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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1910)
HEAVY BUILDING INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL BUILT TO LAST A THOUSAND YEARS. GOOD FOR REALTY Dealers Predict Inside Prop erty Will Begin to Move Soon After New Year's. y - V'm ;."'.' . " - I'ti .., " ...r" " MARKET VALUES ARE FIRM While No Large Praia Are Fending. Demand for Properties of Mod- - -crate 61a I. Active (on- ' ruction Work Heavy. With a constantly accelerating tide of bulk! live activity and a realty market of pr ant adamant nmiwn, dealers pre dict that real estate will begin to move freely eoon after the Tint of the yfr. The heavy building movement la the best possible sign of stable valuea If owners of Inside property are sot letting CO it Is because they bar a keen ap preciation of their holdings, or are w sit ins; for the advance that they feel Is sure to come in the near future. Many owner are not willing to sell at any price. They feel that In Portland busi ness property they here the best pos sible Investment, and that with the city growing at Its present pace, appreciation of values will continue. The heavy building movement Is the feature of the realty situation In Port land Just now. The total building per mits Issued during the year will resch up doe to $U..'Wa. an advance of ' per cent over ISO. which Itself showed a growth of one-third over the prei-edlng year. The central retail business dtstrlrt down town Is widening out. and local business centers all over the city are gaining added Importance. Farther ex pansion of the big hotel district Is mark ed by the prosecution of work on the splendid Hotel Multnomah, on the block bounded by Pine. Ash. Third and Fourth street. Excavating for the 15-story building at Fourth and 'Washington is being rushed. 1 Steel plans have been filed with the building Inspector f.r the lo-.tnry de partment store building for l.lpman. Wolfe 'o which will cover the half block on the west side of Fifth street, between Wsnhlnston and Alder, and con struction will begin In July. Promptly on March 1 rasing of the frame buildings will be begun on the Sixth and Wash ington site for T. H. Wilcox's 13-story steel building. Building programmes for next yesr are being considered by many Inventors who are not yet ready to announce their plana. Em He Svbacht Son are drawing plans for a six-story hotel to be built by Mrs. Caroline A. Trimble on an Irregularly shsped lot on Park. Oak and Ankeny streets. The lot has a frontage of 4.1J feet on rare:. 50 feet on ink and 7S- feet on Ankeny and is 130.$ feet wide at the rear. Construction fcs to start early In the Spring. What the building will cost has not been determined. Another hotel proposition, which as yet Is pnrely tentative. Is that of Rus sell aV Blyth. who plan improvement of their property on Sixth. Pine and An keny streets with an eight-story hotel to cost IJtO.OoO. This lot Is of Irregu lar shape and contains about half a Mock. It has a frontage of 43 feet on Sixth street. 1 feet on Pine and 145 feet on Ankeny. and Is 7 feet wide at the rear. The east 60 feet of the block is held by other owners. The plsns are being drawn by Emll Schacht t Poo. Several real estate transfers of mod erate slxa were reported last week, but Interest of the msrket centered In the opening on Thursday of Mornlng side. the new Harlman Sc. Thompson tract on the northeast slope of Mount Tabor. The opening waa well adver tised, but expectations were more than realised when 4 lole were sold on the opening dsy for a total of $7S.0oo. Mora than two-thirds of the tract was dis posed of on the first three days. The sale of the SO by 100-foot lot at the northeast corner of Park and Tay lor streets by F. It. Levee as agent for Iver Johnson of Seattle, to Will O. Parker of Beaverton. Is the largest re ported so far this month. The prop erty was bought for rash, and Mr. Par ker intends to erect an eight-story -Class A- structure on the site, start ing soon after the first of the year. The building will be used for a hotel and store will occupy part of the first floor. Acting for tne If. W. Coocle estate. Charles