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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1913.
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PORTLAND'S HALF-YEAR BUILDING RECORD EXCEEDS
Office Structures, Apartment-Houses, Public Buildings and Warehouses Represent Total Cost of $7,000,000 Residence Construction Involves Aggregate Expenditure
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PORTLAND closes the first halt r
the year with a building- record ag
gregating in cost more than $9,
000,000. In view of unfavorable busi
ness conditions resulting from the un
certainties of the political situation and
the attitude of financial interests In
urgringr caution in investments, such a
showingr is considered exceptionally
satisfactory and greatly exceeds the
records of many cities in the United
States of much larger population.
The larger proportion of Portland's
building investment for the period is
centered in business ttructures and
public buildings, although activity in
residence construction forms no little
part of the total building cost. New
office buildings, apartment houses,
public buildings and warehouses rep
resent a total cost of about 17,000,
000 and new dwellings involve an
agregate expenditure of more than
J2, 000,000.
In addition to buildings that have
been cmpleted and now are under way,
several important building projects
have been planned and work on these
structures will be started during the
year. Proposed structures Include the
Physicians' building to be erected by
T. B. Wilcox at a cost of $350,000, the
Auditorium, to cost $500,000; freight
depot and terminal development on
the Kast Side by the Hill lines which
ultimately will involve an expendU
ture of $3,000,000. and numerous small
business buildings, apartment houses
and warehouses which win represent
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dollars.
Bank Bnlldlus I.arKPt.
Portland's largest office building is
under way on the site formerly occu
pied by the Marquam building. The
new structure, which is being built for
the Northwestern National Bank, will
have a ground area of 60x200 feet and
will be 15 stories in height. It will
be as modern and as nearly fireproof
as can be designed, and will cost ap
proximately $800,000.
The style of architecture will be an
adaptation of Italian Renaissance and
with an exterior of cream-colored
pressed brick and terra ootta the
building will present a striking ap
pearance. There will be more than
600 offices in this building, and wtt-i
the exception of a few interior rooms
every room will have outside light
and air. The building will be equipped
with a modern ventilating system and
all the latest features of building con
struction will be included in this
structure.
The banking departments of the
Northwestern National Bank and the
Portland Trust Company will occupy
a portion of the ground floor, at Sixth
and Morrison streets, and the remain
der of the first floor, with the ex
ception of the elevator entrance, will
be occupied by mercantile establish
ments. Above the first floor the
structure will be devoted entirely to
offices. The banking portion of tki
building will be elaborately and prob
ably the finest equipped on the- Pa
cific Coast.
Construction of the steel frame is
now under way and this work will
be completed in a few days. Doyle,
Patterson & Beach, the architects,
expect to have the building inclosed
and the roof completed I y September
15, and the structure ready for occu
pancy before the close of the year.
Telephone Structure Rushed. ,
Another fine structure In course of
erection is the 14-story building of
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Company on the quarter-block at the
southeast corner of Oak and Park
streets. The steel frame, has been
completed and work on the exterior
is now under way. This structure
will be fully fireproof and will be of
striking design. It will be occupied
exclusively by the Pacific Telephone
& Telegraph Company and will be the
largest building in the city to be used
entirely by one concern. The build
ing will cost about $650,000, but with
the immense amount of equipment to
be Installed, the project will cost ap
proximately $1,000,000. exclusive of the
site. It Is expected that the uulldlng
will be ready for occupancy early In
December.
Rapid progress Is being made on the
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Morgan building, which occupies the
half block at Washington, Broadway
and Park streets. This structure Is
of reinforced concrete, fireproof con
struction. The exterior will be of red
brick with light-colored terra cotta
trimmings. It will be unique and at
tractive. The ground floor will be
occupied with stores and a part of the
second floor will be used for mercan
tile purposes. The remainder of the
building will be used as offices. The
structure is being built by the Morgan
Bushong Investment Company, at a
cost In excess of $500,000. It is ex
pected that the building will be com
pleted and be ready for use by the first
part of September.
PIttoelt Block Unique.
Among Washington street's finest
business structures will be the Pittock
block, the foundation for which is now
being completed. This building will
occupy the entire block at Washington,
West Park, Stark and Tenth streets.
The Bouth half of the structure, front
ing on Washington street, will be eight
stories high and the Stark-street side
will be three stories in height. A fea
ture of the building will be the arcade
arrangement on the ground floor. The
arcade will be 18 feet In width, running
through the building from West Park
to Tenth street, and another arcade will
extend from the middle of ,the Washington-street
side to the center of the
structure. At the point of intersection
of the two arcades there will be a
battery of seven high-speed elevators
arranged in a semi-circle.
