Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 2, 1922, Page 16

Close to Figure of the Preceding Year—New London Coun- ty Showed $1,993,585, Windham County $600,000— New School, Church, Hospital Ward and Many Dwell- ings in Norwich Work—New London Added Mercantile Buildings and Residences—Willimantic People Built Eastern Connecticut building figures for 1921 approximated closely the | total for the vear before, standing at $2593585 for 1921 whers they were $2,599,765 in 1920. Generally throughout this territory there. was considerably less done in building work than before, but in Norwich a large increase was shown, large enough to counterbalance the smaller figures in other places. This was ac- complished through the large building projects which Include a new church, school, Y. M. C. A. building, and hospital ward. ' New Londen county building was at a total of $1,993,585 in 1921, an in- crease from $1,489,765 the year before. Norwich put into this $1,170,400 where it had shown $762,925 the preceding year. New London had $473,185 in 1921 to $526,840 in 1920, and the rest of the county $350,000 in 1921, Windham county fell off in 1921 to a building total of $600,000, having had $1,100,000 the year before. Willimantic maintained approximately $300,- 000 in each year, but Putnam showed $100,000 in 1921 as against $270,000 in 1920, and the rest of the county added $200,000 to the building figures for the past year. MORE BUILDING IN NORWICH THAN FOR MANY A YEAR Not at any time fo: he past ten years of building work contracted for in Norwich as in the year 192 Fire Mar, has such been s carried amount on Howard L. permits in which was meore than the year before and is more than that he has {ssusd for any time in the he PASt ten vears. Three biz contracts on which work has been begun, the new F200,000 Mt Pleasant street gchoof ding, the pe® St. Mary'’s Roman nolic ehuret the new Men's Christia Association to half materially n the eity building work to ast vear there were flaing’ parmits for a tof construction of abou he town limits the fire marsi ‘s, and a2 new ward at the Morwich Hospital for which thé aparopria- s £250,000, and additions at ths 10 Norwish state tuberculosis sanatorfum thers are appropriations of brings the erand total for lding to $1,170,400. & gives the work covered £ permits issued by the Experditures in City Building. its Amts £ 44,600 T 450,000 New dwellings 44 208,300 New garages 56,300 New harns Alterations Pirst Quarter. 2 to 3 e ota 83 16 11| 1 1 rete garage 1 school 1 trame ho 1 sheds 1 dwellings (frame 5 yalldi (frame) 11 buildings (brick) 1 ame mercantile arages \ to houses Totals REbss ey e svhe 10 Total For Year In City. dings, frame .3 A gs, brick, stone, cement. 9 , frame 45 tions, brick 3 WL, oo b shwrnabisitins Bhats 178 Many New Dwelling Houses. past seems to have been one for building new dwelling houses in the city and town of Norwich, as 44 permits for new dwellings were issued by Fire Marshal Stanton and there has also been considerable building of new dwell- ings in the town which is outside of the furisdiction of the firc marshal. Proba- ably from 40 to 50 ne™ dwellings have been erected outside the ity limits, mec- tions that have shown acilvity In this line being at Norwich Town, Thames- vilile, the upper end of (ireneville and Tattvillee. Tt i to be noted that the names of those building dwellings in- dicate they are of the thrifty class of sur forelgn.born residents who have ac- sumulated capital through the war-time wages of themselves or tne members of their familles and are put-ing their mon- ey into homes for themselves or for ting purposes. "nAltb‘g\!lher more dwelliag houses will have been added to Norwich by the building actlvity of 1921 than for many & year. As authoriwed by a town meeting which voted an appropriation of $200,.- 000, the erection of *he new schoolhouss on Elizabeth street to take the place of the old Mt Pleasant street sthool, winl be the most important addition to the public school buildings of the town in many years. The work is under way =nd the completion of the buflding is cafled for in plenty of time for use at the opening of the next school year. It is a structure planned along the best type for school work, with fifteen class rooms, domestic science and manual traiwing deprtment and a large commu- ity hall, . The bali¥ing i !36x12S, -two to this building total for | {altera stoties and basement, of brick and stene construction. Within the last twé meénths the Nor- wich Young Men's Christian Association began work on the éréction of the phy- sical department unit for its new bufld- ing on a site on