K. Henry on Wednesday sold the JO by 100-foot vacant lot on the west side of Sixth street. Just north of Bumside. to K. L. Lowell of the Sealy-Lowell Company, for $31,500. The buyer will erect a four or six story brick building and Intends to hold the property as an Investment. The Murhead Murhard Company ' oa Wednesday bought the SO by 100 feet at the southwest corner of Park and lavls streets from V. P. Hender son for 110.000 cash. The buyers will erect a five-story brick warehouse with basement, for which plana are being prepared by Bennea A Hendricks. The eale was made by Karnopp ft Knopf. The building has been leaeed for seven years to the Baggage Omnibus Trans fer Company. The Seven Oaks Investment Com pany, of which 1. Parker Bryon is the agent, will put up a one-story brick atore building on the quarter block at the northeast corner of Seventh and Oak streets, to cost $:0.000. Plsns have been drawn by Mac.Naughtoa Ray mond and work will begin la two weeks v Naphlaly Kohn. of Frankfort. Ger many, has sold to Joseph Ollcksman .trough the agency of Sheffield ft rlelliy. a lot IS by 100 feet, on the east aide of Third street, between Everett and Flandera. for $l.50w. The buyer owns the south 25 feet of the same lot aad will erect a substantial building. William M. LaFoTec has sold to Wil liam O. Eaton for a consideration of $ltf the quarter block at the northwest corner of Fast Seventeenth and Stark atreeta The property is unimproved. The deal was made by Sheffield at R.Uly. A contract has been given br the Macleay Estate Company to J. F. Wine land, for altering, remodeling and re pairing the structure at the southwest corner of Front and Alder. The build ing Is two-story brick. SO by 100 feet. The brick walls of the first story will b torn out and piste glass windows put in. New floors will be laid through out the building. The work will cost (10.004. Clsussen A Claussea prepared the plana C B. afarXaoghtons has prepared plana for a four-story brick bonding V--I..' ' ' ... i.; .tvjn; l"t.mi IjIIK v. . j 11 WmxnliWs -3 t;isiH IV Cite J M lllluR 5 ,45 IriIllli?! h m irit is e - i :i;: . i ? i - isi rsa rid ij f KEWLY COMPLETED HICH ICUOOL BlILDIXG AT IDETE.NDEKCE. IVTJEPEVDENCR Or, Dec 17. The new high school ba.ldlng in this city has Just been completed and rsb'ul.rTrHnconcr." ind l.'Ufed w?th T.JZo.' ..ate. It. dimen..on.P.r. 0x0 Mrtl. ' " 1 j. k.n tminine and domes tic science rooms. It la heated with '. ""'"Rk -.rrrmh aTd natent-drlnklnc fountain.. It i. one of the finest school buildings In the state and the people of Independence are proud of It. to be built for Mrs. P. N. Paly at the northeast corner of Fourth and Jeffer aon. The structure will cost $75,000, and will cover a full quarter block. E. J. Daly and W. B. Streeter have ensured Architect D. I Wllllama to draw plans for a two-story brick and conrrete store building to covsr the gore- haped lot where Stark and Burnsioe streets converge. .The structure will cost llO.onx The plan, will be filed with the building Inspector In a few oaya -inm lot Is long and narrow and has dimen sions of SO feet on Bumslde street. 47 feet on Stark and 20 feet at the largo end. The other end runs to a point. Messrs. Daly and Streeter bought this property lour years ago for $2500. and they contend It is worth JlO.'rt) now. Mra 8. Garland will bnlUl a three -story brick hotel on her lot. SOxloa feet, at Trinity PIsce and Washington street. The cost will be $X.0H0. The plans are now being checked over by Building In spector Piummer and the permit will be Issued before the end of the year. A four -story brick building. 