a THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAX, FOhTLAND,' DECEMBER 12, , 1909.
SKYSCRAPERS WILL
SOOH ADORN CITY
BUILDING ACTIVITY ON "WILLAMETTE HEIGHTS FILLS BEST LOCATIONS OF SLOPE.
OO Stia.de Trees
T. B. Wilcox Announces 12
Story Structure for Sixth
and Washington.
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From IS to 20 Feet in Height Have Been
Ordered to Be Set Out in tHe Park
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BIG BUILDINGS GROUPED
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Report of New Iilpman-Wolfe Store
Come In Conjunction With
Other Plans for Giant
Edifices.
Great developments are assured for
Portland In the way of the erection of
giant buildings ali over the city, but
specially in the heart of the business
district bounded by Third, Seventh,
Washington and Morrison streets. Fol
lowing directly tho announcement that
l.ipman, "Wolfe & Co. will erect an
eight or twelve-story structure on
Fifth street, between Washington and
Alder streets, comes another definite
statement from T. B. "Wilcox, president
of the Portland Flouring- Mills Com
pany, of another great structure.
Mr. "Wilcox stated definitely yester
day that on March J. 1911, ne will start
erecting a handsome 12-st"ry office
building on the 50x100 feet owned by
htm at the southeast corner of Sixth
and "Washing-ton streets. Mr. "Wilcox
says that he would commence building
even earlier than this date If the leases
permitted, but leases on a part of the
property extend to MaiVh 1, 1911, and
so work; cannot be started until that
time. t
"The cost is of no real consideration,"
said Mr. Wilcox. "I am going to start
on that date and build the finest office
building In Portland on that corner, and
It will cost whatever It costs and I will
let that take care of itself. I wish I
could start building right away, but until
the leases expire I am not able to do so."
Most Valuable Corner Ivot.
This comer is regarded as one of the
most valuable in the city and when Mr.
Wilcox purchased it the price paid was
the record price for Portland, $260,000 be
ing paid for the KOxlOO feet or $50 a
square foot. This price still stands as the
record for Portland realty, but Mr. Wil
cox himself, it is said, made an offer of
even more than this amount for the
Brown property. POxlOO. adjoining on the
south. He recently offered $275,000, but
this was rejected. The Inside lot is at
present occupied by the Olds, Wortman
& Kins annex.
The announcement of the Lipman,
Wolfe & Co. building adds much to the
value of properties on Fifth street. The
firm has been contemplating a move for
some time. Two weeks ago Doyle &
Patterson, architects, were commissioned
to prepare the plans and until then noth
ing had been definitely settled concerning
the move. Now work is going ahead on
the plans and the building will be eight
and possibly 12 stories In height.
The plans call for a building of steel
and concrete, free from ornate fixtures
and a clean cut, well lined, commercial
building. The exterior will be of warm
gray brick, with cream white terra cotta
trimmings and terra .cotta finish on the
two lower floors and he top floor. Ab
solutely fireproof in construction, the
structure will be doubly protected by a
sprinkler system. Six passenger eleva
tors will be Installed, a number of freight
and sidewalk elevators, parcel chutes,
and all the requirements for a first-class
department store.
The lease given Is for 20 years by
O'Shea brothers, William CDonnell and
the Corbett estate. The building is esti
mated to cost $600,000. with from $150,000
to $250,000 for the store fixtures to be in
stalled. The work cannot be-started un
til the Olds, Wortman & King structure
on Tenth and Alder is completed, which
will be in the course of a few months.
The building will have a floor space
of 180,000 feet, even if it is but eight
stories high. The frontage of 200 feet
on the west side of Fifth street and
100 feet ton both Washington and Alder
streets gives a space of 20,000 feet to
each floor and the basement is also
to be used for retail purposes.
Teon to Build 15 Stories.
Directly' across the street from the
site for the new Lipman. Wolfe & Co.
building is to be erected a 15-story
office building by John B. Teon, an
nounced last week in The Oregonlan.
The details for this building are al
ready completed and work will prob
ably start within the next two months.
