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The Record and guide: [v. 35, no. 883]: February 14, 1885

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February 14, 1885 The Record and Guide. 163 W. F. Corwith has sold the lot with front and rear buUdings, No. 188 Greene stieet, to John C. Muller, for $5,700. The plot on the northwest corner of Lafayette avenue and Steuben stieet, 125x82, has been purchased by Paul C. Grening, for $15,000. Bulkley & Horton have sold for John Lowitz the three-story stone front dweUing, No. '228 Washington avenue, 21.9x45x100, to John A. Deraody, for $14,000; for Wm. F. Porter the three-story brick dwelling, No. 242 Clermont avenue, 20x40x100, to Emma S. Fisher, for $7,500; for Fi-ed. A. Adams, the two-story frame dwelUng, No. 18.5 Adelphi street, 22x37x78, to A. MorreU, for $5,000; for George PhiUips the three-story stone front dweUing, No. 239 Jefferson street, 20x45x100 to Charles Currie, for $14,- 000; and for Rufus Ressigue the tteee-story brick dwelUng No. 212 Claspn avenue, 50x100, to Wm. Gainer for $8,000. -«it*. Out Among the Builders. "The Fifth Avenue Apartment Company wiU erect an eleven-story apart¬ ment house on the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth stieet. The buUding wiU have a frontage of 85.9 feet on the avenue and 146 feet on the street. It will be of a first-class character throughout, and wiU cost upwards of $600,000. The structure now on the site—formerly occupied by the Univei-sity Club—wiU shortly be demoUshed to make way for the improvement. The Puck building—Me,ssrs. Ottmann, Keppler & Schwarzmann, owners— instead ot being erected on Pearl street, near Broadway (as previously reported in The Record and Guide), will be built on property just purchased by them ou the southwest corner ot Houston and Mulberry stieets, formerly St Catherine's Convent. The builiUng wiU front 117 feet on Houston and 138 feet on Mulberry street, by a depth of 138 and 100 feet respectively. The new structure wiU be seven stories in height, with base¬ ment and sub-basement, and two 100-horse power boilers wiU te placed under the sidewalk. A driveway is to be constiucted on the Mulberry street side and two elevators wiU be provided. The entrance floor will be used and divided into stores, the second and third floors for offices, and the remainder for press and printing pm'poses. The front wiU te constiucted in stone, brick and iron. The cost will be about $200,000. The plans are being drawn by Albert Wagner. The same architect is preparing sketches for a six-story store building to be buUt in Adelaide, South AustraUa—S. Mayfield & Sons, owners—to front on Bundle stieet. The dimensions wiU be 75 by 210 feet. An hydrauUc elevator, the first ever used there, wiU te placed in the building. The iron work wiU be fumished by Messrs. J. B. & J. M. Cornell. The cost will amount to about $65,000. A seven-story apartment hou.se is to be erected on the north side of Fifty- seventh street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, by Philip Braender. It wiU te 50x90 in size, and have a front of brick, stone and terra cotta. The interior wiU be m hardwood, an elevator, steam-heat aud other improve¬ ments wUl be suppUed, and aU the appoiutmeuts will be of a good character. The cost has not yet been estimated. The plans are being drawn by John Brandt. The same architect has the designs for two flve-story brown stone flats, 25x83 each, to be biult on the north side of Ninety-third stieet, 275 feet west of texington avenue, for Louis Wirth, at a cost of about $40,000. John G. Prague intends to erect five four story and basement private dwellings on the north side of Seventy-third street, commencing 87.6 feet west of Park avenue. They wUl be 17.7x80 each, including an extension, and wiU have fronts of brick with BelleviUe stone and terra cotta trimmings. They are estimated to cost about $100,000. Mr. Prague is both architect and owner. Thom & Wilson have the plans uuder way for two five-story brick and brown stone tenements, '25x84 each, to be erected on tho south side of Forty- ninth street, 135 feet east of Ninth avenue, for George Kick, at a cost of $32,000; a five-story brick and brown stone flat, 25x85, to be built at No. 846 West Forty-eighth sti'eet, for Theodore Riehl, to cost $18,000; a five- story brick and browni stone fiat, 25x82, to be built at No. 310 West Fiftieth stieet, for Martin Karl, to cost $18,000; a five-story brick and brown stone tenement and store, '25x76.6, with fom'-story shop in rear, size of lot 1.50 feet, to be built ou the west side of First aveuue, 75 feet south of Twenty- third street, for John Kreeb, at a cost of $22,000, and a five-story brick and brown stone tenement, 25x76.6, to be buUt on the east side of Seventh aveuue, 25 feet south of TMi-ty-second street, for James J. Morison, to cost about $17,000. Cleverdon & Putzel are drawing the plans for eight tteee-story and base¬ ment brick and stone private dwellings to be erected on the southwest cor¬ ner of Sixth avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-third stieet. Six wUl front on the avenue, four having a dimension of 16x45 each, and the remainder 18x45, whUe two will front on the street, teing of the same size as the latter. The estimated cost of this improvement to the owner, R. WUson, is $75,000. Wm. Schickel has the plans under way for a four-story brick dwelling and stores, to be buUt for Jote D. Crimnuus, on One Huudi-ed and Sixteenth street and New avenue, near the Eighth avenue " L " road station. GiUie & Walker intend to improve five lots on the north side of Sixty- second stieet, 100 feet west of Ninth avenue, probably by the erection of fiats. A. B. Ogden has the plans for two five-story brick and brown stone tene¬ ments, 28x70 each, to be buUt on the north side of Nineteenth street, 150 feet west of Tenth avenue, for Wm. E. Keys, at a cost of $26,000. John G. Prague has the sketches on the boards for a four-story brick stone and terra cotta hardware store, 18.4x100, to be built at Newburgh-on- the-Hudson, for J. P. Andrews, and for a cottage to be buUt for J. W. Elsworth, at Baj'onne, L. I. Francis M. Wilmurt wiU improve the lot on the south side of Sixty- second stieet, '200 feet east of Tenth avenue. Lederle & Co. have the plans on the teards for a five-story brick and stone teuM^nt, 35x61, to be buUt at No. 35 Mulberry stieet, for Pius C. Volta, a)w«t of about $14,000. ThoroiBK- Jsickson intends to erect a six-story and basement bmldiug and stoiiB','at'No, 178 Pearl stieet, to form an adi on to the structure erected by bim last year, adjoining. The front wiU be of brick and stone. Mr. Jackson wUl be both architect and owner. Emest W. Greis is drawing the sketches for a five-story brick and brown stone tenement, with stores, 35x70.6, to be buUt at No. 151 Essex street for Mrs. Hanselmami, at a cost of $15,000. Gilbert & Thompson are preparing the plan-: for alterations to flve flats on Fifty-eighth stieet, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, for C. W. Dayton, to cost about $'20,000. Brooklyn. E. P. Gaylor is preparing plaus for a one-story brick roUer skating rink, 100x190, to be erected on the corner of Fifth avenue and Union "reet, for Mr. Wilson, and a three-story brick flat, 33x33.8, with a three- t 5ry brick extension, 16.6x11.4, to te erected on South First street, for Tv Baker. } I Paul C. Grening will improve the lots just purchased by him on the northwest corner of Latayette avenue and Steuben stieet, by the erection of six four-story brick fiats; the corner wiU te 34x70 and the others each 20x70 each. J. N. Longhi intends to erect a two-story brick and terra cotta dweUing in the Italian Renaissance, size, 40x45, on the comer of WUloughby and Yates avenues, and to cost about $'23,000, from plans by GUbert & Thomp¬ son. A nmnber of persons interested in the buUcUng trade have drafted a Mechanics' Lien Act whicli they wiU endeavor to get through the Legislature this session. The bill is styled " An Act to secure the payment of mechanics, laborers and workmen who performed work or furnished material towards the erection, altering or repairing of buUdings, wharves, vaults or other structures in the city and county of New York and in Kings, Queens and Westchester Counties." -----------» Special Notices. New Yorkers have always had a high regard for the open grate Are, and in this city few houses exist which do not contain one or more grates. Still tho small amount of heat that is utiUzed for health and comfort in rooms warmed by grates has caused their general disuse, especiaUy