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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1922)
10 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAS PORTLAND, OCTOBER 8. 1022 T E CONSTRUCTION OF BUSINESS BUILDINGS AND. RESIDENCES CONTINUES ACTIVE IN PORTLAND AND THE STATE AT LARGE. : sold for mm Otio W. Nelson Takes Over :i Property From Bank. STRUCTURE MODERN ONE Building Reported to Be Paying 9 Per Cent on Investment and to Be VeII Designed. The White Truck - building on Hancock and Flint streets was sold last week by the Hibernla Commer cial & Savings bank to Otto W. Nelson for $80,000. The deal was negotiated by the : F. B. Taylor company. The building is leased to the White Truck company and shows a return to the Investor of approxi mately 9 per1 cent net, it is declared. It is one of the latest constructed and most modern structures of its kind in the city and covers a ground area of 100 by 200 feet. It consists of one story and a full basement. The building is most conveniently arranged - for the truck business. The basement is given over to stor age space, save only the space occu pied by the concrete enclosed boiler room and the concrete vault founda tion. There is a concrete driveway opening on Flint street, over which the equipment can be moved. The general offices and salesmen's quarters occupy "a space on the upper floor facing on Flint street, the remainder of the Flint-street frontage being occupied by the parts department. Across the entire length of the building, 200 feet deep and imme diately in the rear of the offices and the parts department, is the service and shop department, the entrance to the shop being on the street level and opening on Han cock street. The F. J3. Taylor company also sold to A. S. Ellis, apartment house contractor, the 65xl00-foot corner at Taylor and Lownsdalc streets. The property was purchased from the Macleay Estate company at a consideration understood to be ap proximately $20,000. Mr. Ellis con templates the immediate construc - tlon of a modern apartment build ing. fcHOi'K PLANT -IS EXPANDED ' Brick Company Xow Producing 25.000 I-:vor Day. The plant uf the Shope Brick com pany at 470 East Eighth and Divi sion streets has been greatly en larged until it now has a capacity .of 25.000 bricks a day, according to ,1. F. Shope, head of the company. This work of -enlarging the plant consisted of the erection of an addi - tion to the factory so that it now covers a complete block and has 250 feet of trackage to take care of shipments to all sections of the l.orthwest. - A large comrete mixer has been installed. This mixer occupies the center of a large platform and when operated at full capacity a series of moulds surrounding ' this platform jire all operated for the moulding of Tjrick. , The Increase in I lie size and ca pacity of the plant has made the present investment aggregate $100. 000, according to Mr. Shope. The fact that this increase was necessary to take eare of orders Mr. Shope decclared to be due to the growing popularity of that product in the building activity or the city and Burroundin. territory. Mr. "hope started in in a small way n Portland 12 years ago and at that time his plant turned out cut a few thousand bricks a. month Now bricks manufactured according to his patented process and under contract with him are being used in u states. mr 1 1 1 jj J PPESDYTTCTAN r ChM?CH- "III" ' I wr-Trerr- tslCJTil.'Jr I I ' ' J -eaM?ru.eRr -athttct3- - ijm I - J. tl myrfrr"r 'u ----m ' ... , r-n i-rvr--, - ' .. -rs r-- . r - . - II jL. 4 Mm i : , i rVi; x y lli - ! j . , -1 ns ---t U - fThi BIGGER LOTS FAVORED xiJ WJ 1 feC - tMsy m!3 JSi... HOI Jii Eiji k !F h . . j FnT - CITV - PLANNERS' MISTAKES IX E VKI-Y DAYS AVOIDED. BUILDING MEN TP MEET PROGRAMME VILIj BE PRE SENTED OCTOBER 17. Organization of Guilds or Crafts men to Be Perfected in Near Future. A programme of benefit to the tmiMing industry and the general public a well is to be presented by the school committee of the Associa tion of Building and Construction at the next regular meeting, to be held at the Multnomah hotel Tuesday, October 17. James J. Sayer is chair man of this committee. Other mem bers of th committee are Frank Ransom, E. B. Goudey, H. G. Bitter. The organization of guilds