:   December" 15, 1906





RECORD  AND   GUIDE





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Plans for a, Broux Opera House.
161ST ST.^Arehitect George Keister, of 11 West 29th st,
will prepare plans for a playhouse, which the Bronx Opera
House Co. (which was incorporated last Friday at Albany) will
establish on a plot, 100x169 ft., on the north side of IGlst st,
200 ft. east of Washington av in the Bronx. The structure wiil
be 4-stys in height, and have exteriors of brick, stone and terra
cotta, with very elaborate entrances. The estimated cost will
be in the neighborhood of $250,000. Myer R. Bimberg, of 111
West 44th st, who built the Longacre Square Theatre at Broad¬
way, northwest corner of 4.jth st, and the new Stuyvesant The¬
atre in 44th st, now under cour.se of erection, will have the
general contract for the new Bronx building. When interro¬
gated for the Record and Guide on Tuesday, he said the new
Bronx theatre would positively be built, and without delay.
Plans have been prepared and flled for as many as four similar
enterprises for the northern section of the Borough of the
Bronx, but .so far none has materialized. "But," added Mr.
Bimberg, "this theatre will be built." David Belasco is presi¬
dent of the conipany, and the theatre will be under his manage¬
ment. Myer R. Bimberg is vice-president, and A, C. Hall, of
the A. C. & H, M. Hall Realty Co,, is secretary and treasurer.
No sub-contracts  have yet  been  issued.





Twelve-Story  Business   Building'   for   Twenty-Second   Street.

22D ST.—Architect Frederick C. Zobel, 114-116 East 2Sth st,
who lias recently purchased Nos. 29-31 East 22d, a plot 52x98,0
ft., will improve the same with a 12-sty store and loft building.
The structure to be of steel frame, concrete arches and terra
cotta block partitions. Tlie equipment wiil include two ele¬
vators, plumbing, steam beating, electric wiring, with marble
and tiling in halls. Cornices and skylights will be of copper,
windows and doors of flreproof construction, and the facade
will be constructed of limestone and pressed brick. No building
conti-acts have been let.





Large Apartment House for Baptist Church of Epipliany Site.

MADISON AV,—At the southeast corner of Madison av and
64th st Louis M. Jones Sc Co., 350 Broadway, will soon begin
the erection of a 10-sty high-class elevator apartment house
on a plot 100,5x132,0 ft. Mr. Jones states that no plans have
yet been drawn or architect selected. The Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. this week made a building loan of $750,000 on
the property, whicii is now covered by the Baptist Church of
the   Epiphany.





Reinfoi'ced Conci'cte Chui'ch Building.

■ MORRIS AV.—Plans are now being prepared by E, O. P. Du
Mazuel, engineer of the Consolidated Engineei'ing Company
,of America, No. 41 "Wall st, for the erection ot a reinforced
concrete fireproof church edifice for St. Edmund's Episcopal
congregation, of whicll tbe Rev. J. 0. Smiley is rector, to be
S'ituated at Morris av and 177tli st, in the Bronx. Figures will
be taken at once, no building contracts having been awarded.





HoAvells & Stokes Architects for Dutch Street Building.

DUTCH ST,—Plans are now being designed by Messrs, How-
ehs & Stokes, 100 William st, for the 12-sty office and loft
building which the North Ward Realty Co,, Harry Hall, 100
William st, secretary, will build on the northwest corner of
Dutch and John sts, covering a plot, 75x113x75,3x104 ft. Build¬
ing operations will not be commenced until May 1, 1907. No
awards have yet been made.     (See also issue May 5, 1906.)





Plans for the Whitehall Street Terminal.

Plans will soon be ready for contractors for estimates on the
.general contract for the superstructure of the Whitehall st
terminal of the 39th st ferry, which the city recently acquired.
The structure will have two stories, and approximate a cost of
half a million dollars. Bids will be advertised for by the Com¬
missioner of Docks and Ferries, J. A. Bensel. Messrs. Walker
& Morris, 24 East 23d st, are the architects.





Latest Seventy-Seventh  St. Improvement.

77TH ST.—A syndicate, owner's name for the pi-esent with¬
held,  will  erect on  the  south  side  of  77th st,   150 ft. -east  of

-Columbus av, immediately opposite the Museum of Natural
History,' on a plot 100x102.2 ft., a high class apartment and
studio  building.    The  Record and  Guide is  informed  that  no

•plans have yet been approved, or architect selected.





Nelson   Morris Co. to Build in The Bronx.