in country houses, except for ornamental purposes. Grates are, however, now made that have aU the heating power of stoves or smaU furnaces and they have been and are at the present time in nse in our most northern latitudes for thoroughly heating large and exposed rooms and even for heating rooms situated on different floors. These grates, of which the Jackson Heat-saving and Ventilating Grate is the best type, have chambers below, ateve and on all sides ot the fire into which the air from out of doors is admitted, and being there heated is carried into the room through an open panel in the frame of the grate, or carried tteough a pipe, located in the smoke fine, to a register in the room ateve. These grates, manufactured by Edwin A. Jackson & Bro., of No. 77 Beekman stieet, have been very extensively introduced into country houses tteoughout the United States, and are in this city replacing in many instances grates of the old-fashioned construction. The iUustrated catalogues of the ateve firm give fuU descrip¬ tions of their utiUty and value, and of the health and economy which re¬ sults from their use. The destruction of Gillis & Geoghegan's offices on the 4th inst., wUl in no wise interfere with the workings of their business. Their factory is practicaUy intact, and they are ready as before, to furnish and erect heating apparatus. Their temporary office is at No. 137 Spiing stieet, where all communica¬ tions can be addie6.sed. The particular attention of architects, builders and owrners of property, is called to the waterproofing process, of the Brick and Stone Waterproof¬ ing Company. This process has received the highest encomiums for the past five yeai-s from architects, civil engineers and others aU over the coun¬ try. It is based ou scientific principles, is capable of speedy appUcation and perfectly effective in its action. Moreover, it improves the face of the stone and leaves it in a clean, sound and solid condition. The company has given a good deal of attention to brown stone fronts and stoops which they can make water and weatherproof, so that they wUl te unaffected by the destiuctive influences of rain, frost, gases, fungoid grovrths, eto. It can te applied with equal success to all kinds of brick and stone. Hospitals, asylums, damp houses, public in.stitutions, monuments and statuary have had the waterproofing applied to their fronts and surfaces. The substance used in tieating the buUdings is a soUd compound differing from aU oils, paints and other solutions. The metliod of application is to heat the wall so as to evaporate its hmuidity and render it absorbent, thus causing the water¬ proofing material to remain ui a melted or liquid state until it is absorbed into the pores, after penetrating which, to the depth at one-quarter of an inch, it gradually hardens, tecomes colorless and invisible, renders the surface hard and durable, and prevents disintegration by precluding the entiance and subsequent evaporation of moisture. This company also cleans stained and decayed buUdings, or marble and stone in any form. Catalogues giving a full description of the process, which wiU te found interesting reading to those concerned, can be had on appUcation to the company, at No. 55 Broadway, or No. 886 Eighth avenue, where every explanation will be afforded. Aitificial stone work of whatever description can be obtained from John H. Sturk, at his works No. 174 East Eighty-seventh stieet, city. He makes a specialty of John J. SchiUingei's patent concrete water-tight cellars for breweries, malt and ice houses and stable fioors. Geo. B. Cteistman, the well-known carpenter and builder, has, owing to the increase in his business, purchased a lot on the east side of Second avenue, north of Sixty-third sti-eet, and has commenced the erection thereon of a flve-stoiy brick workshop. Mr. Christman, it may te rememtered, recently secured the contiact to buUd the schoolhouse on the south side of One Hundred and Tenth stieet, tetween Second and Third avenues, amounting to $113,000. He contiacts for work in its entirety, including the masonry, carpentry, etc. He is now prepared to furnish tiim and window frames for new buildings on the most advantageous terms. His shop is at No. 55 First stieet, and his office at No. 331 East Fifty-flfth stieet.