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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 78, no. 2022: December 15, 1906

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: December" 15, 1906 RECORD AND GUIDE 997 \'^I^^' --^G^ i^^^£%ii -i^aQJ- m^ THE REALM OF BUILDING -/SySY, Plans for a, Broux Opera House. 161ST ST.^Arehitect George Keister, of 11 West 29th st, will prepare plans for a playhouse, which the Bronx Opera House Co. (which was incorporated last Friday at Albany) will establish on a plot, 100x169 ft., on the north side of IGlst st, 200 ft. east of Washington av in the Bronx. The structure wiil be 4-stys in height, and have exteriors of brick, stone and terra cotta, with very elaborate entrances. The estimated cost will be in the neighborhood of $250,000. Myer R. Bimberg, of 111 West 44th st, who built the Longacre Square Theatre at Broad¬ way, northwest corner of 4.jth st, and the new Stuyvesant The¬ atre in 44th st, now under cour.se of erection, will have the general contract for the new Bronx building. When interro¬ gated for the Record and Guide on Tuesday, he said the new Bronx theatre would positively be built, and without delay. Plans have been prepared and flled for as many as four similar enterprises for the northern section of the Borough of the Bronx, but .so far none has materialized. "But," added Mr. Bimberg, "this theatre will be built." David Belasco is presi¬ dent of the conipany, and the theatre will be under his manage¬ ment. Myer R. Bimberg is vice-president, and A, C. Hall, of the A. C. & H, M. Hall Realty Co,, is secretary and treasurer. No sub-contracts have yet been issued. Twelve-Story Business Building' for Twenty-Second Street. 22D ST.—Architect Frederick C. Zobel, 114-116 East 2Sth st, who lias recently purchased Nos. 29-31 East 22d, a plot 52x98,0 ft., will improve the same with a 12-sty store and loft building. The structure to be of steel frame, concrete arches and terra cotta block partitions. Tlie equipment wiil include two ele¬ vators, plumbing, steam beating, electric wiring, with marble and tiling in halls. Cornices and skylights will be of copper, windows and doors of flreproof construction, and the facade will be constructed of limestone and pressed brick. No building conti-acts have been let. Large Apartment House for Baptist Church of Epipliany Site. MADISON AV,—At the southeast corner of Madison av and 64th st Louis M. Jones Sc Co., 350 Broadway, will soon begin the erection of a 10-sty high-class elevator apartment house on a plot 100,5x132,0 ft. Mr. Jones states that no plans have yet been drawn or architect selected. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. this week made a building loan of $750,000 on the property, whicii is now covered by the Baptist Church of the Epiphany. Reinfoi'ced Conci'cte Chui'ch Building. ■ MORRIS AV.—Plans are now being prepared by E, O. P. Du Mazuel, engineer of the Consolidated Engineei'ing Company ,of America, No. 41 "Wall st, for the erection ot a reinforced concrete fireproof church edifice for St. Edmund's Episcopal congregation, of whicll tbe Rev. J. 0. Smiley is rector, to be S'ituated at Morris av and 177tli st, in the Bronx. Figures will be taken at once, no building contracts having been awarded. HoAvells & Stokes Architects for Dutch Street Building. DUTCH ST,—Plans are now being designed by Messrs, How- ehs & Stokes, 100 William st, for the 12-sty office and loft building which the North Ward Realty Co,, Harry Hall, 100 William st, secretary, will build on the northwest corner of Dutch and John sts, covering a plot, 75x113x75,3x104 ft. Build¬ ing operations will not be commenced until May 1, 1907. No awards have yet been made. (See also issue May 5, 1906.) Plans for the Whitehall Street Terminal. Plans will soon be ready for contractors for estimates on the .general contract for the superstructure of the Whitehall st terminal of the 39th st ferry, which the city recently acquired. The structure will have two stories, and approximate a cost of half a million dollars. Bids will be advertised for by the Com¬ missioner of Docks and Ferries, J. A. Bensel. Messrs. Walker & Morris, 24 East 23d st, are the architects. Latest Seventy-Seventh St. Improvement. 77TH ST.—A syndicate, owner's name for the pi-esent with¬ held, will erect on the south side of 77th st, 150 ft. -east of -Columbus av, immediately opposite the Museum of Natural History,' on a plot 100x102.2 ft., a high class apartment and studio building. The Record and Guide is informed that no •plans have yet been approved, or architect selected. Nelson Morris Co. to Build in The Bronx. BROOK AV.