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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 70, no. 1796: August 16, 1902

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August i6, 1902. RECOUD AND GUIDE. 235 sell, architects; the George A. Fuller Company being the con¬ tractor for all of these buildings; Belmont Hotel, Marc Eidlitz & Son, contractors, Warren & Wetmore, architects; 28th st and Broadway, Schickel & Ditmars, architects. Various styles of Otis freight and sidewalk hoists and electric dumb-waiters will also be installed in these structures. Leading architects, engineers and building contractors seem to favor the modern Otis vertical cylinder hydraulic type for passenger service In large office buildings and hotels. Building News APARTMENTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS. CANNON ST.—A C-sty brick, stone and terra cotta store ana tenement building, 41.7x100 feet, is to be erected on the plot Nos. 115 and 117 Cannon st. Plans are being drawn by Bernstein & Bernstein, No. Ill Broadway. Roth & Klein, No. 21 W. Hous¬ ton st, are the owners. Cost is to be $40,000. 47TH ST.—John A. Picken, No. 548 West 165th st, who has just purchased the plot, 40x100. at Nos. 157 and 159 West 47th st, will erect thereon a 9-sty fireproof apartment hotel. John Hauser, No. 1961 7th av, has been his architect in previous oper¬ ations. WEST END AV.—The Collins Building and Construction Co. will erect a 6-sty apartment house on a plot, 100x100, at the northwest corner of West End av and 70th st; Henri Fouchaux, Broadway and 162d st, was their architect for two similar houses on 140th st, east of 7th av. AMSTERDAM AV.—Thomas J. Reynolds, corner Lenox av and 135th st, who has purchased the plot, 102,2x100, at the north¬ west corner of Amsterdam av and 79th st, will erect a 9-sty brick and stone hotel, to cost $300,000, from plans by Henry Andersen, No. 1183 Broadway. AMSTERDAM AV.—Streifler Bros., No. 241 West 143d st, are drawing plans for a 6-sty apartment house with stores on the Amsterdam av front, which they will erect on the plot, 49.11x 106.11, on the south side of 160th st, extending from Amsterdam to St. Nicholas av. The building will cost about $70,000 and they will be ready for estimates next week, AMSTERDAM AV.—Clementine Silverman has purchased the northeast corner of Amsterdam av and 167th st, 119xl01xl00x 36.6, and will soon erect thereon improvements from plans by Neville & Bagge, No. 217 West 125th st. DWELLINGS. 52D ST.—C. H. P. Gilbert, No. 1123 Broadway, is preparing plans for a e^^-sty brick and stone fireproof residence, to be 30x 90 ft., to be erected on the south side of 52d st, IOO ft. east of 5th av, and to be equipped with electric passenger elevator, steam plant and electric service elevator, tile and copper roofing. Ed¬ ward Holbrook, Broadway and 19th st, is the owner. Cost has not yet been determined. Last fall Mr. Gilbert was working on plans for a 14-3ty bachelor apartment house to be erected on this site, and it was so reported in this column. These plans have been abandoned. CONTRACTS AWARDED. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The contract for the entire mechani¬ cal and electrical equipment for the new plant at Philadelphia, Pa., of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, of Worcester, Mass., has been placed with Sargent, Conant & Co., of Boston. Power for the entire plant will be transmitted and distributed electrically. ELIZABETH, N. J.—The general contract for erecting the 4-sty flreproof court house, 150x80 ft, granite front, tile roofing, has been awarded to John H. Parker Co., No. 225 4th av. The cost Is $488,750. The Chairman Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders has the matter In charge. Ackerman & Ross, No. 150 Sth av, are the architects. 15TH ST.—The general contract for erecting a 6-sty brick and stone factory building on the plot, 125x100 ft., on the north side of loth st, 125 ft. west of Oth av, has been awarded to The Louis Weber Building Co., No. 1123 Broadway. The building will contain electric elevators and be equipped to be used as a factory by the National Biscuit Co., of No. 205 La Salle st, Chicago, 111., the owners. A Mr. Zimmerman, of the company. Is the architect. Excavating is now going on. MISCELLANEOUS. 132D ST.—St. Aloysius's Roman Catholic Church will erect a new stone church at Nos. 209 to 217 West 132d st, a plot 83.4x 99.11, which they purchased in 1900 for $58,150. The new build¬ ing will cost about $100,000. W. W. Renwick, No. 39 West 27th st, is the architect. POINTERS. CAPE MAT, N. J.—The congregation of St. Mary's R. C. Church are to erect a $35,000 edifice on their plot, corner Ocean and Washington sts. No architect has been selected. BELLEFONT, PA.