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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1911)
r TIIE SUNDAY OREGOyiAX. FORTLAXP. AUGUST- 20. 1911. GOSTLYHOMESRISL! E CONSTRUCTION OF WILCOX BUILDING AT SIXTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS BUSHED. hvii TO FILTER HERE " P Famtr Endowed with WealVh snl Wnto .'"1 East Side Leads in Character of New Dwellings. 1 a i Value of Crop Production of Northwest May Exceed .. $125,000,000. 1 LYTLE RESIDENCE STATELY Two-Story Colonial Structure. 'Will Cost $40,000 Judge Gantenbeln Builds Splendid $10,000 Home in Morraymead Addition. a.( i PORTLAND WILL GET MOST t -i MMENS WEALTH :vl" - . vr " ; :: i y vsf ia V W f.7 City, on Eve of Its Greatest De velopment Realty Condition Healthy Building Permits Amount to $1,000,000. The three Northwestern states Ore f on. WMhlofton and Idaho will hare created before the close of the present roar a new wealth In excess of $115. 000.000 from their agricultural, lum- berlna and fishing resources. Most of this Immense produatlon will come principally from the soil, with the train crops at the bead of the list. It Is estimated that the Talue of the wheat, barley, oats and hay crops will aggregate 14$. 000.000. the fruit, bop and wool crops will total 115. 000.000. and the lumbering, fishing;, livestock and minor Industries will hare a com blned valuation of t3S.000.000. With the creation of this vast new wealth, there Is to be taken Into con sideration the large amount of foreign money being brought Into Oregon for the financing- of railroad extensions, waterpower plants, municipal enter- f 'rises. Irrigation projects and water mprovements. Inrestments In these enterprises will aggregate, it Is esti mated. 150.000.000. Portland I Money Center. By reason of Portlands strong bank Ing Institutions and of their ability to finance the producing districts of a large part of the Northwest, and also because of the city's strategic location as an Industrial and shipping center, a big proportion of this new wealth will rome directly to Portland for dlstrlbu tlon wlthlnjthe next few months. Port land has come to be virtually the clear' Inc-house for business emanating from probably the most Important producing terltory In the country. In addition to the tribute of the Im mense crops and the new wealth from other sources, the cash reserves In Portland banks are said to be unusu ally Urge. With this condition. It Is pointed out that there will be avail able for ready use ihls Fall the larg est amount of local money that has ever been on hand In the history of the city. Realty brokers believe that with this money surplusage there will be a healthy activity In mortgage loans on not only city property, but alto on farm lands and acreage. There Is a firm prediction that money will be easy and that resump tion of realty operations will follow actively. Based on these factors, many of the large operators are beginning to prepare for a brisk Tall and Winter business. Blj Trading la Doe. It follows that when there Is plenty ef money for mortgage loana and In dustrial enterprises, there Is a corres ponding Influence on real estate In vestments. The general feeling Is that most prosperous times are ahead, and that Portland Is on the eve of Its great est development. The temporary lull In the realty market Is to be expected, especially In August, fhe height of the vacation period. No large transfers were re ported last week, although brokers say that many deals of Importance were started. There was a very satis factory business In residence property and acreage tracts. There has been an unusually large somber of Eastern visitors and Investors In the city look ing over the situation with a view to buying Portland property. Building- Permit Soar. The week closed with tlg activity in the Building Inspector's office. There were 181 permits Issued, with a total valuation of ll.04J.71O. The permit for the west wing of the new County Courthouse called for aa expenditure of $a0.00. This Item brought the totals up to the biggest figure that lias been recorded for many weeks. Of the Important permits granted for business buildings, the largest was for the four-story brick structure on Grand avenue, between Morrison and Belmont streets, to Daly Edwards. This building will cost 170.000. H. J. Ottenhelmer received a permit to erect a four-story brick building on Burn side between Stark and Twelfth streets. 'This building will cost $40,000. A large percentage of the permits was for tne1lum-prlced dwellings. The totals for the week follow: Number. Amnont ...3 I M.1TS ... as T.t:i.l . .. S4 710 Tim) ... 33 3.ft ... 14 &U..1IM) ..-II 101. ouo Mon.lar Ta, ......... Veln.1.y ...... Thnreljr ........ rdr Saturday Total ..1st tl.O!.T10 WEST WI.VO TO RISE SOOX IMarlng of Steel at Conrthoase to Begin November IS. It Is expected that actual construc tion work on the west wins; of the new county courthouse will not be started until the first part of next month.. The dlsy will be occasioned On account of the Inability of the coun ty officials to move Into the east wing before September . According to Manager Wagner, of the Lewis A Hicks Construction Com pany. It will require nearly five weeks to wreck the old courthouse and it will take nearly as long to complete the excavation, placing of steel wi;i not be started In all probability before No vember 13. . The steel for the structure is 'being fabricated In New Tork. The contrac tors say that all the steel wfll be in Portland by the time the foundation Is completetL Bids for the equipment ef the, east wing with new desks, chairs and Steel filing cases have been prepared by or der of the county court. A large part of the old furniture is In good condi tion and It Is the intention to use much of it la the new building. BCILDI.YG TO BE REMODELED Sweeney Structure at Seventh and Morrison to Be Made Modern. Plans are being prepared for the Iteration of-the six-story brick build ing at the southweet comer of Sev enth, and Morrison streets, owned by the Sweeney Investment Company. The lease has been taken over by Smith. Stanley at Boise. It ts the plan of the new lessees to make the building thoroughly modern. The ground floor spare will be divided Into rooms for stores. Knough room will be left for a lobby and elevators. I - . ' 4 ... , V J" k ' , i " IP... , i-1 tf,- a.,, - ;";: ; v" : .. .. : J z t ' - - - ',2, .'if ' - : v.-...,.;. i4 : l " i - ... ,'rt t:i. i " tisrT (r.jj.. If. ir.-. . . v "II I I U ."'..It KXTKHIOR OK TWEI.VE-STOB.V STRVCTIBK COMPLETED. RnM nrosress is being made on the new Wiloox building at the i southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets. The exterior of the striking 11 -story structure is nearly completed, workmen being engaged in putting on the finishing touches on the two upper stories, t A large part of the framework and plastering of the rooms has J been completed, and the windows in the seven stories above the ground. ! floor have been Installed. Stone A Webster, the contractors, announce t that Uie building will be completed by the early part of the Fall. The scond floor will be,fltted up es pecially for teie Model Baking Com pany for bakery and cafe. The re maining npper floors will be converted into office rooms, each floor to have 10 offices. p. c Lewis, the architect, announces that the contract for - the alteration work will be let this week. ACREAGE TRACTS IX DEMAND Primrose, Sells Home; DeYonng & Hartshorns Make Illy Sales. Demand for small farms close to Portland Is Increasing despite the va cation period. Brokers report many salts during the past week. One of the large transfers was the 10-aere home site of Oeorre Primrose, which was purchased by Tlllte Grossman and Louis Snub for 110,tuu. i ne property Is Improved with a modern 10-room house. The deal was negotiated by the Western Securities Company. DeToung & Hartshorns report sales In acreage amounting to a total of t-3.-000. as follows: August Gebhardt. of Wllsonvllle. Or, to Robert Fletcher, of Tlgard. Or.ltH acres situated In Clackamas County for 13600. Mr. Fletcbsr bought this for a home, and took immediate posses sion. Edward Delck. of Portland, to Ole B. Nelson, of Portland. 10 acres in Clack amas County, for t2000. Mr. Nelson bought this for a home and tooksdramo dlate possession. , Edward Pelrk. of Portland, to II. B. NEW BUENA VISTA ' .' - -a"! " ,. . ,, ' ' ' '?J e " ' . i. - - - i .... , : 4 Js"7 ' - s-s t ' : - f-. v. F1VE-STORT BlILDIXO HAS ALL MODERV CONEMECES. On'e of the largest and most modern apartment-houses In the city is the Buena Vista, which will ba completed and ready for occupancy this week. Th. building has been erected by Trowbridge A Stephens and embraces many new features In apartment-hodse construction. The popularity of the apartment-house as a place in which to live Is seen In the announcement by the owners that 50 per cent of the apartmenta have been rented for weeks past. , . . .n The building covers a lot 60 bylOO feet In size and Is of mill construction with brick and concrete walls. It Is provided with an automatlo electric elevator, dumb waiters, bullt-ln beds, buffets, bookcases, dressers and other conveniences. The kitchens are ventilated with a new system, which prevents the accumula tion of smoke. There are 35 apartments. 16 of which are of two .rooms each and 20 three rooms each. The cost of the building was $6S.0it0. Gillette, of Echo. Or.. 10 acres in Clack amas County for 12500. Mr. Gillette ..bought for an Investment. George H. Elllgson. of Sherwood. Or., to Thomas Spencer and Maud Arnold, of Portland. 6S.21 acres, situated in Clackamas County, for t"B00. Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Arnold will plat and sell this land on. easy terms. G. M. McBrlde. of Portland, to Thomas Spencer, of Portland. 20 acres In Clack amas County, for $2000. Mr. Spencer Sought for an investment. Sadie L. Prahl. of Wllsonvllle. Or., to Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Bertrand, of Portland. 