of craftsmen will soon be perfected ac cording to Charles D. James, chair man of the committee. It is pointed out by this committee that there is & mercenary spirit toward the craftsman as a result of the present competitive system, and it is the aim to bring the work of the build ing trades to a higher level. It Is planned to foster means by which the ambitious craftsman with creative impulses, can obtain ad vancement and be rewarded in his pi,tiavow for placing the work on a higher level. Jt is the intention to honor, by public recognition cr&ftsroen who are selected because of some meritorious labor. The guild win foster the educational pro gramme being worked out, for the rare of youths wishing- to enter the buildlns trades, besides giving the "younger men and apprentices already employed, an opportunity for learning more about their particular craft. Stephen I. Miller, dean of the school of commerce of the Univer sity of Washington, will address the -nietiiig. Ellis F. Lawrence. Portland archi tect and dean of the University of Oregon school of rohitecture, is president of the organization and B..VV. Sleeman secretary. Armory Contract Is Let. The contract for the erection of the new $S0.000 armory at Medford -was awarded last week to the firm of Stevenson & Kaulbach of this city. Work on the structure will be -started in aJbout two weeks, it was aid by Walter E. Stevenson of that firm. It will, require about six months to erect the building, he said. The armory will be oX concrete with a stucco exterior, it will be a two-story building with a drill hall SOxlOO feet. Most People Want More Space for Homes, Giving Ctianee for Privacy and Originality. City planners, the old originals who staked off the sits of the American cities when t le country was a wilderness, had m . y strange Ideas, according to Frank B Up shaw, sales manager of the 1-add Estate company. Some of :he first locators, in his opinion, were not en towed with much vision or did not have much confidence in their lo calities, for they only made pro vision for villages. "Small towns rightly located have grown into huge cities,'' said Mr. Upshaw. "This has been general throughout the country with the re suit that many big cities have been handicapped by a limited abil'ty to expand, by a restricted section of small streets andsmalier building sites. "Why this mistake was made will ever be a mystery. There was plenty of land; land was the cheapest thing the pioneers had. Surveying costs exceeded, in mans cases, the value of the raw land. This was the case when the . original site of the city of Portland was platted. The sur veyor, Amos Lovejoy o" Oregon City, got half of the site for his work. The locator retained the other half. "The plan of the city called for 50-foot lots and 60-foot streets as a general scheme. This system was adhered to in most of the earlier platting. Most of the clo-e-ln. addi tions are laid off this. way. The mistake was general but h.-rdly un derstandable under the conditions that existed at that day of ample land. . "They were not alone in their error, if error it can be called. Even as late as 1907 additions were plat ted in Portland with 33 and 25-foot front lots and 60-foot streets. On top of this the majority of the prop teries were laid off in almost sinful regularity all right-angled turns and no consideration given to the possible value, of the landscaping. Fifty-loot lots in t-ne prcoc.,i-uj. , -itv ar not an uniimitea success. A 50-foot front does not : we enough room for the average home of this time. Smaller lots cannot hold more than tiny shacks. A real late type of house requires a large floor space, especially when of the one- story style of Dungaiow cunsn tui tion. A 36-foot or even a 40-foot front 1 usual. Then It is necessary to provide for a garage entrance drive wav. another eight feet. W ith l house 40 feet wide this barely gives T-nnm to crowd the home on a 60- foot lot. When rows of houses of this size are built on the same street the spectacle Is far from Pleasing. Thre is little chance for lawns or gardens, all of the ground is coverea with cement, entrances, or siruc tures. "This is why In Eastmoreland the Ladd estate has been discouraging the construction of homes on single 50-foot lot. When possible