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$60,000 Apartment Building Will Be Ready For Occupancy By Mid-March
New Apartment Building At Duval And Southard
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THIS ARCHITECTS DRAWING ahowg what The Southard will look like when completed about the middle of March. Two
W floors are being added to the existing building at Southard and Duval that houses Chuck’s Sandwich Shop. The two new
floors— to be served by an automatic elevator—will house 20 efficiency apartments and two hotel rooms. The M. E. Bennett
Construction Cos. of Key West is the builder. The architect is Borry and David of Miami Beach.
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SMALL HOUSE PLANNING BUREAU
St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Plaaaa sand ma more information, without obligation, about
tha plan features and the type of construction used in tho
house aa pictured
in Tha Key West Citixen.
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY _ STATE
CBS HOME IS PLANNED
BY J. F. BRYSON HERE
Parking Lot To
Be Built At
Duval, Fleming
The old buildings at Duval
and Flaming Streets, across
from the LbConcha Hotel, will
be torn down and a parking
lot built on the corner, It was
learned today.
Julius. Stone, attorney, said
demolition work will start in
about a week. The buildings re*
cently ware condemned. The
lot is 44 feet on Duval St. and
100 feet on Fleming St.
ROBERTS
Office Equipment
124 DUval Street Phone 2*5434
Royal Typewriters
Por tablet and Standardt
SALES * SERVICE
RENTALS
The largest building permit tak
en out in a slow week was one for
$13,000 to build a CBS home. J. F.
Dryson, 1416 Fifth St., took out the
permit.
Other permits on file at city ball
were:
Samuel* Thompson, 315 Fetnria,
new roof, $l6O.
John Gavilan, 1128 Simouton St.,
remodel porch, SSO.
Peter J. Ross (Floyd Sands, con
tractor), First and Flagler, addi
tions and alterations, $2,000.
J. C. Hancock, 525 Francis St.,
remodel, $75.
B. C. Moreno (Roy W Edwards,
contractor), 600 Southard St., re
pair root, S3OO.
Norman C. Berg, Roy W. Ed
wards. contractor, 1221 Olivia .St.,
remodel, $4,000.
Theodore Ness, 312 William St.,
remodel, $2,000.
Alfonso Gabriel, 700 Thomas St.,
addition, SBOO.
Sidney Manning, 1114 Whitehead
St., repair porch, S2OO.
Benjamin Lopez Estate, 525
Fleming St., (Gates Tin Shop, con
tractor), repair roof, S2OO.
Permit To Dredge
And Fill At Craig
Ls Applied For
j Application has been made to the
Department of the Army by Mr.
}R. W. Craig, Craig, Florida, for
a permit to dredge and fill, in Flo
rida Bay, at applicant’s property,
southwesterly from Lower Mate
! cum be Key, between Channel 2 and
Channel 5, Monroe County, Flori-j
Ida. It is proposed to dredge in an
irregular shaped area 200 feet
. wide and about 800 feet long pa
rallel to the shoreline and to
U.S. Highway No 1.
| The dredging would be to a depth
of 5 feet below mean low water
> and the dredged material would be
’deposited behind adequate dikes on
an area about 200 feet wide and
600 fret long, shoreward from the
|dredging area, this area to be con
nected with the shore by an addi
tional fill about 30 feet wide and
120 feet long leading to the above
mentioned U. S. Highway l,
the whole fH area to have aft ele
vation of about 4 feet above mean
low water.
The applicant also proposes to
construct a timber culvert about 8
feet by 6 feet through the fill near
the existing bulkhead along the
northwesterly side of said highway.
The earliest railway coaches tor
passengers were the same type of
vehicle used as road coaches when
the first railways were built.
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DESIGN C-244v— The combination living-dining room, kitchen
and two bedrooms overlook the rear yard. Bath, entrance haU
and basement stair hall act as buffers against street noises in
front. A covered porch, which can be screened, opens from the
living room.
There is a full basement, which may be omitted in this
area, except under the garage and porch, with stairs leading
down from the‘service vestibule. Coat closets are located near
bath entrances, linen cabinet in the hall and wardrobe type
closets in bedrooms. The center bedroom can be used as a
den or study, or the door can be changed to open into the bed
room halL
Plans call for wide siding, asphalt shingles, wide eaves,
low roof lines, overhead door, covered entrances. Floor area
is 1243 sq. ft. and cubage is 22,631 cu. ft., not including garage
or porch. 6 8
For further information about DESIGN C-244, write the
Small House Planning Bureau, St Cloud, Minn, in Canada
Small House Planning Bureau, St Cloud, Minn.