11.71 acres in Clackamas County, for $2340. This place has a frontage on the Willamette River, and Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand will make it their future home. Quarter Block Brings $10,000. Joseph Buchtel has bought the quar ter block at the northwest corner of East Thirteenth and East Ankeny streets for $10,000 from N. B. Crane, an old resident, but now living at Oroville, CaL Mr. Crane had owned the property for about IS years. There are no im provements on the property. . Primrose Bungalow Sold. Ben Blesland, of the Western Securi ties Company, reports the sale of the Primrose bungalow, with three Prim rose acre tracts, to Tlllle Crossman kand Louis Shub for $10, t.00. The prop erty consists of a ten-room home and six acres of land. Xn new owners will beautify the grounds. APARTMENT - HOUSE WILL EE FINISHED THIS WEEK. Among the many beautiful .homes projected for the East Side Is that of R. F. Lytle. which will be erected by McHolland Brothers on the northeast corner of Hanoock and East Twenty second streets, at a cost of $40,000. It is one of the most expensive to be erected so far this year on the East Bide. Architect D. L. Williams de signed this building. It will be a two story Colonial style residence, 7i by J7 feet, with a finished basement. The structure will have metal lath and plaster exterior, tiled roof and heavy interior construction. It will have a very imposing appearance, vlth wide front porch extending full width two ' stories in height, and supported by six massive columns. The base ment will expend the entire length of the residence, and will have a billiard room 37 by H feet, with an Immense fireplace at one end of the room. The building will bo heated with hot water, there will be hardwood floors, and the different rooms will be finished in dif ferent wood. The contractors have be gun work. Gantenbeln Home Attractive. In the South East Side the most at tractive home now under construction la that of Judge C. U. Gantenbeln on East Twenty-fourth street between East Lincoln and East Grant streets, in Murraymead. H. E. Wood is the contractor, and has started work on the building. It will be A by 60 feet, with porches 10 feet wide on three sides. It will be two stories high, with attic and basement, and will contain 14 rooms, three sleeping porches, one be ing by 20 feet in size, and a large hall extending through the center of the house. This hall will be 13 feet wide and 26 feet long,- with a wide Colonial staircase at the rear end. lead ing up to the large landing which will receive light through- five art glass windows. The stairway will be ma hogany. At the south side of the house there will be a sun porch 10 by 30 feet in di mensions. This room can be converted into a conservatory, and will be in closed on two sides with glass win dows. The basement, will be 70 feet long, and Judge Gantenbeln will use a portion of it as a bowling alley. The exterior of the house will be 'shingled, and the porches will have brtck walls and cement floors. The residence wlll be surrounded with ample grounds, beautified with flowers and shrubs. The home will cos about $20,000. . Dr., Parish Builds Home.. The Spencer-McCain Company has prepared plans and specifications for an attractive residence for Dr. George Parish, .on Tillamook street, near East Twenty-third, to cost $4000. It will be SO by SO feet in sire, with full, base ment, and will be two stories' high, it will contain seven rooms, a large sleeping porcb. reception hall, and tiled bathroom. The exterior will be of shingles, with a living porch on the south and pergola porch on the east with large French doors leading from the living-room. The dining-room will be beamed and paneled. A large fireplace with a beautiful craftsman mantle will extend partly across one end - of the living-room. This home will be built on the lot ad joining the one owned by Dr.- W. O. Spencer, who is improving it with a six-room bungalow. A two-story residence for Mrs.Mary Heerdt is to be built on East Fifty seventh street between Siskiyou and Klickitat streets. 1 by 19 feet, and will contain ten rooms. It will cost t$50e MAXT BCILDIXGS RTSIXG Alberta District Is Scene of Much Activity. In the Alberta district a number, of sales were made last week. The Al berta Realty Company gold a business corner on East Nineteenth and Alberta streets to Dr.' Jones, of Lebanon, Or., for $4500. The new owner will erect a two-story brick building on the prop erty. . The company sold a lot, 60x100 feet. i t Orthografy in accordance on East Nineteenth and Alberta streets to R. Montelth for $2730. on which he will erect a bulldlngr. v A live-room cottagre on East Eigh teenth" street near Alberta street was sold to Samuel Yanckwlck for $2500. wr n t ' a . u . rarpntlv mirrhaned two lots on East Twenty-fifth nd Sumner streets, -on which, he win pui up two houses. He is now erecting; a., dwelling- on East Twenty-seventh and Al berta streets. John Ross Is erecting; a A..firv frinm hitildinir at the corner of. Alberta, and East Twenty-ninth streets at a cost of $2500. Nelson Pike bought two lota on ine corner of Emerson and East Twenty ninth streets for an investment. M. G. Reese bought two lots on Sumner and ra. Tu-antv-flfth streets on which he will put-up buildings. The, manse, of the Alberia United Brethren Church on East Twenty-seventh -and Sumner streets is being completed.. It will, con tain six rooms, and- will cost $2000. Rev.