$50, 000 high-school building and a ward building for the First Ward, and the proposition will be submitted to a vote in the fall.
Memphis, Tenn. — The Directors of the North Memphis Savings Bank, it is stated, have secured a site at Main and Adams Sts., and will erect a bank and office building to cost about $60, 000.
Bids will be received until Sept. 5 by the County Courthouse Commissioners (Levi Joy, secretary), for erecting a courthouse. Bids to be submitted separately, or as a whole on the following: General work, plumbing, gas and drainage work; electric work; ventilating and heating; streets, fronts of marbles, granite or stone, or brick and terra-cotta. Hale & Rogers, architects, 11 E. 24th St., New York, N. Y.
Architects Walk C. Jones and Furbringer will prepare plans for a $30, 000 stone residence for Mrs. Corrine A. Richardson and Mrs. Walter Goodman on Peabody and Harris Aves.
M. T. Lewman & Co., Louisville, Ky., have contract to erect apartment-house for
Robert Galloway, of New York, N. Y., and associates, after plans by L. M. Weathers; six stories, 88 × 148 ft.; brick and steel; fireproof; cost, $200, 000.
Benedict, Warren & Co. will erect a fivestory warehouse and office building to cost $100, 000.
Milwaukee, Wis. — Architect C. F. Ringer is preparing plans for a new plant for the Hilty Lumber Company, to replace the buildings recently destroyed by fire. There will be a planing mill, a box factory, lumber sheds, an electric lighting plant and a power house. The main building will be 180 × 180 ft., and will be constructed of solid concrete. It will cost from $75, 000 to $100, 000.
The Christy Engineering Company, of St. Louis, has been awarded the contract to build a modern factory for William Fransen & Son, glass manufacturers, at Lincoln and Kinnickinnic Aves. It will be one story, brick, stone and concrete, 200x250, and will cost $100, 000. The firm is also about to expend $25, 000 in improving its old buildings and in new machinery.
An effort will be made to secure a Council appropriation of $50, 000 for a natatorium
on the North Side.
Minneapolis, Minn. — E. S. Stebbins, architect, has begun work on plans for a highschool building to be erected on 28th St. and Hennepin Ave. It will be of pressed brick and cut stone, slate roof, plumbing and gas fitting, electric light wiring, steam heating and ventilating system. Cost, $100, 000.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles here plan to erect a $60, 000 lodge building.
Congress voted an appropriation for a site for a new postoffice building in this city of $350, 000.
Harry W. Jones, architect, has prepared sketches for a proposed new church to be erected by the Simpson Methodist Society, at 28th St. and 1st Ave. S. It will be of brick and stone. Rev. F. S. Tincher, pastor. Estimated cost, $35, 000.
Mobile, Ala. — New Battle House Company has adopted plans by Frank M. Andrews, 25 E. 3d St., Cincinnati, Ohio, for a hotel. The plans call for a 10-story building of steel, cement, stone and brick construction; absolutely fireproof; 164 × 154 ft.
Montezuma, Ga. — Bids will be received until Aug. 1 at the office of W. H. McKenzie, secretary, for all labor and materials required in the erection of the Carnegie Library. Proposals must be accompanied by certified check for $150, payable to W. H. McKenzie, secretary. Plans on file at the secretary’s office, and can be had on application to Lockwood Bros., architects, Columbus, Ga.
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