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factory to be erected on East 136th Street, East 135th Street and Willow Avenue, on thirteen city lots in the Bronx. The structure will have a drying kiln, boiler-house and power-plant, with a brick chimney 150 feet in height by six feet in diameter. The estimated cost is $240,000.
Herrmann Horenburger, 682 East 159th Street, Bronx, is ready for estimates on the general contract for the five-story and basement factory, 100x100 feet, for Jacob Leitner, to be situated on the northeast corner of Leggett Avenue and Private Street, 399.3 feet west of Cabot Street, the Bronx, at a cost of $100,000. No awards have been made.
The twelve-story store and loft-building which Charles Brogan, 36 West Twentieth Street, will build at Nos. 33-35 West Twentieth Street will be planned by Messrs. Neville & Bagge, of No. 217 West 125th Street. Mr. Brogan will be the general contractor, and will be ready for estimates on sub-contracts about February I.
Reports state that C. Abbott French, 150 West Fourth Street, is architect for the seven-story loft-building which Joseph Quinn, 615 West 129th Street, is to build on a plot, 25x103.3 feet, at No. 34 West Fifteenth Street.
It is stated that another hotel and restaurant-building is soon to be erected at Nos. 1504 to 1510 Broadway for Charles E. Rector, of No. 1508 Broadway. Architect Jarvis Hunt, No. 100 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111., will prepare the plans.
Plans are being drawn, it is said, by Architect S. B. Ogden, 954 Lexington Avenue, for a seven-story fireproof warehouse, of brick and steel construction, 45x95 feet in size, to be erected by the United Wine and Trading Co., of No. 424 Greenwich Street, at Nos. 321 to 323 West Thirteenth Street. No contracts have yet been issued.
J. T. Finn, No. 163 Columbus Avenue, Manhattan, has commissioned L. C. Holden,
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No. 1133 Broadway, to prepare plans for a new fireproof warehouse, 100x126 feet, to be erected at Westchester Avenue and 150th Street, in the Bronx. The architect will receive all estimates and award the contracts. No awards made as yet.
The general contract to erect a Duilding at Fourth and Lawrence Streets, for the Julian-Kokenge Shoe Co., is reported to have been awarded to Harig & Co., 829 Livingston Street. Estimated cost $150,000.
The Busceni Building Construction Company, 132 Nassau Street, it is stated, will build on the northwest corner of Bedford and Downing Streets, a six-story, thirtysix-family flat, 45x83.4 feet, to cost $60,000. J. C. Cocker, 103 East 125th Street, is preparing plans.
Messrs. Buchman & Fox, 11 East Fiftyninth Street, are preparing preliminary plans for a large addition to the depart
ment-store of Bloomingdale Brothers, Third Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Nothing definite, however, has yet been decided. They have purchased the property Nos. 156- 158 East Sixtieth Street, 40x100 feet, and, with the exception of a small plot, they now control the entire block bounded by Third and Lexington Avenues, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Streets. It is the intention of the firm to cover the remaining portion of the block with a ten-story addition, which measures 420x200 feet. No building contracts have been awarded.
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, architects, 170 Fifth Avenue, have plans for the new church for the Parish of St. Thomas’, to be built at corner of Fifth Avenue and Fiftythird Street. The plans have yet to be approved by the vestry and the congregation.
It is stated that plans have been approved by the building department for the factory which will be built at 619 to 625 West Fiftieth Street for the W. W. Astor estate, 33 West Twenty-sixth Street. Ross & Mc­ Neil, 39 East Twenty-fourth Street, are the architects, and plans provide for a sixstory-building, measuring 50x201 feet, to be built of brick, stone and iron, with steam heating, electric lighting, elevators etc. Approximate cost, $60,000.
Norwood, O.—Plans are being prepared by Architects Samuel Hannaford & Son, Hulbert Block, Cincinnati, for a parochial residence at Norwood for the Roman Catholic congregation. Care Archbishop Rev. Henry Moeller, 325 West Eighth Street. Cost, $50,000.
Oakland, Cal.—It is stated that the Masons will erect a structure on the corner of Fifteenth and Madison Streets to cost about $200,000.
Oakland, Md.—Garrett County, it is said, has voted a $75,000 bond issue for the erection of a court-house. Address County Judge.
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