The plans are completed and are now
in the City Building Inspector's office
awaiting the Issuance of a building
permit.
This structure, it is estimated, will
cost $575,000 and the details are such
as to make this when completed the
finest office building in Portland. It
will cover a quarter block on the north
east corner of Fifth and Alder streets
and will be by far the tallest building
in Portland and the tallest of any kind
north of San Francisco on the Pacific
Coast. Mr. Teon and Architect Reed
are now in. San Francisco arranging
the final details for financing the erec
tion of the building.
Sixth and Alder Comes Next.
Rumors are current on the afreets of
another large building. This Is on the
southwest corner of Sixth and Alder
streets on the property held by Ben
Selling and associates. Here, it Is
rumored, a 12-story office and store
building will be erected, and the fact
that no leases of even a few months'
duration will be given tenants, and re
ports that overtures have been made
to those holding leases to sell them,
indicate that in the Immediate future
work may be started in replacing the
present frame shack: wlta a handsome
"building.
It is also currently reported that a
13-story building is to be erected on the
northwest corner of Fifth and Wash
ington streets by the Mead estate, the
report being that a large Jewelry estab
lishment is to take over the greater
part of the lower floors. Frederick
Strong, secretary of the Mead estate,
- says that a number of propositions
have been made with a view to leasing
' and building, but that no definite an
nouncement can be made at this time.
Street Name Slay Be Changed.
With these buildings all oompleted
within the next few years, with the
Spalding building completed as well as
the Lewis building at Fourth and Oak.
the Electric building at Seventh and
Alder and the Olds, Wortman & King
building at Tenth and Alder streets,
Portland will certainly present a vastly
improved appearance. A number of
large structures will be built on Third
street, while Frank Smith holds a lease
at Fourth and Washington, where he
will erect a 10-story building in the
near future. The principal feature of
the proposed building of skyscrapers in
Portland is the fact that the sites are
all located within a small area covered
by a few blocks, which will give a won
derful appearance to the business cen
ter of the city.
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HOMES DOT SLOPE
Willamette Heights Site for
Many Fine Dwellings.
BEST LOCATIONS TAKEN
Kifty Residences Built In High-Class
Iistrict in Year Blytheswood
Active Section Double
House Complete.
Many handsome residences have been
built In the last several months on Wil
lamette Heights. Now that residence
addition is so crowded with handsome
homes that there are but few desirable
locations for dwellings left, save in the
western part of the addition. This sec
tion was recently placed on the market
and is becoming the scene of . active
building operations.
It Is estimated that between 40 and GO
residences, varying in cost from $5000 to
$20,000, have been built on . Willamette
Heights within the last year. In Blythes
wood, to the west of Willamette Heights
proper, there is a large tract which was
opened recently. Now this section is the
scene of the most active home building
in the city.
A fine residence costing between $20,000
and $25,000 is being erected there for P.
Sorensen. Another fine home n the
Huntington residence, about completed,
near the end of the Willamette Heights
carline. There are many others for
which the foundations have been laid:
Among the finer homes Is the $12,000
residence of Charles E. Rumelln, located
on the southwest corner of Thirty-second
and Thurman streets. In Willamette
Heights. It was designed by Knighton
& Root and is a beautiful example of a
modern English half-timber dwelling.
The exterior, colored light chocolate, is
covered with siding, while the porches
and gables are all half-timbered with
plastered panels. All the exterior wood
work Is stained a dark chocolate. The
massive red brick chimneys, with stone
trimmings, capped with the old-fashioned
English chimney pots, lend a charm to
the house and the entire exterior effect
is harmonious.
Double Home Complete. ,
Among the features of the residences
in this addition is an artistic double
$6000 home, built for the joint occupancy
of George H. Fairbrother and his son-in-law,
Harry T. Humphrey, on Vaughn
street. Just east of Thirty-first street. It
contains two separate apartments, ar
ranged for the use of two families.
