Bristol, Va. -Tenn. — J. M. Barker and J. B. Lyon will let contract at once for the erection of proposed five-story brick and stone building. Elevators, fire vaults, steam heat, electric lights, etc., will be installed.
Charlotte, N. C. — The congregation of the Presbyterian and Associated Reformed Churches of this city is stated to have taken preliminary steps to build a $50, 000 hospital to take the place of the present Presbyterian Hospital.
Chattanooga, Tenn. — Plans have been adopted by the Chattanooga Hotel Company for the erection of an hotel to be eleven stories, 176 × 120 feet, and cost over $1, 000, 000.
Chelsea, Mass. — Competitive sketches are being prepared for the new hospital at the Soldiers’ Home, Chelsea, Charles Nash, superintendent. Approximate cost of building, $100, 000.
Chicago, Ill. — Architect John S. Flizikowski, 70 La Salle Street, has prepared plans for and is taking figures on a school building to be built in Hegewisch for St. Florian parish. It will be three-story, 64 × 90 feet, have concrete foundation, pressed brick and stone front, steam heat, structural iron work, and will cost $30, 000.
Architects Frank L. Fry & Co., 132 Monroe Street, have completed plans for an apartment building to be built at the northeast corner of Orchard Street and Arlington Place for B. F. McConnell. It will be three-story, steam heat, marble and mosaic work, mantels, wiring for electric light, contain eighteen apartments of five and six rooms each, and cost about $60, 000.
Architect S. N. Crowen, Borland Block, is preparing plans for an apartment building to be built at the southwest corner of Lake View Avenue and Surf Street for William Remy. It will be three-story, 80x- 115 feet, to have steam heat, electric light, structural iron work, contain six apartments of twelve rooms, each apartment to have three bath-rooms and laundry on the same floor, and cost $60, 000. The same owner, it is said, will erect a building, to contain three apartments, fronting on Surf Street.
Two new theaters are to be erected in this city. One will be erected by Hyde &
Behman, of New York, at West Madison and Green Streets; the other by Mort. H. Singer, manager of the La Salle theater and Empire Circuit Company, at 255 to 261 Clark Street.
It is reported that an eight-story building of mill construction, to cost $100, 000, will be erected on Wabash Avenue, north of Franklin Street. No architect named.
Plans are being drawn for a hotel to be erected between Michigan and Wabash Avenues, south of the Auditorium. It is to have nine stories.
The Calumet Club will erect a $300, 000 addition to their clubhouse, on Michigan Boulevard.
D. H. Perkins, architect for the Board of Education, is stated to have completed plans for the Washington School, on Grand Avenue, near Morgan Street. It will contain twenty-six classrooms, an assembly hall, and a gymnasium, and cost $175, 000.
Childress, Texas. — Plans for a brick or cement-stone edifice to be erected by the
M. E. Church, South, are on file with J. E. Flanders, architect, Dallas, Texas; also with the Quarles Lumber Company, Fort Worth, Texas, and Childress.
Cincinnati, Ohio. — C. C. Weber, architect, Fourth and Walnut Streets, has prepared plans for a residence for Mrs. Alex. Clark, of South Crescent Avenue. Cost, $25, 000.
E. H. Dornette, architect, Pickering Building, has completed plans for rebuilding the Third Intermediate School, Franklin, near Main Street, which was burned some time ago. The improvement will cost $52, 000.
The congregation of the United Brethren is said to be considering erecting a new church in Reading Road, opposite Ridgeway Avenue, Avondale. The cost of the building will be $75, 000. N. Auer is president of the United Brethren congregation.
Clarkton, N. C. — Bids are being received for the erection of a hotel and bank building. Plans and specifications on file with J. C. Gore.
Cleveland, Ohio. — Architect Abraham Garfield will prepare plans for a club building for the Cleveland Country Club. Cost, $100, 000.
Edmund M. Wheelwright, Boston, Mass., has been selected as consulting architect for the new Museum of Fine Arts Building, to be erected at Cleveland.
A school building is to be erected here at a cost of $100, 000.
Clinton, Iowa. — The Iowa Telephone Company will erect a new building here, and also put in an underground conduit system at a cost of $150, 000.
Dallas, Texas. — Lang & Witchell are preparing plans for a $25, 000 residence to be erected by L. S. Thorne.
Plans for the new building of the Y. M.
C. A. have been approved by the directors. The building will be located on the south
side of Commerce Street, and will be 65X- 200 feet, and will cost $100, 000.
J. W. Hunt, of this city, and J. W. West, of Los Angeles, Cal., will build an eightstory hotel at this city which will have about 210 rooms. The estimated cost is $350, 000.
Dalton, Mass. — Senator W. Murray Crane has commissioned Harding & Seaver, architects, of Pittsfield, Mass., to draw plans for residence to be erected on Wilson Avenue. This residence will be one of the handsomest in the Central Berkshires.
Denver, Colo. — The Colorado Southern Railway Company (H. W. Cowan, Chief Engineer), is reported to be arranging to
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