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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





May 6, 1916





Underwood Typewriter  Co.  to  Btiild.

The Underwood Typewriter Co. has
retained Starrett & Van VIeck, archi¬
tects, 8 West 40th street, to prepare
the plans and specifications for a serv¬
ice building, which will embody a num¬
ber of interesting features. The struc¬
ture will be erected on a plot recently
purchased at the southwest corner of
Greenwich and Vesey streets. The plot
has a frontage of 84 feet in Greenwich
street and 129.9 feet in Vesey . street.
The area of the plot is approximately
10,200 square feet. This building,
adapted to a special service in the Un¬
derwood lines, will be erected under a
general contract by the Tidewater
Building Co. The tentative plans ^call
for a structure twelve stories in height,
built entirely of reinforced concrete with
facades of brick. Particular attention
in the planning has been devoted to
adequate facilities for natural lighting,
and a large percentage of the wall sur¬
face has-been utilized for windows.
Nothing will be neglected to make the
structure strictly modern in every re¬
spect, nor will there be facilities lack¬
ing for the most efficient handling of
the business which the project is de¬
signed to  accommodate.

According to the plans there will be
a large escalator operating from the
basement to the top floor of the build¬
ing, to act as a conveyor for typewrit¬
er" machines, and there will be four
large electric elevators for passengers
and freight. A complete automatic
sprinkler outfit will be installed and
every effort will be extended^ to make
the structure a model  of its kind.

New Apartment on Brooklyn Heights.

Plans are being prepared in the office
of W. T. McCarthy, architect. 16 Court
street, Brooklyn, for a six-story apart¬
ment house to be erected in Livingston
street, between Court and Clinton
streets, on a site adjoining the Packer
Collegiate Institute. The owner of this
operadon is the Wolfinger & Lasberg
Building Co.. 346 Broadway, Manhattan,
which has been prominently identified
with the construction of high class multi-
family houses in the Flatbush section
and which has recently started an im¬
portant housing project in the Bay
Ridge section of Brooklyn. The new
building will be erected on a plot 96 x
156 feet, the structure occupying the en¬
tire frontage and planned to run back to
a depth of 138 feet. The building will
be six stories in height and will provide
accommodations for thirty-six families in
suites of four, six and seven rooms with
two and three baths. There will be six
families to each floor. In design and
plan this operation will compare favor¬
ably with any structure of its kind in the
borough, and it will be equipped with
every modern convenience for the com¬
fort of the tenants. Two electric ele¬
vators will be installed. The operation
will represent an expenditure of approxi¬
mately $300,000, including the cost of the
land.





avenue. This operation supersedes the
project which was being planned by
Cross & Cross, architects, and which,
as was announced in a recent issue, was
to have been constructed by F. T. Ley
& Company. The details of the new
project are not available at this time,
but  will  be  announced  in  a  later  issue.





Wm.   Crawford   Obtains   Contract.

A general, contract has been awarded
to William Crawford, 7 East 42d street,
for the construction of a twelve-story
store and loft building at 16-18 West 38th
street. The owner of the project is
Tohn S. Weatherly, of White Plains,
N Y., and the architect is Paul R. Allen.
35 West 39th street. The plans call for
a structure on a plot 50x100 feet, fire¬
proof in every particular, with facade
of brick,  terra  cotta  and liftiestone.





New   Plans   for   Park   Avenue   Project.

Bing & Bing Construction Company.
119 West 40th street, has recently pur¬
chased the property at the southeast c(3r-
ner of Park avenue and 55th street, in¬
cluding 407-413 Park avenue and 100-108
East S5th street, and will improve with
a thirteen-story apartment house from
plans by Emery Roth, architect. 119
West 40th street. The building will oc¬
cupy plot approximately 75x100 _ feet,
and in construction and finish_ will be
the peer of the eroup of high-class
structures of a similar character which
has   recently   been   constructed   on   the





Plans for Y.  M.  H. A.  Building.

Shampan & Shampan, 772 Broadway,
Brooklyn, are preparing the plans and
specifications for the new building to be
erected for the Young Mens' Hebrew As¬
sociation, at the northeast corner of
Fourteenth avenue and SOth street,
Brooklyn. The building operations will
proceed under the direction of William
Sugarman. president of the association,
.Asher Dann. chairman of the building
committee, and under the supervision of
the architects. The proposed building
will be three stories in height, with mez¬
zanine, on a plot 55 x 90 feet. The fa¬
cades will be of face brick with trim¬
mings of granite and Indiana limestone.
The plans call for a completely equipped
gymnasium, locker room, kitchen, lecture
hall, reception rooms, game rooms, bowl¬
ing alleys and billiard room, laboratory
and class rooms. The cost of the project
is estimated at approximately $50,000.





New Apartments for Upper West Side.

Rouse & Goldstone, architects, 40
West 32d street, have been retained to
prepare the plans and superintend the
construction of a thirteen-story apart¬
ment house to be erected at 584-586
West End avenue. The owner of this
operation is the Coast Construction
Companv, Samuel G. Hess, president,
302 West 87th street. The projected
building will occupy a plot 40x100 feet,
and will have a facade of face brick with
trimmings of terra cotta and Indiana
limestone. Further details regarding this
project will be announced in a later is¬
sue of the Record and Guide.





PERSONAL AND TRADE          I

NOTES.                           I

Cullen   Contracting   Company   has

moved its offices from 1 Broadway, to
17 Battery place.

