Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1907)
THK MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1907. rr . I ARCHITECTS Hi BUILDERS BUS! Owners Are Rushing Port land's Many New Office Blocks to Completion. MOVEMENT WILL CONTINUE .Reduction in Price of Materials Will Stimulate Construction, as Growth of Business Creates Demand for Additional Quarters. for bids about January L This struc ture will take up the full block, and will he four or Ave stories high. It will be of reinforced concrete construction. The block Is bounded by East Second, East Third. Hassalo and Multnomah streets. The two-story brick building under way at the corner of Mississippi avenue and Shaver streets, for M. B. Thompson, Is progressing-. The stone front of this structure alone costs $17"'. A vault is being built Inside the corner room, which Is being modeled for banking purposes. It is announced that Mr. Thompson will occupy this room for some time for his abstract business. It will be the most pretentious structure in that part of the East Side. The Concordia College building under construction In the Heidelberg tract east of Woodlawn. is rapidly approaching completion. It will cost $10,000. It Is for the Oregon and Waaffington division of the German Lutheran Church. The lo cation Is Ideal for an educational Institu tion, the land being high and level and overlooking the Columbia River. Architect A. C. Ewart is preparing plans for two frame dwellings to be erected on East Thirteenth and East Al der streets. Each will be thra stories high and contain six rooms. The total cost will be $4000. These dwellings will rest on concrete foundations seven feet above the ground. A. H. York has the general contract. He expects to start ex cavating December 1 and complete both Although the present rains are not th I houses in three months. test weather for construction work, most of the large buildings are far enough Prompt completion of the Board of KOTHCIIILI) BllLDING. AT FOURTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS, JIST COMPLETED. along fo that unfavorable weather con ditions do not hinder the work. In all of the big office blocks, large gangs of men are hurrying the work aa the owners are desirous to open them for tenant at the earliest possible moment. The additional quarters are badly needed and many firms are occupying rooms that are too small for their business until the new structures are available. The fact thai building material Is un dergoing a reduction In price will. It is bellevd. stimulate the construction move ment Architects are all busy and many Important building projects are to be commenced next Spring, while several new ones will be under way before that time. Builders recognize that Portland's business is certain to increase rapidly and as there are practically no vacant offices, stores or residences in the city and rentals are good, men with money will not hesitate to invest in the build ings . that are necessary for the city's xpansion. Plasterers are completing the work of remodeling the Hlbernla building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Washing ton streets and the appearance of the structure has been completely changed, j The specifications for the alterations were ' drawn by Richard Martin. Jr.. and about 130.000 has been spent on the work. The old-fashioned sloping roof of this build ing was removed and the walls built up so that a fifth story has been added. The exterior has been finished in cement and the Interior of the upper floors has been divided Into offices. A portiqn of the lower floo- will be occupied by the Merchants Savings & Trust Company. Remodeling of the Hotel Perkins, which will Involve- an expenditure of from $75. 000 to $100,000 began during the past week. L Q. Swetland and Adam Mueller who have leased the property for a period of 15 years have not decided on all details of the alterations, but the Interior of the structure will be greatly changed. The work now under way Is the deepening of the basement. There will follow the en larging of the rooms, the fitting up of a handsome grill, the refurnishing o' the apartments throughout and other Im provements. Architect H. C. Dittrtch is preparing plana for a number of East Side homes. He ia drawing specifications for a resi dence for W. (3 Woods and another for J. Clark, to cost $2000 each. P. Frlberg la to build a home in Overlook. In Alblna. to coat $3000. A house for William Henog on Gantenbeln avenue, near Beech street, coating