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reinforced concrete building. Estimated cost, $200,000.
R. T. Newberry, architect, 184 La Salle Street, has awarded to E. Spicering, 3747 Rhodes Avenue, the contract to erect the one-story, 20x500 feet and two-story, 70x250 feet building for the American Rolling Mill Company, to be erected at South Robey Street and the Chicago River. Estimated cost, $150,000.
Holabird & Roche, architects, Monadnock Block, have awarded to the George A. Fuller Company, 204 Dearborn Street, the general contract to erect the five-story, store and office building, on Dearborn Street, just north of the Real Estate Board Building, for Lyman, Lyman & Lovell. Estimated cost, $150,000.
Architect H. R. Wilson, 218 La Salle Street, is preparing plans for a temple to be built at the southwest corner of State and Thirty-third Streets for the Grand Lodge of the Colored Knights of Pythias.
It will be four-story, 106x114 feet, of fireproof construction, have fronts of stone for the first story, paving brick above, iron and plate glass store front, composition roof, and cost $100,000.
Architect George Beaumont, 115 Dearborn Street, is taking figures on a manufacturing plant to be built at Western Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street for Philip J. Foley, President of the Foley Manufacturing Company. It will be three-story, 115 X167 feet, of mill construction, have brick and stone exterior, composition roof, steam heat, wiring for electric light, automatic sprinkler system and two fireproof vaults. There is also to be built a one-story power plant, 50x75 feet. The total cost will be $60,000.
Architects George Beaumont, 115 Dearborn Street, and Richard E. Schmidt, 172 Washington Street, have submitted plans to Chief of Police Collins, City Hall, for a police station to be built in the downtown
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district on a site which is yet to be selected. The city has a site at 539 to 551 State Street, near Harmon Court, but the Chief of Police objects to its location owing to the noise of the nearby elevated,trains. The plans call for a ten-story building, 120x139 feet, of fireproof steel construction, with probably stone exterior, have steam heat, electric light, and is estimated to cost $650, 000.
Alexander W. Hannah, 2051 Sheridan Road, it is reported, has leased the property on the southeast corner of Halsted and Madison Streets, and proposes to erect thereon a fireproof building, to cost $150,- 000.
Reports state that a hospital, to be known as the McCormick Memorial Hospital, will be erected at the northwest corner of South Park Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street, at an estimated cost of $500,000. Plans have been prepared by Architect S. S. Beman, 203 Michigan Avenue.
Cincinnati, O.—The Building Committee of the congregation of the Remnants of Israel and Brotherly Love, it is stated, is considering plans for an edifice which it is proposed erecting at Main and Ridgeway Avenues, at a cost of $75,000.
Denver, Colo.—Fallis & Stein, 311 Colorado Building, are architects for the building to be erected on Fourteenth Street, between Lawrence and Larimer Streets, by the Denver Lithographing Company, at a cost of $200,000.
Des Moines, Ia.—The members of the Women’s Club, it is stated, contemplate the erection of a $50,000 building.
The Federal Land & Securities Company, it is stated, has announced that they will erect a four-story stone and brick flat at Eighteenth and Pleasant Streets, to cost $60,000.
Detroit, Mich.—Architects Donaldson & Meier, 1314 Penobscot Building, it is reported, are preparing plans and will shortly take figures for a club house with all modern features for St. Andrew’s Society, Frank H. Sellery, Secretary, 115 National Avenue. Estimated cost, $60,000.
Reports state that a $60,000 church will be erected by the Fort Street Presbyterian congregation.
Ralph Phelps, Jr., 17-18 Butler Building,
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