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704 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.