Main street, opposite the post office. The building for the al department, which Will be en- new, will bé placed across the rear of the lot, and will be theroughly equip- ped along the best modern lines for phy- sical department work. Two frame buildings on the front of ths lot will be joired by a corrider and adanted at pres- ent for the senfor and junior depart- ments. Tt is expected that they will ul- timately be replaced by a vew building. St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in Greeneville is engageéd in erecting a handsome new church edifice on Central avenue at the corner of Prospect street and will have it ready for occupancy some time during the present year. The ng is 54 feet wide, 163 fest long, 1 sidewalls 29 feet high and an 80- A memorial shaft to of the parish who were in the planned and will be a nota- t to the architectural beauty of the church. foot tower, 22x26. the men DROPS OFF IN NEW LONDON IN 1821 Building permits issued in New Lon- dor. in the last twelve months through the office of Building Inspector Jacob Linitus indicate normal activity in thid will adl a considérable number buildings to this city and town BUILDING Tine of new without any particularly outstanding a On a tota! of building pe nearly 100 more thzh a year 2go Building Statistics In Norwich SHOWN FOR 10-YEAR PERIOD mits. Mareh and Oetober with eéight each were the second largest months. Permits by months are listed as fol- lows: February—Three story house by Stanis- las Stygar on Brook street, store on Main strest by Rose Sussman, house of 1 1-2 storiés on South street by Mrs. L. M. Weeks. Total, houses 2, garage 1, stores March—Foundation for five ofl tanks and garage on Columbla avenue by George E. Buck, buiMing for storage on Valley street by O. L. Willard, 1 1-2 story, wooden extension to propérty on Lewlston avenue by Miss C. M. Cart- wright, bungalow on South Park street, by W. H. Lincoln. Total bungalows 1, garages 2, storags building 1, foundation 1, repairs and alterations 2. Aopril—Extension to buliding for manu- facturing plant of W. K. and W. A. Washburn, Turner street, two s‘ory frame house on South Park strest by Henry Wolle, two story frame houss on South Park street by Henry Hornberger. Total, houses 2, manufacturing plant 1, garages 1. i May—Two story frame house on iston avenue by Esther C. Johnsom. tal, houses 1, garages 1. alterations 2. June—Two story brick, asbestos ing, home of W. B of Windham street, ham Manufacturing 3 block of two stories on Jackson streat by Alfred Oden, three story brick buildins for stores and ténements on Broad street by Isazc Rosen, altération and new addi- tion for store and tenement by Kate 3fa- bask on Chapman street. Total houses 1, business block and tenements 4, garages 3 Lew- | To- roof- Knbght on extension by Qu'drick-Wind- compa business July—Jordan Buick Compvany, sales rooms and garagé on Main street, one story brick stra‘ture for bakery by Pol ish Baker§ company, one and one-half story frame bullding for George W. Mor- #on on High street, two-story wooden housa for-Arthur Swanson on Lewlston jurd ° wis e Se | ] o S R el 2 Year =8 =2 el wE H 8% -3 = .8 JE @ H Sf 3 D g odml R 3 Ch e R s G L £ . = R A oY Te < 1912 15 12 2 7¢ 31 8 $608965 1913 .. 10- 75 36 7 20 ‘88 67130 1514 TERET SR 9 111 512,527 1315 ®H 5 6 B 3] 143 537880 1216 . Bo 04 B 08 ek AGEEN) 1917 . & {1 <9 2 20 62 - ipdAas 1818 4 2 6 21 10 5 178,750 1919 9 H 22 34* 47 112 277,200 1920 7472 '3% oaBei 43 125 | 760905 1921 6 4 8 76 43 219 1,170400 * Garages Cnly. |there is an estimated valuation of about 000 less. The estimated expendi- for buildings in 1921 was $473,185, where it was $526.840 in 1920, During September, October and Nov- ember there w a noticeable increase n ng activity as September show- ed permits for industrial and com- mercial buildings, four for dwellings, 14 for rages, and nine for repairs and ons; October five industrial and commercial, seven dwellings, 14 garages, five alterations, and November six in- dustrial and cormercial, eleven dwell- ings, six garages and three alterations. There are at the present time forty-nine new buildings under construction. The building record of the year in New London is shown in the following sum- ma; Permits. Valuation. Industrial ana mer- cantile e 52 $184,450.00 | Dwel houses .. 59 213,000.00 Garages .... . . 113 39,450.00 Additions and altera- tiong te ereseies. 