Springfield MA Directory 1875 , Part 45

Author: Clark W Bryan & Co
Publication date: 1875-06-01
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Two good buildings were erected, last season, on South Main street, just below Union street. The corner structure, built by Warren Mills, is three stories high, with a front of pressed brick, and Ohio stone trimmings, and is 44 by 57 feet. There are two stores on the main floor, and a boarding-house in the upper stories. The cost of the building was about $20,000. South of and joining this block is D. F. Hale's new building, built by Mr. Mills. It has a front of 67 and a depth of 57 feet, and is three stories high, with three stores on the main floor and six tenements above. The front is of pressed brick with granite trimmings, and it is furnished with all the modern im- provements, including excellent sewerage. The cost was about $30,000.

On the north side of West Bridge street, M. L. Tourtelotte is building a four story block with a front of pressed brick and trimmings of Ohio sandstone. The building will occupy a space of 52 by 105 feet, and have three stores on the main floor and six tenements above. M. C. Sullivan is doing the brick work, and Amaziah Mayo, Jr., the wood work, and the building will cost about $25,000.

The Wason Manufacturing Company will begin immediately the erection of a brick building on Taylor street, 800 feet long and 80 feet deep. About half of this large structure will have four floors, including the basement, and the remainder two floors. Two floors, and perhaps more of the tallest portion of the building will be occupied by the Powers Paper Company (bridges connecting it with their Lyman street block), and the remainder will be rented for light manufacturing purposes, H. M. Conkey, (in whose mill the late fire broke out,) having taken the extreme easterly end. Fire-proof walls will divide the building into sections 50 feet in width, and it will be otherwise con- structed to prevent, if possible, the progress of a serious fire. Two Corliss stationary engines, each of 200 horse-power, will be located in the engine room, and furnish the motive power for the manufactories, and the building will cost in the neighborhood of $100,000. The brick and stone work will be done by McClallan & Son of Chicopee, and C. L. Shaw will do the wood work.

Newell Brothers, button makers at the foot of Howard street, have found more room for their works an imperative necessity, and are putting up, just south of their manu- factory, a brick building, 100 by 40 feet and three stories high, with stone trimmings, to be used, when completed, for the manufacture of rubber buttons. Sanderson & Whittemore are the masons, L. O. Eaton is the carpenter, and the building will cost about $6,000.

Austin O'Reilly has put up on East Worthington street, a short distance west of

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Stearns' Park, a handsome block of pressed brick, three stories high, with trimmings of granite and Ohio sandstone, and a richly ornamented cornice of galvanized iron. It has a front of 21 and a depth of 107 feet, and cost about $8,000. D. J. Curtis did the brick work, C. L. Shaw the wood work and Edward Helms the painting. On East Bridge street the foundation is going in for the Sovereigns of Industry's new block, which is to be 50 by 85 feet, and three stories high with a basement, a part of which will be used for a store. There will be three stores on the main floor, offices, com- mittee rooms and a lodge room on the second floor, and a large hall for public gather- ings on the third. The front will be of pressed brick, with trimmings of stone, and the structure will cost about $15,000. B. F. Farrar, who will own the block and give the Sovereigns a ten years' lease, does the brick and stone work, and J. M. Currier & Co., the wood work.

A noticeable block, in point of architectural beauty and trimming, is the one which is now being finished for E. A. Perkins and James E. Russell on Chestnut street, at the corner of Worthington street. It is 70 by 63 feet, four stories high, and contains three stores on the main floor, and dwellings on the floors above. It is elaborately decorated with black brick, put in in good taste and has a gravel roof. Royal Har- rington was the mason, Joyce & Burnham did the heavy wood work and E. W. Shat- tuck is completing the finish. The building, when done, will cost about $24,000.

Henry Smith has just completed a three story block on Elm street, adjoining the westerly end of the building known as Byers' block. John I. Kelley did the brick work and the building cost about $1,000. The main floor will be used by Dr. John Hooker, the city physician, for an office, and Mr. Smith will occupy the remainder of the building for a residence.

Kibbe's vacant lot, between State and Sanford streets, a favorite stamping ground for circuses for a few years past, is to be covered on the State street front with a one story brick block for Horace Kibbe, containing six stores, each 20 by 70 feet, and con- structed with a fire proof wall between every other store. Royal Harrington is doing the brick work, and the building will cost about $8,000. Mr. Kibbe is busy this season, making extensive improvements to the Marshall House, formerly known as the Allis House, on North Main street. He is completing the adjoining block north of it, six stories high, and it will contain, when finished, two stores on the main floor, with a broad, open passageway between, leading to the counting room of the hotel, in the rear of which will be a restaurant. An elevator inside the building near the northerly wall will communicate with every floor, and the upper rooms of the building will be devoted to the use of guests, giving the hotel some 70 rooms in all. The cost of the entire improvement to the building will be about $100,000. Royal Harrington does the brick, and Philbrick the wood work. The front of the new part will be handsomely trimmed with Ohio gray sandstone, cut in fanciful design.

