AND   BUILDERS^   GUIDE.





Vol. XI.





NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1873.





No. 268.





Published WeeHu by

TîIE REAL ESriTE RECORD  ASSOCIATION.

TERMS.

One year, in advance......................§6 00

Ali coiniauiiications should he addressed to

Whiting Building. 343 A.vr) 347 Broadway,





Spécial Noticp:s.

The firm of Stew.art & Co., the senior member of which
has been concerned in Drain-Pipe manufacturing in this
city for more than 23 years, have found their incroasing
bu.-iness reqnire more ample room for the display of goods.
With this view, they have just fitted up and now occupy a
store at No. 2(i9 Poarl, two doors from Fui ton. .\t their
Works, running throngh from ISth to IUth sts., near llth
avenue, they have for several years been prosecuting exper-
iments, .at great expense. in tho. manufacture of Terra
Cotta Goods, and can now prodiics-'this kind of article free
from defects hitherto exporionoed. They now confidently
assert that for m;iny useful and ornamental purposes their
Terra Cotta goods aro far better adapted than those made
from any other material.

Attention is called to the large amount of property of¬
fered for .sale in Montréal. This property, as represented
to us. has many attractive features, and its assumed early
very great prospective increase seems to be based u])oh
numerous co-operating cau.ses, The section of the city, the
f.ashionablo streets loading to and through it, the proximi¬
ty of horse-cars, the boulevards and the new park givo it
many attraotion.s, while the geiitly sloping character of the
ground and its freedom from rock and swamii ronder
its improvement easy and cheap. Ground around it has
vastly increased in v.alue in the last few year.s, .and thore
are said to have beon bnilt in its vieinity within the samo
time about five hundrod fine résidences. Mr. Pelham statos
that the reason for oiïoring this property in Now York as
well as Montréal is that the greator monoyed resources of
tho metropolis of^the continent may be appealed to in en¬
deavoring to dispose of so large aniï valuable a property.





THE   MANUFACTUREES'    AND     BUILDEES
BANK.

Among the many improvements whicli have
so rapidly developed themselves La the upper
portion of the City, one of the most conspicu-
ous is the building recently completed at the
north-east corner of Fifty-seventh street and
Third Avenue, known as the Manufacturers'
and Builders' Bank. Although going under
that name, the Bank really forms but a por¬
tion of the édifice, which was erected by Mr.
John Davidson, the Président of the Bank,
for a variety of useful purposes, and it is sel¬
dom that a lot of giound of the same size is to
be found so ingeniously economized, and a
buUding, by skillful arrangement of plan, made
to answer so completely the purposes for which
it was intended. The entire space on whieh it
is btûlt is only 50 feet by 95 feet, and yet the
building has the appearance of being consider¬
ably larger. In width it is divided into two
parts, the portion towards Fifty-seventh street
being devoted to the Bank, offices, &o., while
the northern portion is occupied by résidences
for familles, but so completely walled off from
the rest as really to form a separate édifice in-
temally. There are two entrances; one on
Third Avenue, leading to the Bank and adjoin¬
ing dweUing-houses ; another at the eastern
end on Fifty-seventh street. through which the
rooms over the Btxnk portion are approached
by means- of broad and handsome newel stair¬
cases.    The basement floor, but a step or two





below the side-walk, is occupied in its whole
length by real estate and other business ofiices.
The Bank, over thèse, which. is approached frora
Third Avenue by a bold flight of steps, runs
back the whole distance with the exception of
the end stair-case, and having two whole sides
completely lighted, is probably one of the most
agreeable business places of the kind to be
found in the City. It is provided with saf es,
accommodations for officers and clerks, burg-
lar and fire-proof réceptacles, and ail the other
arrangements of modem first-class banks. In
décoration it makes no pretension whatever to
grandeur, but aU its fittiugs are of that solid,
substantial and élégant character, which one
appréciâtes in superior business houses ; while
the abundance of light makes it peculiarly
cheerfui. The spacious stairway on Fifty-sev¬
enth street leads to a large and handsome s'ùite
of rooms on the second lloor, immediately over
the Bank, and occupied by the Sparta Cliib,
a new c'ub recently formed, and of which Mr.
Jajies M. Miller is président. Over thèse
rooms, on the third floor, the adjoining build¬
ing encroaches for the purpose of obtaining
living room, but having no communication
whatever with the staircase, which is surround¬
ed by solid walls, The fourth story over the Bank
and Sparta Club-room is occupied by a commo¬
dious and elegantJy furnished lodge-room,
which is at présent used by the Aima, the Star
of Cuba (composed mainly of Cubans), the
King Solomon and King Solomon's Chapter—
principally Germans, The view to be obtained
of the City, from this Lodge room and the
Sparta Club-room below is very beautiful, as it
commands. the whole western and southern
portions as far as the eye can reach ; and the
inmates moreover can never complain of a lack
of fresh air and ventilation, The building is
throughout most substantially erected, and the
basement walls are of unusual thickness and
strength. The cellar is very peculiar, having
been built expressly for the rétention of Ger¬
man wines, which are aiready to be seen fiUing
the whole surface in clean, well-arranged pipes,
It is claimed for those vaults that they are the
first of the kind erected in iS'ew York, if not
in the United States.

