ملف:Building Soars in Farmingdale in the Nassau Daily Review on February 16, 1937.png

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Building Soars in Farmingdale. Construction Boom Seen Near In Facts Revealed By Clerk Wesche. The village of Farmingdale is in the midst of one of the biggest construction booms in recent years, it was indicated today in a report on building in the village and surrounding area made by Village Clerk William E. Wesche [sic] . Most notable of the Farmingdale construction projects is the remodeling of the old Kunz hotel on Eastern parkway into a modern eight-family apartment house. It is expected the building will be ready for occupation by early spring. Mamert Plesneiwicz, plumbing contractor of Hillside avenue, Jamaica, is the owner of the converted dwelling. The apartments will include three rooms, tile baths and the latest plumbing fixtures. It is estimated the improvements will cost $10.000. The old Kunz hotel is about 50 years old and was built by Jarvis Lattin, pioneer Farmingdale resident. About 1900 the hotel was taken over by the late Fred Kunz and operated by him until 1910. At that time the business was sold to Walter Webber and Gus Finger. He managed the hostelry [sic] until 1914. Other new structures and improvement projects in the village and vicinity are causing the construction to soar, it was pointed out by Clerk Wesche. Herbert A. Cobb, local realtor, has Just completed the construction of a home on Laurelton street. He is finishing two other houses on Prospect street and it is said the three houses; cost approximately $4,500 each plus the cost of the property. Mrs. Fredia Weiden and Charles Squire, member of the Farmingdale village police force, have completed two new homes on Prospect street. Isadore Wolly, well known Farmingdale merchant, has completed a new $12,500 home on Laurelton and Prospect streets. Joseph Doha is building a new home on Laurelton street. A. Ketcham, local contractor, has finished another apartment house on Eastern parkway. Work will start early this spring on a $15,000 colonial type residence for Mrs. Laura V. Donegan of Brooklyn on a three-acre tract on Quaker Meeting House road. It is understood that it large development program on Melville road is planned in Farmingdale, and construction in other sections of the township is increasing and the figures for this year may even exceed the high mark set in 193$. Building took a tremendous leap in the township, according to Elbert K. Griffin, town building Inspector, the increase over the amount spent in construction in the town for 1936 over the previous year was more than 73 percent.

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Building Soars in Farmingdale. Construction Boom Seen Near In Facts Revealed By Clerk Wesche. The village of Farmingdale is in the midst of one of the biggest construction booms in recent years, it was indicated today in a report on building in the village and surrounding area made by Village Clerk William August Wesche. Most notable of the Farmingdale construction projects is the remodeling of the old Kunz hotel on Eastern parkway into a modern eight-family apartment house. It is expected the building will be ready for occupation by early spring. Mamert Plesneiwicz, plumbing contractor of Hillside avenue, Jamaica, is the owner of the converted dwelling. The apartments will include three rooms, tile baths and the latest plumbing fixtures. It is estimated the improvements will cost $10.000. The old Kunz hotel is about 50 years old and was built by Jarvis Lattin, pioneer Farmingdale resident. About 1900 the hotel was taken over by the late Fred Kunz and operated by him until 1910. At that time the business was sold to Walter Webber and Gus Finger. He managed the hostelry until 1914. Other new structures and improvement projects in the village and vicinity are causing the construction to soar, it was pointed out by Clerk Wesche. Herbert A. Cobb, local realtor, has Just completed the construction of a home on Laurelton street. He is finishing two other houses on Prospect street and it is said the three houses; cost approximately $4,500 each plus the cost of the property. Mrs. Fredia Weiden and Charles Squire, member of the Farmingdale village police force, have completed two new homes on Prospect street. Isadore Wolly, well known Farmingdale merchant, has completed a new $12,500 home on Laurelton and Prospect streets. Joseph Doha is building a new home on Laurelton street. A. Ketcham, local contractor, has finished another apartment house on Eastern parkway. Work will start early this spring on a $15,000 colonial type residence for Mrs. Laura V. Donegan of Brooklyn on a three-acre tract on Quaker Meeting House road. It is understood that it large development program on Melville road is planned in Farmingdale, and construction in other sections of the township is increasing and the figures for this year may even exceed the high mark set in 193$. Building took a tremendous leap in the township, according to Elbert K. Griffin, town building Inspector, the increase over the amount spent in construction in the town for 1936 over the previous year was more than 73 percent.

 People

• Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941)
• William August Wesche (1892-1971), municipal clerk, named as "William E. Wesche"
• Frederick A. Kunz (1871-1901)
• Mamert Plesneiwicz (1891-1951)

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In the original text "hostelry" was spelled "hostery" and William August Wesche (1892-1971), the municipal clerk, was identified as "William E. Wesche". See this 1908 entry for Annie A. Kunz transferring the liquor license to Walter Webber for the hotel on the Eastern parkway opposite the Long Island Railroad station in Farmingdale.

 Kunz hotel

• "The old Kunz hotel is about 50 years old and was built by Jarvis Lattin, pioneer Farmingdale resident. About 1900 the hotel was taken over by the late Fred Kunz and operated by him until 1910. At that time the business was sold to Walter Webber and Gus Finger. He managed the hostelry until 1914."

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