—Nelson Morris Co,, of No. 46 10th av, Man¬ hattan, and Chicago, 111., are having plans prepared by com¬ pany forces for the establishment of a brick, stone and steel J^vZA. fireproof S-sty warehouse, lo cover a plot 212x135 ft. on Brook av, in the borough of the Bronx. Apartments, Plats and Tenementa. BROADWAT.—On th? northwest corner of Broadway and 144th st Alexander Walker, president of the Colonial Bank, will erect an elevator apartment house on plot 100x150 ft. ST. NICHOLAS AVE.—Moersch & Willie, 29 Tremont av, will soon erect on the northeast corner of St. Nicholas av and lOSth st, a 6-sty 39-family fiat building, 100x90 ft., to cost about ,^125,000, J. E. Scharsmith, 1 Madison av, will maiie the plans. SoTH ST.—A member of the Wittner-Jaffer Realty Co., Am¬ sterdam av and lllth st, informs the Record and Guide that the firm will not erect a 10-sty elevator apartment house at 336 West Soth st, on plot 25x102.2 ft., as reported the past week in the daily papers. He added, the report is incorrect. Dwellings. A Boston njan has purchased abont thirty acres near Wheatley Hills, L. I., adjoining the pi-operty of Mackay, Whitney and the Morgans, on which a $30,000 residence will be erected. The McNulty & Fitzgerald Co. can inform. Chui'ches. MADISON AV.—The Baptist Church of the Epiphany, situated at the southeast corner of Madison av and 64th st, having just sold its church property, will now proceed with the erection of a new edifice. So far as can be learned, no definite building site or architect-has yet been settled upon. Theati-es. TIMES SQUARE.—The plan as announced the past week that still another theatre would be erected on the north side of Times sq, a triangular block, bounded on the north by 4Sth st, on the south by Times sq, and west and east by Broad¬ way and 7th av, and that the Messi-s. Shubert Bros, had ac¬ quired the site for this improvement, was denied by Lee Shu¬ bert, of Shubert Bros., on Monday. MercaJitile Messrs. Carpenter, Blair & Gould, No. 475 5th av, Manhattan, are about ready to take figures on a 12-sty office building, brick, stone and steel, to be erected at Montgomery, Ala. 21ST ST.—The State Realty & Mortgage Co., No. 11 Pine st, informs the Record and Guide that no plans have been drawn or architect selected for the 11-sty loft building which it is reported they will ei-ect at Nos. 31-33 West 21st st. GRAND ST.—Samuel Eisemore, 71 Grand st, will ei-ect a G-sty side extension, 44x75x96 ft., install new iron girders, columns, etc., to the store and loft building- southeast corner of Grand and Wooster sts, at a cost of about $50,000. Plans are being prepared by T. J. Van der Bent, 160 5tli av. No awards have yet been made. 3d AV.—No contracts have yet been awarded for ■the 3-sty loft and store building, 26x100 ft., which Luder Reinken, 124 East 62d st, will erect at 54-56 3d av, at a eost of .|15,000. Plans by Louis Giller, 410 Broadway, call for an exterior of brick, stone and iron, metal cornices, etc. Two 3-sty buildings will be demolished, BROADWAT,—A 6-sty rear extension, 25x28.6, new plumbing, an electric passenger elevator, fireproof staircases and 1-sty will be added to the 5-sty loft building No. 179 Eroad^\'ay. Geo. E. Keith, 299 Broadway, is owner and H. G. Knapp, 112 West 42d st, architect. Tbe cost is placed at about ?30,000, and no contracts have yet been let. Factories. WATER ST.—Jones Eros., Water and Pearl sts, Brooklyn, have awai-ded the general contract for an S-sty fireproof factory and warehouse, 51x100 ft., to be erected at the southwest corner of Waler and Pearl sts, Brooklyn, to A. G. Stone, of No. 44 Court St. E. N. Stone, 260 Bast 12th st, Brooklyn, is the architect. 39TPI .ST.^Prank H. Quinby, 99 Nassau st, has plans ready for $10,000 worth of alterations to the 4-sty factory south side of 39th st, 275 ft. east of Oth av, for D, Auerbach & Son. No coiitracts have baen awarded. The building will be increased in height 1-sty, and cast iron columns and gii-ders will be installed. The Cook Spring Co., 247 Centre st, Manhattan, which ar¬ ranged recently to erect a 2-sty factory building on Division st, Jersey City, has decided not to build there, but has acquired an existing plant in the vicinity of New Tork, and will shortly add to its manufacturing facilities. The company has not yet purchased all its machinery.