reported that excavation may be begun next month.
The H. M. Hooker Company, dealers in glass, 57 West Randolph Street, will build a warehouse on Washington Boulevard, between Union and Desplaines Streets. It will be six-story, with a frontage of 116
feet, have pressed brick front, composition roof, steam heat, wiring for electric light, and cost about $200,000.
Dwight H. Perkins, architect for the Board of Education, Tribune Building, 143 Dearborn Street, has prepared plans for a model school building, of a new type, to be built as an addition to the Cornell School, Seventy-sixth Street and Drexel Avenue. It will be three-story, of fireproof steel construction, have pressed brick, stone and terra cotta exterior, probably slate roof, steam heat, and cost $150,000. It will have a new ventilating system, by which the inrush of fresh air will carry the foul air out through registers in the walls of the dressing rooms.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Reports state that an addition will be erected to the Hebrew Union College of this city. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Press reports state that plans have been prepared by Architect Samuel Hannaford & Sons, Hulbert Block, for a church for St. Mary’s R. C. congregation. Reverend F. J. Hyner, pastor, Hyde Park. Cost, $60,000.
It is reported that the H. & S. Pogue Go. will erect an eight-story brick and steel addition to its store on Fourth Street.
Reports state that plans are being prepared by architects Elzner & Anderson for
a residence for Senator J. B. Foraker. Estimated cost, $200,000.
Cleveland, O.—Reports state that plans have been prepared by Saul Feigenbaum for a new hotel building at the corner of East Ninth Street and Bolivar Road, Southeast. Cost, $300,000.
The Board of Education will, it is reported, erect a technical high school to cost $350,000.
It is announced that an East End high school will be erected by the Board of Education. Cost, $250,000.
Reports state that plans have been approved for a club house which is to be erected on Euclid Avenue by the members of the Excelsior Club.
Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna, it is stated, has purchased a tract of 100 acres at Seal Harbor, Me., on which she will erect a residence, stable and garage, to cost in the neighborhood of $100,000. For particulars address the M. A. Hanna Estate, 621 Perry Payne Building.
Bids are asked until 3 p. m., March 5, by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect, Washington, D. C., for the interior finish of the United States post-office, customhouse and court-house at Cleveland. Arnold W. Brunner, 33 Union Square, West, New York, N. Y., is architect.
Architect C. F. Schweinfurth, 1205 New England Building, it is stated, has prepared plans for a residence to be erected on Euclid Avenue, near East Twenty-second Street, for Samuel Mather.
Reports announce that Homer McDaniel will erect a six-story steel and concrete building at East Sixth Street and Austin
Court, for storage purposes. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Bids are asked by Dr. A. B. Howard, Secretary trustees, until noon, February 20, for labor and materials necessary to erect an industrial building at the Cleveland State Hospital, according to the plans, descriptions, bills and specifications on file at the office of Dr. A. B. Howard, superintendent, Cleveland, O., and at the office of Frank L. Packard, architect, Columbus, O.
It is reported that the Emanuel Episcopal Church is to be remodeled at a cost of $40,000.
Colorado Springs, Col.—Reports state that Dr. F. E. Caldwell, 119 Henry Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., will erect a $150,000 sanitarium here.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (W. B. Storey, Jr., Ch. Engr.„ Topeka, Kan.), it is reported, will change its present passenger station into a freight station and build a new $50,000 hotel and passenger station.
Dallas, Tex.—Plans are being prepared, it is stated, by the Colonial Hill Methodist congregation for a church to cost $35,000.
Denver, Col.—It is reported that the officers of the American Mining Congress are contemplating to erect .a building on Colfax Avenue, to cost about $250,000.
The Denver Club, it is stated, is planning to erect a $100,000 addition to its club house on Seventeenth and Glanarm Streets.
Des Moines, Ia.—It is reported that plans have been drawn by the State Architect for a $100,000 building for the joint use of the Adjutant General and State Board of Control, with arsenal, offices and
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