Duncan Candler, architect, has moved
his ofiices from 105 West 40th street, to
753  Fifth  avenue.

G. E. Krug, architect, has moved his
offices from 320 Fifth avenue, Manhat¬
tan, to East Orange. N. J.

Johnson-Sherrane Co., general con-
tractine. has moved its office from 38
Park  Row to  103  Park avenue.

Clarence L. Sefert, architect, has re¬
centlv moved his offices from 110 West
40th  street to 2010 Broadway.

Miss Josephine Chapman, architect,
has moved her offices from 4 West 40th
slreet  to 40 Washington   square.

Edmund D. Broderick, general con¬
tractor, has moved his offices from 17
East 40th street'to 110 West 40th street.

D. Everett Waid, architect, has moved
his offices from the third to the twenty-
second floor of the Metropolitan Build¬
ing.

Scopes & Feustman, architects, have
moved their New York ofifice from 37
East 28th street to 15-17 West 38th
street.

Patterson & Dula, architects, have
moved their ofifices from the Anderson
Studios Building. 15 East 40th street, to
527 Fifth avenue.

Werner & Windolph, architects, for¬
merly located at 27 West 33rd street, are
now occupvin.g larger quarters at 25
West 33rd street.

Thomas T. Hopper Co., general con¬
tracting, has inovei^ its offices froin 1326
Broadwav to the new Foster Building.
280 Madison avenue.

Murdock Smith, general contractor,
207 West 20th street, has obtained a
contract for the erection of a bugalow
for help on the estate of Mrs. J. P. Mor¬
gan at  Highland  Falls.  N. Y.

Colby & Christie, consulting engineers,
Whitherspoon     Building,     Philadelphia,





Pa., have discontinued their New York
oflfice at 165 Broadway.

Prudden-Winslow Co., Inc., mason
materials, has moved its offices from 30
East 42d street to the new Foster Build¬
ing. 280 Madison avenue.

Paul Bernstein & Co., plumbing con¬
tractors, formerly located at 24 Attorney
street, are now occupying larger quar¬
ters at 436 Grand  street.

W. L. Barnhart, sales representative
for the White-Steel Sanitary Furniture
Co., has moved his office from 101 Park
avenue  to 507  Fifth avenue.

Frederick Jaeger, architect, for a num¬
ber of years located at 441 East Tremont
avenue, has discontinued his office and
practice on account of failing health.

Clifford B. Moore, consulting engineer,
has been appointed a member of the ex¬
amining board of city surveyors, to suc¬
ceed  E.  P.  Goodrich,  recently resigned.

Wm. Weissenberger, Jr., for many
years the architect for the New York
Edison Co.. has opened an oflfice for the
independent practice of his profession at
32 Union square.

H. Hurwitz Company, plumbing and
heating fixtures and supplies, has moved
its ofifice and showroom from 239 West
145th street to larger quarters at 242
West 145th street.

C. Aubrey Jackson, architect, formerly
the office manager for Donn Barber, has
opened an oflfice for the practice of his
profession in the Vanderbilt Concourse
Building.  52 Vanderbilt avenue.

Valentine & Kissam, architects, 25
Madison avenue, have dissolved partner¬
ship by mutual consent. Mr. Valentine
and Mr. Kissam will continue in the
practice of their profession at the for¬
mer address, and will co-operate in the
work now in the office of the firm.

Irving F. Morrow and William I. Gar-

ren, architects, announce that they have
formed a partnership for the general
practice of their profession, under the
firm name of Morrow & Garren, with
oflSces in the Chronicle Building, San
Francisco, Cal.

Raymond F. Almirall, architect, for¬
merly located at 185 Madison avenue,
has formed a partnership for the joint
practice of his profession with Philip
Alain Cusachs, under the firm name of
Raymond Almirall and Philip Cusachs,
architects, with ofifices at 12 East 46th
street.

William D. Brush, a lawyer, at 120
Broadway, has been appointed by Bor¬
ough President Marks as Assistant
Superintendent of the Manhattan
Bureau of Buildings and head of the
legal department in place of Robert B.
Insley. who resigned. Mr. Brush has been
an alderman for six years, serving as
chairman of the General Welfare Com¬
mittee and member of the Buildings
Committee. His saLrv will be $4,000 a
year.

A. Perlman Iron Works, Inc., 1735
West Farms, road, has obtained the
contracts for the ornamental iron work
on the following buildings: Nine-story
apartment, 41-49 West 82d street, for
the Greycourt Realty Company,
Schwartz & Gross architects; eleven-
story apartment at the northwest corner
of Lexington avenue and 82d street, for
Bing & Bing. Emery Roth, architect,
and the twelve-story apartment at the
southwest corner of Park avenue and
63d street, for Bing & Bing, Emery
Roth,  architect.

Isaac A. Hopper's Sons, Inc., have re¬
cently been incorporated at Albany for
the purpose of conducting a general
contracting business, with offices at
1451 Broadway. The oflficers of the new
concern are Walter F. Hopper, presi¬
dent; Sigmund H. Spritz, vice-president,
and Geor,ge B. Hopper, secretary and
treasurer. Walter F. and George B.
Hopper were formerly associated with
the firm of Isaac A. Hopper. Inc., which
has been dissolved. Mr. .Aitman for¬
merly connected with the old firm has
become the manager of the_ new Bijou
Building, on Broadway, which was re¬
cently erected for the Hopaltrun Realty
Co.,  by  Isaac A.   Hopper,  Inc.