81 36,285.00 Totals 305 $473,185.00 A year ago the total permits num- bered 217 for a total -estimated valua- tion of $526,840. They wers divided as follows: Industrial and mercantile, 56, valuation $310,840; dwellings, 41, val uation $154,200; garages, 73, valuation $38,375; additions and alterations, 47, valuation $23,665. Thus it can be seen that the erection of new dwellings and garages increased in 1821, but bullding fell off in other lines. Not included in the flnanefal figures under permits issued in 1921, but well worthy of mention as important addi- tions to the city were three structures that were completed and put into use in the past year. These Were the fine new bank building of the National Bank of Commerce on State street, the hand- some new Methodist church on Broad street and the beautiful new Capitol theater in Bank street, BUILDING TAKES BIG JUMP IN WILLIMANTIC Bullding permits issued by Fire Chlef Wade U. Webster who is also buliding inspector for Wilimantie, totalled 35 in 1921, this number being over twios the mumber 1issued in 1920 and over four times the number {ssued in 1919, Fourteen permits have been issued for the buflding of houses, about half of which are two storles. Besides the fourteen heuses, three permits have been issued for bungalows, and permits have been granted for tenement houses and business blosks containing tenemont which will bring the housing eapasity of the building equal to over thirty familtes, The value of the property now in pro- cess of compléetion. completed, or to be be worked on as soon as weather con- @itions perm#, will go well over the $200,- 000 mark. During the first' s'x months cf the year thirty permits were issued, with thirty-five during the last six months. April:was -the-big .menths with 10 per- avenue. Total, houses 2, iness block an dsales rooms 2. August—Permit issued for erection of theatre by Isaac Rosen adjoining proper- garages 2, bus- ty on Broad street, brick construction. rages 2. to be three stori‘s, Total, theatres 1, g 7Sqqember—Three stors tanemc | wooden construction on Birch strect'. Josephine M. Alfieri, permit to k John for erection of building on Milk street two stories, to be of wood to in- cludes stories and tenements, extensive al- terations on Turner property on Main street, cutting down old wooden building to erect addition of one story brick for two stores. Total, tenements 1, business blocks and teneménts 5, alterations 1, garages 1. October—Two story frame temesment house to Ulban Swanson on Oal street two story frame house to William E. Clark, on Mountain stret, two story ten- enement house to Paul Lachapelle on Trapella road, frame bungalow to Na- zaire Routhier on Lewiston avenue, two story frame tenements for eight on Mans- field avenue to C. H. Dirard, house, two storles, wooden construction, to Clyde I. Larkin on Bolivia strest. Total, houses and tenemnts, 5, bungalows 1, gafages 2. December—Two story frame house to Burnadette Inzinjo on Mansfleld avenue frame bungalow to Mariana Bernler. To- tal, houses 1, bungalows 1, garages 4, al- terations 1. Bales Nearly a Milllon. During the year past real estate trans- fers in Willimantic figured nearly a mil- lon dollars’in value, most of the biggest deals being in the business section of the city. Aside from the many sales of business blocks and tracts of land in the heart of the city hundreds of smaller deals, sales of land and land with build- ings sent the figure nearly to the mark Set in 1919 when transactions went far over the million mark. An important sale of real estate took place Iate in the year when the Sayles property on Main street was offered for sale in section lots. This tract of val- uable property is the only section on the main business street of the city that had not been built up. Since the sale of the property The Jordan Buick Company has erected a large garage and sales of- fice at the east end of the property and indications are that several more bus- iness blocks will be erected on the prop- erty within the next few years. Other important real estate sales in the business section of tha city were the Jackson & Sumners purchase of the Doone Estate off Main street, wWhere they are to erect a building in the near fu- ture; the sale of the Archie Turner property on Main street to Walter Hib- berd, who is altering the proverty for stores; the sale of the Loomer property on Broad street to Isaac Rosen who erect- ed a business block and theatre on the property; ti. sale of the Thomas estate jon acechnt of the steady expa: | almost NEW MT. PLEASANT STREET SCHOOL, NORWICH C. 8. Box Company of the Willimantic Development Company on Milk street. The abovée transactions with several smaller ones in the business district reached a total of $400,000 and hundreds of smaller transactions sent the figure well towards the million mark. il HOME BUILDING INDICATED * IN DANIELSON