BROOK AV.—Nelson Morris Co,, of No. 46 10th av, Man¬
hattan, and Chicago, 111., are having plans prepared by com¬
pany forces for  the establishment of a brick,  stone and steel





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fireproof S-sty warehouse,  lo cover a plot 212x135 ft. on Brook
av, in the borough of the Bronx.





Apartments, Plats and Tenementa.

BROADWAT.—On th? northwest corner of Broadway and
144th st Alexander Walker, president of the Colonial Bank,
will erect an elevator apartment house on plot  100x150 ft.

ST. NICHOLAS AVE.—Moersch & Willie, 29 Tremont av, will
soon erect on the northeast corner of St. Nicholas av and lOSth
st, a 6-sty 39-family fiat building, 100x90 ft., to cost about
,^125,000,    J. E. Scharsmith, 1 Madison av, will maiie the plans.

SoTH ST.—A member of the Wittner-Jaffer Realty Co., Am¬
sterdam av and lllth st, informs the Record and Guide that the
firm will not erect a 10-sty elevator apartment house at 336
West Soth st, on plot 25x102.2 ft., as reported the past week
in the daily papers.    He added, the report is incorrect.





Dwellings.

A Boston njan has purchased abont thirty acres near Wheatley
Hills, L. I., adjoining the pi-operty of Mackay, Whitney and the
Morgans, on which a $30,000 residence will be erected. The
McNulty & Fitzgerald Co.  can inform.





Chui'ches.

MADISON AV.—The Baptist Church of the Epiphany, situated
at the southeast corner of Madison av and 64th st, having just
sold its church property, will now proceed with the erection of
a new edifice. So far as can be learned, no definite building
site or architect-has yet been settled upon.





Theati-es.

TIMES SQUARE.—The plan as announced the past week
that still another theatre would be erected on the north side
of Times sq, a triangular block, bounded on the north by
4Sth st, on the south by Times sq, and west and east by Broad¬
way and 7th av, and that the Messi-s. Shubert Bros, had ac¬
quired the site for this improvement, was denied by Lee Shu¬
bert,   of   Shubert   Bros.,   on   Monday.





MercaJitile

Messrs. Carpenter, Blair & Gould, No. 475 5th av, Manhattan,
are about ready to take figures on a 12-sty office building,
brick,  stone and steel, to be erected at Montgomery, Ala.

21ST ST.—The State Realty & Mortgage Co., No. 11 Pine st,
informs the Record and Guide that no plans have been drawn
or architect selected for the 11-sty loft building which it is
reported they will ei-ect at Nos. 31-33 West 21st st.

GRAND ST.—Samuel Eisemore, 71 Grand st, will ei-ect a G-sty
side extension, 44x75x96 ft., install new iron girders, columns,
etc., to the store and loft building- southeast corner of Grand
and Wooster sts, at a cost of about $50,000. Plans are being
prepared by T. J. Van der Bent, 160 5tli av. No awards have
yet been made.

3d AV.—No contracts have yet been awarded for ■the 3-sty
loft and store building, 26x100 ft., which Luder Reinken, 124
East 62d st, will erect at 54-56 3d av, at a eost of .|15,000.
Plans by Louis Giller, 410 Broadway, call for an exterior of
brick, stone and iron, metal cornices, etc. Two 3-sty buildings
will  be demolished,

BROADWAT,—A 6-sty rear extension, 25x28.6, new plumbing,
an electric passenger elevator, fireproof staircases and 1-sty
will be added to the 5-sty loft building No. 179 Eroad^\'ay. Geo.
E. Keith, 299 Broadway, is owner and H. G. Knapp, 112 West
42d st, architect. Tbe cost is placed at about ?30,000, and no
contracts have yet been let.





Factories.

WATER ST.—Jones Eros., Water and Pearl sts, Brooklyn,
have awai-ded the general contract for an S-sty fireproof factory
and warehouse, 51x100 ft., to be erected at the southwest corner
of Waler and Pearl sts, Brooklyn, to A. G. Stone, of No. 44
Court St. E. N. Stone, 260 Bast 12th st, Brooklyn, is the
architect.

39TPI .ST.^Prank H. Quinby, 99 Nassau st, has plans ready
for $10,000 worth of alterations to the 4-sty factory south side
of 39th st, 275 ft. east of Oth av, for D, Auerbach & Son. No
coiitracts have baen awarded. The building will be increased
in height 1-sty, and cast iron columns and gii-ders will be
installed.

The Cook Spring Co., 247 Centre st, Manhattan, which ar¬
ranged recently to erect a 2-sty factory building on Division
st, Jersey City, has decided not to build there, but has acquired
an existing plant in the vicinity of New Tork, and will shortly
add to its manufacturing facilities. The company has not yet
purchased all its  machinery.