S6000, is being completed. The residence of William Lind on Rast Six teenth street, bet wen Brnzee and Knott, is nearly completed. The contract for erection of the home of J. Beck on East Eleventh street, near Tillamook, has been h warded to Alex Squires. Whldden & Lewis are preparing plans for the new Homeopathic Hospital to be erected or. the Breyman block. In Holla- .lay Addition. Tho plans will be ready ( Trade building is now assured. Guy Lombard and Joseph M. Healy who pur chased the Interest of Dr. E. H. Parker and paid $40,000 for the equity of the Ore. gon Trust & Savings Bank, announce that they expect to complete this 11-story reinforced concrete block by April 1. When completed this building will rep resent an Investment of $350,000. Many of the offices have already been engaged. The elegant home of Lewis Mont gomery, costing $15,000. on East Twen tieth and East Salmon, is nearly com pleted. The entire lower floor is fin ished In quarter-sawed Eastern oak. An automobile garage has been erected on the quarter block ad.loinlng the resi dence. . This residence will be completed ready to be occupied by January 1. 1908. H. Enke, of the City Steam Dye Works, will erect a new plant on Union avenue, between East Stark and East Oak. His present plant is at the corner of East Third and East Ash streets. William Vaetz has the contract for the foundation, for which piles will be driven. The cost of the foundation Is es timated at $2ono The two-atory concrete building for L. T. Peery & Co.. at Rodney avenue and Russell street. Alblna. Is nearing comple tion. It is built entirely of concrete blocks, rough cast, and resembles nat ural atone. This Is the first concrete block business building to be erected in Alblna. Richard Martin, Jr., is preparing plans for a residence for A. M. Butler to be erected on Falling and East Eleventh streets, to cost $1500. H. Riefers has taken out a permit to erect a bungalow at the corner of Tillamook and East Eleventh streets, to cost $6000. It will be modern in all reapects. L. S. Daue is preparing plans for the building of the Brooklyn Republican and Improvement Club, to be erected on Powell and East Thirteenth streets. The cost will be about $3000. Thompson & Swan, Vancouver, Wash., report the sale of a 20-acre farm to Paul Hauser for $2200, also a four-acre tract to J. Ernst for $3700. MANY SMALL SALES Builders in Market for Resi dence Lots. ACREAGE ALSO SELLS WELL Dealers Report Negotiation- in Progress for Inside Property AVhlch Will Be Oosed When Money Becomes Plentiful. Conditions in the real estate market are already beginning to assume normal pro portions, although, owing to the special holidays, few large transactions are be ing carried through. Small sales, how ever, are by no means scarce. Agents re port very little change In the demand for residence lots and if anything the market for this class of property improved last week. Dealers report that many people who have money available are paying cash for building lots and proceeding at once to erect homes. Sales of inside business property, it is thought, will be in full swing as soon as the banks resume operations on the usual basts. At present many negotiations for large properties are being carried on with the idea of closing the deals as soon as the special holidays end. One agent re ported Saturday that he had an outside firm seeking for a full block on which to erect a warehouse and other large trans fers are In the wind. The Haseltine building at Second and Pine streets has been offered to the city for $140,000 for use as a Jail and emergency hospital and this bid, which comes from the Metropolitan Investment Company, may be considered by the Council ways and means committee at its meeting this afternoon. The Haseltine property is de clared by Chief Grltzmacher to be an idea! one for the purposes of the city and as a new Jail Is needed without delay It seems not unlikely that the Council will make this purchase, rather than buying a site and erecting a building which would take aeveral month. Lota in Hancock-Street Addition, which was put on the market last week by B. M. Lombard have met with a ready sale. The addition Is in the Irvington district, being bounded by East Thirty-second, East Thirty-seventh, Tillamook and Broadway streets. It consists of 174 lots, one-fourth of which were contracted for before the plat was completed. Mr. Lom bard reporta that the demand for lots Is even more active than it was a month ago, and buyera are