LAST YEAR As compared with the boom years of the war period, there was a decideq slump in building operations in Dan- ielson and throughout the town of Kill- ingly during 1921, yet a canvass of the activities of contractors and builders shows that-a considerable amount of home building was done in the borough and in other parts of ths town. The biggest operation in bufiding lines had to do with the remodeling of what for years was known as the Danielson Cot- ton company mill, now owned by the Connecticut Mills company. Alteration and repair of this mill on a general scale was undertaken in 1920, but lapped over into this year, following the general shun of business during the fall of 1920. This plant is now practically ready for occupancy. It has new fioors, has been entirely revainted insldé and otherwise put in first class condition—better than at any time In a generation. While It stands idle at the present time it offers the prospect of a fine industry for Dan- felson as eoon as conditions adjust them- selves to enlarged manufacturing orera- tions. One of the fine new residence built in Daniélson during 1921 is that of D. E. Jette, Broad street. This is one of the finest homes erected In Danielson years, On Franklin street and on Dyer street new awelling to be rented represent the growth in that part of the berough. There are three new dwellings on Frank- Hn street, a combination busi and tenement building on Dyer street. On North Main street, near Morin ave- nue, two pretty homes have been erected by Joseph Bousquet of Dyer street and are nearly ready for occupany. At the | corner of North and Mechanic streets a new dwelling 18 under constriction. LITTLE BUILDING ACTIVITY WAS SHOWN IN PUTNAM Erection of new buildings in Putnam during 1921 suffered a_slump from the feverishly active years of the war perfod. However, in the business section, two new projécts are underway—one a brick auto- mobile sales station and garage at the Robitaille property, corner of School and Front streets, and a new business bleek' that is to front on Mechanic s‘reet, near Buck street, for Wolf and Kaminsky. Work cn the Robitaille structure is weil advanced, while only a recent start has heen made on the Wolf and Kaminsky building, which. for the present, is to b= but one story in height and will provide business places for several firms. There was no mill constretion in this territory luring 1921, and this is notable steady building by fenturing conterns, notal hasset company, during the period of tthe plant and added to this by constructing war. The concern developed a fine what amounts to a small village of mod- ern homes. Few dwelling were erected in Putnam or the immediate surrounding territory during the year that has just closed, al- some manu OURS. on Chapman street to Mr. Brettschnie- der; the sale of the Sullivan estate to Alfred Oden, and the purchase of the 8. begun. The though there was Some remodeling of | Norwich state hospital' has a capacity. homes and other such work. The high cost of materials that pre- vailed during the greater part of the past high +wage scales and general activity, vear, depression in bysiness INSTTTUTIONS ¥ NEW LONDON COUNTY Psychopafhic Ward and Tubercular Ward Opened at Norwich State Hospital —Construction Work on New General Ward Started—Superintendent’s Cottage Pluilt at Sea- side Sanatorium and Nurses’ Home to be Erected—Ad- ditions Made at Norwich Tuberculosis Sanatorium, antic. Building improvements have been authorized and some of them already ace complished in the past year at three of the state institutions located in' New London county—the Norwich state hospital, Nerwich Tuberculosis sanateri- um, and the Seaside tuberculosis sanatorium located at Crescen: Beach, Ni- The work has been made possible through appropriations granted by the last legislature, before which the officials of the institutions appeared with ANOTHER NEW WARD FOE NOEWICH STATE HOSPITAL Through an appropriation of $250,000 granted by the general assembly, the Norwich state hospital at Brewster's Neck is to have added to it this year an- other new ward for 100 patients. Work on this has already been which, under ideal conditions, would a commodate 1,350 patients, but the neces- sity for caring for the mentally afflict- ed unfortunate of the state is so press- 21l | ing that ideals have to be abandoned to their pleas for the money that could be applied to pressing needs in the way of new buildings or improvements. During the preser. year, the new psy- chopathic ward has been opened at the hospital, a most valuable addition to the equipment of the institution. It has been declared