North and adjoining this block, Hinsdale Smith has commenced a four story block, to contain four stores, and an entrance to the rooms above. The front will be of pressed brick, with Ohio stone trimmings, and the cost of construction will be about $35,000. Mellen & Davis are the masons, and H. C. Martin looks after the carpenter work. Just north of and adjoining Mr. Smith's building, C. B. Holbrook is preparing to build a four story block, with a market, 23 feet in front on the main floor. The contract for the work has not yet been let.

Eugene McCarty has nearly finished a four story building on the north side of Lib- erty street, the front and east walls of brick, and the south and west walls of wood. The main floor will be used for a store, and there will be nine tenements in the upper stories. The building will cost about $6,000, and is being constructed by D. J. Curtis. The foundation is already going in on Hillman street, for the new block which Mr. Curtis proposes to erect for himself. It will have a front of 44 feet, contain two stores on the main floor, be four stories high, with tenements over the stores, and will cost about $10,000. The front will be of pressed brick, and will be ornamented with trim- mings of stone and iron.

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The probabilities as to rebuilding the territory destroyed by the fire of Sunday, May 30, are in a decided state of chaos just at present, but the land, which has been cleared of a large number of old wooden structures, is too valuable, to remain long unoccupied. On Taylor street, besides the already mentioned building, which the Wason Car Com- pany proposes to erect, Mayor Emerson Wight, will rebuild the brick building, formerly occupied by L. L. Fitts, the stair builder, at a cost of $2,000. "Levi Hitchcock, who owned the building, occupied by the Stebbins Brass Manufacturing Company, will un- doubtedly rebuild, and. Merriam & Frost, have already decided to "phoenix" their building, at an expense of about $8,000. A. B. Abbey contemplates building a block on Worthington street, and the Homestead building will be repaired. Wight avenue, Vernon street, and the site of Hurlbut's block, at the corner of Main and Bridge streets will undoubtedly be rebuilt.

Chester W. Chapin will build, the present season, a wholesale grocery warehouse on the north side of Lyman street, just east of the Agawam bank building, for Downing & Sturtevant. It will be a heavy affair, of brick, 50 by 72 feet, three stories high ; will be fitted up expressly for the uses to which it is to be applied, and will cost about $12,000. The plans are being made by Jason Perkins, and Amaziah Mayo will do the work.

Not the least noticeable among the new structures in Ward One is the Engine House on Bond street, begun early last season, and now being finished by Joyce & Burnham, the entire cost being about $14,000. It is well constructed and neatly ornamented with brick trimmings, and has capacity for a steamer, hose carriage and a hook and ladder truck. A hose tower of good proportions and design, ornaments the top, and gives the exterior a finished air.

While the number of new blocks is large, the repairs and improvements to many of the older ones are extensive. The old bowling alley building on Lyman street has brightened up wonderfully under an expenditure of $15,000, by Anthony Hanrahan. A handsome porch ornaments the main entrance, and the principal floor is devoted to a richly furnished bar-room. The walls and ceiling are sheathed in ash, ornamented with carvings of black walnut. Heavy plate glass windows light the establishment, and the upper floor is used for a bowling alley. J. J. Linnehan is expending about $3,000 on his Worthington street saloon, and a large brick addition is being constructed at the rear of it by D. J. Curtis. This will be fitted up for a bar room, and the front portion of the original building devoted to billiard tables.

Simpson Clark, stove dealer and tin ware manufacturer on East State street, is ex- tending his block through to Stockbridge street, by the addition of a three-story brick building, 75 by 35 feet, and the wooden dwelling on Stockbridge street has been re- moved to the corner of Orchard and Hanover streets to make room for it. This will give Mr. Clark a commodious store, running from State to Stockbridge streets. The tin works over the present store will be moved to the upper stories of the new part, and the rooms now occupied by them fitted up for tenements. The cost of this im- provement will be about $8,000. Howe & Hawkes are the masons, and Peter Delier, the carpenter.

The Hooker school house on North Main street, partially destroyed by an incendiary fire, on Sunday, June 6th, is to be repaired and refurnished, at a cost of about $15,000. Some changes in the interior arrangements of the rooms will be made, and school No. 9 will probably be placed on a lower floor.