4xl00 feet, to mat $7&.uro will be built by Mra Isam White, at the northeast corner of Second and Madison streeta Stores will occupy the first floor and the three upper stories will be fitted for a hotel. Emile Schacht A Son have prepared the plans. The contract will be let in a few days and work will commence soon after the first of the year. E. 81 Routledgi has) taken out a per mit for a two-and-one-half story dwelling to be built on East Twenty-ninth street, between Belmont and Eaat TsmhJiL The cost will be tJtO. C. I Bamberger report, the sale of a five-acre Improved place on Kellogg . Lake, near Mllwaukle from Mra James) Klhbe to W. 8. lxve, of Portland, for fTSOO. Mr. Lore will make It hi. coun try home. ii a. Hah have romnlatsd plans for the residence to be erected by J. R. Bowles on the old Green home- a r.Am trill Ttoa flraen resi dence has been torn down and construc tion of the new bonse will commence in January. It will cost SS.0W. tr i Bmi hn. ntrrrn.aan alx lots On Division street, near East Fortieth, la Howe's Addition from A- H. BlrreU Com pany, for lava. The lots are -well located. Mr a-ott will erect several residences on them In the Spring. R V Doty, builder and contractor, ha. purchased a lot. 100x11 feet, on East t,wt n afreet and Hawthorne avenue. from Margaret MacKenaie. for O300. Mr. Doty will put up two residence, on tne property. James Knott has taken out a permit for a four-etory brick building to be built on Albina avenue, between Lorlnff and Railroad streets.- and to cost fSOOO. TYPE IS IN FAVOR People Rush to Apartments; Builders Supply Many. DEMAND ALWAYS GROWING Splendid and Costly Buildings of This Clasa, Besides Many Small Onca Planned for Immedi ate Construction. Portland 1. moving Into apartment This type of dwelling Is growing mora and more popular among .mall families, and although the number erected i mul tiplying, new apartment house, are oc cupied as soon as completed, while the older ones are always well filled. Per mit, are taken out almost dally for new apartment., and architect.' studios are littered wltu plans for them. Styles vary to every degree, from the little four apartment flat, to the big onea that cost $ho.000 or more. A late development is the building with exore. on the first floor and apartment, above, which Is the type chosen by the owner, of property In lo calities with buslnes. possibilities. The city building Inspector iej checking over plans for several new apartments, and he expect, that permit, will be issued for at least a score In the next two weeka R. T. Root will build a splendid apart ment hotase on St. Clair street, to cost $150,000. Mr. Root is an architect, and in planning his own building he Is deter mined to carry out some of his own Ideas. Another large one 1. that to be built by W. L- Morgan at the southwest corner of Eleventh and Clay. It will cost $90,000. A four-story apartment house will be erected at Eighteenth and Flandens by W. L. Griffith, who will be the owner architect and builder. Park Harris Is Completed. The Park-Harris apartment house, at the northeast corner of Park and Harri son streets, was completed last week, and la ready for occupancy. It I. a four-etory brirk. and contain. $0 four-room and four three-room apartmentav It Is heated with hot water, and ha. an automatic electric elevator and all modern conveniences. It was built by the Park-Harris Investment Company, and was designed by Joseph Jacobberger. The cost was $16,000. L A. Peters has bought from A. Rosen steln a lot $3 by 1(0 feet on the north side of Hall street between Tenth and Elev enth, and will erect an apartment house, to be two stories and basement, and to cost $22,000. covering the lot. The story-and-a-half frame dwelling now on the lot has been purchased by E. H. Cahalln, who will move It to a lot on Fourteenth be tween Harrtaon and Montgomery. Mr. Peters paid $.'200 for the lot, and it i. considered a good buy. He also owns a lot on Twelfth street, near Harrison, on which he will erect a three-story apart ment, to cost $30,000. Work will .tart on both these buildings at once. St. Francis Apartments Under Way. Excavation ha. been finished for the St. Franci. apartment, at t'.ie aouthea.t corner of Twenty-first and Hoyt streets, and the builders are mixing concrete for the basement wall.. The building I. to be five stories high, of pressed brick mill construction, and Its dimen sion, will be 0 by 100 feeC The cost will be upward of 485,000. The walls will be solid brick and only metal lath will bo used. There will be 40 apart ments which will be equipped with all modern Improvements, and an auto matic electric elevator. The building will be completed about May 1. It Is being erected by the