—Plans have been completed by Edward Hazelhurst, of Philadelphia, for an auditorium to be erected for the Pennsylvania State College. Charles M, Schwab, president United States Steel Corporation, is the donor. The cost is to be $100,000. SOME NEARBY BUILDING. ATLANTIC CITT, N. J.—A mammoth flreproof hotel is talked of to be erected on the site between Chelsea and Ventor, with theatre and iron pier built In connection with the same. The totai cost is estimated at $500,000. The Interested parties are Anton Lutz, Charles Krischler and T. J. Ford, of Pittsburg, Pa. NORTH SPRING LAKE, N. J.—Plans are completed by Brouse & Arend, Trenton, N. J., for a 3-sty brick and frame sanitarium, 138x31 ft., to contain baths and swimming pool, steam heating, electric lighting, etc. Enamel brick, tiling, steel ceilings, etc., will be required. The Seacroft Co., Clarence P. King, Prest., are the owners. Cost about $40,000. NEW ORLEANS, LA.—The Hibernia Trust and Banking Co. of this city are having plans drafted by D, H. Burnham, 1142 Rookery Building, Chicago, 111., for a new bank edifice to cost $300,000. J. B. Castles is president of the bank. JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—Architect W. H. Hawkins, of this city, is preparing plans for a new church edifice for the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The building Is to be of brick and slone and cost $30,000. TROT, N. T.—Plans are being prepared by Demers & Cam- paigne, No. 2 Harmony Hall, Troy, for a new edifice to be built In Upper Troy for the Olivet Presbyterian Church Congrega¬ tion. Isaac Pursell Philadelphia, Penn,, Is preparing plans for a church to be erected at the corner of Franklin av and 2d st. New Brighton, S. I. The material used in its construction will be either Germantown stone or Holmesberg granite. Dimensions, llSy^xOO. The cost has not yet been estimated. Rev. F- W. Crowdey, New Brighton, is the clergyman In charge. EL PASO, TEX.—A 1-sty brick and terra cotta library building is to be erected here. It is a Carnegie gift. Trustees of the El Paso Public Library are in charge of the matter. COUNTRY WORK OF NEW YORK ARCHITECTS. MORRISTOWN, N. J.—Plans are completed by Petit & Green, No. 11 East 33d st, for a 2-sty frame and stone residence to contain latest Improvements and cost about $15,000. Gustave E. Kissell, Morristown, N. J., Is the owner. Contracts will be awarded in 10 days or 2 weeks. MORGANTOWN, W. VA.—Plans are completed by F. R. Com¬ stock, No. 20 East 42d st, for a brick and stone church and par¬ sonage to be erected at Morgantown for the First Methodist Episcopal Church Congregation. George C. Sturgis is Chairman of the Building Committee. Fire at P. & F. Corbin's OHice. Early on Friday morning of last week a greater portion of the interior of the office of P. & F. Corbin, New Britain, Conn., was destroyed by fire. The Purchasing and Sales Department suffered the heaviest losses, many papers relating to orders be¬ ing consumed, together with the entire collection of catalogues of the Purchasing Department of the American Hardware Cor¬ poration. Manufacturers are requested to send copies of their catalogues to the Purchasing Agent. A. N. Abbe, to replace those lost. Questions and Answers. We must remind our correspondents that we cannot answer anony¬ mous communications. Readers must also remember that communica¬ tions to us cannot invariably be answered the week they are received. WATER-CLOSETS IN TENEMENTS. To the Editor of The Record and Guide: If you have a cold water tenement, four families on a floor, three and four rooms, one toilet on a floor, can they, under the new law, make you put in another toilet? Is this required? Thus compelling you to take a room of one of the suites for this toilet? Answer,—If by "toilet" water-closet is meant, yes. Section 100 of law says: "There shall be provided at least one water-closet for every two families in every now existing tenement house."— Editor Record and Guide. EAST RIVER BRIDGE. To the Editor of The Resord and Guide: (1) How far have the condemnation proceedings regarding properties taken for the approach to the East River Bridge by the city over a year ago advanced? (2) Can payment for same be expected in the near future? (3) Can you suggest anything which could be done to hurry matters, and relieve a number of property-owners of this injustice? Answer.—Presuming Williamsburg or Delancey st bridge Is re¬ ferred to, it may be stated that (1) Commission has adjourned until Sept. 9th, when taking of testimony will be resumed. (2) No. (3) We believe Corporation Counsel is doing all he possibly can to bring this proceeding to a conclusion, and while we sym¬ pathize with owners whose income has been taken away from them, in the present condition of the law cannot suggest any¬ thing that will help them.—Editor Record and Guide.