- J. W. Speechler, . the Tastor. is looking after the work. WrVTfeRS GETS BIG CONTRACT .Ericksen Drops Agricultural Col lego Job After Winning-. -v. J. S. Winters & Co. has just been given the contract for the erection of the new dairy building at the Oregon agricultural college- at Corvallls, the contract having been turned over to the Winters company, by E. Erlcksen, of Salem, who secured the contract re cently by making the lowest bid. Mr. Erlcksen underbid the Winters company by $lr but after getting the contract did not care to go ahead with it. The Winters company is now building four other buildings at the college, the total coat of which will be $100,000. In the rourare a stock-Judging build ing, 40 by 130 feet, one-story high; a farm mechanics building. 70 by 130 feet, two stories high; a mechanics arts building 35 by 170 feet, one and one half stories high, and a horticultural building, 70 by 140 feet, four stories high. .Work is progressing rapidly on all these. TWO CHURCHES ABOUT READY Congregational Edifices on East S-lde to Be Dedicated. Two Congregational Churches are be ing completed on the East Side the Atkinson and the Waverlelgh. The At kinson Church is located on the north side of East Everett, between East Twenty-eighth and East. Twenty-ninth streets, and Is nearly finished. It is a frame building. The chapel of the main building will be erected probably In the next five or six yeata when a larger church la needed. It .was built WHEN people ask , University, really enhance the value of its related res- idence propertyr 1 simply " answer, uYcsT And as proof I , offer the following evidence that is unique; coniplete and convincing: From St Louis I have been office ill ially supplied witli five ' most re y markable fotograf The first, taken in 19QS; shows the" new bi!d- mgs olF - Washington University, : located in a vacant country rflat ; , sandy uninviting, In 1907 the residence district is shown im- ; proved. In 1908 and 1909 a vig- T , orou btlding , developmeht is re v corded. The It vierf take- in IdlO, ' Ww the distrSctlilmost solidly bilt-wp,' YflF ere prio tT'l$0S, tots were sold-for $S00,it Now, accord iaff lo independent - repoH$ (furnished by the Univerity Official and by leadlttir Real Etat Broker) their value i ccrtlaervative, ly placed at $5,000 to $7500. . Heed College, in "Eastmoreland," will have . . niuch in comnnon architecturallyand f ' ' otherwise with this St. Loui univertity. ' Therefore, as complete documentary evidence regarding the future value of EatmoreJand" lota, I present these reports and the five remark- able fplografs. They will be gladly "sent, upon re quest, to any address, for inspection and comparison with the "verbal estimates" generally offerd investors. with recommendations of Simplified spelling Board, Jj.i.; - on the inside lot. leaving the corner lot for the .main auditorium when it Is erected. The present building is an attractive structure and cost about $8000. It has a full basement and n auditorium, with galleries, which will seat 600 peo ple. It will be dedicated next month. The name of this church is in mem ory of Rev. G. H. Atkinson, an honored Portland pioneer minister. The Waverlelgh Congregational Church Is being erected on the south east corner of East Thirty-third and Ellsworth streets, and will cost about $5000. It is of frame construction, and copied from the former Sunnyslde Con gregational Church. Carbarn9 Work Begun. Work has been started on the new carbarns for the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company on the block bought on East Couch, East Burnside, East Twenty-eighth and East Twenty sixth streets. It will be of frame con struction, to cost $50,000. Excavations are now being made. Flat Building Sold. Mrs. Mary Conley. of Soth Dakota, has purchased the flat building on Twenty-third and Hoyt streets for merly owned by f. E. Freeman, for $10.000. The deal Involves a lot 30x G earhart Beac. 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' - - j Free Book j House Plans : Descriptive booklet, contain- ? ing the most modern ideas, from an architect of experience. This , J booklet contains many of my latest designs in bungalows, cot- ? tages and other residence plans. 2' Call or 6end 4 cents in stamps 2 to co-er cost of mailing. Spe- 2 cial prices given upon request 2 for plans mado to order. " : H. H. JAMES :: 2 ARCHITECT ti 701 Board of Trade Bldg. 2 Portland, Oregon. 1