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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 69, no. 1786: June 7, 1902

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.June 7, 1902. HECORD AND GUIDE 1047 etc., etc. The estate of Richard Schiefelin are the owners.- Pickering & Walker, No, 1135 Broadway, are the architects. The cost is $2,500. SIST ST.—John K. Turton, No. 1135 Broadway, has been awarded the general contract for erecting a 4-sty and baseraent brick and stone residence at No. 62 East Slst st. Electric light, steam heating and tin roofing are specified. Julia G. Walker is the owner; Pickering & Walker, No. 1135 Broadway the archi¬ tects. The cost will be about .$20,000. A contract for furnishing glass for the public schools in the Borough of Manhattan was awarded to Joseph Blias, at $2,850, The heating and ventilating contract for tbe High School ot Commerce, Manhattan, has been awarded to E. Rutzler, at $44,170; that for Public School No. ISO to Frank Dobson, at $34,860, and for installing electric light in Nos. 92 and 129, Brooklyn, respectively, to Frederick Pearce, at $1,945, and Frank Dobson, at $18,670. Contracts for repairs to nineteen schools in Manhattan were awarded at the same time. S2D ST.—Louis Wechsler, 'No. 1133 Broadway, has been awarded the general contract for the alteration to No. 5 East 52d st for Adolphe De Bary, wine raerchant. Charles W.' Romeyn, No. SS Broadway, is the architect. WORK UNDER WAY. 31ST ST.—The-work of excavating has been commenced on the plot Nos. 14-18 East 31st st for a 14-sty modern apartmen-. hotel, of red brick and white marble, with tile rooflng, electric freight and passenger elevators, etc, from plans by Buchman & Fox, No. 11 East 59th st, who are now receiving bids on the iron work. Contracts will be let by the architects from tirae to time. The cost will be about $500,000. Joseph Fleischman, the florist, of Madison sq, is the owner. 31ST ST.—The excavating has been started by the Geo. F. Balmer Cont. Co. on the plot 97x98.9 feet at Nos. 4 to 10 West Slst St. A 12-sty modern apartment house is to be erected thereon, containing electric elevators, tile rooflng, etc., from the plans of John H. Duncan, No. 21 West 24th st. William C. Dewey, No. 5 East 14th st, the owner, is supervising the build¬ ing and contracts are awarded by him. 34TH ST.—The George P. Balmer Cont. Co., No. 1123 Broad¬ way, have commenced the excavating on the plot Nos, 108 and 110 West 34th st. Tbe New Tork Realty Co. are to erect there a 12-sty office and store building of brick, stone and terra cotta, with electric elevators and tile rooflng. The flrst floor will be fitted up for a Child's Unique Dairy. A. D. Shepard, No. 170 Sth av, is the architect; Thompson-Starrett Co., Wal! and Wil¬ Uam sts, builders. ' - MISCELLANEOUS. 58TH AND SOTH STS AND STH AV.-The George A. Fuller Co., Hallgarten & Co. and the Central Realty, Bond & Trust Co., who this week acquired the Plaza Hotel, together with a large plot on both SSth and 59th sts, will probably erect a 20-sty addi¬ tion to the hotel on SSth and 59th sts. It is said to be their ultimate intention to erect a new building on the site of the present hotel. The plot to be iraproved at once fronts 120 feet on 58tb st and 175 feet on 59th st. 63d ST.—The Madison Building Co,, No. Ill Broadway, have selected George Keller, Hartford, Conn., as architect for a 6-sty brick, stone and terra cotta building to be located on the south¬ east corner of Madison av and 63d st, on a plot 40x70 feet. The structure is to be'flreproof and to contain an assembly room, gymnasium, studios, laboratories, etc., crowned by a roof garden. Cost will be about $250,000. Fisk & Robinson, No. 35 Cedar st, and Philbin, Beekman & Menken, No. Ill Broadway, represent the owners, BROAD ST.—The Maritime Association, No. 8 Beaver st, will, it is said, remodel the 5-sty building Nos. 78 and SO Broad st. President C. B. Parsons states that no architect bas been se¬ lected. The cost of the iraproveraent will be about $75,000. It is said also that the Exchange raay possibly rebuild. 20TH ST.—P. M. Smith, North and Cross avs, Elizabeth, N. j:, has prepared plans for A. L, Rogers, No. 222 Henry st, for a 2-sty brick factory building, to be 110x80 feet, located on 20th st, near 3d av. Tbe cost will be about $20,000. WILLIAMSBRIDGE.—-The Westchester Exempt Firemen's As¬ sociation are having plans drawn by T. W. Ringrose, No. 2642 Bd av, for a 1-sty and basement brick and stone hall, to be erected on the plot 90x32 on the north side of Oth st, 250 feet east of West Plains av. Among other things, the specifications call for steel ceilings. The general contract will probably be let about July 1. The building is to cost in the neighborhood of $7,000. BROOKLTN. HICKS ST.—M. W. Morris, No. 82 Wall st, is completing plans for a 10-sty brick, stone and terra cotta hotel building to be erected on the northeast corner of Hicks and Ciark sts for Col. Wra. Turabridge, of tbe Hotel St. George, Brooklyn. Tile roof, electric elevators, steam beat, fireproofing, etc., wili be required. The cost win be about .$80,000. ♦ 16TH ST, WEST.