Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1910, Page 43

TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP {5 &hrmy of Lots in Leading Residence | N District Increases Values fc nbo, park Ma John Ce $4,700 FORCES THE SECTION TO SPREAD {Prande within tr called up the m sell her day. +A entate next block, has made X last week D ' the telep Ing and instructed property, and he tle woman to sell her the | transterred rders to within resident A womar L4 My d it to the ar Large Number of New Buildings Are | Now Under Way and Many Others Dra Are Contemplated for t Se rote man ty after Near Future, rec Chicago her da ot Omaha been A had Thero is in the W demands tute cit scarcity of propert t Farnam street district are being made of the Omgha real dealers for homes In this section of but there few for general ten thos cannot get consider south. for also it was has sold two been a for t years. The Cit ars but t dist th ted on th 1dirg and the g rapidl big skyse stipu roof is almost cc National Bank ¢ on the Interior is p cont think win 1ished the con dency | who homes in the property lying This will mean a side of the select which will increase cated on the edge opinion of the real it to north actors the ba ind rusk time district o= property district of th on elther residence values of the cutate lo- — Wray of Wray there is & fair de In the las $5,000 hor Acc men elty. | rea lers, for P. J. Creedon & awarded the contract for t dition be Richard building, xn begin work ture. The same firm is putt m Puritan-Hub laundry #ighth and Farnam str ing additions to the medium priced homes. the concern has Place park district John in Bemls park and a akley Sons, who been proposed ad 18 company's the fu At Twenty and | have 1d a Armstr days Kountze Hanscom 1,000, tor to P to J. G ng to on Dr in for We in ne house $4,500 W. C to ew house on the street for 2 Fafrmont creamery Jug D | tiats at belle L. property the two | V. Sholes ¢ Park sold the to Mrs $6,500. nine-room Lind eny k for two The erection of Bank building may creasing the inter corner of Twelfth 1 Farnam streets. It 1s expected that t contract for new Cudahy office bui which will be built next the o bullding In I'South Omaha, will be the next [ SOmP | week or ten days. 1 mpla | Dur.dee overlooking Elmwood park an of modern office ucture fin- Happy Hollow club house d golf c SoAA il bs omuIves o el [ Attention is being called to the new | tion and the sale of lots will begin at he northeast corner of Evans Pla two blocks west of the West Farnam dee lne. E lot ha and trees been stre " Nebraska National the effect of in n property ne W we have consistg high. ar storles the ans Place, a new addition ibout to be opened by the D). The addition lies just to O V. sou frice ’ to let s will be an e and when detail. Following are a number of t through the agency lag! within the last few wecks house, Twenty-third and A W. Rogers of Elkhorn, $3,200; ansfers made | of ( Ison room 4 -room car elm ts. ery ave been streets, to plantel | Drake ate & Ste Murtey Sholes graded 1910, Getting Best Results in Home Building Arthur ©. Clau cottage Architect. indee in t of its lation as’to mater sok ke same inadequat t the 1l s made, allowing the esult. whi Irrepairable Dt At great oxpe There are well defined rules for | figuring cut the size of the foundation and the footing under it, in proportion to the kind of soil on which the foundation rests | the ht of building build bad nd welve w the ipon it e new woik | Th firet Ing to consider | mining the thickn f the walls or | of the reotings Kind of ®oil on which | the footings are to be bullt. Bed rock is, of course, the very kind of a founda tion, but is seldom nd near enough to the surface msidered. Next to this sand and in its native bed provides the best on which to build foot inge. take that than s | when dete 18 the aper d .in e 0 [ ens, emand s oL few in lot In excav not eded hould be removed to fill gravel n with with water, to pack d gravel to as hard a bed bed before it was disturbed ting care sand t necessary sand more A making with is almost in aft erward loose for Burt fmpossible, eve tamping and soaking down sand a as the native Wihile footings are der walls for expense is so little son for nclude footings be inches brick a- his flats, not always un- the re t put residence const that there omitting them and them th ietion is little is bette side. The need not thirty The varies | it it onld tone and be ames from t for a twenty uth of | for & ad the | thickness of ourse, | according to addi- wafe e quarries in re ar courses |this makes the best walls. Such a wall can be made sixteen inches thick. If the wall is of rubble stone or small irregular | broken pleces of stone the wall should be |at least elghteen inches. In either | cement mor should be used and | wall plastered with cement mortar outside when complete When foundation walls are made of brick, they also should |be 1aid up in cement mortar with a good coat of cement the outside, and only gpod hard brick should be used While the facing above the grade MR. CLAUSEN'S BOOK —_—— frame ence over -four two-stc inches wide y brick the foundation the material of welght it foundation Is on clay must be that the foundation’ walls go down the frost, for if the frost gets under footings either during construction or the house is bullt there is earth