building homes with out delay. P. A. Gllmore purchased a quarter block at East Twenty-seventh and Hancock streets and the following day be gan hauling building material for a dwell ing. F. E. Harrington also bought Satur day a lot on East Twenty-fourth, be- ! tween Tillamook and Hancock and will build Immediately. One of the large sales of The last week i in the line of vacant city property waa 1 made by Hartman & Thompson for O. W. ; Taylor. The purchaser's name Is with- i held for the present, title to the property being taken by the Portland Trust Com pany. It comprises about 15 acres lying to the eaat of and adjoining the platted i section of Rose City Park. The price paid was something over $1000 an acre. It is understood that the purchaser will plat It In city lots and improve it the same as Rose City Park, with graded streets, I cement sidewalks and city water. Russell Blyth have spent a large amount of money improving their tract near Willamette Heights, and work on this land Is still In progress. The firm bM gone to heavy expense in grading and cutting roads, and anvjeig other . things has built a large bridge across the gulch that divides the property. Several purchasers of lots are already preparing to erect homes, and R. B. Lamson Is , making especially attractive a residence site that he bought In this addition. The beautiful 156-acre farm owned by John F. Toft has been sold to Charles j L. Urper for $10,000. The place is situ- ' ated on the Willamette and was sold by Jordan & Gabade. The same firm re- ports the sale of 120 acres at Eagle Creek I to Fred Siedow, for $J000. and the sale j of a house and lot on Hawthorne ave- : nue to Henry Leuech for $2000. A lease to the upper part of the Raleigh i building at Sixth and Washington streets has been purchased by J. W. Bain from I G H. Dammier. The upper floors of this building return a rental of more than $900 a month. C. W. Mayger is the purchaser of two lots at the northwest corner of East Tenth and Clifton streets, which were j owned by Lawrence Wilson, of New j York. The price was $8500, and the sale aa made by E. J. Daly and W. B. St re tar. Lamont & Harris sold a quarter block on the northeast corner of East Thirtieth and East Couch streets to George Park for $2000. Mr. Park will build a modern residence on this property In the Spring. Otto, Crockett & Harkaon sold the fol lowing farms last week: 40 acres to J. H. Sheets for3400; 20 acres to J. W. Yan dle for $1200 ; 60 acres to Andrew Flerty for $2500. Mr. Otto reports numerous deals pending. Alfred A. Baker sol dthe Sylvan Park farm in Washington County to F. W. Met ?alf for $10,000. This farm is considered one of the most beautiful and well improved farms in that county. Mr. Baker also re ports the sale of a cottage at SOS East Thirty-fifth street to D. F. Knapp for $3600. ' SIXTY ACRES, PRICE $3700 $1700 Cash, balance to suit purchaser. 36 acres under fine state of cuVtlvation, some timber, place fenced and croaa-fenced. 2-story S-room house nicely painted, largre barn and necessary outbuildings, good orchard, wells, etc.; ' mile from graded school, 1V4 miles from R. R. town and 9 miles from Vancouver, on good level graveled road. Good home, and cheap for the money. 12 acres all fine onion and garden land, all under fine state of cultiva tion, good rustic 5-room house, barn, chicken and wood houses, well and spring stream through land, in good locality, school across road from place, 2 miles from country town and 8 miles from Vancouver, telephone, R. F. D. route. Price $2100. $1100 cash, balance to suit. Write for our complete list of small and large places before buying elsewhere. THOMPSON & SWAN CITIZENS BANK Bl IX... VANCOUVER, WASH. 306-7 SWETLAND BLDG,, PORTLAND, OR. Fixtures for Houses From the extremely moderate-priced to the most expensive. Our stock affords th- widest possible range for selection. We carry the most complete lines in Gas Fixtures Electroliers Mantels Tile Work Hanging Lamps Supplies, Etc. It is to your advantage to purchase at our Store, the recognized head quarters in the Northwest for these goods. If you wish to see a sample of our contracts examine the tile and electrical work in the Rothchild building, Fourth and Washington streets, all of which was installed by us. MODERATE PRICES The John Barrett Co 410 Morrison Street, Bet. Tenth and Eleventh Streets. ELMER. J. WALLACE ART SIGNS 327 Stark Street The Signs in the Rothchild Building will be painted with the uniform exactness that characterizes