With the arcades all stores will
have interior fronts as well as street
fronts. On acccount of long periods
of wet weather it is believed that the
arcade feature will make the building
most popular with shoppers.
The Northwestern Electric Company,
which is erecting the building, will oc
cupy most of the Stark-street side.
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one-half of the basement and all of the
sub-basement. The company will in
stall a central heating plant and gen
erating plant in the underground por
tion of the structure. The remainder
of the ground floor will be designed for
store purposes. The upper floors of
the Washington-street side of the
building will be used for office pur
poses. The structure win be of mod
ern, fireproof construction and will cost
about $750,000. . The building will be
completed soon after the close of the
present year. Doyle, Patterson & Beach
are the architects.
Another attractive Washington-street
structure that soon will be ready for
occupancy Is the Piatt building, which
occupies the eorner at West Park and
Washington streets, directly west of
the new Morgan building. This struc
ture has a frontage of 50 feet on Wash
ington street and 100 feet frontage on
West Park street. It contains fix
stories and basement. It is of rein
forced concrete, fireproof construction,
with an exterior of light-colored
pressed brick.. The lower floor will
be occupied by A. &. C. Keldenheimer,
jewelers, and the upper floors will be
occupied exclusively by attorneys. The
building, which will be completed in a
few weeks, will cost approximately
$125,000. It was designed by White
house & Fouilhoux.
At the northeast corner of Thlri otv
Alder streets there is being completed"
o auraciive onice ana business struc
ture for the Rose City Importing Com
pany. This building contains seven
stories and basement. It has a front
age of 50 feet on Third street and 100
feet on Alder street. It is of rein
forced concrete construction, with an
exterior of brown pressed brick. Work
is well advanced and It is expected to
have the building ready for occupancy
by the last part of next month. The
structure will cost about $150,000. It
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CARL1NE NGW ASSURED
HALSEY STREET DISTRICT TO
GET SERVICE SOOX.
In Three Years 618 Dwellings Have
Been Built Rapid Development
of Territory to Follow.
The next streetcar extension to be
completed in Portland will be built
along Halsey street and will provide
direct service to one of the most rap
Idly developing districts on the East
Side. The line will pass through the
residence district lying east of East
Thirty-seventh street to the city lim
its and between Tillamook street on
the north and Hassalo street on the
south.
There are 618 dwellings in this dis
trict. Three years ago there were
scarcely half a dozen houses there,
but within the past two years home
building companies have been oper
ating extensively, with the result that
many attractive and moderate-priced
homes have been built. Wage earners
and salaried men have taken advan
tage of opportunities offered and every
house that has been built is now occu
pied by owners.
The proposed extension will be on
an exact central line between the East
Glisan street and Sandy road carlines.
It is pointed out that the extension
will relieve the present lines of the
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story reinforced concrete office build
ing of the Title & Trust Company, on
the 50xl00-foot lot on the west side of
Fourth street, between Stark and Oak
streets. This building will be very
attractive. The ground floor and one
of the upper floors will be occupied by
heavy traffic to the district and serve
to bring many more homebuilders to
improve vacant sites. ' Compared with
other districts, this territory is ex
cellently situated as to view, drain
age and accessibility, and Is one of
the few moderate-priced residence dis
tricts remaining In the Central East
Side. .
"The money for 'building the carllne
already has been raised," said J. Fred
Larson yesterday. "The recent action
of the City Council In eliminating
grade crossings removed the last ob
stacle towards starting work. The
track will be laid on Halsey street
from East Thirty-seventh street and
Sandy road to East Eighty-second
street, near. the new. Jonesmore school.
"The Halsey street district now
houses about 3000 people. There are
about 4000 additional homesites and
knearly all have been sold. It is rea
sonable to expect that a great many
of the lot owners will build homes
when they have the new car service.
In a few years there will be 20,000
more people living in this district.
"The homes in this district are built
on large lots with plenty of room for
gardens, flowers and lawns. With the
building of the carllne and the many
advantages to be found In that part of
the city, the district is bound to make
rapid growth within the next few
months."
. Undertakers to Build Home,
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 12. (Spe
cial.) Announcement of construction of
a $20,000 home for the Whiteside Un
dertaking Company . was made last
night. The establishment will be one
of the most up to date in the state.
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the Title & Trust Company, while the
remaining floors will be designed for
offices. The building will cost about
$100,000. MacNaughton & Raymond
are the architects.
In addition to these structures the
new City Jail, the Central Library
building, the University Club building,
the Portland Turn Verein clubhouse
and several school buildings are under
course of construction and will be com
pleted soon.
VALE DRAWS SETTLERS
GOVERNMENT TO OPEN LARGE
TRACT TO ENTRY.
