BUILDING NEWS.
{The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying toivns as well as from the larger cities.)
Alameda, Cal.—The Citizens’ Bank of Alameda has awarded the contract for the construction of a large reinforced concrete bank building to Frank B. Gilbreth, of 34 West Twenty-sixth Street, New York, upon whose advice it was decided to build the entire structure of reinforced concrete, making it earthquake-proof as well as fireproof. The work will be done on the basis of cost-plus-a-fixed-sum, the only basis on which Mr. Gilbreth solicits and executes work.
Albany, N. Y.—Sub-contracts are soon to be let by Collins Bros., who were awarded the contract to erect the clubhouse for the German Hall Association, on Beaver Street, at a cost of $110,000.
The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company (W. H. Knowles, Principal Assistant Engineer, New York, N.Y.), it is reported, is contemplating enlarging the Union Station in this city, at a cost of $100,000.
Alva, Okla.—A. A. Crowell, of Enid, it is stated, has submitted to the State Board of Education at Guthrie plans for the buildings to be erected at the Northwest State Normal School at Alva.
Andover, Mass.—Henry B. Fletcher, of Boston, it is stated, has prepared plans for the new depot, which is to replace present structure of the Boston & Maine Railroad. The total cost of removing present depot and erecting new structure is reported to be $50,000.
Arlington (Baltimore post-office), M. D. —Simonson & Pietsch, architects, American Building. Baltimore, will prepare plans for car barns to be erected here, and also at Baltimore and Waverly, for the United Railways & Electric Company. The buildings will be constructed of concrete and brick, at a cost of $300,000.
Ashtabula, O.—The plant of the Mc Kinnon Iron Works, which was recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt at once. It will include a machine shop, 50x120 feet,
on Columbus Street, a blacksmith shop, 50x100, and a two-story office and ware
house, 30x100 feet, at corner Bridge and Columbus Street. Address W. S. McKinnon for information. Cost, $75,000.
Atlantic City, N. J.—The Y. M. C. A., W. B. Griffin in charge, will invite competitive plans for a Y. M. C. A. building, to be erected at a cost of $100,000.
Aurora, III.—Local advices state this city will have a new vaudeville theatre if the plans of the Bijou Museum people of Peoria are carried out.
Baltimore, Md.—The Howard Hotel Company, it is stated, has decided to enlarge the-new Howard Hotel by the addition of several stories. Messrs. Wyatt & Nolting are the architects.
Tentative plans are being prepared for the proposed child’s hospital, to be built on the grounds of the Johns Hopkins Hospital by the Harriett Lane Flome for Invalid Children. The structure, when completed, will cost about $250,000.
The Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, northwest corner Monument Street and Hopkins Avenue, east, will erect hospital building
adjoining the present building on Monument Street, near Broadway ; cost to be probably more than $75,000.
Hospital for Consumptives of Maryland has commissioned Archer & Allen, architects, Central Savings Bank Building, Charles and Lexington Streets, to prepare plans and specifications for the erection of administration building at Eudowood Station on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Details have not been announced as to construction, but it is stated that building will probably be three stories high.
The Engineering Contracting Company
applied for a permit to erect the four-story office building at 339 and 341 North Charles Street for Mr. Miles White, Jr. The structure will cost $50,000. It was designed by Architects Baldwin and Pennington.
Jacob F. Gerwig, architect, 404 Hoffman Building, is preparing plans and specifications for the erection of three-story dwelling to be erected at 1708 East Fayette Street for H. Scherr ; structure will be 15x50 feet.
Dr. F. G. Moyer, 1500 Eutaw Place, will erect a four-story sanitarium at 1500 Eutaw Place. J. Edward Laferty, 11 East Pleasant Street, is architect.
A reinforced concrete factory, 55x175 feet, for Flick Brothers & Co. will be erected here. Guy King, 431 Walnut Street, of Philadelphia, is preparing plans.
Rev. Peter Ainslie is pastor of the Christian Temple, which will build a $50,000 church, according to plans drawn by Architects Charles E. Cassell & Son, 321 North Charles Street.
Architects Charles E. Cassell & Son have distributed plans for the five-story warehouse to be erected on Gay Street, near Pratt Street, by the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company.
Banff, Alta.—Bids will be received about October 1 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for a wing to be built to the company’s hotel at Banff. Estimated cost, $300,000.
