an office building, to be erected at Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street, for the Vendome Company. It is to be twelve stories, built of brick, stone, and terra-cotta, of fireproof construction, with steel frame, plate glass, hardwood finish and floors, hard plaster, nickel plumbing, etc. Estimated cost, $800,000.
Ginn & Co., publishers, 378 Wabash Avenue, have engaged Architect Howard Shaw, 175 Dearborn Street, to have charge of the construction of an office and warehouse building at the southeast corner of Prairie Avenue and Twenty-third . Street. It will be five-story, 100x135 feet, of steel construction, have probably paving brick and terra-cotta fronts, composition roof, hardwood finish in the offices, steam heat, electric light, marble and tile work, and is estimated to cost $120,000.
The L. C. Paine Freer estate, it is stated, is planning to put up an addition to the Occidental Building, 225 and 227 Washington Street, to cost $140,000. It will be eight stories, 40x180 feet, and will have an interior court from the fourth to the eighth floors. Plans are being prepared by Fritz Foltz.
The National Medical College, 553 Wells Street, is having plans prepared for a new building to be erected at Clark Street and North Avenue. Designs are being prepared by Architect H. B. Wheelock, 109 Randolph Street, and the new building will probably be twelve stories high, covering an area of 100x130 feet, and cost in the neighborhood of $400,000. It will be of fireproof construction and have the latest improvements and appliances in all lines.
Reports state that contracts have been let for the warehouse to be put up by Sprague, Warner & Co., at Erie Street and north branch of the river and work is to be pushed as rapidly as possible. The building will be seven stories high, 500 feet long, 200 feet wide, and will cost $800,000.
Harry B. Wheelock, architect, Schiller Building, it is reported, is interested in and is making plans for an amusement park to be loacted on a tract of land bounded by North Western, Sunnyside and Montrose Avenues and Leavitt Street, for a syndicate in which Geo. B. Byron and Harvey Stickler are also interested. There will be a number of buildings of artistic designs, of frame, staff and steel construction, and the improvements are estimated to cost about $1,000,000. Mr. Strickler is the manager of the Chutes Amusement Park, Kedzie Avenue and Van Buren Street.
The report has been revived that the estate of Leander J. McCormick, room 411, 145 La Salle Street, will build an officebuilding on the site of the Victoria Hotel, northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street. Architects Holabird & Roche, Monadnock Block, have prepared tentative plans for the structure. It is to be twelve—story, 126x172 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have probably white terra-cotta exterior, with large plate-glass windows for the lower stories, and is estimated to cast $800,000.
We are advised that Architects Pond & Pond, 21 East Van Buren Street, have prepared plans and are erecting Exchange No. 5 for the Chicago Telephone Company, on Larrahee Street. They will use Raymond concrete piles for the foundation.
Chippewa Falls, Wis,—A. B. McDonald,
of the Lumbermen’s Bank, has had plans prepared by Chas. S. Sedgwick, architect, of Minneapolis, for a memorial high school building, which he will present to the Catholic organization. It will be two-story and basement, 105x105, pressed brick and cut stone, costing about $50,000. Plans will be ready for figures about February I.
Cincinnati, O.—Plans have been completed, it is stated, by Werner, Adkins & Burton, architects, for a twelve-story building which is to be erected in Ninth and Main Streets by the Second National Bank. The structure is to be all stone and will cost in the neighborhood of $250,000. The buildingwill have a frontage on Main Street of 40 feet, running to a depth in Ninth Street of 130 feet.
The congregations of the Remnants of Israel and Brotherly Love, it is reported, have consolidated and intend erecting a $75,000 synagogue.
Cleveland, O.—Frank S. Barnum, Superintendent of Buildings of the School Department, is reported to have completed preliminary plans for the technical school which is to be erected in East Fifty-fifth Street and Scovill Avenue, at a cost of $250,000.
The Webb C. Ball Company, Superior Street, are having plans prepared for a fourstory addition to the Kingmon Building on Euclid Avenue, east of East Ninth Street.
M. A. Bradley, 1203 Citizens’ Building, is said to be contemplating the erection of a five-story building on West Third Street on the site of the block occupied by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, which was destroyed by fire last fall.
