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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 32, no. 813: October 13, 1883

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October 13, 1883 The'^Record and Guide. 785 north side of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, 235 feet east of Seventh avenue, to W. E. Dean, for $31,000, E. De Witt has sold for Henry Duchart two lots on the north side of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, 300 eaat of Seventh avenue, 50x100, to Jobn Harney, for $30,200 cash. Louis Brandt haa sold, for the Jones' Eitate, three Iota, 75x100, on tho north side of Eighty-first street, about 200 feet east of Second avenue, the purchaser being Philip Braender. George Miller bas purchased a 35x100 lot on tbe east side of First ave. nua. between Seve.ity-first and Baventy-aecond streets. Yennie, McGowan & Co. have sold, for Frank Seitz, the flve-story brown stone front store and dwelling, 25x64, on the northwest corner of Seventy, first street aud Second aveuue, for $35,300. Crawford Sc Tichborne have sold, for William Dickson, the brick double tenement, 25x60x75, No. 1266 Pirdt avenue, to Hugh McNlchols, for $12,000. Jobn Q. Ritter has contracted for the purchase of three lots, with frame dwelling and stable thereon, on tbe north side of Ninety-seventh street, 135 feet east of Eleventh avenue; cousideration $",500, and William F. Schonberg bas contracted for the purchase of Nos. 1337 and 1831 Avenue A, for-$26,000. The sale of a lot on the nortb side of One Hundred and Thirty-second street, 135 feet west of Sixth avenue, is reportei aa sold by W. H, Palmer to William Anderson for $5,000, Mr. Anderaon proposes to build a private house with stable in rear, John H. Deane has sold to Mrs, Wilhelmine Juch eight lots on the south¬ east earner of 0.^e Hundred and Fourth street and Firet avenue, also twelve and a-hal£ lots outhe northeast oornsr of One Hundred aud Sixth street and First avenue, Wilson J. T, Duff has sold the two five-atory double brick t6::ement^, each 35x100, Nos, 419 and 431 East Eighteenth street, to R. M. Berrian, for $14,350each. The same broker has sold the five-story iron Iront tenament. No. 1503 Third avenue, east side, for $17,500, to Mr. Kempner. Jobn P, B. Smyth has sold tha flva story stone front store, 3.5x65x100, on the northeast corner of Sixty-second street and Tenth avenue, for 130,000; also the four-story brick dwelling and two-story brick stable ou the north, west corner of Second avenue and Thirtieth street, size 20x75, for $35,000, to Mr. Carey, Msssrs. Butler, Matheson & Co. have just sold the four-story brick buildings, No. 66 Pearl street, 30.3x77.5. and No, 79 Pine street, aOx3u.8, on private terms, Wm. Lalor has sold the three four-story brick double tenements, Nos, 1609, 1611 aud 1G13 Second avenue, for Wm, Ottmann, to Mr. Reagan. Price, $45,0U0. Brooklyn. Mr. D, B. Treadwell has sold for Elizabeth Cobb the four-story frame store and dwolling, with lot 85x100, No, 220 Manhattan avenue, to Wil¬ liam H. Bromley, for $5,500. W. F. Corwith bas sold for Hannah J, Williams the lot, 22x100, on the west aide of Lorimer street, IOO feat north of Calyer street, for $2,400, to Joho S, Ogilvie, Bulkley & Horton have sold for John Marsh the three-story Irame dwelling with lot, 20x100, No. 175 Skillman street, to James Doyle, for $6,000, aud the three-story frame dwelling oa Vernon avenue near Tompkics avenue, for A. A. Fardon, to Mary J, Trevor, for $5,400. Haviland & Sjus have sold the three story brownstone dwelling, 30x100, No. SOS Greene avenue, to George M. Eddy for $3,000, and the four-story browu stone store aud ftit, southeast corner of Pulton street and Grand avenue. 54.8x30x100. to William S. Carlisle. Something About Building. Mr. John H. Deane reports a most active market for Harlem properties. From Juue 15th toOctober 10th he has sold about eighty houses aud lots witb¬ out abatement of bis inventory prices. He says that the great need of tbe Eastsideintbeupperdistrictseems to be well built, well ventilated tenement houses, witbout what are termed the modern imnrovoments, such houses as Q>en who earn from $2 to $4 a day in mechanical persuits desire as homes. The small single apartment houses are improving aa an investment, but the great demand is for tbe common kind of tenement property. There is also a great demand for small houses to rent. Every house of that nature owned by Mr. Deane (about fifty), is rented, and constant applications are refused for want of houses. There is a strong disposition to check building movements on the East side, wbich no doubt will have a beneficial effect upon tbe prices of prop¬ erty already completed. This cbsck arises not only from tbe high price of building materials and labor, but also from the scarcity of land. It is now an impossibility to purchase large tracts except from a very few individuals. Interesting to Taxpayers, Notice Is given that, according to law, ten per cent, additional will be added on the first of November next on all unpaid Croton water ratea, pay¬ ments to be made at the Bureau of Water Register, No. 31 Chambers street. Room 3. Notice is given that the bill of costs, charges aud expanses incurred by reason of the proceedings relative to the opening of One Hundred and Second street, between Eighth and Riverside avenues, will be presented to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court for taxation on October 19. It is now on file at the Department of Public Worka. Notice is given that application will be made to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, on Friday, October 36, for tbe appointment of Comission- ers of Estimate and Assessment in tbe matter relative to the opening of One Hundred and Ninth street, between Eighth and Kiverside avenues. Out Among the Builders. A magniflcent apartment house is to be erected by Messrs, Phyfe & Campbell on tbe twelve lots on tbe Fifth avenue