More Than 100,000 Acres Will Be
Available for Homesteading.
Land Declared Fertile.
VALE, Or, July 12. (Special.) The
throwing open by the Government of
110,000 acres of land adjacent to Vale
to homestead entry promises to make
this city the mecca of homeseekers
during the next few months. A large
proportion of this land is fertile valley
and bench land, below the Bully Creek
and Star Mountain irrigation projects,
and being susceptible of irrigation can
not be taken up under the 820-acre
homestead law, 160 acres being the
most any one person can homestead.
Of this land, 73,000 acres have been
held in a petroleum reserve, and 87,000
acres were withdrawn for the Harper
reservoir project. Settlers have been
petitioning the Interior Department at
Washington for the, past two years to
release the petroleum reserve lands,
and have Just succeeded in having this
done. The land will be open for se
lections, according to advice received
by the Vale Land Office, on July 18,
at 9 o'clock A. M., and filings will be
received after 9 A. M. August 18th.
The Harper reservoir site lands were
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of More Than $2,000,000.
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thrown open to settlement because of
the fact that the Oregon-Eastern Rail
road right of way cut through the
lands proposed to be used for a reser
voir. Already intending homesteaders are
coming to Vale to look over and select
homesteads on these lands, and it is
believed that during the next three
months thousands of people will visit
this city seeking homestead lands.
BOOSTERS' CLUB FORMS
EAST
BtJRNSIDE
RESIDENTS
tRGE( IMPROVEMENTS.
Widening o! Street and Opening of
Thoroughfare to City Limits to
Be Undertaken Soon.
There are several things which the
new East Burnslde District Improve
ment Association will undertake in the
near future. One matter will be. to set
tle the question of the widening of
East Burnslde street, so that several
property owners, who desire to erect
buildings, can proceed with improve
ments with full knowledge where the
permanent street lines "will run.
McHolland Bros, have plans for a
large, modern building covering a quar
ter block on East Seventh and East
Burnslde streets, which they desire to
erect as soon as It is settled whether
the street is to be widened. The prom
ise of the widening of the street ac
cording to the Bennett plans has re
sulted in preventing erection of sev
eral structures. By removing all doubt
about the widening it is expected East
Burnslde street will develop rapidly.
Another matter is to get East Burn
side street opened as a thoroughfare
to the city limits. It Is opened through
Laurelhurst to East Forty-seventh
street, when it is closed for about 10
blocks. The Center Addition Club has
the proceedings under way to open it
through that district. There are other
places also where the street is closed
up. The club will co-eperate in the
movement to open East Glisan street
from East Twenty-sixth to East
Twenty-eighth street, for which pro
ceedings are well advanced. This ex
tention will bring East Glisan to a
connection with Sandy boulevard. H.
H. Newhall. president of the East Side
Bank, in his address at the meeting
held Wednesday night, declared that
East Burnside street Is bound to be &
great business highway and should be
opened through to the city limits
The fact that through agitation of
the residents and business men the time
for reopening the Burnside bridge was
shortened from two months, as first
decided on, to less than one-half that
time, encouraged them to start an or
ganization to handle similar questions "
in the future. But for the agitation
the repairs to the bridge might have
dragged along for three months, but
the members of the bridge committee,
Dan Kern, J. R. Widmer and H. H.
Newhall. offered suggestions, all of
which were adopted and will save the
business men many thousands of dol
lars. NEW SAWMILL- REDY SOON
Big Plant Being Built Near Buxton
by Portland Firm.
The new sawmill being built by the
Standard Box & Lumber Company at
Scofield, three miles from Buxton, on
the line of the Pacific Railway & Navi
gation Company, is being rushed to
completion and will be ready to c'Jt
lumber by the latter part of August.
The mill will have a ten-hour capacity
of about 100,000 feet.
Thj company has been operating a
plant on the East Side for many years.
Recently the company purchased 3500
acres of timber near Buxton from John
Pearson and associates for a considera
tion said to be about $450,000. This
body of timber will supply the new mill
for many years.
The officers of the company are:
President, Isaac Gratton; vice-president;
C. C. Woodcock; secretary, S. B.
Cobb. .
Eugene Sewer Contract Let.
EUGENE, Or., July 12. (Special.)
Contracts for 24.500 lineal feet of sew
ers to .drain a large section of the city,
were let at the meeting of the City
Council last evening. Bids were re
ceived the first of the week. There
are nine lateral sewers to be con
structed, ranging in length from 1040 to
6774 feet, and the approximate cost
will be over $17,000. Six, eight and
10-inch vitrified pipe, or cement pipe
of local manufacture will be used.
Montreal expects to see About $40,000,000
worth of new buildings constructed this
year.