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The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 32

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THE IXDIAXArOLIS STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923. zxmt Homes for People I it'J 'fix K. 4s iti aft 3vU'- iS URIi JUKI tu a ah na rui'im 1433 N. Penn. St.

230 East Pratt St. 230 East Pratt street; six-story concrete-brick and stone building now being completed. Seventy apartments of living room, kitchenette, bath and bedroom each. Cafeteria and general lounge on first floor. Rentals from $45 to $60 per month, including heat, water, Ice, gas and electricity.

Beds, ranges, refrigerators, furnished. Size of ground, 82x170 feet. Contents, 497,000 cubic feet. 1 433 North Pennsylvania street; six-story reinforced coiic.Tete and brick apartment building, containing sixty apartments of living room, kitchenette, bath and one a-nd two bedrooms, ach renting from $55 to $85 per month. Including heat, water, gas, electricity and ice.

All outside rooms. A first-class cafeteria is operated on first floor, where an elegant lounge for tenants is fitted up. Size of ground is gOx 200 feet. Contents, 5, 1,600 cubic feot. '1 PLOTS' Spink Arms Annex The Spink Arms Annex, 4,02 North Meridian street, seven-story brick and concrete building containing 52 suites ranging from 3 to 8 rooms and bath per suite, rentals ranging from $50 to $175 per month, Including heat, water, gas, electricity and ice.

Size of ground is feet. Contents, 2,119,240 cubic feet. Spink Arms Hotel A two-section eight-story reinforced concrete and fireproof apartment hotel, containing 271 suites, all outside rooms. Second section completed May 1st, 1 022: have five, floors furnished and operated as hotfl, while eleven floors are unfurnished housekeeping apartments, renting from $65 to $100 per month, and containing living room, bath, kitchenette, one and two bedrooms, each. One large dining room and four small dining rooms and coffee shop, barber shop, beauty parlor, millinery store, book store and candy shop on first floor.

Basement contains ice-making and refrigerating plant. Lot is 82x202 feet, south building and candy shop being on ground held by i)9-year lease by Blacherne Realty Company. Contents, 1,210,300 cubic feet. 15th and Central Spink apartment buildings and hotels supply over one per cent of Indianapolis people with modern living quarters at reasonable prices Penn Arts Apartment 111 East Sixteenth street; six-story fireproof building. Eighty apartments with storerooms, on ground floor.

Opposite, Herron Art Institute: Rentals from $50 to $75 per month, including heat, water, gas, Ice and electricity. Now but will be completed about February 1, 1924. Size of ground is 135x215 feet. Contents, 700,200 cubic feet. 418 Kast Fifteenth street; tbree-story brick and stono 45-apartnient building, containing 45 suites of living room, kitchenette, bath, Pullman diner, reception hall and one and two bedrooms each.

Ranges, refrigerators, beds and cabinets furnished. Rentals from $45 to $65 per month, including heat, water, gas and electricity. Size of ground Is 1)2x180 feet. Content, 430,100 cubic feet. if tral Ave.

and it was entirely rented before it was completed. Since that time Spink apartments contain a great many of these smaller suites so convenient for one or two persons. With all the built-in features and every inch of space utilized to the fullest extent these small apartments offer the most modern and convenient way of living. In the fifty-five apartments and hotels in Indianapolis bearing the name of E. G.

Spink there are 1,347 individual apartments which furnish modern living quarters to approximately 5,000 people. Every one of these apartments is modern in every way. They range in size from the one-room apartment with alcove sleeping room and kitchenette now so popular to the five and six-room apartments suit 'A Spink apartment buildings and hotels have done much to relieve the house condition in Indianapolis. There is at least one Spink apartment under construction all the time. And the erection of these buildings has been so systematized that now the E.

G. Spink Company do their own buying of materials and employ their own workmen, thereby being able to construct for less money and save many hours of time. The latest Spink project is the New Spink Hotel to be erected opposite the Union able for a larger family. Mr. Spink, who came to Indianapolis from Kentucky, had an idea that he so thoroughly believed in that by perseverance and hard work has' developed into these many handsome apartment buildings that Indianapolis may well be proud.

He believed that homes could be built on a utility plan with success; that they could be constructed in such a way as to incorporate every modern convenience and at such a price that they would provide a steady profit without 17th and Alabama 1G55 and 1 649 North Alabama street; two three-story brick buildings, containing 74 apartments, consisting of large living room, kitchenette, bath, bedroom and closet. Rentals, $32.25 to $33.75 per month, including heat, water, electricity for light and cooking. Refrigerator, in-a-door beds, kitchen cabinets and electric ranges furnished. Size of ground, 140x156 feet. Contents, 580,520 cul)ic feet.

3707-3713 N. Meridian St. ,3707 and 3715 North Meridian street and 18 East Thirty-seventh street. Two six-apartment brick buildings and one 12-Bpartment. building, with 14-car brick garage at rear.

Car space rental Is $7.50 per month per space. Meridian street buildings have 8 rooms, two baths and rent from $100 to $105 per month, including heat, water, gas and electricity. 18 East Thirty-seventh street building, 12 apartments having 3 rooms, kitchenette and bath, rentals from $55 to $60 per month, Including heat, water, gas and electricity. Ground is 164x200 feet. Contents Thirty-seventh street, building, 107,700 cubic feet.

Contents Meridian street building, 174,200 cubic feet. E. G. SPINK excessive rental charges. In 1915 after building several apartments with five and six-room suites he began to see the need of smaller living quarters for one or two persons.

He did not; however, have enough faith in such a structure until several bachelor women urged him to do something along that line. The first apartment containing these smaller apartments was erected at 1920 Cen- Station at the corner of Mc-Crea Street and Jackson Place. This new hotel will contain twTo hundred modern rooms each with a bath and the charge will be only a day. Thus Mr. Spink is letting the traveling public share the Spink inexpensive mode of living as well as the people who live in his resident apartments.

it 6T Jf it I' Z7Zl ans-A Exeter Apartments Exeter Apartments, 2055 to 2059 North Illinois street and 37 West Twenty-first street. Five-story reinforced concrete and brick fireproof apartment house, containing sixty apartments of living room, kitchenette, bath, reception hall, Pullman diner and one and two bedrooms each. Equipped with latest outside Icing refrigerators and service doors, garbage incinerators and automatic passenger and freight elevators. Rentals from $50 to $70, Including heat, water, gas, electricity and Ice. Exeter Pharmacy, barber shop, beauty parlor, grocery and cafeteria on first floor.

Size of ground Is 82x200 feet. Go 3325 N. Penn. St. 3525 North Pennsylvania street; four-apartment Kella-stone, two-story building, each consisting of eight rooms, two baths, eight-car garage In rear.

Rentals, $176 per month, Including two-car garage, heat, water, gas, electricity, telephones and Ice. Size of ground is 100x300 feet. Contents building, flfl.SftO cubic feet. Contents building, 55,000 cubic feet. Contents building, 682,000 cubic feet.

Contents garage, 120,000 cubic feet. General Offices 914 Hume-Mansur Building Lincoln 5336 Indiana Indianapolis.

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