-Marott apart
ment, Meridian st. and Fall Creek,
will be opened in 1925, as will the
$685. Wesley Hotel, Sixteenth ST.
and Senate Ave.
= A $4,000 motion picture ~theater
Dand storerooms will be added to the
north side when the Clyde Realty
Company completes its structure at
4213 College Ave.
The Market and Alabama Realty
Company is erecting a large garage
at Market and Alabama SITS.
The cliff jewellers will have ample
housing facilities during the future,
It appears from permits granted to
ana r+ment builders
Large Apartments
One Of the largest structures will
be the 100000 apartment the
Thomas A. Moynahan Company is
undertaking at 9o15 N. Meridian ST.
At Alabama and Twelfth SITS, Henry
G. DoIlman Is building $4,000
apartment house and the Volrath
apartments, Palmer and Talbot Sts.,
will cost $65 900.
Everett M. Schofield is construct
ing a $4,000 apartment at % w.
Twenty-Eighth ST., while another
$4,000 apartment is under way at
1911 College Ave.
Ample housing facilities for ST.
vincent's hospital nurses will be GER
tain when the S450, 900 home near
Fall Creek and Illinois ST., is COM
pleted.
The new Shortridge High School
is problenatical both as to certainty
of erection and site. The cost will
be $1,200,o00, if the school board
ever takes definite action.
Schools to Be Completed
However, the 1929, 900 Washington
\ High School, Sheffield and w.
? Washington Sts.; the $500, 900 Negro
high school, Twelfth and West SITS,
and School 46, Reisner and Mill SITS,
to cost $142,O00, should be COM
pleted before fall
The st. Philip Neri Catholic
School, Eastern Ave. and Michigan
ST.. now under way, will total
800, 900.
. One Of the ecclesiastical buildings
Is the 100000 Irvington M E.
Church. on Audubon Circle. There
also is the Church of the Little
Flower, Fourteenth and Bosart Sts.,
while bids have just been opened for
the Broadway M E. Church, Park
Ave, and ThirtyEighth St
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