the lettering of Portland's Leading Sign-Writer. "It Doesn't Cost Any More to Have Good Signs Than Poor Ones" Our work on the Building has met with the approval of the Building Authorities. . Phone Us. Pacific 1566. THE NEW ROTHCHILD BUILDING Will Have VAN EM ON ELEVATOR EQUIPMENT "Not in the Elevator Trust." San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. N. B. Taylor, Manager, 313 Ch. of C. THE ADAMANT COMPANY Manufacturers of HARD WALL PLASTERS Our Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster Used Throughout in Plastering the Rothchild Building. FACTORY : Foot Fifteenth St.t Pa rifle Phone, M. 2109. OFFICK: 483 Worcester lll.it.; Pacific Phone Mnln 718, Home A 1218. The Hardware for the New Rothchild Building was supplied by the COLUMBIA HARDWARE CO. Second and Morrison Streets. Phone Main 1236. O. N. Stockwell, Manager. The Cornices and the Roof on the New Rothchild Building Have Been Completed by J. C. BAYER Cornices, Roofing, Skylights, Metal Shingles, Ventilators, Etc. Phone Main 467. 263-267 Second St. All Glass for Store Fronts, Windows, Skylights, Etc., for New Rothchild Building Furnished by Central Door and Lumber Company 13 th and Glisan Streets All Doors, Sash and Interior Finish for the New Rothchild Building Furnished by GEORGE AINSLIE & COMPANY 16th and Pettygrove Streets T. J. JOHNSTON CO. PLUMBING STEAM AND GAS FITTING 209 Washington St., Installed the Plumbing Work in the New Rothchild Building, Fourth and Warhington Streets. Phone Main 698. Use Raecolith For Sanitary, Water-proof and Fire-proof Floors, Wainscoting, Stair Treads. Ask your architect about it or call or phone. THE RAECOLITH COMPANY, 71 First St Portland,Ore. pho,rn The Portland Tile & Mantel Company Office 217 Marquam Bulldiifk. PHONE MAIN 5873 Ceramic Mosaic, Enameled and Encaustic Tile, Wholesale and Retail JAMES E. BARKER, Prop. Warehouse 355 Burnside, near Park Street. Branch Office and Salesroom, 451 Empire Building;, Seattle, Wash. PHONE MAIN 981 CEMENT PHONE HOME A 3981 A cargo of J. B. White & Bros. English Cement just arrived. Used on the Chamber of Commerce and other well-known buildings in Portland. 1S3 Madison St. Geo. B. Rate & Company Portland, Oregon. Home Phone Scott 5206. W. L. BUCKNER Shop Phone Main 5881. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER 330 Stark Street. Office and Store Finishing a Specialty PORTLAND. OREGON. Waverleigh Heights The Safe Bank to Invest Your Money In Pays More Lots $225 and Up $25 Down, $10 Per Month Safe, Sane and Certain Jno. P. Sharkey Company SIXTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS A 2537 Phones Main 550 -SAFE INVESTMENT IS- A HOOD RIVER APPLE ORCHARD Small Payment Down Monthly Installments A good investment is worth a life time of labor. " The Hood River Valley " affords this opportunity. CALL ON US FOR PARTICULARS It Pays to See Us Chapin & Herlow 425 c!?r,11f,,R,.2n'erce Suburban Homes We are part owners and offer for Sale eleven ten-acre tracts, each with good buildings, bearing orchards, rich soil, fine neighborhood; on railroad and near Portland, and on easy teuns with substantial payment down. Nothing better ever offered in Oregon. Tfie Sftaw-Fear Company 245 Va STARK STREET TO LEASE New Brick Warehouse, 25x100 feet, three stories, Everett, near Seventh Street ; electric elevator, modern basement. Long lease. ALSO Corner Fourteenth and Flanders, 50x100 feet; Includes stable-room. Suitable for retail and storage. PORTLAND TRUST CO. OF OREGON Southeast Corner Third and Oak Streets. HOMES INCOME PROPERTY MORTGAGES LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU DON'T FAIL. TO SEE HARTMAN 8 THOMPSON BANKERS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLLADAY'S ADDITION The one BEST place in Portland to buv. GEOGRAPH ICAL CENTER and MOST DESIRABLE residence property of the city. THE OREGON REAL ESTATE COMPANY 88y2 Third Street. Otto, Crockett & Harkson REALTY COMPANY Handle City and Farm Property, Rentals, Insurance; Take Care of Prop erty for Non-Residents. 13312 FIRST STREET Telephone Main 2279 Home A 2279 COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT CO. D. B. MACKIE, Manager Room 217-219 Lumber Exchange Building INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS CHANCES PORTLAND, OREGON Beautiful Residence Site $800 lOO x lOO Corner Adjoining Overlook, on bank of river, with unobstructed north, south and west view of river and West Side. Worth twice as much as is asked. SINNOTT & SINNOTT 535 Chamber of Commerce.