A new fourteen-room building will, it is stated, be added to the Brandon School. Estimated cost, $75,000.
Clinton, Miss.—Reports state that the Mississippi College will have several new buildings added to it at a cost of $100,000 or over. For information address Dr. W. T. Lowry, president.
Collins, Miss.—It is stated that plans have been prepared for erection of a hotel building by the Eugene E. Robertson Land Company. Cost, $200,000.
Columbus, O.—Bids are asked by Carl E. Steeb, Secretary Board Trustees, until noon, February 7, for furnishing the materials and labor necessary to complete the repairs and remodeling of the Chemistry Building of the Ohio State University, and the furnishing and erection of metal furniture for the same, in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by Peters, Burns & Pretzinger, architects, of Dayton, O.
It is reported that plans have been prepared by J. J. Jones, Dispatch Building, for a residence to be erected for Mrs. M. E. Valentine, at a cost of $100,000.
Conshohocicen, Pa.—We are advised that Ballinger & Perrot, architects and engineers, 1206 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, have designed a church and Sunday-school building for the Conshohocken M. E. Church, Sixth Avenue and Fayette Street, Conshohocken, Pa. This building will accommodate 500 people in the church proper and about 500 in the Sunday school. The building will be 67x105 feet, with a tower 19 feet square and 80 feet high, of modern Gothic architecture;. the walls to be constructed of Conshohocken stone with Indiana limestone trimmings; the roof cov7 ered with sjate; \yindows of stained glass
with tracery; roof trusses of open timber work, and the interior finish of hardwood; steam heating system to be installed. The auditorium and Sunday-school will be side by side on the main floor, and 50 arranged that by the removal of rolling partitions both rooms may be thrown into one, with seats arranged in a semi-circle around the pulpit. Additional seating capacity will also De obtained by means of galleries.
Dayton, O.—John B. Mann, of this city, is planning to build a seventy-five-room modern hotel on the lake shore above Sarnica. Mr. Mann has already purchased 600 feet fronting on the lake from W. A. Brown.
Deer Lodge, Mont.—Architect A. J. Gibson, of Missoula, is preparing plans for a country house to be erected at the Bitter Root Farm by Mrs. Marcus Daly. Cost, $75,000.
Denver, Colo.—Mr. Schlueter, it is stated, will receive bids for a library to be built here for the municipality of this city. It will be three-story, 320x200 feet, have a massive stone front, six mezzanine floors, oak finish book cases, steam heat, latest ventilation system, electric light, marble, tile and mosaic work, and cost $275,000. Albert R. Ross, 542 Fifth Avenue, New York, is the architect.
A six-story office-building of reinforcedconcrete is to be erected at the southeast corner of Seventeenth and Champa Streets, at a cost of $200,000. E. R. Cooper and Charles Boettcher are interested.
The County Commissioners, it is stated, are considering the erection of a new criminal court building to cost about $85,000.
H. W. Schlueter, 204 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., it is stated, has been awarded the general contract and will sublet the work, except the masonry and carpentry, for an auditorium to be built at Curtis, Fourteenth and Champa Streets, for this city and the county of Denver. It will be fourstory, 228x290 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have pressed brick and stone exterior, a tower at each corner, reinforcedconcrete floors and runways, boiler and machinery rooms, hardwood finish, Florentine glass windows, steam heat, wiring for electric light, contain its own lighting and heating plant, have a seating capacity of 5,000, and cost $416,000. Robert Willison, 311 Colorado Building, Denver, Colo., is the architect.
Des Moines, Ia.—Hallet & Rawson, 615 Walnut Street, have prepared plans for a three-story flat apartment and store building, 132x165 feet, which will be erected at the corner of Ninth and Locust Streets by the Central Improvement Company, which is composed of Robert and John S. Coskery and W. E. and Nat Coffin. The estimated cost of the improvement is $150,000.
Detroit, Mich. — Architects Spier & Rohns, 1319-1325 Chamber of Commerce, it is stated, have prepared plans and will take figures for owner for an office-building to be 50x80 feet, two stories and basement, of paving brick, Bedford limestone trimming, copper roof, structural steel, galvanized iron cornice, fan system heating and ventilation, mosaic tile, plate and ornamental glass, electric lighting, open plumbing, marble work, hard plaster, etc.