The First Baptist Society will erect, this Summer, at a cost of about $5,000, a hand- some brick chapel at the corner of North Main and Essex streets on land given by Jared Beebe for the purpose. The plans for the structure were destroyed in the shop of Rogers the carpenter on Taylor street, during the fire of May 30th, and a new set will be made by E. C. Gardner. A chapel is also proposed for the school known as the York Street Mission, to be built on Marble street, at a cost of about $4,000. Trinity chapel on Ringgold street has been undergoing a material enlargement.

The number of first class dwellings in various stages of construction is unusually

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large. B. F. Farrar, who has greatly improved the appearance of several of our streets, is doing considerable work this season. On Central street he is adding 216 feet to the easterly end of his handsome block of tenements, making nine new houses, each con- taining two tenements. The addition will be precisely like the original block in finish and hight, and will cost about $62,500. Mr. Farrar does the brick, J. M. Currier & Co., the wood work, Handyside & Jarrett the plumbing, and H. Powell the painting. Five of the houses have already been disposed of. On Mattoon street, Mr. Farrar is putting up a block containing four first class houses. The building is three stories high, with bay windows, and the same parties are doing the work as on the Central street building. The structure will cost about $13,000. Daniel McCauley is building a handsome brick house, also on Mattoon street, for Albert A. Adams. It will be first class in every re- spect, and will cost about $15,000. Mr. McCauley has recently completed on Bond street, a neat brick block, three stories high, with a basement, the whole containing four houses and costing $15,000. A two tenement house on the corner of Linden and Cass streets has been commenced by James & Marra, to cost about $7,000, and L. C. Sheldon is the builder. R. W. Gardner has just completed a block of eight tenements on Morgan street, at a cost of $14,000. B. F. Farrar is remodeling the large house on East Bridge street, recently purchased of George E. Page, and will convert it into three tenements.

One or two first class dwellings have been built at the south end of the city, the past season. At the corner of Randolph street and Sumner avenue, O. S. Greenleaf has erected a $6,500 house, two and a half stories high, from plans furnished by E. C. Bailey. . John N. Cooke did the carpenter work, Abel Howe the masonry and H. Powell the painting. Mr. Bailey has built for his own occupancy a cottage on Jackson street, costing $5,000, and will soon erect a Swiss cottage on Sumner avenue at a similar cost.

During the past season probably no section of the city has been so greatly improved and built upon as the locality in the vicinity of Lake Como. Shades of Samantha Sands, what a change has taken place in the aspect of the place where in years gone by thou didst wander, loose and untrammeled, through the primeval forest which skirted the old Bay road and stirred the heart of the deep sequestered wood with row and ruction ! At the corner of Thompson and Bay streets, N. I. Hawley has erected a two story dwelling at a cost of $7,000. William M. Hoag doing the wood work and T. M. Gilbert the painting. On Bay street, near Thompson, E. S. Warren is building a two story dwelling, which will cost about $4,000. H. A. Stewart is building a neat two story, bay windowed house on Thompson street, costing about $3,500 and painted by Gilbert. On Westminster street, Buxton, the well-known builder, is finishing a house for Charles W. Rice, that is two stories high with bay windows, and will be worth, when completed, about $5,800. Sherman street is to be built up rapidly the present season. At the corner of Mcknight street, the foundations are in for two new and first class dwellings for J. D. McKnight and N. I. Hawley. One will be a cottage and the other a square house with hip roof.

They will cost about $3,800 each. East of these structures, and at the corner of McKnight and Catherine streets, L. O. Eaton will build a two-story house, to cost about $2,800, and J. D. McKnight and N. I. Hawley, will construct one of similar value, on the opposite corner. William N. Hoag and Joseph Hayden, are preparing to build two first class houses also on Sherman street. Edmund Pratt has built a two story, square roof house, on Buckingham street, at a cost of $3,000, and south of it, is erecting an Italian villa, from plans by E. C. Bailey, at an expense of about $6,500. Mr. Pratt is also building a two story house on Terrence street, to cost about $3,000. The property on the southerly side of State street, near Winchester park, where Primus Mason for- merly resided, has been completely transformed.

At the corner of State and Hawley streets, W. H. McKnight has built a handsome two story, square roof house, at a cost of $7,500, Hoag doing the carpenter work, and Gilbert the painting. Just in the rear of Hawley street, Mr. MeKnight has built a cot- tage, the same carpenter and painter doing the work, at a cost of $3,800. On the op-

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posite corner of Hawley and State streets, William O. Collins of Somers, Ct. has built a cottage from plans by C. B. Croft of Saratoga, costing $6,500, Hoag and Gilbert doing the work. L. O. Eaton has erected a square two story house, at a cost of $6,000, on the corner of State street and Eastern avenue, for J. D. McKnight, Gilbert doing the paint- ing. An elegant two story villa, with a tower, from designs by Croft of Saratoga, has been commenced on State street for W. W. Norton and will cost $8,000. On Winchester street, L. O. Eaton has built a neat square, two story house for J. D. McKnight, cost- ing $2,750. Several other new structures, all of them first class, are in contemplation in this vicinity.