that will keep the clay heav. ing the walls. For this reason it is a good house Science and Homebuilding. “The Art, of i ntimeny which is When the taken below case the 42 chapters, 200 lllustrations and a thousand facts on the planning and deslgning of every kind of home. It covers & wide range of subjects, In- cluding the planning of bungalows, suburban and city homes, letting contracts, choosing materials, proper design of entry windows, fire places, ete. Price, post paid, $.00 made and the upon ace 18 Dun the after no power from n the on on A monthly supplement, *'Practical has GOING T0O MOVE§ OR GOING AWAY For The Summer? Let us store your goods in Omaha’s largest and most modern New Fire Proof Warehouse. You are sure they are Safe in Every Re- spect—Don’t wait until you incur a loss, But Do it Now. Moving and tire proof storage is our business. We Know How, let us do it. Call Douglas 1759; Ind. A-1335 Reaching Out for Business Every effort to attract trade helps even if it only draws a child's wish for candy. Electric light for windows and signs should be given a chance to be useful. Every merchant can now get double electric light at no increase in cost for electric current by using General Electric MAZDA lamps. Made in all sizes. We have them and will be glad to tell you about them. Omaha Electric Light and Power Company Homebullding.” sent gratis for twelve months following the sale of the book. Addre teot, Minneapolis, policy, when the bullding on top Is light in welght, excavate away from the building about two fee ound the house and fill in with sand or gravel. With a run two-story house on top of the founda- tion or a brick house this precaution is not the weight of the bullding hold- IH;{ the walls firmly In place \Iv»l the | from little to do with the strength of the | dation, it is an important factor appearance of the house. What should be, should be determined in necetion with the material used for balance of the house and its colors. Ce- ment blocks are sometimes used above the grade In Imitation of stone, although they should never be used'below the grade un- | less they are filled up solid. do not of caurse give a correct imitation of stone and should not be used with this in- tention. Concrete walls are used with a facing above grade stone veneer. The veneer thick, backed up with concrete | make the proper thickness of th Porch foundations should extend two and better three feet below very cold climates fn order | the frost. In any event the | both main house or the black dirt. When foundations are v black dirt, settling s inevit 10uld never be considered to in the face con Arthur O, Clausen, Archi 1136-37-38 Lumbar Exchange, Winnesota. necessary, | foundation walls are usually of concrete, | some kind of stone or brick. 1f of con- crete the walls should bo solid and the apest to build it to pour the forms. The studding forms can after- | and prevent- heaving of the clay against them moving the walls. Sometimes clay |1s found to be porous, containing a large | quantity of water. When this Is the | the tootings should be very much wider | ward be used In the truction of the than under other conditions, the width |building. While eight inch walls are some- | depending upon the cxact conditions found. |times used for foundations of bungalows, way to bufld a foundation in [it is advisable to make them at least ten es or on quicksand 1y to drive | inches in thickness. For a two story house piles through it onto solid ground, | twelve solid brick or brick | reinforcea girder across the top |veneercd n inchies, the same | of them and then start the foundation applying to brick foundations Footings are nearly always made of con- foundations are a little more expen- crete they be ma; foundations in most lo- | this material than any other, Where stone is immediately avall- line gravel and sand stone under circumstances cie way | material nto wooden case |and boards used in t & sometimes of brick or being four The only a st inches o 5 foundation for make & and for sixte inch concrete house de 1 | dimenstons below Stone since can o cheaper of |sive than concrete and being in | calitles the purpose |able stone. The ' four put ne better continuous than broken serves and jations scarce, picces of these SHAMBEE 66 toun- | the | ement blocks | THE NORTHWESTERN Expanded Metal Company s et ——————————— IS THE MAANUFACTURER OF STEEL PLASTERING LATH the invention of which made possible the con- version of old frame houses into the ap- pearance. of stone by the process of ‘‘overcoating’’ with cement mortar. This mortar and tions as used to make concrete sidewalks Frame houses so treated are warmer in winter, with less expenditure of fuel, and cooler in summer. They do not need painting is made of a mixture of cement sand in about the propor Write for particulars to the company at 84 VAN BUREN ST, CHICAGO, ILL. ’/fl' \fb /L on the Sleeping, Porch Awnings, Swings and ' Porch Furniture, Screens AND ALL KINDS OF TENTS Omeaha Tent @ Awning Co. 1ITH AND HARNEY, OMAHA, NEB porch should be below | Phone Red 814. 