The building was erected by the Rob
erta Construction Compuany. Each of
the apartments contains five rooms, while
the apartments are similar in detail or
arrangement and design. The dining
rooms are handsomely paneled and have
plate rails, built-in buffets, while in the
living-rooms there are large open fire
places with red brick mantels, built-in
window seats and bookcases, and cornice
ceilings.
The rooms are tinted in colors to har
monize with the hangings, while the bed
rooms are finished in white enamel. The
apartments are equipped with linen
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closets, tiled baths and all -modern con
veniences. The front porch has a barrel-vaulted,
plaster-paneled ceiling and opens directly
into the main vestibule and hall. 12x25
feet, and is finished in white enamel and
mahogany. On the first floor Is the
living-room, 15x23 feet, finished in Ivory
white with a mantel of Rookwood tile.
The dining-room and library, 14x17 and
13x22 feet., respectively, are finished in
tobacco brown, the dining-room having a
buffet with leaded-glass doors and plate
glass shelves. In the library ig a large
bricked fireplace flanked on either side
with bookcases with leaded-glass doors
and movable shelves.
Another pretty home in Williamette
Heights is the Harry..- S. McCraken
residence located on Raleigh street near
Twenty-ninth street. It is a California
bungalow of six rooms designed and
built bv W. L- Morgan. The bungalow
is of, the mission type and is arranged
with an interior Dutch effect. -
The home Is thoroughly modern and
has wide tiled and bricked fireplaces,
all the" modern built-in conveniences, and
all the appointments of a down-to-date
home. The large living-room, with a
wide tiled fireplace, has heavily beamed
ceilings while the dining-room Is hand
somely paneled and tinted. The sleeping
rooms are finished In white enamel.
FINE DEPARTMENT STORES AT WEST PARK AND MORRISON STREETS NEARS COMPLETION.
OLDS, WORTMAN & KING UTJILDIXJ.
JrhAe,,ldsV Wortman ' King building being erected in the block, bounded by West Park. Tenth, Morrison
and Alder streets is rapidly nearing completion. Within the last few weeks' the work has progressed to
such a point that little remains to be done except interior work, the putting in of windows, etc The Dig
structure, occupying an entire block and five stories in height, will have 240,000 feet of floor space includ- '
Jng the large basement under the structure. On the completion of the building the old-established retail
store will make the pioneer move into this district, which is said to be the future business center of the
city by many of those who have watched for years the growth of the city in a westward direction.
Tha.Aflditiojuwith Character
This is only one feature in the plans of the directors of Laurel
hurst Companyfor the development of this property, to make it
the most desirable and attractive home-district in Portland. Their
plans will be accomplished because every director is in earnest on
this subject.
These plans include the paving of all streets with asphalt, the
laying of six-foot sidewalks, sewers, water mains, gas mains, clus
ter lights for lighting the streets, and shade trees in the parking
strips.
Take the first favorable opportunity and visit LAUREL
HURST, then you will be satisfied thaHhe work of developing it
as planned will be easy.
To reach LAURELHURST, take either Montavflla or Rose
City Park carlines both run through the property. Office on the
grounds at E. 38th,and East Glisan streets. Telephone East 989.
Board of Directors
Tj. A. Lewis
Edw. Cookingham
Chas. K. Henry
H. W. fries
F. F Mead
H. R. Burke
S. B. Linthlcum
Paul C. Murphy
James B. Meikle
Robert H. Strong
Chas. "K. Williams
George P. Dekum
522 Corbett Building.
Phones, A 1515, Main 1503.
NEW COMPANY TO BUILD
CECILIA BTJUiDIXC CONCERN TO
ERECT APARTMENTS.
Site at Twenty-second and Gllsaui to
Be Improved With Four-Story
Brick Structure.
A' company composed of Benjamin
I. Cohen, W. F. Flledner and W. L. Mor
gan, has been organized for the pur
pose of building a high-class apartment
house at the southeast eormr of Twenty-second
and Glisan streets. The com
pany is organized under the name of
the Cecilia Building Company, and on
the 50 by 100-foot site which has been
secured will erect a four-story apart
ment house, costing $45,000.
