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NEW BUILDINGS: LIFE INSURANCE BLOCK, FRANKLIN BLOCK.
pied by the offices of the Merchants' Union Express Company which extend to Market street. J. Strain's dry goods establishment is in the southern apartment, fronting Main street. This extends back 90 feet. Beyond, with an entrance from Market street, is a seed store of B. K. Bliss. Between the dry goods store and the express office is the entrance from Main street to the stories above. On the north half of the second floor are located the various rooms of the company's office. The Young Men's Christian Association have their rooms in the south part of the same story. The third story is at present not rented and remains in two large halls, to be partitioned into smaller apartments as tenants may demand. The northern half of the upper story has not been rented. The other portion has been taken by the Mt. Horeb Lodge of Good Templars, and they are having fitted up there a hall for the meetings of the several societies of that order in the city. Above the first story the building is separated in two por- tions; one of 90 feet, and the other of 38 feet, depth. The former is to be occupied as mentioned above. The space between the two portions is 10 feet. The second floor of the rear portion is occupied by the tailoring work-rooms in connection with G. D. Richardson's establishment, and by the electrotyping rooms of Lockwood & Mande- ville. The third and fourth stories are as yet unoccupied. The building is of brick, with brown stone front and cornice. Work upon it was commenced in June, 1866, and will be completed in October, 1867. Architect, S. S. Woodcock, of Boston. Builder, C. S. Ferry, of this city.
On the corner of Townsley avenue and Main street is FRANKLIN BLOCK, owned by the Second National Bank and occupied by them and the Republican printing establishment of Samuel Bowles & Com- pany. It is four stories high, has a front on Main street of 52 feet, a depth of 135 feet-extending through to Market-is built of brick with brown stone front; and is constructed throughout in the most substantial manner. The banking room is on the first floor, in the north-west corner of the building, having windows on Townsley ave- nue as well as on Main street. It is 22 feet wide and extends back 83 feet. The wainscoting is of black walnut. Next south on the same floor is the counting-room of Samuel Bowles & Company, of 28 feet front and a depth of 80 feet. It has reading-room tables and the office of the Franklin Telegraph; making it, thus, the real news center in the city. From the rear of the counting-room one door opens to the stairway leading to the rooms above and a passage way leading to the newspaper press-room ; and another to a private office. Immediately from the landing at the head of the first flight of stairs, a door opens to the right into the printing-rooms of the estab- lishment which occupy all this floor. On the next floor is the book- bindery. The fourth story contains the editorial and composing rooms. Beside the entrance from the counting-room there is a stair- way from Townsley avenue leading to the various stories. The cor- ner stone was laid June 13, 1866, and work has been carried forward till the completion of the block with the finishing of the banking-
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room, July 1, 1867. The architect and builder was A. L. Chapin ; Howe & Hastings did the brick work and A. S. Dwelly & Co. furnished the stone.
One of our enterprising builders, Mr. C. L. SHAW, who has erected many buildings in various parts of the city, completed for himself in April last a four-story brick block, on Main street, next north of Fallon's Block. It is constructed throughout in the most substantial manner, and is known as "Shaw's Block." It has a front of 70 feet. There are three large stores on the first floor, which, long before the completion of the building, were rented to first-class merchants. The second story contains a suite of music rooms and a dentist's office. In the third story there are offices, and the suite of magnificent rooms fitted up and occupied by the "Springfield Club." Two rooms, one 19 feet by 22 and the other 18 feet by 19, are separated by an entry, which is approached from the stair landing. Beyond these, and ex- tending the entire depth of the building, is the hall or club room proper, 20 feet in width. Probably this organization have the most inviting quarters of which any similar association in the country can boast. These rooms are finished with chestnut and black walnut. The fourth story is occupied by a paper box manufactory. A. L. Chapin was architect; Howe & Hastings did the mason work, and Mr. Shaw, its owner, the carpenter work.
DR. C. S. HURLBUT has a fine block on the north side of Vernon street, a few steps from Main. It has a front of 26 feet, a depth of 86 feet, and is 55 feet high. There is a store on the first floor, and beyond it the broad stairway, easy of ascent, leading to the hall that runs along the west side of the second story. The front portion of this floor is taken up by the various rooms connected with the Doc- tor's dental office. Next in the rear of his quarters are various rooms suitable for offices. The third and fourth stories contain, each, a tene- ment with eleven rooms. The inconvenience of living up so high is, in a good measure, remedied by means of an elevator in the rear of the building, with which fuel, provisions, etc., are raised to both tene ยท ments. The cost of building was $16,000. It was completed April 1st, 1867. A. L. Chapin was the architect, Howe & Hastings, were the master masons, and Scott & Paige managed the carpentry.
