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high school. Two buildings will be erected, one a three-story class A building, the other a one-story brick or reinforced concrete. Estimated cost, $140,000.
The parish of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of Berkeley, it is stated, is planning to erect a new edifice on Russell Street and Clairmont Avenue. Mrs. Jas. Palache, a member of the church, it is stated, has donated the lot for the edifice.
Bogalusa, La. — The Great Southern Lumber Company will erect a $100,000 hotel, $15,000 school building, $10,000 theatre and $16,000 hospital building in lumber town, which it has established. General offices, 950 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.; F. H. Goodyear, president. ,
Boston, Mass.—J. H. Schweinforth, architect, 35 Congress Street, Boston, has completed plans for a new Baptist Church in Brookline. The foundation will be of solid concrete throughout.
The Board of Managers of the Franklin Fund, it is stated, have decided upon the plans by Architect R. Clipston Sturgis, for the new building’ of the Franklin Union. The plans call for a four-story building with an auditorium to have a seating capacity of over one thousand. The building to be locatedion Berkeley and Appleton Streets.
The Knights of Columbus of Brookline are planning to erect .a clubhouse in Boston. No plans have as yet been prepared for the structure. William F. Foley, 9 Kendall Street, Brookline, is the great knight.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The H. Bridgeman Smith Company, 491 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, has awarded the general contract for
the new reinforced concrete fireproof factory building, to be erected on Kent Avenue from Division Avenue to South Eleventh Street, Brooklyn, to the General Supply and Construction Company, of 24 State Street. The structure is to contain a height of fifteen stories, and is estimated to cost about $1,000,000. Frank M. Andrews, of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, is architect.
Contracts, have not been let yet for the new business building which is to be built at 10 and 12 Morton Street, for P. J. Coleman, 219 West Twenty-second Street. B. W. Levitan, 20 West Thirty-first Street, is the architect, and plans provide for elevenstory building, measuring 50x90 feet, of brick, stone and iron, with all modern appliances and conveniences. Cost will be about $250,000.
Plans have been prepared by Architect H. Pohlman, Fifth Avenue and Forty-ninth Street, for the erection of a tenement building at Sterling Place. Cost, $125,000.
It is reported that plans are under way For the erection of a new wing for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, to cost about $250.- 000.
Reports state that the plans for the new County Court House, by Architect Peter H. Coco, of New York City, have been formally approved by the Art Commission. Arrangements will be made at once to receive bids for the work.
Press reports state that plans are under way looking toward the erection of a large administration building1 at. the Biooklyn Navy Yard, to cost $500,000.
Buffalo, N. Y.—The George N, Pierce
Company, it is.stated, has filed plans for a $50,000 office building to be erected at 1661 Elmwood Avenue.
Cambridge, Mass.—Press reports state that St. Paul’s parish has purchased a site on Massachusetts Avenue and Ellery Street, where it is proposed to erect a new edifice.
Camden, N. J.—It is reported that the Board of School Estimates in Camden has decided to issue $200,000 worth of bonds for the erection of four additional school houses in this city.
Channahon, III.-—Plans have been prepared by D. W. Mead, 164 Dearborn Street, Chicago, for the heat, light and power plant which is to be erected by the Channahon Power Company, of Chicago. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Charlotte, N. C.—Reports state that a stock company has been organized to erect a four-story office building to cost approximately $65,000. W. T. Corwith, secretary Greater Charlotte Club, can give information.
The Y. M. C. A., it is stated, will erect a building to cost $70,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn. — George Baker Long, of Buffalo, N. Y., it is reported, has secured the contract to erect the Hotel Patten, at Market, Eleventh and Columbia Streets and Georgia Avenue, to cost about $700,000.
Reports state that the contract for the erection of the new James Building has been awarded to Geo. A. Fuller Company, of New York, and Purdy & Henderson, of Chicago, are the steel engineers. The building is to be twelve stories high, of steel