205-207 Nonh 17th St. The Tune a.nd Pla.oe to Buy Fencmg 3¢ Per Foot and Up. For Town or Camping Porch Screens, Window and Door Screens | Omaha Window Screen Co. ocienfens Doug. 4692 N N secrion i lines Omaha Millions Omaha are stood In & row and differing architectural material will alternate vough-cast stucco and |@ rich Turkish tone of rough texture fac brick like that of which the new R. E | spfieatienyas ShE Sunderland residence is built. The stucco i by e houses are designed fally for stucco und the others are typical brick leading clement In beautitying a city [n¢ [he PINCH SRS TRICE servation of harmony between | i€ FS structures. “Variety the " but unless there 1s considered nd respected the relation between the | | properties which adjoin, the idea of beauty and harmony is lacking | Types of architecture differ just as do | other works of art (here is the dis- | tinction, however, that the architect is often | compelled to produce in black and white | | the “ideas' of @ whole family and all the | (" triends thereof instead of own. This | | often accounts for the lack of achitectural | harmony between the various nearby build- ings If not In the proposed structure Itselt 1t is therefore a matter of interest and |ipec 'aie uteel cellings er beauty. of Omaha vesl- |, qgq Sced company, 1511 Howard sireet wchitects and owners | 5 p. (o . i Faragm | 9PROr streets; Green's drug store avenue | "5 and Pacific Tile been | yime | placed in the beautitul residence for |\, apartments and in H. H. Fish colonial buildings at Central City and Red Cloud, Neb. | houses just alik Aside from th lines, the exterior between pure white as are the ures the of fa Jobbers other business. brick were sold last year, and thls indi- cates not only a growth in Omaha's pr tige, but also an Increase in of brick instead of lumber in the central west Architects and bullders often come y designs. | miles to inspect the attractive br Joslyn | tures that have been erected b | the last few years, ities, now ARCHITECTS WORKING ‘ FOR CITY BEAUTIFUL | of Omaha's Residence District of City's Artin | Awpec One the pr | nelghboring | spice of life i is Lincoln the mil- with tile big conmract in H. Ferguson, Omaha last landed a week when W. llonaire grain man, placed his order Sunderland Brothers for marble and Light Company work for his palatial new residence. Awalts M"ind"lte The same company installing marble and tile in the new Morris theater at Eigh- | Directors Will Not Take Action on teenth and Dc Work of this| Franchise Matter Until Order Milwaukee L 5 the Orkin of Court is Received. and the big Kelly Co. have ulllfl‘”‘“""" 1he In addition to | LG PP s d for the Ne. |2 1€ ' Power ¢ glas streets en going to St. Paul ceilings has be his Chic store ixteenth street office »{ Adams just been installed by them in position his company franchise matter, . A. Nash, the Omaha Electric Light mpany s he has not vet ity meet the attorne board of directors of the ¢ expect we will hold a meeting Monday,” said Mr. Nash, “but mandate comes down from the United tates court of appeals, and our attorne has had an opportunity to consider the question in all it 18 unlikely that we will have proposition to malke building business Is active not only |to the city ch fs involved but s entire Mis- | and the and the mat absolu for me this time outcome The | about a for the had and o districts tha to Co. and Park rs | ve giving thought to this important phase mpany of building at new some street € | At Minden, | buiding the | dences in the state F. A. Henninger of Omaha |15 to be bulit of brick whic en to the method of laying—as was A. Page house north of the This is an Oriental rug effect | ¥OU*! vitrified brick und the same lald the Page brick b do the work at Minden. Neb., Dr H Hapeman 18 beautitul Architect | structure | the one of res| from plans by The be h is to be counclil ts of th xtrical pany ed N ¥ lub in rough face contractors bee it would be the nearly and re are the ex hin 100 mile the ha has recently become a market for building materials ears been the b like Where steel that it of one s iale to put forward at the ultimat ly Om rather than in a to ¥ county of rive any his vie should be councilmen the n engag what specia for n regular . plaster and lumber formerly con tracts for floor t cellings, face bricks, interior decorations and even builld- | pand, and, as a rule, seem disposed to con ing plans went to St. Louis and Chicago, | sider the matter dispassionately the | today Omaha is as well equipped in these |time comes for action just as it has D C up i work on a attractive and Devenport Paiterson £ five at Thirty-eighth as beg many supplies lime, are talking proposed electric light franchi They are evidently on the part of the com rot inusually [ denc | streets Each = different fr thus avolding that “factory district which 1 so often suggested where resi materlals nt s or the agreement next mov walting house the other effect m when sey Sunderland’s Turkish, No. (10 That is the Artistic Face Brick used in Mr Sunderland’'s new house at th and Pacific Sts Go see it. It is considered the most artistic example of artistic beauty in brick work in the west A Study in Art The beauty of a brick wall depends not only upon ‘te kind of brick selected, but also, to a large degree, ‘fpon the way the brick are laid. We have for years been studying brick “effects.” Have you? In our display room we show 150 various kinds, colors and effects in Artistic Face Brick. Call. SUNDERLAND 181% HARNEY ST. Our observations have enabled us to help many build ers secure artlstic effects. 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