THE HARTFORD AND NEW HAVEN RAILROAD commenced in April last the foundations of a large building between their track and Wa- ter street, and just north of Bridge street, and near the crossing ; and it is now well on the way to completion. The dimensions are 300 feet long by 35 wide. Commencing at the southern end, the various freight rooms extend north in succession, occupying all the building until the northern 30 feet, in which, on the first floor, will be located the freight offices. This portion will be three stories high. The upper floors will be occupied for offices and storage room. This sup- plies a long felt want of the road and its numerous shippers in this city and vicinity. E. M. Reed, the superintendent of the road, was the architect. The brick work is being done by Howe & Whitte- more of this city.
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NEW BUILDINGS: WESTERN RAILROAD OFFICES, ETC.
The proposed new building to be erected by the WESTERN RAILROAD on the site of the "Russell House," on Main street, will be a great addition to that portion of the city. It is to have a front of 100 feet on Main street, and a depth of 56 feet. It will be five stories high, the upper story being a French roof. The principal entrance is to be from Main street by a granite staircase leading to the second floor. The first, or basement, story is to be occupied by the American Ex- press Company's office and the Western Railroad Paymaster's, Civil Engineer's, and Wood Agent's offices, and Conductors' rooms. The next story will contain the office of the President and Directors, which will be in the south east corner of the building. The Superintend- ent's office is on the same floor, and is separated by a private room from the office of the President and Directors. Fronting on Main street, and in the north-east corner of the building, is the General Ticket office: next south. the Cashier's office, and still farther, the Attorney's office. The offices for the Auditor and the General Freight Agent will be in the rear. The plans for this edifice were drawn by H. H. Richardson of New York. J. M. Currier of this city has charge of the work on the building, and the purchase of material. It is to be built of granite from the quarries of Wm. N. Flynt, at Monson. The total cost will be not far from $130,000. The West- ern Railroad have partly completed their new engine-house, a few rods north of the old one, and between the track of the Connecticut River Railroad and the wall next to the river. It is a continuous building extended in octagonal shape around the turn-table, 50 feet in diameter. The building is 60 feet deep, and the distance across, when the structure is completed, will be 200 feet. From the turn- table seven sections of tracks, three tracks in a section, will diverge. Besides, there will be the main entrance track. Below the embank- ment wall on which this stands, and next to the river, the Connecti- cut River Railroad have in process of construction a breakwater, ex- tending from a point some rods above, south, to the railroad bridge.
D. H. BRIGHAM & COMPANY, in order to meet the demands of their increasing trade, conceived the plan of converting the three stores in the Republican Block, on Main street, next north of Towns- ley avenue, into one sales-room. The first apartment in the corner was formerly occupied as The Republican counting-room, the next for the millinery establishment of D. J. Bartlett and the next by that of 0. W. Wilcox & Co .; and the upper stories were all occupied by the editorial and composing rooms, the job printing rooms and book bind- ery of The Republican. The partition walls on the first floor were removed without damage to the building, and iron pillars and girders inserted, which made it as firm as before. The next floor is for the wholesale department; the third story, devoted to the cloth and clothing department, and the fourth to the work rooms of the tailor- ing trade connected with the establishment. Shortly after the completion of this room, ground was broken in the rear for the foun- dations for an addition, four stories high, and extending through, 75 feet, to Market street. The walls of this part are completed, and the
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sales-room of the first floor of the front or main portion will soon be extended through to the rear of the new building, making, thus, a sales-room 52 feet front, and extending 144 feet, from street to street- a larger apartment than can be found devoted to this trade in any city of the State. The other stories will be taken up with the whole- sale department, the cloth rooms and the work rooms, to correspond with the floors in the old block in front. Above the first story the two portions of the block are nearly separated by the space for stairs extending to the top of the building, and an airway. There are two passage ways, one on the north side of the building, and the other next to the stairs, on the south side, which connect the front apart- ment on the second floor with the rear one on the same floor, making both in fact one. Directly in the rear of the retail. or principal, sales- room, on the first floor, is to be located the general office of the estab- lishment, which will be covered by a sky-light, on a level with the second floor of the building. A. L. Chapin is the architect and builder.
