Building Boom Continues in Steubenville Through 1913
Greater Steubenville's fourteen year building boom shows 1913 with 144 new residences costing 1 144 500 and total local building investment over 10 million. Projects include home, church, bank blocks, market house, schools, hospitals, and industrial plants with Weirton and Yorkville industry growth and a planned eight story bank building at Fourth and Market.
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Chalmers C. White
Greater Steubenville
Steubenville
iWeth
Ohio Valley Clay Works
Everett Ferguson
North Fifth Street
Board of Education
Pleasant Heights
la Belle View
Grant
Stanton
Market House
South Thir Street
Yellow Creek
McCullough Cyildren
Weirton
Weirton Steel Co
Phelps Can Co
Phillips Sheet & Steel Co
Yorkville
Wheeling Steel & Tron Co
Tiltonville
D. J. Sinclair
Fourth
Market Streets
Fine Homes Erected on La Belle View During the Year
The Best in Architecture and Material marks a thriving suburban growth. The year shows 33 residences, 7 carpenter shops, 4 garages, and multiple structures to date including churches and a fire engine house. School house and bungalows add to a total valued around $99,000.
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la Belle View
Pleasant Heights Suburb Building in 1913 Amid Hilltop Growth
The Pleasant Heights suburb shows 42 residences erected in 1913 with two bungalows among them. The area gains as paving and street work improve desirability, with churches and a new engine house nearby. Plans include a big public school and multiple new houses on McKee Avenue, Hillery Place, Maxwell Avenue, and Cedar, Union, and Henry streets. The article details several specific construction projects and bank buildings valued at about $60,000 each, highlighting a strong hilltop residential expansion.
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la Belle View
C. Lashley
Danl. Kelley
South Bend
Ih. Weaver
Market Street
Atherine Scanlon
Bath
Roy K. Carpenter
Euclid Avenue
Mr. Sritt
Ze. B. Weaver
McDowell Avenue
Pleasant Heights
Board of Education
Hugh Patterson
McKee Avenue
J. W. Bendure
Hillery Place
L. C. Bendure
L. C.bendure
Henry Avenue
Maxwell Avenue
Harry, Stonebraker
Samuel Pearce
Henry _ street
H. H. Coleman
Scott Rowan, Jr
Cedar Avenue
Carl Boyd
Swayne
Lawson Avenue
D. W. Miller
Weet Adams Street
Eight room frame house listings with prices
Eight room frame bath veranda tile foundation priced at 3,500 on Grandview and Summit avenues. Delbart Snow and Bowman on Summit ave offer five room frame with concrete foundation at 2,500. Joseph McDonald Summit ave lists room frame veranda tile foundation at 2,000. Mark Johnson Claire avenue six room frame with tile foundation at 2,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Bendure
Grandview Avenue
Delbart Snow
Summit Avenue
Bowman
Joseph McDonald
Mark Johnson
Claire Avenue
Steubenville Growth Report 1913 Building List
In Steubenville during 1913 a detailed register of new homes and business properties appears, highlighting Pleasant Heights and La Belle View suburbs. The list details numerous brick, frame, and brick with terra cotta structures, including flats, stores, and residences with costs ranging from four to twenty five thousand dollars, noting locations on Market Street North Sixth Street Logan Street and more. Named builders include I. C. Chambers Joseph Ventolo Edward Irish James T. Sarratt and Dr. Chas Freeman along with several residents, showing rapid local development and standardized amenities of the era.
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Steubenville
Pleasant Heights
la Belle View
Hill Top
I. C. Chambers
iMarket Street
Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Ventolo
North Sixth Street
Sidies
Edward Irish
Logan Street
James T. Sarratt
North Third Street
Chas. Freeman
North Seventh Street
Loretta Hill
Chiris. Hineman
Adams Street
S. W. Criss
North Sixth
T. H. Kirk
Washington Street
Z. L. Travis
H. W. Weinstein
Dora Wolinsky
South Street
Harry Simpson
Two Churches to Be Added to Steubenville Edifices
In Steubenville two grand church structures are under construction, First M. E. and Westminister, adding to the city’s religious landmarks. The First M. E. Church will cost about 530,000, 363 by 88 feet, with Indiana limestone outside, Greek design, a 60 foot central dome, two towers, 900 seats, and a basement with storage and heating rooms.
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Steubenville
M. E
Westminister
Maida
Also Mentioned on This Page
Resolutio
Sattertie
LaBelle Iron Work
Pope Tin Mil
Follansbee
Fine Homes
Carpenter Shop
Steubenbille
Tures
Our City
Peoples National Bank
New Hampshire
M. & M. Bank
Miners & Mechanics Savings & Trust Go
North Fourth Street
Maine
LaBelle View
Ohio Valley Hospital
Banks
Recorder's
Busness Houses
Ae Ms
Ren Sf
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