,-■ The style adopted by the architects, Messrs.
Schulze and Schoen, in what is called gener¬
aUy—for want of a better name— the Benais-
sance ; that is a mingling of ItaUan forms with
the Neo-Greek flourishes, or engraving in stone,
which has of late been so largely introduced
among us. The architects have in this case,
however, and with considérable taste, made
this very superficial mode of décoration subser-
vient to their projections and architectural
forms, instead of allowing it to become the
prime feature and to supersede moldings, as is
now a prevaUing hideous fashion.    The buUd¬





ing was originally intended to be crowned
with a mansard roof, but the fire of Boston
having brought that unfortunate buUding fea¬
ture into such disrepute, the design had to be
changed at the last moment, aud the same cor¬
nice was consequently planted a story higher
than its first destination. Though taken at
this serions disadvantagc, the élévation is stiU
bold and striking, and exhibits everywhere, like
the interior, the hand of taste and skillful de¬
sign. It is of Ohio freestone, with the excep¬
tion of the basement and first floor, which are
of iron pUasters, judiciously filled with a brick
core, the only way indeed in which cast-iron
supports for walls should be permitted to be
erected in the city, The entire cost of the
buildings was $110,000, and from the judicious
way in which this sum has been laid out, and
the manner in which the édifice and aU its sur¬
roundings have been completed, there can be
no doubt that it will largely improve the value
of ijroperty in its immédiate neighborhood,

MECHANICS' LIENS.

NEIRT  YORK.

April.

26 Eighth av.,  s. w. cor, 12.oth st.

James E. Poole agt, A. Raymond.     $797 97

26 Flli-TY-NINTH   ST., N. S., 90  E.   MaDI-

Bon av., 67.2x—. John Moran agt.
Fernando Wood..................    2,000 00

30 Fifty-ninth st., n. s., 157 e. Madi-
son av., IG.Sx—. John Moran agt.
,      Fernando Wood..................    1,452 00

30 Fifty-ninth st., n, s,, 224 e. Madi-
son av., 16.Sx—, Joim Moran agb.
Fernando Wood..................    1,4.52 00

30 Houston st. (Nos. 204 and 206 W.),
n. s:, bet, Macdougal and Varick
sts, Patrick Toner agt. John Mc¬
Crum and —, Brooks.............       186 00

25 Madison av,, n, w. cok. 73d st., 10
houses on st. Andrew KeUy agt.
James E. Coburn.................     4,469 00

25  Madison av., n. w, cok, 73d st., 5

houses on st.    Heman Clark agt.

Jno. Doe.........................         40 00

26  Madison av., n, w,.cor. 78d st., 8

houses on st.    Allen GaUagher agt.

James E, Coburn.................    2,259 00

Mulberry  st., n. w.  s., 150 s. 1

go     Grand st., 25x—................|

■"^ Baxter st. (No. 149), B. s., 150 s. [

Grand st., 25x—...............; j

D.  E. Hawldns  and P.   KeUbach

agt. George VV. Ferguson.........    1,330 24

25  One Hundked and Twenty-first 1

st., s. s., 7 houses com. about 235 j

e. lst av........................1

One Hundred and Twenty- j
SECOND st., s. s., 3  houses  cora. ',

about 235 e. lst av..............J

(Continuation of lien filed AprU 29,
1872.) John McTeague agt. Deck¬
er & Smith.......................       89183

26  Tenth av.,   s. e.   cor.   154th st.

Noah Wheaton agt. Nelson Newton       115 00

24  Tenth av., e. s., com. about 25 s.

1.54th st., extending s. 25. James
McKenna agt. Mrs. Kirkland......         16 00

25  One Hundked and Twenty-third

st., s. s., 140 w. 6th av.   G. S. Wood
and Jno. Keenan agt, Rob't Mporeg,    3,433 75
25 Same  pkopekty.    John  Preuser

a^. P. Freeman...........•:•••,••.       4"^ ^