Batesburg, S. C.—Dr. Thomas A. Quattlebaum, chairman building committee, will receive bids for the erection of a brick or concrete church ; plans and specifications on file at Dr. Quattlebaum’s office.
Bay City, Mich.—J. W. Adams, General Secretary Y. M. C. A., writes that Clark & Munger, Shearer Block, are now working on plans and expect to be ready to receive bids about October 1 ; probable cost, $50,000.
Beaumont, Tex.—It is reported’ that a modern fireproof business building, to cost about $100,000, will be erected here by H. A. Pearlstein.
Berrien Springs, Micit.—Chicago capitalists have plans for the erection of a $100,000 summer hotel on the banks of the St. Joseph river. Options have been secured on several sites.
Bethlehem, Pa.—The contract to erect a three-story brick and stone dormitory at the Lehigh University, it is reported, has been awarded to Denzier & Co., at about $100,000.
Boone, Ia.—It is reported that five brick sub-stations will be constructed along the line of the Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway. Bids are wanted. Plans can be seen at the office of the Northwestern Construction Company, 702 Story Street, Boone.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Architect R. T. Rasmussen, 130 Graham Avenue, has completed plans for a new factory to be built
on the south side of Flushing Avenue, 100 feet west of Bushwick Avenue, by Balleisen & Wexler,, 11 Graham Avenue, at an estimated cost of $60,000. It will be a sixstory building, measuring 52x96, of brick and stone, with composition roof, steam heat, electric light, elevators, etc.
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, is taking figures on the general contract for a fourstory fireproof addition to the power house on Kent Avenue, near Division Street, Brooklyn, 150x200 feet, on which no contracts have yet been awarded.
Plans have been approved by the building department for the store and flat house
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{The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying toivns as well as from the larger cities.)
Alameda, Cal.—The Citizens’ Bank of Alameda has awarded the contract for the construction of a large reinforced concrete bank building to Frank B. Gilbreth, of 34 West Twenty-sixth Street, New York, upon whose advice it was decided to build the entire structure of reinforced concrete, making it earthquake-proof as well as fireproof. The work will be done on the basis of cost-plus-a-fixed-sum, the only basis on which Mr. Gilbreth solicits and executes work.
Albany, N. Y.—Sub-contracts are soon to be let by Collins Bros., who were awarded the contract to erect the clubhouse for the German Hall Association, on Beaver Street, at a cost of $110,000.
The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company (W. H. Knowles, Principal Assistant Engineer, New York, N.Y.), it is reported, is contemplating enlarging the Union Station in this city, at a cost of $100,000.
Alva, Okla.—A. A. Crowell, of Enid, it is stated, has submitted to the State Board of Education at Guthrie plans for the buildings to be erected at the Northwest State Normal School at Alva.
Andover, Mass.—Henry B. Fletcher, of Boston, it is stated, has prepared plans for the new depot, which is to replace present structure of the Boston & Maine Railroad. The total cost of removing present depot and erecting new structure is reported to be $50,000.
Arlington (Baltimore post-office), M. D. —Simonson & Pietsch, architects, American Building. Baltimore, will prepare plans for car barns to be erected here, and also at Baltimore and Waverly, for the United Railways & Electric Company. The buildings will be constructed of concrete and brick, at a cost of $300,000.
Ashtabula, O.—The plant of the Mc Kinnon Iron Works, which was recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt at once. It will include a machine shop, 50x120 feet,
on Columbus Street, a blacksmith shop, 50x100, and a two-story office and ware
house, 30x100 feet, at corner Bridge and Columbus Street. Address W. S. McKinnon for information. Cost, $75,000.
Atlantic City, N. J.—The Y. M. C. A., W. B. Griffin in charge, will invite competitive plans for a Y. M. C. A. building, to be erected at a cost of $100,000.
Aurora, III.—Local advices state this city will have a new vaudeville theatre if the plans of the Bijou Museum people of Peoria are carried out.
Baltimore, Md.—The Howard Hotel Company, it is stated, has decided to enlarge the-new Howard Hotel by the addition of several stories. Messrs. Wyatt & Nolting are the architects.
Tentative plans are being prepared for the proposed child’s hospital, to be built on the grounds of the Johns Hopkins Hospital by the Harriett Lane Flome for Invalid Children. The structure, when completed, will cost about $250,000.
The Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, northwest corner Monument Street and Hopkins Avenue, east, will erect hospital building
adjoining the present building on Monument Street, near Broadway ; cost to be probably more than $75,000.
Hospital for Consumptives of Maryland has commissioned Archer & Allen, architects, Central Savings Bank Building, Charles and Lexington Streets, to prepare plans and specifications for the erection of administration building at Eudowood Station on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Details have not been announced as to construction, but it is stated that building will probably be three stories high.
The Engineering Contracting Company
applied for a permit to erect the four-story office building at 339 and 341 North Charles Street for Mr. Miles White, Jr. The structure will cost $50,000. It was designed by Architects Baldwin and Pennington.
Jacob F. Gerwig, architect, 404 Hoffman Building, is preparing plans and specifications for the erection of three-story dwelling to be erected at 1708 East Fayette Street for H. Scherr ; structure will be 15x50 feet.
Dr. F. G. Moyer, 1500 Eutaw Place, will erect a four-story sanitarium at 1500 Eutaw Place. J. Edward Laferty, 11 East Pleasant Street, is architect.
A reinforced concrete factory, 55x175 feet, for Flick Brothers & Co. will be erected here. Guy King, 431 Walnut Street, of Philadelphia, is preparing plans.
Rev. Peter Ainslie is pastor of the Christian Temple, which will build a $50,000 church, according to plans drawn by Architects Charles E. Cassell & Son, 321 North Charles Street.
Architects Charles E. Cassell & Son have distributed plans for the five-story warehouse to be erected on Gay Street, near Pratt Street, by the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company.
Banff, Alta.—Bids will be received about October 1 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for a wing to be built to the company’s hotel at Banff. Estimated cost, $300,000.
Batesburg, S. C.—Dr. Thomas A. Quattlebaum, chairman building committee, will receive bids for the erection of a brick or concrete church ; plans and specifications on file at Dr. Quattlebaum’s office.
Bay City, Mich.—J. W. Adams, General Secretary Y. M. C. A., writes that Clark & Munger, Shearer Block, are now working on plans and expect to be ready to receive bids about October 1 ; probable cost, $50,000.
Beaumont, Tex.—It is reported’ that a modern fireproof business building, to cost about $100,000, will be erected here by H. A. Pearlstein.
Berrien Springs, Micit.—Chicago capitalists have plans for the erection of a $100,000 summer hotel on the banks of the St. Joseph river. Options have been secured on several sites.
Bethlehem, Pa.—The contract to erect a three-story brick and stone dormitory at the Lehigh University, it is reported, has been awarded to Denzier & Co., at about $100,000.
Boone, Ia.—It is reported that five brick sub-stations will be constructed along the line of the Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway. Bids are wanted. Plans can be seen at the office of the Northwestern Construction Company, 702 Story Street, Boone.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Architect R. T. Rasmussen, 130 Graham Avenue, has completed plans for a new factory to be built
on the south side of Flushing Avenue, 100 feet west of Bushwick Avenue, by Balleisen & Wexler,, 11 Graham Avenue, at an estimated cost of $60,000. It will be a sixstory building, measuring 52x96, of brick and stone, with composition roof, steam heat, electric light, elevators, etc.
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, is taking figures on the general contract for a fourstory fireproof addition to the power house on Kent Avenue, near Division Street, Brooklyn, 150x200 feet, on which no contracts have yet been awarded.
Plans have been approved by the building department for the store and flat house
An Asphalt Roof costs more than
tar—just a little— but the Asphalt
adds 100 per cent, to the value of the roof.
Tar dries out and becomes brittle; asphalt doesn’t. Tar runs in the heat of summer ; asphalt does not. Tar is affected by acids, alkalies, gas fumes, etc. ; asphalt is not.
First cost is forgotten in the waterproofing and wearing superiority of Genasco.
Asphalt Roofing Cement
Asphalt Waterproofing Cement
Asphalt Tile Cement
Asphalt Saturated Felt Positive Seal Felt Ready Roofings
made by the most scientific process known from Trinidad Lake Asphalt.
Write us for samples and full information.
THE BARBER ASPHALT
PAVING COMPANY
Largest producers of asphalt in the world.
PHILADELPHIA
New York San Francisco Chicago
For information concerning built-up roofs write to Genasco Roofing Company, Philadelphia, New York or Chicago.