St. Francis Invest ment Company of which Morgan, Flled ner A Boyce are the principal stock holders. . , A $10,000 flat building, containing four apartments, is being constructed by Morgan, Flledner A Boyce, on the south lde of GUsan street between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth. Rudolph Chrlstman is building a two story brick store and fiat building, de signed by W. E. Nelson at East Thirty seventh street and Hawthorne avenue. Evcavatlon has been finished and the concrete work is under way. The cost will be $20,000. Straw A Allerton, architects, have filed In the offloe of the city building Inspector plans for a three-story and basement brick veneer apartment house to be erected by H. B. Adam, at Twenty-first and Overton streets. The cost Is estimated at $30,000. George A. Housman wilt- build a brick apartment house, to be three stories high with basement, and to cost $40,000, at Twenty-first and Hoyt. A. C. Ewart drew the plana Concrete work has been started on the Dezendorf four-story apartments on Sixteenth street near Taylor. The building will contain 1) apartment, and will cost $0.000. Clau.sen & Claussen are the architects. The four-story brick and concrete building announced last week to be erected at the northwest corner of Grand avenue and East Stark street by W. U Morgan. W. A. Lelth and J. W. Hecker, will be a combination busi ness and apartment block. It' will cover a quarter block and will cost $70,000. Store, will occupy the ground floor and the three upper storle. will BAKER'S NEW FEDERAL BUILDING COMPLETED AT COST OP $75,000. .1 IT -s L fJ e t V I t Lu ' IP -hi ' ff 1 s - If IMrgCr L.Va . - COVEHXMEXT STRCCTCBS MOST MODERN OF ITS KIND. BAKER. Or Dec. 1$. Special.) The aew Federal building here has Just been completed by the United States at a cost of $73,000. Tbe building is oae of the most modsra ever constructed by the Oov.rnm.nt and Is finished throughout In solid oak. with mosalo floors. A special feature la the new building s the arrangements for the postoirio Inspector, who may come and go at any tlm. without txtag obeerrad. From th. seeoad floor h. caa VI anypart of the postomc even the clouts aad vault so the clerks a.v.r know vhn they are being watched. Th. United States Wath.r Bureau baa established a branch here, which will occupy the top floor of the building. Thla burses will have charge of the Eastern Oregoa district. Table Lamps Fire Screens Andirons THESE ARE T When your friends and relatives think of what would be the most useful and appreciated gift. Our exclusive and personally selected stock of Table Lamps, Andirons, Fire Sets, Spark Folding Screens are decidedly above the average and will appeal particularly to discriminating gift recipients See Our Christmas Tree Lighting Outfits, Electric Irons, Electric Toasters, Electric Hot Plates and Other Heating Utensils M J. WALSH & CO 311 STARK. NEAR SIXTH BOTH TELEPHONES be apartments. Construction will be gin at once and the building; will be finished next Bummer. LOTS ARE IH FORTY-NIXE LOTS SOLD OPEN'" IXG DAY AT MORXIXGSIDB. More Than Two-thirds of Tract Dis posed of In First Three Day a of Sale. Mornlngside, Hartman & Thompson's new tract, wa. placed on the market last Thursday, and on the opening day 49 lota were sold for an aggregate of about $75,000. To date the sales amount to above 80 lots of a total price of about $120,000, and the tract is more than two-thirds closed out. The lota old for from $1200 to $1750 each Several of the purchasers announced that they will build homes in the BPMornlngsia lies on the northeast slope of Mount Tabor and is Just below the city's park property, which will soon be improved. The tract is bound ed on the .outh by the Base Line road a favorite for motorists, and 1. divided by two winding drives. It 1b now In lawns, flowers and trees, and the view over the beautiful rolling country of Eastern Multnomah, with Mount Hood in the distance. Is unsurpassed. Hartman & Thompson purchased the property last month from the Crystal Springs Sanitarium Company. The original holdings were U acres, and of this B. S. Josselyn purchased four and one-half acres on which stands the