W. H. WILKINSON has erected on the south side of Taylor street, on the site of his shop destroyed by fire January 14, a brick building. It is five stories high, besides basement, 33 feet front, and 75 deep. It is to be used for the wholesale department of his harness and saddle manufactory, and will employ 100 hands. D. R. Jenks did the carpenter work, and F. J. Howe the mason work. Mr. Wilkinson also repaired a small wood shop in connection, which was partly destroyed at the same time with the larger one.
Directly opposite, on the north side of the street, and in the rear of their manufactory on Lyman street, is the new painting and finishing shop of the WASON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, car makers, on the site of the wooden shop destroyed by fire on the 14th of January. The new one is built of brick. The width is 70 feet, and the length 100.
GEORGE STEBBINS completed, during the past autumn, on the west side of North Main street, a few rods north of Auburn, a brick block, three stories high, 55 feet front, and 55 deep. It contains on the first floor two stores, with entrance to the stairway between them. The store in the south corner is occupied as a meat mar- ket by Houston & Smith, and the other by Houghton & Eddy, for a grocery store. The north half of both the upper stories is fitted up for a tenement, and the other portion for another tenement. Each contain eight rooms. The cost of the block is $7,500.
T. M. GRANGER commenced and completed during the spring a block at No. 252 Main street, next south of the Union House Block. It is 25 feet front, 60 feet deep, and three stories high. On the first floor there is a market, and a tenement each on the second and third.
F. J. VINER has nearly completed, on Dwight street, a brick block, three stories high, 30 feet by 40, with an L for engine-room and dry-house. Brooks & Eaton did the wood-work. This build- ing he designs for a manufactory of mouldings, and will shortly remove to it his establishment on Sanford and Main streets.
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NEW BUILDINGS: MONTAGUE'S BLOCK, SCHOOL-HOUSES, ETC.
D. B. MONTAGUE has nearly completed on East Bridge street, near Main, a block three stories high, 72 feet on the latter street by 35 deep. It has a wood frame, with fire-proof brick walls and cor- nice of galvanized iron, making the building fire-proof. On the first floor there will be three stores, on the second offices, and on the third a hall. D. R. Jenks did the carpentry, and G. W. Hawks & Co. the brick work.
O. FRARY built during the spring a shop on South Main street, below Mill river, for KEITH & BUMSTEAD, batting makers. It is built of wood, is 40 feet by 50, two stories high, and capable of producing 700 pounds of batting per day.
COLTON & PIPER built, during the winter and spring, a shop near Water street, at the foot of Lombard, for carrying on the man- ufacture of sash and blinds. It has since been purchased by W. W. THAYER. It is built of wood, is 60 feet by 120, and two stories high.
C. C. MOULTON has completed for HENRY BAILEY a carriage shop on Court street, in the rear of Fountain Row. Itis two stories high, and built of brick. He has built for A. S. DWELLY & Co. an office on Lyman street.
G. R. TOWNSLEY has built next north of the "lobster block," on Main street, a store, which RICE, WIGHT & Co. have rented for their grocery business.
The old buildings of the American Machine Works on the hill, have been purchased of Homer Foot, trustee, by a number of gentlemen, who, under the name of the NEW YORK WATCH COMPANY, are propos- ing to commence here the manufacture of watches. Of this Company O. P. Rice is superintendent. The buildings will be extensively repaired and enlarged, and furnished with suitable machinery for the new business.
BROOKS & EATON are building for the INDIAN ORCHARD MILLS a building to be used as a picking room. It is 125 feet long by 32 wide, and one story high.
Two NEW SCHOOL- HOUSES are being built by the city to supply the demand for more accommodations for the pupils, the number of which is so rapidly increasing; one on Oak street, near Walnut, to receive the grammar and intermediate schools on East Union and Oak streets, now under the superintendence of Mr. Barrows, and the other at Indian Orchard. The Oak street building, upon which work was begun in the spring, is to have a front of 92 feet, a depth of 61 feet, and to be three stories high. It is to have a hip roof with four small gables. At the center, in front, folding doors open into a hall, 22 feet wide, and extending from front to rear, the entire depth of the building. On either side of this hall are two school.rooms, each 25 feet square. From either end of the hall stairs ascend to the second floor. The rooms and hall of the second story correspond in size and arrangement to those in the first. From either end of the hall a stairway leads to the third floor. Of this the southerly por- tion has two school-rooms to correspond with those below, but the northerly portion is all in one hall, 58 feet square. The building is to be entirely of brick, with brown stone trimmings. Hubbard &
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Hendrick are the builders, doing all the carpenter work themselves and sub-contracting the mason work to Henry Gilman. The entire cost will be $38,000. The architect of this building and the one at Indian Orchard, as, also, of the edifice on Elm street, was J. M. Currier.