plaza, extending from Fifty-eighth to Fifty-ninth streets. We understand that George W. Da Cunha is the architect, ani that the building will be nine stories high, and strictly fire proof. It will be an adaptation, though on a much larger scale, of the Gramercy apartment house at tbe corner of Twentieth street and Gramercy Park, which was also erected by Messrs Phyfe & Campbell. There will be an open court on the plaza, which will admit of a view of tbe avenue from every suite of apartments. The building will afford 1 CCO m mod a tion for between fifty-Sve and sixty families, and there will be from six to nine suites on each floor. It will contain every possible imorovement. It is expected that $1,500,000 will be necessary tocomplete this structure. The material to be used, as well as a great many details, has not yet been decided upon, as the sale of tbe lots was only consum¬ mated a few days since. Tbomas B. Gilford has commenced the erection of seven first-class four¬ story brick and browu stona dwellings, 31.6x00 each, on tbe west side of Lexington avenue, between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, to cost about $150,0(10. He will also build adjoiniog a five-story brick and brown stone front apartu ent house, 48x95, on the nortb side of Forty-fifth street, 308 feet west o! Lexington avonue, to cost about $53,000. The ground is now being excavated. The architects and builders will be Messrs, Cbarles Graham & Sons. It may be noted that these houses are to be built solely fur investment. Tho Hotel Branting, on tbe northwest corner of Madison avenue and Fifty eighth street, is shortly to be raised ooe story and r6(;eive an addition in tbe shape of a seven-story brown stone front extension, 56x95, to cost about $150,(J00. Mrs. Taylor, it is understood, has disposed of her;interest iu the hotel to Mr, Jones, a well-known hotel proprietor, and another, who have taken a lease of it for a term of years. J. H, Giles is the arcbitect. John Livingston bas commenced the excavation for a first-clasa apart¬ ment house, having a frontage of 41.7 feet, to be erected on the northwest corner of Lexington avenue and Eighty-fourth Btreet. The building is to be partly fire-proof and have modern improvements, the front to be of brick with stone trimmings. The coat is estimated at from $35,000 to $40,0i;0. John Brandt has tbe sketches under way for a five-story brick and brown stone double tenement, 35x80, to be erected for George Miller on tho east side of First avenue, between Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets, at a cost of over $18,000. The same architect has the plans for a 25-foot front brick store to be built on Third avenue, between Oae Hun¬ dred and Porty-third and Oue Hundred and Forty-fourth streets, the first story to be a furniture store IOO feet deep, the second story having a depth of 60 feet. Owner, Robert Spink; cost, ab.iut $6,000. Philip Braender will shortly commence tbe erection of three first-class five-story brick and brown stoue double fiats, 35x85 each, on the north side of Eighty-first street, between First and Second avenues. Cost, about 4i55,500, Architect, John Brandt, Messrs. T. C. Eastman and J, B, Dutcher have obtained from the Board of Health a permit to erect a slaughter-house on tbe south side of Fifty- ninth stieet, between Eleventh avenue and the North River, The area of the slaughter-bouse will ba 300x90 feet, and there will be near it a chili- bouse having ao area of 20Uxl8J feet. We understand tbat eight lots on tbe southeast corner of One Hundred aad Fourth street and First avenue, which bave just been purchased by Mrs, W, Juch, will be improved, as well as tbe twe ve lots ou the north¬ east corner of One Hundred and Sixth street and First avenue, owned by the same party. Jobn Rogers has the plans in hand for a four-story brick and brown stone store and flat, 35x60, to be erected on tbe southwest corner of Brook avenue aud Oae Hundred and Forty-fourth street, for Shilling & Pease, at a cost of about. $13,000, The same architect has the prelimeaary sketches for two additional wings to the Home for Incurables, at Fordham, N. Y. Each wing will be 60xt3, three stories high and of brick. The cost will be about ?60,t:00. John Harney will improve the two lots on the north side of Oue Hun¬ dred and Twenty-fifth street, 300 east of Seventh avenue, by the erec¬ tion of two two-story stores and apartments, having a frontage of 35 feet each. Niebuhr Brothei s are about to commence the erection of three five-story brick and blue stone stores and tenement*, 25x75, on the east side of Tenth avenue, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-nintt streets, to cost about $48,000, The owners will be botb architects and builders. Tbe old buildings on the southeast corner of Bleecker and Mercer streets bave been torn down, doubtlessly to make room for a substantial improve¬ ment. Tbe Bleecker street front, between Broadway and Mercer street, is owned by the Goelet estate. J. H. Valentine has the plans in hand for a budding to be erected at Syracuse, N. Y,, for Henry C. Myers, cigar manufacturer, of that city. The basement, tbird, fourth and fifth floors will be used as a cigar factory, lhe flrst flfior as a store and the second as a hall. Tbe front will be of Philadelphia brick and brown stone trimminga, the size being 25x100, and tre cost about 130,000. The American Express Company intends to erect a four-story office buildiug, 73x35, with a two-story stable attached, 73x150, on North Clinton street, Rochester, K. Y., the material to be of brick with brown stone trimmings. Architect, J. R, Thomas; cost, about $60,000. F. Carles Merry bas the plans for a brick and frame stable, 70x50, to be built at Newport, for Dr. C. M. Ball, at a cost of $6,000, Brooklyn. Th. Engelhardt has plans for alterations to the buildings, Nos, 644 and 646 Broadway, formerly occupied by the Broadway Railroad Company, at a cost of $3,500; owner, Louis Fink.