structure which was the Massachusetts state building at the Lewi, and Clark Exposition In 1006. Mr. JoBselyn has let a contract to McHolland Bros, to re model the building Into a residence at a cost of $15,000. The acreage will all be retained to form a suitable setting for the Josselyn residence. Opening of this fine addition-Is ex pected to expedlate general improve ments In the Mount Tabor district. One of the results will be to hasten the ...Minn of Reimont street to the end of the streetcar track. Ideal weather conditions prevailed on the opening day. It wa. warm and sun ny and Mount Hood stood out so that It aeemedt only a few mile. away. The - . i . v. vt.w AlnnA salrt A agents uwic - . -- dozen lots. One particular lot that seemea especially ucbhuui. " - . . i. .1 i r t itr-tint nnnllrftntn bV as U UJI CC 1' i many agents, but -the one who reached the office first secureu ine iuu iiu sale wa. lost, however, as the other purchasers both accepted different lo- catlona SHTPPIXG DISTRICT FOR3IIXG Factory and Business Concerns Are Building In Sullivan's Gulch. (..oi!q mAnufacturlng. business and snippins uit.i". "i ...... . along the main lW of the O. R. & N. Co . between East Twenty -sixth and East t. . i . -trot In Sullivan's Gulch. The Doernebeeher Manufacturing Company Is erecting an annex on the east of the main plant which will cost $10,000. More space Is required by the company. The Albina Fuel Company has established a plant at East rniny-xnira mreei ana , mnA .rantpd a warehouse and other buildings. It has a aiding from the O. K. & N. Co.'s line. 8 P Lockwood owns a tract between the Barr road and the O. K. & N. line, which 1. tapped by a spur. He will im prove It. The Second Lumber Company has a plant on the railroad, supposed to be a part of the Monarch Lumber Com pany, located on the Peninsula It was a sidetrack connection. B. M. Lombard haa leased hi. holdings on the O. R. & N. for a term of years. There are sev eral other flrma which have established themaelves on the O. R. & N. line be cause of the railroad facilities afforded. East Side Sales Reported. Thomas H. Moore. has sold the lot on the southeast corner of East Everett street and Grand avenue to Daniel Marx for $13,300. The lot Is occupied by a residence. Mr. Marx owns the in side lot, on which there is a two-story flat. L. Lautersteln, a West Side busi ness man, has bought a lot 60x100 on East Seventeenth street. between Thompson and Tillamook, for $8000. A modern residence is being; completed on the lot and will be ready by Jan nary 1. - Supple Repairing Barges. i Joseph Supple yesterday closed con tracts with the Pacific Bridge Company for recaulklng three barges and perform ing minor repairs. The steamer Hus tler, which was on the way a few days having her stem rebuilt, planks replaced and rudders repaired, was floated and the ways were cleared, with the exception of a wharfboat being constructed for the state portage road. t Portland People In Chicago. "CHICAGO, Dec 17. (Special.) Port land arrivals' at the hotels today were: At the Congress, Mr. and Mrs. L. Ger linger; at the Great Northern, L E. Solomon. FOR SALE OR TRADE I own 14 lots in good California town, size 50x140 feet, all level, all clear of encumbrance; also 2 acres of land adjoining the same town." The town ia on the new main-line cutoff between Portland and San Francisco (Southern Pa cific R. R-). I must either trade them for something I can turn for money, or sell them at a sacrifice, because I need money badly. What have you to trade, or will you buyf Address me, W. J. B., The Orego-' nlan, Portland, Oregon. Kit' &' - info? ' - jJs,JTrr- -?wry ts-ty.-','-(,r:- SL'KF BATUJSiti I.V UKCEHIIKK AT GBAIIHABT. HOTEL GEARHART Br - THE - SEA. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Make reservations now many are taking advantage of the attractions at "OREGON'S WINTER RESORT" Golf Surf Bathing Hot Salt Plunge Private Hot Bait Baths. TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY MORNING AT S O'CLOCK. Special Holiday Train 6:30 P.M. Dec. 24th to 31st All Trains From North Bank Depot. 11th and Hoyt. Summer Rates From fortland. . Low Winter Rates at Hotel.