Work was commenced on the new school-house at Indian Orchard early in the spring, and the structure will be finished by April 1st, 1868. Brooks & Eaton are the builders, doing the carpenter work themselves, and letting the mason work to J. W. Hawks & Co. Powell & Tucker do the painting. The cost will not be far from $25,000. It is two stories high, besides basement and French roof. The front, on the east side, is 71 feet, and the depth, including the porch, is 61 feet, the depth of the main building being 52 feet. From the porch there are two doors opening into a hall 10} feet wide, and extending the entire depth of the building. A space of 16 feet width on either side of this hall, extending to the side walls, is taken up, on the right by entries and stairway to the stories above; on the left, by a stairway to the upper stories and one to the basement. On either side of the center hall are school-rooms 28 feet by 32. The apartments of the second story are similar in size and arrangement to those of the first. The space between the school-rooms is occu- pied for a recitation room, corresponding to the center hall below. In the third story there is a school-room on the north side, to cor- respond to those below.
GREEN - HOUSES.
The erection of green-houses has been quite an item in the repairs and ornamenting at the residences of several of our citizens. Colonel J. M. THOMPSON has erected one on the east side of his lot at "High- land Place." It is 145 feet in length and 40 feet wide at the octagon under each dome. The hight of the northerly dome, in which is the conservatory, is 25 feet; next south is a forcing grapery, 50 feet in length, and then the southerly dome, 45 feet high, under which, in octagonal shape, is the forcing grapery. In the conservatory is a curious pile of stone, containing grotto, lake and hill. Mr. Lord of Syracuse, N. Y., whose services have been engaged by the most distinguished citizens of the country, was the designer and builder of this green-house, as he was the designer of the one built by a Spring- field mechanic for D. B. WESSON, at his residence on High street. This latter is 105 feet long. The easterly portion is used for a cold grapery. The octagon, in which is the conservatory with curious rocks, grottos and lake, is 30 feet across, and the hight of the dome is 35 feet.
A. MIELLEZ, a horticulturist of rare skill and taste, and of extended experience in Europe and this country, who has been proprietor of two green-houses in this city-one at Long Hill and one on Central street-has given up operations in those locations, and purchased a tract of fertile land on the Plainfield road, near John street, at the south end of Round Hill. This he has already begun to make "blos- som like the rose." He has half an acre of verbenas and flowering plants; and fruit plants are set out in thick profusion. He will soon have completed, green-houses 100 feet long, built together with a
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continuous roof, so as to make one green house with an area of 1,000 square feet, which will eventually be increased to 14,0,00.
HOUSE BUILDING.
House building has taken rapid strides during the past year. Many of our citizens have erected beautiful residences, and land- lords have largely increased the number of their tenement houses. There has been manifested, not only by those who built houses for their own use, but by those who furnished them for those who hire homes, a desire to conduce to the real wealth and beauty of the city, and the comfort of its inhabitants, by the erection of substan- tial and elegant houses.
HORACE KIBBE's mansion, on the corner of Federal and East Worthington streets, which was commenced in June, 1866, is rap- idly approaching completion. Henry Austin, of New Haven, Conn., was the architect, Royal Harrington, of this city, the mason, and Marien & Prescott, of this city, the carpenters. The cost will probably exceed $30,000. It is of a style of architecture of a mix- ture of Grecian and Doric. It is built in the form of a cross, the principal front being on Federal street. From this front to the op- posite, or west side, the distance is 44 feet. From north to south it is 78 feet; to the limits of the piazzas, 96 feet. . The walls are of brick, and will be covered on the outside with stucco. They are 29 feet high. The tower on the east side is 46 feet high. The columns are an imitation of stone, beautifully worked. The roof is covered with variegated slate. There are twenty-four rooms. The front parlors are finished with mahogany and black walnut, the dining and sitting-rooms with butternut and black walnut, and the rooms in the L with chestnut and black walnut. From the ob- servatory in the tower a fine view can be had of an extensive range of country, on both sides of the Connecticut River, for a great distance, north and south.
Currier & Richards have recently completed for N. W. TALCOTT on Round Hill, a very beautiful and substantial residence. In size it is 35 feet by 50, besides a spacious L; and is two stories high. It is built of brick with stone and imitation trimmings. The archi- tecture is of the cottage style. The twenty rooms into which the house is divided, are conveniently arranged and finished in the most tasteful manner. The cost is about $20,000. From the house there is a fine view of the Connecticut Valley. The same builders have nearly completed for JOSEPH STONE, on North Chestnut street, a solid and well made mansion, in the Grecian style of architecture. It is 44 feet square, two stories high, with an L 24 feet by 28. It contains twenty rooms. Mr. Stone's son, Harlan P., of the firm of West, Stone & Co., will occupy it with his father. The site is one of the most desirable in the city. From the balconies there are fine views of the Armory, Round Hill, the Memorial Church edi- fice ; and, to the north, the Connecticut Valley.
At No. 2, High street, CHARLES W. RICE has a beautiful new house. He commenced it the last week in February, and had it completed ready for occupancy the 1st of June, on which day he
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moved into it. It is built of wood, is two stories high, 26 feet front, 46 feet deep, and has an L in the rear, 15 feet by 20. It con- tains 10 rooms, conveniently arranged, finished with chestnut and black walnut; and has floors of selected southern pine. It is painted chocolate, and is a model dwelling.
The house at Nos. 56 and 61, on the same street, has been pur- chased of R. R. Brown by D. C. HORTON, who is adding to the rear a transverse L two stories high, and containing as much room as the original building, making of the whole four tenements.
H. L. NILES commenced early in the Spring, a two story wooden dwelling-house on the south side of Sargeant street, near Fulton. Before completing it he sold it to J. C. Tibbetts, of the firm of Cut- ler, McIntosh & Co. The main portion of the house is 28 feet square, with hip roof. From the rear an L, 15 feet wide, extends 30 feet. The cost of the building will be $5,000. On the same side of Sargeant street, and near Main, L. C. SHELDON has a house in process of erection. It is of wood ; two stories high, besides a French roof. It is 24 feet front, with a wing of 19 feet; and 41 feet deep, with a rear L, 16 feet by 17. The cost will be about $6,000. Other vacant lots in this vicinity will soon have first class residences erected upon them, the owners becoming more and more aware of the fact that the locality is a very desirable one. On the south side of John street, FRANK FULLER has a new, two story, wood house, 25 feet front, with a wing 5 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and with an L in the rear 15 feet by 26. On Morgan street, which is about to be opened, from the Cabot road east, next north of Carew, J. W. WEBBER is soon to erect a fine dwelling- house, two stories high, 23 feet by 50.
S. J. BROOKS has a new house on Summer street, which was built for him by Vose & Brother. R. VOSE, of the same firm, has built for himself a house at No. 33 Summer street; and at No. 20, on the same street, THOMAS HATCH has a new house. G. O. VOSE has built for himself a new house at No. 20 Court street ; and Scott & Merritt have nearly completed one on the corner of Harrison avenue and Dwight street for D. C. PITKIN. This is two stories high, and 40 by 43. It contains four tenements. Scott & Merritt have built a four tenement house, on Sharon street, for WILLIAM CLOGSTON, and have in process of construction, on the corner of Grant and Federal streets, a dwelling house for WILLIAM TAYLOR. Warren Mills has built a house on Pendleton avenue for L. P. ALDEN, one on Carew street, for W. H. ALLIS, and one on Orleans street for CYRUS E. ROGERS. He has completed one on Bradford street, to rent or sell. It is a $5,000 house, and two stories high. He has another nearly done, on Franklin street, which is for sale. Another, on Massasoit street, he constructed for J. E. OTIS, and still another, on North Chestnut street, for Mrs. LUCY OTIS. JOSIAH HITCH- COCK is building two houses on Franklin street, to rent. Linden street has several new residences. FRANK FULLER owns one, THOMAS GLEASON another, and Mrs. MARY BACON another. A. A. ADAMS is building one on this street, to rent or sell. CHARLES HOVEY has a new dwelling on Ringgold street. Silas Cook is
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