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CONTRACT FOR NEW $40,000 R.C. CHURCH TO BE LET THIS WEEK

J.H. Gardiner Has Been Awarded Contract for Priest’s Residence To Cost $12,000

[People's Press, 30 September 1913]

             J.H Gardiner was last week awarded the contract to build a priest’s residence at the site of the new R.C. church, corner Hellems avenue and Griffith street. The residence will be of solid brick construction for which Hamilton pressed brick will be used, and will contain fourteen rooms. It will cost in the neighborhood of $12,000.

             Tenders are now in for the new church, and the contract for this edifice will be let the latter part of this month. Its cost will be between $30,000 and $40,000.

             The construction of both the church and priest’s house will be rushed, and it is expected they will be completed by next spring.

[See related POSTCARD: St.Mary's Roman Catholic Church]

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