Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — REMARKABLE, CONSTRUCTION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REMARKABLE, CONSTRUCTION.

Putting Up a Twelve-Story Building in Thirty-Nine Days. Chicago Herald, Last night the new twelve-story Boyce building, at 112 and 114 Dearborn street, was brought under roof. Thirty-nine days ago the structure presented an appearance as shown in the accompanying illustration. The making of leases for the building, which has to be ready for occupancy May 1, began last week and 50 per oent. of the offices are already rented. The tenants will not be delayed one day. Thousands upop thousands of pedestrians on Dearborh street have seen the building grow

almost visibly and marveled at the latest and fastest illustration of “Chicago construction.” The contractor, C. Everett Clark, was delayed for months in his work by the failure of the structural iron to arrive from Eastern mills. When thq material did arrive the work was pushed day and night, and even a faster record was made than in the celebrated case of the Ashland block. The brick and terra-cotta work for twelve stories was put in within twenty-two day, ten stories of iron work in twenty-six days, and last night the building was under roof.

W. D. Boyce, the owner of the handsome structure, said last night: “Under the prevailing' system of constricting-office buildings it is not necessaSp to lose over six months, providing the iron and exterior material is ready. The excavation for a twelve story building like mine can be made and the shell completed in seventy-five days. Consequently an owner has no need to lose a year’s time in demolishing an old and putting up a new building. The difference in the cost of labor by putting two or even three relays of men to work instead of one is nothing compared with the loss of rent for six months."

BOYCE BUILDING, JANUARY 30.

BOYCE BUILDING, MARCH 11.