Reports state that plans are being prepared for the extension of the Majestic Building. It is proposed to add six stories
Ginn & Co., publishers, 378 Wabash Avenue, have engaged Architect Howard Shaw, 175 Dearborn Street, to have charge of the construction of an office and warehouse building at the southeast corner of Prairie Avenue and Twenty-third . Street. It will be five-story, 100x135 feet, of steel construction, have probably paving brick and terra-cotta fronts, composition roof, hardwood finish in the offices, steam heat, electric light, marble and tile work, and is estimated to cost $120,000.
The L. C. Paine Freer estate, it is stated, is planning to put up an addition to the Occidental Building, 225 and 227 Washington Street, to cost $140,000. It will be eight stories, 40x180 feet, and will have an interior court from the fourth to the eighth floors. Plans are being prepared by Fritz Foltz.
The National Medical College, 553 Wells Street, is having plans prepared for a new building to be erected at Clark Street and North Avenue. Designs are being prepared by Architect H. B. Wheelock, 109 Randolph Street, and the new building will probably be twelve stories high, covering an area of 100x130 feet, and cost in the neighborhood of $400,000. It will be of fireproof construction and have the latest improvements and appliances in all lines.
Reports state that contracts have been let for the warehouse to be put up by Sprague, Warner & Co., at Erie Street and north branch of the river and work is to be pushed as rapidly as possible. The building will be seven stories high, 500 feet long, 200 feet wide, and will cost $800,000.
Harry B. Wheelock, architect, Schiller Building, it is reported, is interested in and is making plans for an amusement park to be loacted on a tract of land bounded by North Western, Sunnyside and Montrose Avenues and Leavitt Street, for a syndicate in which Geo. B. Byron and Harvey Stickler are also interested. There will be a number of buildings of artistic designs, of frame, staff and steel construction, and the improvements are estimated to cost about $1,000,000. Mr. Strickler is the manager of the Chutes Amusement Park, Kedzie Avenue and Van Buren Street.
The report has been revived that the estate of Leander J. McCormick, room 411, 145 La Salle Street, will build an officebuilding on the site of the Victoria Hotel, northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street. Architects Holabird & Roche, Monadnock Block, have prepared tentative plans for the structure. It is to be twelve—story, 126x172 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have probably white terra-cotta exterior, with large plate-glass windows for the lower stories, and is estimated to cast $800,000.
We are advised that Architects Pond & Pond, 21 East Van Buren Street, have prepared plans and are erecting Exchange No. 5 for the Chicago Telephone Company, on Larrahee Street. They will use Raymond concrete piles for the foundation.
Chippewa Falls, Wis,—A. B. McDonald,
of the Lumbermen’s Bank, has had plans prepared by Chas. S. Sedgwick, architect, of Minneapolis, for a memorial high school building, which he will present to the Catholic organization. It will be two-story and basement, 105x105, pressed brick and cut stone, costing about $50,000. Plans will be ready for figures about February I.
Cincinnati, O.—Plans have been completed, it is stated, by Werner, Adkins & Burton, architects, for a twelve-story building which is to be erected in Ninth and Main Streets by the Second National Bank. The structure is to be all stone and will cost in the neighborhood of $250,000. The buildingwill have a frontage on Main Street of 40 feet, running to a depth in Ninth Street of 130 feet.
The congregations of the Remnants of Israel and Brotherly Love, it is reported, have consolidated and intend erecting a $75,000 synagogue.
Cleveland, O.—Frank S. Barnum, Superintendent of Buildings of the School Department, is reported to have completed preliminary plans for the technical school which is to be erected in East Fifty-fifth Street and Scovill Avenue, at a cost of $250,000.
The Webb C. Ball Company, Superior Street, are having plans prepared for a fourstory addition to the Kingmon Building on Euclid Avenue, east of East Ninth Street.
M. A. Bradley, 1203 Citizens’ Building, is said to be contemplating the erection of a five-story building on West Third Street on the site of the block occupied by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, which was destroyed by fire last fall.
A new fourteen-room building will, it is stated, be added to the Brandon School. Estimated cost, $75,000.
Clinton, Miss.—Reports state that the Mississippi College will have several new buildings added to it at a cost of $100,000 or over. For information address Dr. W. T. Lowry, president.
