Note: Beginning about 1910 the Chester Times on every Friday published, "Delaware County Real-Estate News". The column talked about and featured construction thru out the county. During the winter months there were less columns. Below is one from 100 years ago.
CHESTER TIMES
January 27, 1923
BUILDING TRADE EXPECTS EARLY RELEASE OF WORK
Outlook for New Business in the Spring Grows Brighter
Builders
are confident of an early release of new work for spring. There is a good amount of work in the hands
of architects and because of the expected increase in the cost of labor and the
advance in materials builders are getting their contracts let as soon as
possible.
Plans
and specifications will be ready in a short time for the new Cambridge Trust
banking institution, Fifth and Market Streets.
The realty department of the bank has been moved to the second floor of
the annex building which had been arranged to accommodate this part of the
banking business while the new building is under construction.
Contractors
are now busily engaged re-arranging the lower floor of the annex, formerly used
by the realty department, where the banking department will be changed.
Plans
and specifications will be out soon for the new $50,000 parish house for St.
John’s Episcopal Church of Lansdowne.
Clarence W. Brazer, with offices in the Crozer Building, this city and
New York, was authorized at a meeting of the vestry this week to invite bids.
William
Provost, Jr., a local contractor, is being kept busy. He is building an addition to the engine room
of the George C. Hetzel plant, and also an extension of the weave shed along
Delaware avenue to Norris Street.
Ground
has been broken by Contractor Provost for two attractive dwellings in
Wallingford, one for A. Herman Wirz, and the other for his mother, Mrs. A. T.
Wirz, which will cost about $80,000.
An
addition is also being built to the A. H. Wirz Company, tube manufacturers, at
Fourth and Townsend Streets.
The
Lincoln Republic Building with two stores extending from Edgmont Avenue to
Welsh Street, and eight apartments will be ready at an early date for
occupancy.
Work
has been started on the two-story brick addition to the Clayton school by the
Holden Construction Company, a new concern.
The Chester Contraction and Construction Company has the contracts for
the junior high school and the Smedley School, and work will be started in
March.
Of
considerable interest to builders and residents is the proposed changes in
streets and numbers. All the streets
that conflict, some of them that parallel having three names, will be
changed. And the dividing line of the
city, east and west, is also under consideration.
Stacey
Street will be changed to Butler; Huber to Ivy; Ashmead to Montgomery; West
Ninth Place to be changed; Ivy Street, no name; Marcus Alley to Byron Street;
Ortigo to Grace; West Eleventh, west of Highland Avenue to West Tenth;
Southard, Catherine and Graham to Mary Street; Commerce, Rulon and Dow to Union
Street; Eyre to be decided; Glen Terrace, Sun Hill to be changed; Green Street
and Howard Street; Sun Village to be changed; Larkin and Grape to Congress;
Church to Wall Street.
BUILDING
PERMITS ISSUED – Two-story brick addition, $21,000, to Clayton School, Seventh
and Thurlow Streets; Holden Construction Company
One-story
factory addition, John Bridge & Sons, $4,000, Ninth and Pennell Streets;
David T. Christy
Concrete
garage, Mr. Opps, $500, Second and Booth Streets
Corrugated
iron garage; Mr. Hipple, $8,000, 918 Parker Street; R. R. Wilgis
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