The proMfrty was formerly owned by
Benjamin!. Cohen, who has sold it to
the Cecilia Building Company for
$12,000. W. L. Morgan, the secretary
of the new building company, has been
commissioned to prepare the plans for
the structure. It will be of mill con
struction, B0 by 100 feet in size, four
stories high, and built of pressed brick,
all around. It will be a high-class
apartment house, thoroughly modern in
every detail and equipped with the lat
est apartment-house fixtures.
There will be 30 three-room suites in
the building, all nicely finished and
conveniently arranged. An automatic
elevator for passenger service will be
installed. Work will be started in the
near future. Mr. Coh'en is the presi
dent of the new company, Mr. Flledner
the vice-president and Mr. Morgan the
secretary.
new sales manager, Lauren T. Tuttle,
will have charge of the sales in Ala
meda Park. Mr. Tuttle is well known
among the advertising men on the
Coast. He came to Portland a year
ago from San Francisco, and took
charge of the streetcar advertising in
the Oregon district. Thejiew position,
it Is stated, offers Mr. Tuttle larger opportunities.
Kew Sales Manager Secured. -
The Alameda Land Company an
nounces that, beginning January 1, a
PROFIT APPARENT I.V SALES
East Side Quarter Block Is Sold for
$32,000.
A purchase on Belmont street consum
mated yesterday shows the great increase
in value of Kast Side properties. J. G.
Edwards, a wealthy sheepman of Hay
Creek. Oregon, who . has been Investing
heavily in Portland- real estate during
the last year, has purchased a quarter
block at the northwest corner of Grand
avenue and Belmont street from K. J.
Daly, Dan J. Malarkey and Roger B. Sln
nott for J35.000. The property is vacant
and will be Improved in th spring by
Mr. Edwards with a brick building cov
ering the entire quarter block. The struc
ture will be a three or four story block
for stores and apartments or rooms. Tho
sale was negotiated through the office of
E. J. Daly.
Three quarters of a block, of which this
property is a part, was purchased by
Messrs. Daly, Malarkey and tnnott three
years ago for $65,000. The quarter block
at the southeast corner of East Morrison
and Union avenue was purchased by
Markell & Company for $36,000. Then J.
D. Healy bought the quarter block at
the southwest corner of East Morrison
street and Grand avenue for $41,000, and
now the third quarter block and the last
held by Messrs, Daly, Malarkey and Sin
nott is sold to Mr. Edwards for $35,000.
These Bales represent a total return of
$111,000 from the Investment of $65,000 and
show a profit of $46,000 in the three years.
All these sales were negotiated through
Mr. Daly's office, who has also sold to
Mr. Edwards in the last few months two
other parcels of Portland real estate at
an aggregate cost of $110,000.
EILERS PLAN TO BUILD
FIRM WILL IMPROVE ENTIRE
HALF BLOCK OX SIXTEENTH.
Business House and Stables to Bo
Erected Adjoining Present
Warehouse.
Plans are being prepared by Archi
tects Gibson & Cahlll for a three-story
brick building, 65 by 90 feet, to be
erected at the northeast corner of Six
teenth and Pettygrove streets by the
Eilers Piano House. The lower floors
will be divided into three rooms, to
be used for store purposes, while the
upper floors will be used for a rooming-house
with 25 rooms to each floor.
On the same block the Eilers Piano
House is now erecting a large six-story
factory building, which is nearing com
pletion. Between the two structures,
on the rest of the half block owned
by the same company, a two-story brick
building will be erected, the lower por
tion to be used for stable purposes and
the upper portion for loft and storage.
Plans will be ready in a short time.
The two new structures will cost
$30,000.'
Sale at Third and Everett.
Deeds were f Inst
fer of 50 by 100 feet at the northeast cor
ner oi iniro ana isverett streets to Eu
gene Hoch. The npniwrtv lnf y, 1,-1, ic
Couch Addition, was bought from Charles
B. Harris for $42,000. The site Is Improved
with stores and a rooming-house, and is
leased at $290 a month for a short term to
the Gambrinus Brewery. Mr. Hoch bought
the property as an investment, through
the agency of Goldsmith & Co.
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