Collins, Miss.—It is stated that plans have been prepared for erection of a hotel building by the Eugene E. Robertson Land Company. Cost, $200,000.
Columbus, O.—Bids are asked by Carl E. Steeb, Secretary Board Trustees, until noon, February 7, for furnishing the materials and labor necessary to complete the repairs and remodeling of the Chemistry Building of the Ohio State University, and the furnishing and erection of metal furniture for the same, in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by Peters, Burns & Pretzinger, architects, of Dayton, O.
It is reported that plans have been prepared by J. J. Jones, Dispatch Building, for a residence to be erected for Mrs. M. E. Valentine, at a cost of $100,000.
Conshohocicen, Pa.—We are advised that Ballinger & Perrot, architects and engineers, 1206 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, have designed a church and Sunday-school building for the Conshohocken M. E. Church, Sixth Avenue and Fayette Street, Conshohocken, Pa. This building will accommodate 500 people in the church proper and about 500 in the Sunday school. The building will be 67x105 feet, with a tower 19 feet square and 80 feet high, of modern Gothic architecture;. the walls to be constructed of Conshohocken stone with Indiana limestone trimmings; the roof cov7 ered with sjate; \yindows of stained glass
with tracery; roof trusses of open timber work, and the interior finish of hardwood; steam heating system to be installed. The auditorium and Sunday-school will be side by side on the main floor, and 50 arranged that by the removal of rolling partitions both rooms may be thrown into one, with seats arranged in a semi-circle around the pulpit. Additional seating capacity will also De obtained by means of galleries.
Dayton, O.—John B. Mann, of this city, is planning to build a seventy-five-room modern hotel on the lake shore above Sarnica. Mr. Mann has already purchased 600 feet fronting on the lake from W. A. Brown.
Deer Lodge, Mont.—Architect A. J. Gibson, of Missoula, is preparing plans for a country house to be erected at the Bitter Root Farm by Mrs. Marcus Daly. Cost, $75,000.
Denver, Colo.—Mr. Schlueter, it is stated, will receive bids for a library to be built here for the municipality of this city. It will be three-story, 320x200 feet, have a massive stone front, six mezzanine floors, oak finish book cases, steam heat, latest ventilation system, electric light, marble, tile and mosaic work, and cost $275,000. Albert R. Ross, 542 Fifth Avenue, New York, is the architect.
A six-story office-building of reinforcedconcrete is to be erected at the southeast corner of Seventeenth and Champa Streets, at a cost of $200,000. E. R. Cooper and Charles Boettcher are interested.
The County Commissioners, it is stated, are considering the erection of a new criminal court building to cost about $85,000.
H. W. Schlueter, 204 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., it is stated, has been awarded the general contract and will sublet the work, except the masonry and carpentry, for an auditorium to be built at Curtis, Fourteenth and Champa Streets, for this city and the county of Denver. It will be fourstory, 228x290 feet, of fireproof steel construction, have pressed brick and stone exterior, a tower at each corner, reinforcedconcrete floors and runways, boiler and machinery rooms, hardwood finish, Florentine glass windows, steam heat, wiring for electric light, contain its own lighting and heating plant, have a seating capacity of 5,000, and cost $416,000. Robert Willison, 311 Colorado Building, Denver, Colo., is the architect.
Des Moines, Ia.—Hallet & Rawson, 615 Walnut Street, have prepared plans for a three-story flat apartment and store building, 132x165 feet, which will be erected at the corner of Ninth and Locust Streets by the Central Improvement Company, which is composed of Robert and John S. Coskery and W. E. and Nat Coffin. The estimated cost of the improvement is $150,000.
Detroit, Mich. — Architects Spier & Rohns, 1319-1325 Chamber of Commerce, it is stated, have prepared plans and will take figures for owner for an office-building to be 50x80 feet, two stories and basement, of paving brick, Bedford limestone trimming, copper roof, structural steel, galvanized iron cornice, fan system heating and ventilation, mosaic tile, plate and ornamental glass, electric lighting, open plumbing, marble work, hard plaster, etc.
Reports state that plans are being prepared for the extension of the Majestic Building. It is proposed to add six stories