lots have been split, giving the pur chaser a chcnce to buy a 75-foot front for the smaller sites, but 100 by 100 feet is not any too large for the majority of the newer homes. "The Portlander who is r-uildlng these days realizes thut his rite has fully as much to do with the suc cess of his home as the dwelling itself. Cone are the days when they used to choose a lot at random and then pick a set of plans and put the two together, somehow. Xow the trend is to have the proper planning throughout; an architect studies the possibilities of the site and interprets his ciienfj Individual Ideas and then produces a complete set of plans covering not only the house but the location and the scheme for developing the grounds. I Siew Millard Avenne Presbyterian church to be erected at. southeast corner of Millard avenue and Eost Seventy-third utreet at costiof fSO CMK1. Sketch by V. K. Tobey nbd Edward A. Miller.. S .Two-tntory huildlnsr to he erected for A. Arata at southeast corner of Sixth arrd HurnKide Htrccts at mat of 20,ono on plana prepared by HouKhtallntc A Dout&an- It y.Xcw clubhoUMc of American l.Cfrlon at SifwberR. 4 To-Mtor concrete build njr l be erected for Mrs. Mnndc C Rhodes at outhveHt corner of l-'ltth and Couch street at cot of UO,M10 on ulanM prepared by HouKhtfillng DouKan. Residence of Shope brick hollow-wall construction erected by l. K. Shope, president of the Shope Urirk company for his daughter, Mr. l.- H. Snyder, at East Twenty-third and Stephen ntreet In Colonial HciBhtx. 6 New arrade MChool to be erected at Gran I'aetM on plant prepared by Charles H. Buraeraf. 7 Residence at '- East Sixteenth street North, In IrvlnK- ton, xold by Alexander Voune to A. J. Sherrlll for 780O through Cross ley & Abbot. K tn bnllriinic erected for use of Western Electric company at northwest corner of Park and Flanders streets. On a 50-foot lot there is not much opportunity for any consistent plan ning of this character. . "The major portion of the homes in Eastmoreland occupy sites of 75 by 100 "eet or larger. Sw jeplng lawns and quiet streets with their regular rows of Ehade trees along the parking make it a real restful home district. The taste of the res idents is apparent, in nearly every home to be seen and the newcomers there appreciate the tone of the neighborhood. ' The result is that the class of the new homes under construction is of the highest and it is doubtful if any other section of he city can show more carefully "A great deal of the beauty of Eastmoreland has been dui to the careful educational work of the sales and supervision forces in ad vising itsVlients properly as to size and location of particular plots so as to suit the class and character of dwelling to be set therein. The ordinary 50 by 100-foot lot does not give much chance for any land scape development or for beautify ing lawns in the front The trend is to get away from cramped quart ers, to have homes set in their own grounds so as to get a certain amount of much-desired Tivacy and individuality." I tMiATER EXCAVATION" BEGUN that another wefck would see most of the remaining sites sold. A feature of the sales so far made is that all buyers are planning on building, said Mr. McKenna. As a result an era of building activity is anticipated. The homesites in Garthwiek have proved especially popular with buy ers because of the beautiful set ting and the opportunity offered for landscaping the property. Its short distance from the river and its nearness to the Waverly country club have been factors in its popularity. OFFICE BUILDING BEGUN' Nicola! Door Manufacturing Com ' pany Starts Structure. Work was started last week on the new office building of the Nico lat Door Manufacturing company to be erected adjoining the plant at Argyle and Derby streets. The building, which is to be one story In height, will be of tile and with a tile roof and will cost about $20,000. The structure is of Spanish de- One-Story Building to Be Erected , on Sandy Boulevard. Excavation was started last week I preliminary to the erection of the i new motion picture theater building at East Fortieth street and Sandy ' boulevard for Tebbetts & Garri-: gus, the owners of the Highway ' theater on Sandy boulevard. The structure will have one story and will contain four