Deeds Show County Real Estate Deals
Among the warranty deeds on
ffle this week at the county court
house were the following:
Karmen Corp. sold land at
Thompson St. and Atlantic Blvd.
to Lods P. Malone for $1,900.
A lot in Stratton’s Subdivision was
sold to Leslie C. Burnett by John
M. Schorpp for SIO,OOO.
Gladys E. Foh sold a lot in Sun
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rise Shores Subdivision to Leonard
J. Baker for $15,000.
Sadowski and Son sold nine lots
in little Venice to Frank W. Mauck
for $16,000.
Five lots in Vaca Village were
sold to W. A. Parrish, of Marathon,
by Charles H. Nauman for $5,000.
Cart F. Sahlin sold Tract 4-A of
New Floors
Above ChucKs
Will House
Efficiencies
Key West’s newest apart
ment building will be com
pleted about the middle of
March, the M. E. Bennett
Construction Cos. announced
today.
The $60,000 elevator a
partment building at South
ard and Duval Streets will
house 20 apartments and
two hotel rooms.
Chuck’s Sandwich Shop now is
on the comer. It will remain and
two new stories are being built
above it.
Each floor will hold 10 apart
ments and one hotel room. The
new floors will be served by an
automatic elevator.
Each apartment will consist e>
one large room, 13 foot 10 Inches
by 14 foot. The large room will
servo as a combination living
room, bedroom and dining aroa.
Kitchen facilities will be furnish
ed by a Murphy built-in unit Each
unit will contain a stove, sink
and refrigerator. When not in use,
the kitchen units can be enclosed.
.Each apartment and hotel room
will have a tile bath with a stall
shower.
The manager of Chuck’s Sand
wich Shop is answering inquiries
about rental of the apartments. v
The interior walls and ceilings
will be plaster while the stucco
exterior of the reinforced-steel,
concrete-block building will be
painted. An interior stairway will
be finished in terrauo with a
wrought-iron hand-rail.
The entrance and lobby will
bo on Southard St. This part of
the building will bo faced with
a largo plate-glass window with
marble below the window.
Other windows in the new apart
ment building—to bo called The
Southard—will be the aluminum
awning type.
The D. S. C. Corp. of Miami is
the owner of the new building.
Borry and David, of Miami Beach,
are the architects.
Used Coffee Grounds
DALLAS, Tex. OPV—The Inwood
Sign Shop have the following to of
fer to orestaurant owners:
“Coffee grounds, slightly used,
10 cents pound.”
Polle Patients Over 2$
Shew Increase ef 7 per cent
In recent year* March of Dimes
records show the percentage of
polio cases among persons over
20 years of age has been increas
ing. From 1044 through 1948, 15
per cent of patients reported were 1
in the 20 and over age group. By;
the rad of 1952 the percentage had
increased to 22 per cent. There is
more polio among women in this
age group than among men.
Mandalay to Gforge W. Snow for
$2,400.
Land on Boot Key was sold by
Chester F. Tingler to Treasure Is
land Properties, Inc., for $7,000.
A lot on Buttonwood Shores was
sold by A. M. Cunningham to Wil
liam H. Boswell for S9OO.
Edward E. Barry sold four Pun
ta Brisa lots to Paul F. Fletcher,
of St. Louis, Mo. for $4,000.
Ten acres of Monroe C: ty land:
were sold by R. L. Parke;- to Rob-,
rat C. Rogers for SSOO.
F. P. Sadowski sold p2r, <fa lot
in South Marathon Shore : Wini
fred Mary Stevens for SIT. 3.
Key West land was sol ’ u. Wil
liam Brusick to Maurice N. New
man for $13,000.
J. H. Williams sold Monroe Coun
ty land to EMzabetfe C. Cardan for
$60,000.
Two Holiday Homed** lots were
sold by Earl J. Page to J. L. Sapin
hour and others for S9OO.
Coffee Bonus
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ID A
used car dealer bid for attention
and business with this ad in the
Florida Times-Union nere:
“Coffee has gone so high, we
have decided to go into the coffee
business. We are offering the verv
best grade of coffee at S6OO a
pound. Asa special inducement
we will give an automobile abso
lutely free of charge with every
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name change
MOUXDSYILLE, W. Va.
Residents here have another name
for Camp Fair Chance, the state
penitentiary’s new honor camp
from which five prisoners have es
caped since it was opened Monday.
They now call it "Freedom Vil
lage.”
pound of coffee sold at this price.
will even finance the coffee
(and the car) for 24 months.”
Saturday, January 30, ltS4