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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 42, no. 1065: August 11, 1888

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August 11, 1888 Record and Guide. 999 OFFERED, 3 East 17th street, No. 311, opposite Stuyvesant square. Four- story, high stoop, brown stone house, 32.6x55x106. To rent at $2,.50O a year........................................... ii East 33d street. No. 36. Four-story, high stoop, brown stone house, fifteen rooms. To rent at $3,400 a year............. 117 East 119th street, iu neighborhood of Third Avenue " L" road. A ±'om--story double brick and brown stone flat; all im¬ provements; rent §1,800 per year, WiU excbang''........ 34,500 175 9th avenue, near 93d street station. Two flve-story stores and tenements, §30,000 each, or n-ill exchange for nearby country place............................................ 184 Coi-ners on Oth avenue, above 73d street. Modern flats and stores. Fully rented....................73,000, 115,000 and 175,000 356 Morris avenue, Fordham. Two-story and attic frame bouse, 50x17.5. All improvements................................ 7,500 494 New Bowery. Five and a quarter full lots, witb four build¬ ings. Routed for $7,000 pei- year......................... 1019 East 134th street. No. 104. A five-story brick and stone flat, 25x85x100, Mortgage $25,000 at 5 per cent................ 55,000 1083 A West 57tb street private house, to exchange for country place. Equity............................................ 6,500 1083 A west side flat and au east side tenement, to exchange for private house below 59th street. From............§10,000 to 20,000 1083 Brooklyn, N. Y. Ten private brown stone dweUings, to change for country property. Equity.................... 35,000 Real Estate Department. There is nothing new to report concerning the mai-ket. Business is very dull, owing to tbe absence from town of dealers and investors, and tbe feeling is pretty general that little business will be done for the next few weeks. Exchanges of property continue to be a feature of tbe market, as the '' Gossip " aud conveyances show. The auction sales of the week have been few in uumber and quite unimportant in chai'acter. Jobn Callahan purchased four of tbe ten parcels sold. For next week only four sales are announced. CONVE VANCE B, i8sr. Aug. 5 to 11 inc. Number...................................... 149 Amount involved............................. $1,534,553 Number nomiuai............................. 41 Number 33d aud 34th Wards................. 33 Amouut involved............................. S103,S35 Number nominal............................. 9 UOHTOAGES. Number...................................... 309 Amount iuvolved............................. $3,250,795 Number at 5 per cent........................ 94 Amount involved............................. S1,0&1,3I3 Number at less thau 5 per ceut............... 22 Amount involved............................. $330,345 Number to Banks, Trust and Ius. Cos........ 43 Amouut involved............................ $730,800 PROJECTED BITILDINGS. 18S7. ■Aug. eto 13. .................. 51 ................. §G-J5,807 Number of buildings. Estimated cost........ 1868. Aug, 3 to 9 iuc. 143 $3,007,733 50 33 $&1,095 9 183 $1,743,859 72 $685,550 14 $443,300 40 $395,300 Aug. 4 to 10, 36 $524,850 G-ossip of the Week, Albei-t B. Edwards has purchased from William S. Maddock, i-epresent- ing the Equitable Life Assurance Society, twelve lots on the west side of 7th avenue, between I35tb aud 137th streets, for $332,000, with loan, for imme¬ diate improvement. The two fronts are embraced, except four lots ou the corner of 135th street. Ei-okers, Maclay, Davies Sc Co. Macdonald Sc Hearn have sold for Harry Graham the block of ten houses on the west side of 8tb avenue, between 147th and 148th streets, for §230,000. The same firm have sold foi- Wm, Ettinger Nos. 203 and 365 West 131st street for $40,000. Terence Farley's Sons have sold tbe four-story dwelling No. 75 West 71st street for $35,000 cash to Geu. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. This is one of a row_of seven bouses finished a short time ago by the firm. The General has only recently decided to make this city his permanent home, and has shown good judgment in his selection of tbe house itself as well as tbe loca¬ tion. Messrs, Farley have also sold tbe dweUing No. 113 West 76th street for $30,000 to Adam Huestoii. This leaves tbem but one of sixteen built. Frederick Beck has purciiased from Walter S, Price twelve new flve- story Pbiladelphia bi-ick stores and flats on tbe westerly side of Tth avenue, extending from 133d to 134tb streets, for §385,000, Ten of tbe bouses are ou the avenue and one on each street. Eight are 19.10x64 each, two 30.6x 76 and two 30x66 each. Mr. Beck has sold to Mr. Price about 17 acres at College Point, L. I., for about §75.000. C. W. Alcott & Co., the largest dealers in kindling wood in this city, have just purchased from W. T. Fergiision, of Surry County, Va,, 6,000 acres of timber land lying iu Surry and Prince George counties in that State, for §40,000 cash. It is said to be the largest body of original gi-owth timber in Eastern Virginia, Broker, F. Zittel. Hem-y Waters and Sam Levin have sold the two frame dwellings No. 198 and 300 Orchard street, size 37.10x100.7, for $34,500 to Chas. Schmidt. This is an advance of §1,400 on the price paid for the plot at auction a few weeks ago. Joseph Levy Se Son, successors to Salter Sc Levy, have sold for Walker Sc Lawson tbeii- new five-story apartment house No, 365 &tb avenue for §37,000. Pullich & Deaken have sold for Carl Ordemann the four-story brown stone private house No, 327 West 57th sti-eet, 25x60x100.5, with extension, to Com-ad Stein. Price, §60,000. The Department of PubUc Parks give notice that on Wednesday, the 22d of August, at II o'clock, they wiU consider all statements, objections, etc.,iu reference to a proposed change in the lines of Decatur avenue, between Isaac and Travers streets. The Department of PnbUc Parks wiU hear untU August 13th, aU per¬ sons interested in tbe matter of the gi-ades of the following named streets; East 175tb street, from Carter avenue to the Southern ^Boulevard, in tbe 24th Wai-d; Bu-cb street, from Wolf street to Marcher avenue, in the 33d Wai-d ; Boscobel avenue, from the easterly approach to the bridge over Harlem River at West ISlst st to Jerome avenue, in the 23d and 24th Wards. Brooklyn. J. P. Sloane has sold for RusseU Sc Adams tbe tlu-ee-story frame house, with lot 35x100, No. 187 Java street, to Mrs. Mary A, Robson for $4,000. Coi-with Bros, have sold the lot ou the north side of Calyer street, 100 feet east of Oakland street, for J. V. Meserole to Geo, Burnside for §400; also the lot and'buildings on the north side of Van Cott avenue, 31,7 west of Manhattan avenue, for Rose Accles, to J, Manheim for $2,400. Number........... Amouut involved, JNumber nominal. CONVEYANCES. 1887. Aug. S to 11 inc. ............ 177 ............ $540,037 ........... ■ 42 UORTOAOBS. Number................ Amouut involved....... Number at Hi orless. Amount involved....... Number of buildmgs. Estimated cost........ 147 $512,812 75 $300,178 PROJECTED BOILDINGE, 1887. Aug. G to 12 iuc. 43 1388. Aug. 2 to S inc. 330 $708,694 60 317 8703,012 133 $557,318 1888. Aug. 4 to 9 inc. Gl $357,650 Out Among the Bnilders. The demoUtion of French's Hotel Is uow nearly completed, and the con¬ struction of the uew World building on the site -will shortly be commenced, Competitive plans from about half a dozen well-known architects are now in hand, and it is said that most probably the designs sent iu by either Messrs. McKim, Mead & White or Mr. R. H. Robertson wUl be selected. Lamb & Rich bave plans on the board for a handsome four-story brick and stoue residence, 20x65, for Mrs. E, L. MUhank. It will be erected on West 71st street, between Sth and 9th avenues, John E, Kerby bas plans under way for a i-esidence for Mr. Ebeling, the brewer. It wiU cost $10,000, The contract for tbe Harlem Club, of