Association. It will be three-story, 50×140 feet, marble (polished white with gray veins), tiled floors, expanded metal, art glass. Estimated cost, $75, 000.
Binghamton, N. Y. — The School Board is said to be preparing to erect a school, estimated to cost $125, 000. Address Secretary of Board.
Bismarck, N. D. — Hancock Brothers, of Fargo, are stated to have been engaged to prepare plans for the prison wing 50×150 feet which is to be erected at a cost of $60, 000.
Boone, Ia. — E. H. Sieling is said to be considering the erection of a $50, 000 hotel building.
Calgary, Alta., Canada. — George Mc­ Neil, it is said, has completed arrangements for erection of a seven-story brick and stone apartment block. Estimated cost, $150, 000.
Charlotte, N. C. — Young Men’s Christian Association building, it is said, will be erected at a cost of $100, 000; to be five stories high; steam heat; electric and gas lighting; freight elevators; architects, Hook & Rogers; bids to be opened about July 15; D. L. Probert, general secretary.
The First National Bank, it is reported, will expend about $50, 000 in remodeling
its bank building, and is now having plans prepared by a New York architect.
Chattanooga, Tenn. — The plans of R. H. Hunt, Eighth and Broad Streets, it is stated, have been accepted for the city-hall, which is to be erected at Eleventh and A Streets, at a cost of about $200, 000. Bids for the construction will probably be asked soon.
Wells Brothers, of New York, N. Y., it is stated, have secured the contract to erect a terminal station in Chattanooga for the Southern Railroad, at a cost of about $350, 000.
C. E. Jones is said to be contemplating the erection of a $100, 000 hotel at Seventh and Chestnut Streets.
Chicago, ILL. — A seven-story building of reinforced-concrete is to be built at the corner of Randolph and Jefferson streets for John Ruprecht & Co., West Rand Street. It will be 106×100 feet, and will cost $175, 000. Huehl & Schmidt, 163 Rand Street, are architects.
According to reports, the Unity Lodge of the Columbian Knights, at present at 100 Washington Street, will have a new store and lodge building erected at Marshfield Avenue and School Street. Plans by Architects Schack & Swanson, 164 Dear
born Street, show a three-story building, covering an area of 70×120 feet, to cost about $50, 000. It will be built of brick and stone, with composition roofing, hardwood finish, steam heating and all modern improvements.
It is said that a new apartment-house will be built on Michigan Avenue near Fortysixth Street by James Daly, 5015 Calumet avenue. Designs by Architects Bishop & Co., 157 Dearborn Street, provide for a three-story building, covering an area of 73x86 feet, to cost about $50, 000. It will have front of pressed brick with stone trimmings, composition roof, hardwood finish.
The Steele-Wedeles Company, 179 South Water Street, it is said, will erect a building at Dearborn Avenue and the Chicago River, ten stories high, of fireproof construction, with a front of 180 feet on Dearborn Avenue. The cost of the building will be $350, 000.
Reports state that D. PI. Burnham & Co., Railway Exchange Building, will probably be the architects for an engineering school, to cost $100, 000, and a men’s dormitory, to cost $75, 000, to be built in the near future in connection with the Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Dr. A. W. Harris, president.
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