stores and a moving picture auditorium which will seat about 800 persons. Claus sen & Claussen are the architects. GAKTHWICK SITES SOLD Activity tn Home Building Is Ex pected Soon. Homesites aggregating $30,000 In value have been sold In Garthwiek as a result of the present selling campaign of Coe A. McKenna & Co- Mr. . McKenna expressed satisfac tion last week at the manner in which the property was being dis- i posed of and expressed, the belief FURNACE We have the Rlchardson-Boyn. ton Furnace both the pipeless and the regular kind. We are experts on heating- and ventilat ing We will pive you the benefit of our forty years' experience In this line. It will save you future trouble and expense by Installing tne rignt furnace in the right May. J.C.BayerFurnace Company X04 MARKET ST. sign. It provides about 50x75 feet of office pace. i Wegman & Son are the contrac tors for the structure. " Plans were prepared by Sutton & Whitney. RITZ HOTEL LEASE SOLD 5an Francisco Woman Purchaser: Price About $43,000. - The lease and furnishings of the Ritz hotel were sold last week by Frank A. Clark to Mrs. M. M. Farn ham. a hotel woman formerly of San Francisco. - The price was' in the neighborhood of $45,000. The deal was harfldled by the George T. Moore company. Mrs. Farnham will retain her in terest in the Clyde hotel. She de clared she would conduct the Ritz hotel as a first-class standard establishment. 7 2 ELECTRIC MANGES SOLD Contract Signed for Installation for Sovereign Apartment Hotel. Seventy - two modern electric ranges will be installed In the new Sovereign apartment hotel, Broad way and Madison street by the Portland Railway, Light and Power company as a result of a contract signed last week. This will be the larp-est number of electric ranges ever Installed in one build ing in the state. In addition to the ordinary elec tric ranges to be put in the apart ments a large electric bake oven will also be put in the kitchen of the hotel for the baking of pastry and similar products. The kitchen is to be operated, by Henry Thieie well-known caterer. The work on the construction of the apartment house is now being rushed in the attempt to complete It by December 1. The The Ultimate iiT Warm Air Furnacesj A Super Furnace Unap proached. SEP THIS FURNACE at our Sales rooms, 19th and Wilson. The W. p. McPherson Co. Telephone Automatic B18-32 CHARACTER Like that of a city, an individual or a nation, the. character of a mill and lumber concern is the re sult of the struggle it has made to attain its ideal. For more than a generation these institutions have tried to honestly earn a reputation for the highest standard of lumber and lumber products. To iden tify them for your protection in buying we have adopted the following mark as an emblem of Merit in our products and the Service rendered by our staff: The Fuel Problem Tou can heat your house better with gas, and do it cheaper, too. if you use The HESS GAS FURNACE (It Is made in Portland) Office and 5 how Rxm 304H Oak St. B Roadway 5281 La East Side Mill & Lumber Company Ft- Spokane Ave. Sellwood 597. Oregon Door Company Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 62. East Side Box Company Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 597. HOMES. BUSINESS S Wet Weather No Deterrent to Construction. BIG STRUCTURES GO UP Portland and Out-State Towns Alike Scene of Activity Iesplte Season. Construction of business buildings and residences continues to be on of the biggest factors in the real estate activity of Portland and the state at large, and many buildings ape going forward In spite of ths fact that the rainy weather has commenced. Houghtallnc & Dougan have completed plans fbr the Immediate erection of two two-story buildings costing f20.000 each. One of these. a concrete structure. i to occupy 50 by 100 feet of space at the south west corner of Fifth and Coucb streets. The building, which Is to be put up for Mrs. Maude C Rhodes of baratoga. Cel.. Is to have three stores on the first floor and the upper floor will be fitted up for light manufacturing. Coarrete Bulldlag Planed. The other of these lo buildings is to occupy 63 by too feet at the southeast corner of Sixth and Burn side streets. Nine stores will txxuvy the first floor and a restaurant will occupy