building. The structure to be absolutely fireproof and cost about $100,000, which sum has just been donated by Mrs. C. W. Pardee.
Camp Logan, III.—Bids are asked by Col. Henry S. Dietrich, General Inspector of Rifle Practice, I. N. G., 90 LaSalle Street, Chicago, until 10 a.m., January 23, for the erection of six barracks and one armory, and. 4,000 lineal feet, more or less, of 4-foot cement walk on the Rifle Range at Camp Logan, according to the plans and specifications, copies of which may be obtained at the office of the State Architect, W. Carbys Zimmerman/ 1101 Steinway Hall, Chicago.
Cedar Falls, Ia.—Proudfoot & Bird, architects, are preparing plans for a library at Cedar Falls. It will be four-story brick building with stone trimmings, 44x48 feet, fireproof, steam heat, fan system of ventilation, electric lights, gas. Cost, $150,000.
Chicago, III.—Architect Jarvis Hunt, Monadnock Block, has prepared-plans for a naval training station to be built at Lake Bluff, North Chicago, 111. Bids were received September 4 for ten houses, for officers’ quarters, to cost $175,000, and it is reported, contracts for construction work to cost $2,000,000 will be let shortly. The station is to cost $3,000,000. The Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., has charge of the work and lets the contracts.
The Board of Trustees of the L niversfty of Chicago, it is stated, is having plans prepared for two and possibly three dormitories for women, to be erected at an approximate cost of $100,000 each.
Reports state that work will soon be started on the large addition which is to be built to the plant of the American Cutlery Company, 189 Mather Street. H. L. Newhouse, 4630 Prairie Avenue, is the architect, and cost of the addition will be about $75,000. Plans provide for two-stnry building, covering an area of 150x188 feet. It
will be built of brick and stone, and have thoroughly modern equipment.
Cincinnati, O.—It is stated that plans have been prepared for the new branch hospital on Pierce Hill. Cost, $253,000. Address City Solicitor Lowman.
Reports state that plans have been prepared for the Catholic cathedral to be erected at a cost of $1,000,000, a seminary building to cost $175,000, a cathedral home to cost $50,000, a parish priests’ house, a school and a teachers’ house, all in Norwood Heights.
The H. & S. Pogue Company, it is stated, has been granted a permit to erect an eightstory steel building on Fourth Street. Harry Hake, Union Trust Building, is the architect.
Plans are reported completed by Werner & Adkins, 77 Mitchell Building, for the twelve-story stone building, 40x130 feet, which is to be erected at Ninth and Main Streets, by the Second National Bank, at a cost of $250,000.
Cleveland, O.—W. P. Ginther, of Akron, it is reported, has prepared plans for a $200,000 church to be erected by the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic parish.
The Humphrey Company, northeast corner Euclid Avenue and 117th Street, have leased the property they occupy at present and will erect a new building in the spring. Cost, $50,000. The new building will contain a large auditorium.
It is reported that the Board of Education intends erecting several schools this year at a total cost of $810,000. The buildings include Technical High School, $3sr
000; East End High School, $250,000; Brandon School, $70,000; school, Gilbert District, $60,000; annex, Rice School, $40,- 000; school, Harvard District, $40,000.
Plans are being prepared, according to reports, for a new building to be erected for Western Reserve University to house the laboratory of experimental medicine.
The building will be erected in the rear of the Medical School. It will be five stories high and built almost entirely of plate glass, only such brick and concrete being used as is absolutely necessary. Cost to be about $100,000.
Dallas, Tex.—It is reported that the Buckner Orphans’ Home is to be erected at a cost of $75,000. R. C. Buckner, president.
Davenport, Ia.—John F. Kelly Wholesale Grocery Company, it is stated, will erect a five-story building to cost about $50,000.
Denver, Col.—The executors of the Stratton estate are said to be contemplating the erection in the near future of two buildings, one on Seventeenth and Stout Streets, to cost about $600,000, and another at Seventeenth and Welton Streets. Tyson Dines may be able to give further information.
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