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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1924
Page
5
A design emphasis on simple, economical, well proportioned houses. The article praises a rectangular plan with unified roof, compact rooms, three large bedrooms and a bath on the second floor. Large windows, a cottage-like porch, broad dormer, brick chimney, and restrained detailing convey enduring appeal and community value.
Work began this morning at Tenth street with brick layers on Fillmore. Contractors Willmering and Mullen and the Plains Paving company aim to open the street from Sixth to Sixteenth within thirty days. Concrete foundations, curbs, and gutters preceded the brick work, adding ten extra blocks of paving for Amarillo.
Dr Ozier builds a residence at 595 Kentucky Avenue with a projected cost of 3900 dollars. The home stands just south of a dwelling finished last week as listed in Daily Globe want ads at 1 cent per word.
Notes from Amarillo and nearby towns list visits and residents. Artie Baker of Lockney. France Baker visiting Lubbock in Amarillo. Dr and Mrs F M Wilson of Canyon visiting Amarillo. Bigin Boulware family from West Sixteenth Street spent weekend in Plainview. Carl Goodman from Plainview attended Harding’s ranch opening. Barbara Lou Kirkham ill in Amarillo. A Davidson and family from San Francisco visiting. Chamorros to stay in Amarillo for summer.
W D Wagner announces Capitol Reservation lands comprising about 400000 acres in Dallam and Hartley counties are on the market again after a three year lapse due to litigation with the state. Buyers offered attractive prices and terms on the agricultural land while updates note local travel and health news from Amarillo to Texline and Clayton New Mexico.
Plans for a combined apartment and rooming house by D F Garner are drawn bySmith and Townes. Construction aims for late summer completion with a 25 000 estimate. The two story brick and stone building measures 40 by 100 feet and includes a basement laundry storage, four room apartments on the first floor, and fourteen second floor bedrooms with private baths and dressing rooms.
Construction on two Ward School additions in Amarillo is near completion with Greenwood and East Side additions due to finish this week. Brick work on a six room addition at San Jacinto Heights is finished, McKinley Street foundation laid, and North Side work delayed until school closes. The year’s additions total fourteen extra classrooms across ward schools.
The Texas delegation to the National Association of Realtors annual convention in Washington will travel by special train from New Orleans May 31 for the June 3 to 6 gathering. No local real estate delegate has been named yet.
Architects present a mission style building with a central double deck porch and open balcony. Pergola covered terraces at each corner and large stone pedestals with ornamental urns. Tile cornice roofing trimmed in cast stone gives a home like appearance with modern conveniences.
The Amarillo Real Estate Board schedules a semi monthly program at the Amarillo hotel noon Friday to educate members on oil field activity and city development. Charles Green will discuss Amarillo’s past present and future. Dorset Carter will talk about oil in the Panhandle and recent company consolidations affecting Amarillo.
Townes chief machine operator at the Mission theater has returned from a convention in Cincinnati attended by moving picture machine operators.
To meet higher passenger movement after reduced rates, Santa Fe operated two sections of No 22 last Saturday. The extra train carried four cars of dressed lambs an express shipment plus baggage two coaches and seven Pullmans. Conductor Ira Simmons led the operation. Mrs J G Taliaferro left for Cleveland Ohio to attend the Grand International Auxiliary convention spending a month in New York before returning home. The Santa Fe Plains division Safety First meeting is set for 9 o'clock Wednesday morning May 28 in the reading room.
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