the entire second floor. This building, a concrete structure. Is to be put up for A. Arata. Plans have been prepared by W. F Tobey and Kdward A. Miller for the new Millard Avenue Presby terian church, to be erected at the southeast corner of Millard avenut and East Seventy-third street at a cost of S20.onp. The building will be of the Oothlc style of architec ture and will have an auditorium seating too persons. The structure will be of brick veneer with stone trimming. tirade Krheol t'eateaialated. A new grade school building cost ing (16.000 in to be erected Imme diately at Oranta Pass, according to advices received here. Plans for the structure have been prepared by Claries H. Burggraf of Albany, Or. T'ie building is to be built on the unit plan, four rooms to be built now and four, six or eight rooms to be added when they shall be needed. The building will be a modern 'con crete structure with steam heat and modern plumbing. A building costing 120 000 has Just been erected by the Newberg. Or., post of the American Legion for use as a club. The structure covers 85 by 114 feet of space and Includes club rooms, rest rooms, banquet ball. large auditorium dance hall and caretakers' suite, besides offices. The front part of the structure la two stories high while the por tion containing the auditorium la one story. The structure Is fin ished In grsy stucco and makes a sightly addition to the city. Besides providing flimrtr for the American Legion post, arrsege ments have been mad to care fnr Khiloh post, Clrand Army of the Re public, the Women S Kellef corps end the Women s auxiliary- The county gave 16000 toward the fund for the erection of the elrurture, which la a memorial to the soldier boys of Vamhlll county who died In the world war. Two marble t.b lets on the front of the building bear the names of the world war dead. iioMi: is horn roil $Tto lrilriK-e of Alexander Young I lurrliard by A. J. Mx-rrlll. The residence of Alexander Young at Kssl Nlxteenth street N .rm In Irvlngton wea sold last week to A. J. tiherrill for 7e. The de.l was negotiated by v'roseley a. Ab. bott The same firm reported wther sales for the week as follow At ll Thurman street. W illam ette Heights, for Mrs. Jeie M. Moore to Mary A. Ryan, considera tion ITIDO, and the new sevrn-room house at 107 Floral avenue fr J. W. Morrln. builder, to Mrs. M. Was herman, consideration, l00. SALVATION AKM Y HOME lOKTE Two-Story Citadel to lie Ict Irated at Services Today. The two-story citadel of the Sal vation Army, erected at Sixth and Ankenr streets at a cost of llol.Ooe. le now practically completed aa4 will be formally dedicated this af ternoon. The structure has mala halt e) the second floor which will seat persons. A secondary hall la the basement will provide facllltlee for smsller gatherings. Oa the flret floor will be offices for the Oregow division hesdtuartera of tbe Salva tion Army and the officers of Corpe) pOUTE SERVICE - EXPERT SKILL ) THAT IS J how we J ' THEf nr0 attract your attention we've got to keep on talk ing about our plumbing- at tention. We must keep on advertising the fart that the supplied we aril are of a superior make and that our price are absolutely just and fair. We can make you believe it if you g ve us an order. Alaska Plumbing & Heating Co. 363 East Morrison MreeL East 293.. . IT TAKES ABOUT 3 WEEKS to make a brick. When a brick is made it will always be a brick and do the work of a brick. Wood will decay, atone and concrete will crumble long- before real brick outlive their usefulness. Brick can alwaya be re-used. BUT BRICK ARE MADE ONLY OF BURNED CLAY Any substitute or imitation made of any other material is not brick and will not be dependable if used as brick- If sold as brick such sub stitutes are a fraud. If You Want Brick Be Sure It Is a Brick STANDARD BRICK & TILE CO. 83 Fifth St. BVay 0018 Real Burned Clay Brick always a clean house always a good-to-be-seen houce if its floors are covered with Inlaid Linoleum Every buildinjr, public or private, large or small, can profitably be furnished with inlaid Iinolfnn. Its cost is low its upkeep still less'. Our stocks are larg est and most varied. Cork Floor Products Co. Broadway at Taylor Street Armstrong's Linoleum and Inlaid Cork Tiling. aL . - - - -" J 1---- i nrml