—W. T. Kennedy, of IGtb st and Surf av, has corapleted plans for a 2-sty frame arauseraent hall, to have gravel roof and be erected on the corner of West IOth st and Surf av. The cost will be $20,000. Swift & McNutt are the owners. 26TH ST, EAST.—Copeland & Doyle, No. 51 Exchange pl, have prepared plans for a 2-sty brick, stone and terra cotta dormitory building, with asphalt roof, to be erected on East 26th st, about 70 feet south of Avenue U. The building will cost about $15,000 and be heated by steara. Electrical work, etc., are specified, together with fireproofing. J, B. Haggin, Lexington, Ky., is the owner. WILLOtTGHBT AND NAVT STS,—Freeborn G. Smith, No. 774 Fulton st, Brooklyn, will rebuild his piano factory, lately de¬ stroyed by fire, at the corner of Willoughby and Navy sta, Brooklyn. Operations will begin in the fall. No architect haa been selected as yet. The T. M. C. A., of No. 131 South Sth st, Brooklyn, have now on hand a building fund of $150,000, and the matter of erecting a new home is under consideration. COUNTRY WORK OF NEW YORK ARCHITECTS. NEWARK, N. J.—Warrington Lawrence, No. Ill Sth av, Is working on the plans for a 4-sty brick and stone residence, witk electric lighting, steam beating, open plumbing, etc., to be erected on the northwest corner of James and Essex sts for Robert F. Ballentine. Tbe cost will be about $12,000. SOME. NEARBY BUILDING. HEMPSTEAD, L. I., is to have a modern opera house building. Louis Cohen, of Main st, has purchased a plot on that street, and will begin building operations shortly. E. P, Smith, a local architect, will probably be commissioned to draw the plans. The cost of the building will be about $25,000. It is said the con¬ struction will be of brick and stone and probably flreproof. ROOSEVELT, L. I.—A frame hotel building, to cost about $6,000, is to be erected at this place by Louis Cohen, of Main st, Hempstead. Building operations are to commence at once. E. P. Smitb, Herapstead, ia the architect. Contracts have not been awarded. POINTERS. BALTIMORE, MD.—F. E. & Henry R. Davis are preparing plans for a brick and stone church building for the Methodist Episcopal Church congregation. The cost will be about $15,000. The new dorraitory for Barnard College, which will cost $200,- 000 and be ready by September, 1903, will no doubt be con¬ structed frora plans by McKim, Mead & White, No. 160 5th av. The Norcross. Eros, Co., of Worcester, Mass., have received the general contract for extensive alterations and improveraents to the White House at Wasbington this summer. McKim, Meade & White, No. 160 Sth av, drew the plans, and S. F. French, of Wor¬ cester, Mass., will superintend the work. There is a likelihood that tbe contract for the new $1,000,000 dry-docks for the U. S. Government to be built at the Brooklyn Navy Tard will be placed outside. Civil Engineer Asserson Is in charge of the matter. Of Interest to the Building Trade.=. Francis Crawford, one of the well-known builders identified with the West Side movement, died at bis home, at Williams¬ bridge. on Sunday last. Besides having built extensively on the West Side and in other parts of the city, he waa a large owner of property, much of it in The Bronx. Tbe City Fireproofing Co., Nos. 609 to 619 West 52d st, have lately introduced on the market a new plaster partition block, known as the "Rader," and are manufacturing in large quan¬ tities to meet the demand. These blocks bave passed the fire and water tests of the Department of Buildings, and have been approved. The delegates elected to represent at the Atlantic City Con¬ vention the Manhattan Branch of the Master Plumbers' Asso¬ ciation of Greater New Tork held a meeting and organized with President A. H. Erown as chairman. Various committee were appointed to attend to special convention business. The Trans¬ portation Committee, composed of John Mitchell, Jonas A. Ross¬ man and Frank Reynolds, have arranged for a special Jersey Central train to leave New York on Monday, June 16, at 3.4i^ p. m„ and the fare for a fifteen-day round trip ticket will be $4.75. The committee have also made arrangements for a special rate for delegates at the Hotel Rudolf. Messrs. Pfotenhauer and Nesbit, dealers in flne front brick and rooflng tiles, have been awarded the contract for furnishing all the front bricks to be used in the new building to be built frora the plans of H. J. Hardenbergh for the Battery Place Realty Company, in Battery pl, between Washington and West sts. The colors of the bricks to be used are pink and buff speckled. About 700,000 will be used. Tbey have also beem awarded the contract for all tbe front bricks for all the buildings, of the Wooster University, at Wooster, Ohio, amounting in num¬ ber to 1,250,000, tbe color being light gray. This flrm is also* furnishing the front bricks for the new Macy & Co. store at 34tli st and Broadway. This building is now sufficiently far advanced to deraonstrate the beauties of the Harvard bricks in use tbere, of whicb this firm make a specialty. They are supplying 600,000 in this building. All the vitrified rooflng tiles being used in the new Saks & Co. Building, at 33d and 34tb sts and Broadway, are also being supplied by Messrs. Pfotenhauer & Nesbit. Their offices are at No. 1133 Broadway, this city. 1