which Lamb & Rich are tbe archi¬ tects, has been given to J. C. Lyons. Nothing definite regarding the plans for the Twenty-second Regiment was done at the last meeting of tbe Armory Board, and uo decision wiU be or can be made until Mayor Hewitt returns from his vacation. All the plans submitted are receiving careful examination, esiiecially as to the mat¬ ter of cost, so tbat there may be no repetition of the time lost in tbe last competition. Mr. Post, tbe successful architect last year, has submitted the same plans, witb a few slight modifications, and now states that he has several builders who wiU bid for tbe work of construction within the Umit of tbe appropriation. As we stated last week, the Committee on Plans of the Twenty-second Regiment have reported in favor of the design sent in by J. P. Leo. Of course this amounts to ouly a recommendation which is in no way binding on the Ai-mory Board, but there is no doubt, ou the other hand, in a close competition it would not he without considerable weight. J. MuUer will spend over $100,000 in improving five lots on the south side of Mom-oe street, between Rutgers and Jeffiei-son streets. He wiU erect five flats, five stories each, of brick, stoue and terra cotta, 26x90, from designs which -will be made by Schneider & Herter. Henry Davidson has plans completed for two handsome live-story flats, 25x90 each, which Irvine & Co. intend building on the north side of 146tb sti-eet, east of Sth avenue. George B. Pelham is maldng designs for three flve-story brick and stone apartment houses for John Vau Dolsen. They will be erected on tbe south- side of 103d street, east of 2d avenue. The same architect has plans also for fom- similar buUdings to occupy the southeast corner of 102d street and 2d avenue. Jonas Weil and Bemai-d Meyer are the owners. Dey Sc SomerviUe bave pui-cbased, aud are about to complete, the five four-story brick tenements on the southeast corner of 144th street and 10th avenue, These houses were started by Parker W. Page, and work thereou was stopped when Wm. H. De Forest faUed iu January. Herter Bros, have plans on the board for alterations to St. Nicholas Church, Nos, 125-131 2d street. New entrances are to be built in the Gothic style, with gi-anite columns; cost, §10,000. Also plans for the addition of two stories to No, 223 East 10th street, and a similar alteration to ISo. 107 Norfolk street. Brooklyn, Th. Ehigelhardt is tbe architect for three three-story frame stores and tenements, 35x57 each, to be built on tbe east side of Ewen street, 25 north of Moore street, for Leonard Eppig, to cost $14,000; a three-story frame store and tenement, 2.5x60, on the sonth side of Troutman street, 155.7 east of Evergreen avenue, foi- William Wolf, to cost §5,000, and three fom- story brown stone flats, 20x70 each, on the nortb side of South 9th street, 131 west of Driggs street, for WiUiam Dick, to cost $27,000. Amzi HUl has plans for two three-story and three two-story brick dwell¬ ings, two 20x45 and 55 and three 18x40, to be buUt on the nortb side of Herkimer street, 26 west of Kingston avenue, for Henry J. Brown. D. Acker & Son ai-e preparing plans for a foui--story frame tenement, 35 x60, to be erected on tbe west side of Tompkins avenue, 50 feet south of Park avenue for PhiUip Bossert, to cost $5,500. Mayor Chapin, Thos. B. Rutaii, and John McCarty, president of tbo Board of Aldermen, bave issued au invitation to aU ai-chiteets to submit designs for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument to he erected in Brooklyn. The flrst prize wUl be $1,000 and tho second prize $500. Designs must be sent to the Mayor's ofBce on or before September 1st. Charles D. Marvin has plans for a number of handsome three-story bi'ick residences, which are to bo erected ou 2d aveuue, Bay Ridge, in a pai-k, according to the English style. Tbey wUl be finished in hardwood -with all improvemeuts. E. W. BHse is the owner. Charles D, Marvin has plans completed for alterations to Robt. Lynd's residence at No. 19 South Oxford street.