to be without an equal as to the completeness of its appointments and furnishings for its purposes. It has & capaeity for 100 patients and was erected al an approximate cost of $350,- 000. Another new building opened during year was the tubercular ward for which there has long been a need. It will se- commodate 80 patients and was buflt &t an approximate cost of $60,000, pointing to lower building costs, were |gutnalities, as they do in all institutions, large factors in delaying various Ians |with the result that it is found possib for building. in |to_care for about 1,500 patienté at all porches have thus been altered. In relation to buflding activities in e "0 iy Norwich hospital. Putnam a statement in December by Rev. Charles F. Bedard, pastor of St Mary’'s parish, that the parcchial school is to be maferiafly enlarged duning 1922 may point to the fact that the buil@ing industry is about to experience another revival and that this will be a in the buillding trades. NEW RESIDENCES ADDED IN JEWETT CITY of MANY new residence property as the outstand- for the year. tenements, street. sound institution. Capital $50,000.00 14x18, other ORGANIZED 1852 and fireplace in the living room, which is The Aspixook street houses pro- vide eight tenememts of six rooms each with bath and electricity. year of activity for those locally engaged %:': °i.§‘|’::.;kh?;“ml;:n SRR ahit oty ped a hospital in the mi They face As- has also equip- under the care the corporation nursh, Miss Isabel Moodle, Other new residences in the borough Approximately $125,000 may be said to|Include the followin h N R have been exvended in bullding work [,on for No& JUeH completed or in process in Jewett City|house for Rose A. Stamand, one and a during the past year, with the addition of | half story house for Joseph Couture, four six-room houses for Charles H. Phillips, ing feature of the year's activities. About | six-room cottage on 35 new houses, single or double-family | four-room bungalow and six-room bun- or of the bungalow type, are in the list|galow of East Main street. Several new garages have been erect- The Aspinopk Company is building 14|ed, a new bowling aliey, 110x40, with ce- one double house and four|ment floor, has been buflt on Main street single houses on Main streét and four|for Wilfred La Chapelle, while the Ara- double houses in the rear on Aspinook | mony store on North Main street, and Five of the Main street houses|several barns, sheds and are of the gambrel roof tvpe, with slate | buildings have been included roof, seven rooms and bath, steam heat|work of the year. five-room bunga- ards, six-room bunga- ff, one and a half story North Main street, in small | water Improvements in the old ward. build- ings have been made by changing the old wooden porches to comcrete. Twelve ! A mew root cellar has been completed and put into use during the year a cost of about $10,000. It is of 10, bushels capacity, and will provide stor- age for the crops raised en the hospital farm. Provision for an unfalling water gup- ply for the hospital has been made éur- ing the year by a contract for water from the Norwich reservoirs. Before this the state hospital had to depend on driven wells and its own reservolr, both of which have proved inadequate with the growth of the hospital. A new 12- Inch pipe line has been laid down Lau- rel Hill avenue and along the Militafy Highway to the hospital, connecting with the Norwich city water supply. The ex- pense of the work, about $100,000, was paid for by the state, and the agree- ment hetween the state and the city wa- ter department is that the city water de- partment will make no charge for tha water that is used by the hospital for a term of years, but that after that period the pipe line becomes the property of the eity and the hospital will pay for such it uses. Securing such a depend- (Continued on Page Pight, Cel. Thres) the We extend New Year's Greetings to all of our present and prospective depositors Resolve to increase your present deposit with us. Resolve to become a depositor in this old established,.and NATIONAL PROTECTION IS YOUR PR’OTECTION : Surplus $87,500.00 Total Assets $1,800,000.00 tHE WINDHAM COUNTY NATIONAL BANK Danielson, Connecticut THE UNCAS NATIONAL BANK 24 SHETUCKET STREET NORWICH, CONN. ON THE WATCH This bank has no LOOSE ENDS. Itis CHECKED UP often and regularly. It is supervised by the GOVERNMENT; public officials are liable to drop in any time, and we have to keep ALL, RIGHT, ALL THE TIME. Its affairs are regularly gone over by ths committee of directors. We are always on the watch. We are vigilant for YOUR interests, because they are tied up