George A. Flagg is finishing a two story wooden dwelling, costing $1800, on the Boston road, nearly opposite the city hospital, T. B. Keaney is finishing a house and barn, on Florida street for Mr. Sanford J. Hall, Secretary of the Fire and Marine Insur- ance Company, at a cost of about $8,000. The house is furnished with all the modern improvements, and is first class in every respect. A. J. Wright, of the same Insurance Company, is completing a brick house and barn, on Bowdoin street, costing about $16,000. The house is two stories high, with pleasantly located bay windows, and is being well constructed ; Spooner & Topliff are the masons, and J. M. Currier & Co., the carpenters. R. C. Searle is putting up a two story dwelling, on Pleasant street, for W. S. Green, which will be worth about $5,500 when complete.

On the west side of Gray's court D. A. Davis is building a modern two story dwell- ing-house for Wilson Eddy, at a cost of $4,500. On Walnut street E. H. Waite is fin- ishing a two story wooden building with a store on the main floor and tenement above.

The Springfield Club House, at the corner of Chestnut and Worthington streets, has been greatly improved inside, about $2,000 having been expended upon it. The inte- rior of the house has been repainted and decorated, and presents an exceedingly attrac- tive appearance. Hampden Park, with which the club house is readily associated, will probably have one or two new stables near its northerly entrance. Seats capable of accommodating several hundred persons, have been built this season, south of the grand stand, and a semi-circular row of seats at the base ball ground.

The improvements which have been made, at the depot are worth a passing notice. New refreshment and waiting rooms, and ticket offices have taken the place of the old and insufficient ones, the tracks have been raised, and new platforms put in. Long semi-circular sheds at the west end of the depot have been erected to protect from sun and rain the alighting passengers from the north and south, and the arches at the sides and ends of the building have been filled and supplied with doors. Within a week or two, the appearance of all the buildings on Railroad street has been improved by re-, painting.

Fire escapes are being placed on the Opera House, an improvement which the theater going public will appreciate. Three doors have been cut through on the west end and balconies will be placed on the north and south sides of the building. So much for the sides and rear. The entrance to the parquet can and ought to be made wider, and the narrow passage way at the top of the stairs leading to the street removed, and a broad flight of stairs substituted and the street entrance made wider also.

Lawson Sibley has fitted up the upper floor of the old Universalist Church, corner of Main and Stockbridge streets, for a grain store-house, and may finish off a few rooms for rental on the Main street end. The spire has been removed from the build- ing, greatly changing its appearance. And, speaking of repairs, the large wooden stable on Sanford street, formerly occupied by F. & J. M. Richmond, and owned by Henry Fuller, has been raised up on a brick foundation, is being completely overhauled and rebuilt, and will probably be used for a livery stable again, when the work is fin- ished.

Building is also lively at Indian Orchard, this season. The Chapman Valve Com- pany, who removed thither from Boston, are already at work in their building, the main portion of which is 100 by 35 feet and three stories high, with a one story ell 35 feet square. The foundry is one story high, and 70 by 40 feet. Wight & Chapman

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are finishing a brick block, three stories high and 60 by 44 feet, with two stories on the main floor and offices on the second. The upper story will be fitted up for a hall. McClallan & Son of Chicopee are doing the brick work. The same parties have com- menced a two-story block, 38 by 24 feet, with an ell, 22 by 20 feet, with one store on the main floor and tenement above. Work on the addition to mill No. 2 is progressing favorably. The new part is 74 feet long and four stories high, and the upper portion of the original mill will also be raised. A new cottage is going up on Oak street, for William Converse.

So it would seem that Springfield takes no step backward, this year, nor does she stand still and wait for smaller cities of the Commonwealth to catch up with her. The facts which we have collected above, abundantly sustain the assertion that in no pre- vious year,-not forgetting the spasmodic growth of the city during the war,-has Springfield improved more, outwardly and visibly, than she will during 1875. We have shown where something like a million dollars is being or is to be expended, and although, as we have said, wages are low, yet (no mason, or carpenter, or painter, who understands his business will be out of work, the whole season through; and that surely is better than larger pay and half-time idleness.

Springfield MA Directory 1875 , Part 45

Author: Clark W Bryan & Co Publication date: 1875-06-01 Publisher: Number of Pages:

Author: Clark W Bryan & Co
Publication date: 1875-06-01
Publisher:
Number of Pages: