Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 22

Huge Sum for New Buildings Expended In New London and ‘Windham Counties During Past Twelve Months—Norwich Building sproximately three million dollars was invested in new buildings fn New London and Windham counties during the year endinz 1916. Of this vast sum nearly two millions was ex- pendsd in building operations in New London and vicinity. Bullding activities in Norwich amounted to $462,600 for the year while Danielson building operations will total $200,000 or more. Willimantic erected buildings to the value of $300,000. gNew buildings in Putnam and in the other towns in these two coun- ties bring the total expenditures for building in Eastern Con- mnecticut to approximately three millions. BUILDING EXPENDITURES IN NORWICH APPROXIMATELY $462,600 FOR YEAR. Figures Show a Decrease of About $125,000 Over the Year Previous—Only Sixteen Dwelling Houses Were Erected gn 1916 as Compared With 61 in 1915—Fire Marshal Stanton Issued Total of 86 Permijts During Past Twelve Months. A decrease of approximately $125,000 in building operations in Norwich during the year just closed may be attributed to the fact that fewer dwelling houses were erected in 1916 than in 1915. In 1916 local building operations totaled approximately $462,800 while in 1915 the total was $587,600 this showing a de- crease of $125,000 for the past year. While 61 dwelling houses were erected in 1915 at an esti- mated cost of $220,000 but 16 were erected in 1916 at an esti- wnated cost of $59,500, this decreasing the figures of 1916 by $180,500. It will be seen from the total figures for the two years that operations in other building than dwelling houses have shown an increase as a ghole for the decrease of $169,000 has been cut down to $125.000.° Building permits granted in Norwich in 1916 by Fire Marshal Howard L. Stanton number 36. In 1915 a total of 142 permits were issued. These fisures show a decrease of 56 permits during the year. How Mo Building Was Divided. A summary of the approximate amounts involved under the 86 permits granted during the year is given as follows: Total Permits. Amounts. For manufacturing property...... 3 For mercantile property.... 2 18 For new dwellings. . AR 16 . For additions and alterations...... 31 For barns, garages and repairs.... 18 WORRIE 3%+ goiado doned suvsbon 86 $462,600 b Permits By Quarters. The third quarter of the year shows the most number of permits issued for either of the four quarters. The total for the. quarter was 26. The quarter just closed shows the least number issued as the total is below 20. By quarters the permits were issued as follows: Ist. 2nd. %rd. 4th. New buildings, brick - 5 4 1 = New bulldings, frame. 6 11 12 9 New buildings, cement....... - 2 5 P ~Alterations, briek . £ 1 3 4 Alterations, frame .. . 9 3 7 Alterations, concrete . .. .o 2 TOLals .oivsovvicasoinansen 21 23 26 16 For the year there were ten permits issued for new brick buildings, thirty-eight for nmew frame buildings. two for new cement buildings, ten for additions and alterations to brick buildings, twentgj-four for alterations and additions to® frame buildings, two for additions and alterations to concrete buildings. Addition to Hopkins & Allen Arms Plant. One of the largest buildings erected during the year for man- ufacturing, purposes was the addition to the Hopkins & Allen Arms company’s plant on Chestnut street. The plans for this building were completed. last Januvary, and Soon afterward the erection of the building was started. The structure went up in fast time once commenced and was practically completed by’ the first of September. It is five stories In height and has a frontage of 162 feet on Chestnut street, its depth being 62 feet. A part of the building .is used as a rifle range. The range is located on the first floor. The second floor is adapted for and, is being used for storage purposes while on-the third floor assembling and inspecting is carried on. Trading Cove Woolen Mill Addition. Another large building enterprise of the vear was that launched by the Joseph Hall & Son Woolen mills at Trading Cove. The several new buildings er @ >d by this concern are now completed and are in use. Novemb.r 25, 1915 was the day the bids were opened in the office of the late Charles Preston who drew the plans. 4 The largest bullding is 130x50 feet and Is two stories in height. The new dyehouse is of like construction, brick, is one story high and 34x74 feet in size. In addition there are two new boilers each of 150 horsepower and a new hrick boiler room for their accommodation. Additional work carried on at the. plant included the erection of a brick chimney, 100 feetghigh with 4S- inch flue.” The plant has been changed from a four set to an eight set mill. x® The Chamber of Commerce Building. The Chamber of Commerce building-on Main street is an- other of the larger projects carried out in the year just closed. This building which is owned by Charles A. Hagberg and Ambrose Sullivan his only recently been completed and is now in tse. The plans were drawn early in the year by the late Charles H. Pres- ton, and the comstruction work was started early in the spring. The puilding is located just west of the Marion apartments on Mal, treet. . e bullding is of brick construction and two stories high. ‘There are three’ large stores on the ground floor and on ‘the second floor are six large assembly rooms. On this floor the Norwich Chamber of Commerce, incorporated, have headquarters. On the third floor are seven-room flats, with all modern con- veniences. The Triple Link Corporation. The Triple Link corporation have taken the first steps towards the completion of a new four-story brick building on Franklin street. About a year ago they purchased land on the easterly side of Franklin street and just south of the Hopkins & Allen plant. But one story of the building has been erected so far and the other three steries will be erected as soon as the Triple Link corporation can complete their plans. The frontage ‘d the present section is 40 feet and in depth it is 58 feet. There ire two stores each about 19 feet wide with 14 feet story heights and plate glass fronts. Two-Story Business Block. A two-story business block at the corner of West Main ;‘:Lnfl Korth Thames street is now mearly completed. It is owned by Mrs. Ellen Murphy and the plans were started about the first of May. The building is of brick construction and is 30x70 feet. The ground floor will accommodate six stores. - Shetucket Weave Shed Completed. Back in May a large weave shed was completed for the She- tucket eompany. This is two stories high and of brick construc- tion. The outside length of the new addition is 336 feet and in width it is 85 feet. The height at the tower is about 40 feet and élsewhere It is 31 feet. The front elevation of the mill has 65 windows, 32 on the first fioor and 33 on the second floor. There are 64 windows on the rear elevation, 32 on each floor. The cast end has 13 windows including the tower and the west end has ten, making a total! of 162 windows in the entire building. A trussed bridge, 10x10, connects the new weave shed with No. 2 mlil and at each end of the bridge are fire-proof doors. The mill is equipped with electric motors, the electric power be- ing suppiled by the company's own generators. The new build- ing is used entirely for weaving. 4 Housing Company’s Activities. In March plans were completed for a six tenement block on the lot next te the Laurel Hill schoolhouse, The building is 27% by 117 feet, of wood construction, outside shingles and three kitchen wina: Ei The same month plans for two more blocks for the Norwich Housing Company were completed. They are on the Satterlee 1ot on the East Side. Bach of the two blocks has five apartments &nd the story heights are nine feet. P Along in June six houses were completed for the Housing . Comipany on Spring Garden avenue. The houses are each 26x38. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING ON MAIN STREET feet, two stories and a half high and accommodate two families. ach tenement his six rooms and the interiors are attractively nished off. artment has its own steam heater. Concrete Block on Thames Street. A four-story concrete block has bz2en erected at 40 Thames street for Hertz Bros. The block is located just below the old C. B. Rogers shop and the construction work was started last February. The building ig 42x100 feet, faces Thames street and extends back to the Centrdl Vermont Raijrcad trac OVER $300,¢p0 FOR BUILDINGS IN THE THREAD CITY. A Quarter of a'Million Was Expended in the Erec- tion of Mills_and Storehouses During Past Year. Building operations in Wiilimantic during the past year Lave not been as active as during the preceding vear. The number of permits issued was nine less than the preceding year. Aithough the permits have been fewer, the total value of the buildings has gone away ahead of 1915. The wholc number of permits for the year totaled fifty-two with an approximate expenditure of AMERIGAN THREAD COMPANY’S NEW BUILDING $338,380. There were fifty-two permits and $124,300 expended during 1915. The 52 permits issued were divided as follow: No. Permits. Value. New dwellings, frame.. . Dwelling additions and a New merc d. . 1 Mercantile additions . 5 Barns, garages, e P Barn into house ..... 1 5 Mills and storehouse: 5 225,000 52 $338,350 In the summary above the total of twenty-three new dwelling houses at an approximate cost of $90,000 is ahead of that of 1915 when the erection of new dwellings totaled 19 with an approx- imate cost of $65,000. The erection of new mills and storeiiouses was a big item during the past year, five being built at an approx- imate cost of $225,000. The largest of these was the new mill built by the American Thread company, which is a five-story cement structure costing approximately $200,000. There were not as many small frame houses Such as barns and garages built during the past vear as durimg 1815. ‘There was but one new mercantile building erected in 1916 while four were built during 1915, Among the most notable buildings erected in Willimuntic during the past year are the structures for the American Thread Company and the garage built for Leonard Erothers on the corner of Walnut and Main streets. The latter building is used as a gar- age by the owners and its location makes it one of the best bus- iness buildings in the city. The owners of a number of the bus- iness blocks along Main street have made some changes in their buildings during the year and each change has added to the value of the property to the owner and to the city. Another bujlding which will be a credit to the city and which is not classified in the above list will be the new Jordan Dui'ding. The loss of, the old building through the disastrous fire in November was great the city, but the city will acquire a more modern and up-to- date building for the streef when the new building is- finished. NEW HOMES AND INDUSTRIES ERECTED IN JEWETT CITY. Several Handsome Dwellings Completed on East Main Street During Past Twelve Months— Built With an Eye to Comfort and Along Com- mon Sense Lines. During the twelve months ending vesterday several hand- some dwellings were erceted“on East Main street, Jewett City. The new home constructed on that street for Edmond Jodoin is one of the handsomest residences in the borough. It is two and one-half stories high and has seven rooms and a large bath room. It is fitted with all the modern improvements that could A. B. BURLESON & COMPANY’'S PLANT e suggested, including water, steam, telephone and electric hts. A new barn in the r also lighted by electricity. This house is situated on the East Main street highlands and has a view unsurpassed. The buildings and improvements could not be duplicated for $5,000. Horace Myott’s Handsome Residence. The residence of Horace Myott at the corner of East Main and High streets is one and one-half stories high and contains eight rooms. #it has all the improvements of a comfortable home ex- cept steam heat, which Nr. Myott expects to install in the near future. The rooms are large and the whole house was con- structed in accordance with a common sense plan. It is valued at $3,500. Two new buildings have been completed duri F. H. Gilber&t One of them located on Slater av a garage and service station. This building is 30: and three stories high. A new garage only a few feet north of this building is- 30x80 feet. Mr. Gilbert proved what could be done in the g the year by ue is used as NGS ERECTED IN JEWETT CITY From Left to Right—Top; Residence of W. H. dence of Horace Myott on East Main on East Main Street. Residence of Edmond Jodoin on East Main Street. ‘Bettom, House Built by Frank Fields on East Main Street. Building e T .. Amounted To Approximately $462,690:0H®res of Ntw~Buildings Erected In New London moving line. He purchased what is the main portion of the new salesroom of the Ashiand Cotton company, on & foundation a half mile from its present site and a gang of ‘men moved it .under his direction. These new buildings- eannot be duplicated today for less than $7,500. Enlarging Aspinook Mills, Agreeable to its policy of steady improvement at its big plent on the Quinebaug, the Aspinook company have in process Yof constructton a 60-foot brick additfon to their wash house. Also a méw mode] barn 40x40. This barn is being built to be absolutely fireproof. The underpinning now completed is made of solid blocks of reinforced concrete, The. bullding 18 to be of brick and the roof of slate. That it was the intention of the architect to have this building up-to-date in every particilar will be evidenced at its completion. It will be supplied with eity water and iighted throughout by electricity. ~ Another East Main Street Residence. The house bulit by Frank Fields on East Main street has two tenements of six rooms each. It is two storfes in height and is fitted throughout with the best of plumbing, and s lighted by electricity. There is a moderr bath room connected with each tencment on the second floor. It is valued at $4,000. The furnace, radiators and water and steam piping cast alone over $700. Eight-Room Suburban Cotfage. =~ rown has had eracted a handsome eight-room subur- / on East JMain street. It is built with an eye fo com- fort and convenience as well. It is situated on one of the most sightly locations In the borough. From the view point of its south and east windows-the waters of the Ashland reservoir with its pleasing scenery lie directly under the eye with an un- @bstructed view to the sunrise horizon. At different places in the underpinning there are stones collected by Mr. Brown from no less than twenty localities of historic and family interest throughout New England. There are all the modern Improve- ments. This place is valued at $4,509. i Dr. Sweet’s New Home. The house built by Dr. J. B. Sweet on Brown avenue is the sort of a building that one can vouch for. All the frame studding sills, Joist and first flocr boards were sawed from sclec which grew on Dr. Sweet's cwn farm a few miles above ti Solid Stone“hill stock. It is two and one-half stor bas nine rooms, pantry and bath. It is valued at $5 Plant of A. B. Burleson & Company, Incorporated. The home of the A. B. Burleson & company, incorporated, manufacturers of fine insulating yarn, situated at Meadow Brook within the limits of the borough of Jewett City. The late A. B. Burleson estabiiched this business and began operations October 8. 1878. The concern has steadily increased its business as the demand for its product has steadily increased. First as a thread manufactory; later various grades of Sea Island cotton ydrn, until at present its whole output is demanded for fine insulation. The new building completed enrly in 1516 is 28x80 feet, two stories high and with its quantities of new machinery 1is valued at 330,600. The new building, as well as the section built since the fire of a few years ago, is electric lighted throughout, power being furnished by a heavy motor. As a result of a recent reorganization of the management, E. T. Burleson is now presidant; E. F. Drew of New York, vice- president; Prince Owens of New York, treasurer; S. F. superintendent. NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION INVESTED IN DANIELSON BUILDINGS. W. H. ban cottag Brown, Increase Due to Expansion of Manufacturing En- terprises and Absclute Need of New Homes— Great Development Centered at Industrial Pizce. L ° More money was invested in the bullding ope fons In Danielson and vicinity during 1916, than in any vear for a long . Prosperity, expansion of ma enterprices and the absolute néed of more homes brought this abo The spectacular growth of the plant of the Connecticut Mills company from its small station of half a decade ago W chiefly responsible for the insistent demand for more dwell'ngs. In- creased business naturally has also meant new construction work in other lines. No accurate compilation has been made of the amount of money invested in building operations in Danielson during the past twelve months, but it is believed it approaches $200.000, and counting work that was begun but yet to be completed, the total will reach to nearly a quarfer of 2 million dollars. ‘The building needs of the community resulted, early in the NEW HOUSES ON CONNECTICUT year, of the formation of the Danielson Building and Loan as- sociation. Two issues of shar one as of January 1st, the other of July 1st, were rapidly subscribed for and, at the end of the first year of the association’s life, Secretary Clifford H. Stark. weather is able to report that all of the money is invested and that five per cent. was earned and paid to depositors at the De: cember meeting, 1916. Another issue of shares will be made this month, and already applications are on file for its use in building operations. The great development, building-wise, of Danielson during 1916, was at Industrial pla tke northern section of Danielson, where the Connecticut mills, manufacturers of automobile tire duck are located. Accompanying is a view of some of the splendid dwellings erected on Connecticut Mills avenue during 1916. There are a dozen of them underway ‘and more than forty more projected. Work is continuing throughout the winter. No two of the dwellings age alike and no two, on the same streét, are to be alike. In fact, they represent a long step forward in providing homes for employes of manufacturing con=- cerns and discard entirely all of the old ideas of constructing “mill villages” such as may.be seen in textile eenters throughout New England. Some of the new dwellings have cost in_excess of $6,000, They are equipped with all modern convenienceg and are model of comfort and beauty. The homes are being occupied as rapldl; as they are completed. MILLS AVENUE One splendid dwelling is an exact reproduction, exteriorly, of the Mt. Vernon house. There are homes following the Dutch style of architecture, pretty cottages, neat flats, and what are known as double homes. To aid in the development of Industrial place the Danielson Construction company was also formed during 1916. Connecticut mills officials and men associated with the Windham County Natlonal bank. are interested in this orsanization, which has much available capital and has an arrangement for making home building easy for those who wish. All of the home building hustle about Industrial place fol- lows abreast of the development of the mill plant, the fioor space of which has been nearly tripled during 1916, this by add- ing a story to the north mill and building a four-story brick ad- dition, just roofed in. that connects the North and South m aking one piant more than 800 feet fn length. The ncw sec- tjons, containing 70,009 feet of floor space, are io be equ with machinery as fast as it is received, and it is now coming .in. The payroll of this plant is expected to reach $10,000 a week during 1917. The year just closed was marked by the pur of the original mills by the company from Frederick A. Ja and the C, B. Wheatley heirs as well as much real estate in vicinity of the mills. Further development of the mill is assured during the year that opens today. 5 Dayville also has figured in the building boom during 1916 with new dwellings and at Willlamsville plans were completed by the Goodyear Cotton Company,.Incorporated, for the erection during 1917 of 125 tenements. a monster yarn mill and a geven- story concrete stock house, the whole to represent an’ investment