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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 84, no. 2170: October 16, 1909

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686 RECORD AND GUIDE October i6, 1909 Proposed Hackensack High Scliool. HACKENSACK, N. J.—Plans have been prepared by the Board of Education at Hackensack for a modern fireproof high school building, to contain in the base¬ ment, two classrooms, one recitation room, manual training room with instruc¬ tor's room, storeroom, domestic science room with kitchen and pantry, gymna¬ sium with show-er baths, locker-room with 300 steel lockers, toilets, divided for boys and girls, pupils' lunchroom, a heating and ventilating plant and a Janitor's room. The main floor will provide for seven classrooms, auditorium, stage and ante-rooms, reception room; principal's offices, board room, toilets. On the sec¬ ond fioor will be contained eight class¬ rooms, two recitation rooms, library, teachers' rooms, toilets. The third floor will consist of eight classrooms, physical and chemical laboratories, lecture room, instructors' room, teachers' room, store¬ rooms, toilets. The plans show a building of briek and terra cotta with steel col¬ umns and girders to be finished witli faced brick, stone and terra cotta. The cost is placed at $285,000. No building contract has yet been awarded. Jaines Kiely Goi-don to Plan Building for Gilsey House Site. EROADWAY,—-James Riely Gordon, ar¬ chitect, of 402 5th av, has been commis¬ sioned to design the plans for the new twenty-story office building, which John E. Olson, 39 East 2Sth st, the well-known engineer and builder, is to construct on the site of the old Gilsey House, at the northeast corner of Broadway and 29th St. The hotel occupies a plot fronting 64-5 ft- on Broadway and 148.8 ft- in 29th st. Its northerly line runs irregularly, meas¬ uring about ISG ft., while on the easterly end it is 9S.9 ft. There are more than 14,- 000 sq. ft- or flve and three-fifths lots in the plot, which will easily permit of the proposed improvement. Mr. Olson will be the general contractor, awarding all sub¬ contracts. The old 7-sty hotel structure was erected in 1870, and has done service for more than forty years. The amount paid for the property is said to be $1,500,- 000. Among the recent buildings erected by Mr. Olson is the 9-sty fireproof offlce building at Nos. 37-39 East 28th st, and the 12-sty elevator apartment house now building at 35-38 Gramercy Park, Plans for New Public Schools. MANHATTAN.—Plans have been com¬ pleted by Architect C, B. J. Snyder, 500 Park av, for the following new school buildings in Manhattan, Bronx and Brook¬ lyn: Public School No. 60, 5-stys, 116x 181 ft., containing 64 class rooms, gym¬ nasium, auditorium, playroom, etc., to be erected at Manhattan, Clinton, Cherry and Water sts, Manhattan. Estimated cost, $450,000- School No. 74 (addition), containing 32 classrooms, at the northeast corner of Pleasant av and 119th st; esti¬ mated cost, $200,000. School No. 46, 5- stys, 200x200 ft., containing 48 class¬ rooms, at 196th st, Briggs and Bainhridge avs, Bronx, estimated cost, $350,000- School No. 102, 5-stys, 200x100 ft., con¬ taining 44 classrooms, at Nos. 305-325 East 113th st, estimated cost, $325,000. School No- 136 (addition) 5-sty3, contain¬ ing 32 class rooms, at 4th av, 40th and 41st sts, Brooklyn; estimated cost, $200,- 000. Bids will be advertised for in the usual way as soon as the necessary ap¬ propriation has been granted for the work. George P. Walker, secretary, 103 Park av, is to erect at the southeast corner of Park av and 76th st. The structure wiil be on the co-operative plan, and will he one of the finest in this city. .The proposed build¬ ing will not cover the whole plot, which fronts 177.2 ft. on Park av and 100 ft. in 76th St. The present houses at Nos. 823- 825 are to remain, so as to provide a light and air court. Th'e Metropolitan Life In¬ surance Company recently made a build¬ ing loan of $625,000 on the property. Pick¬ ering & Walker, 103 Park av are the ar¬ chitects, and R. F, Bolton, 527 5th av, steani, electrical and sanitary engineer. There will be apartmenls for forty-eight families. The Duke House. 5th AV-—Modified plans for the house to be erected for James B. Duke, at the northeast corner of Fifth av and 78th st, have been filed by the architect, Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia. The archi¬ tecture is to be of the Renaissance type, with facades of ornamental brick trimmed with granite and limestone. It wili have a spacious central entrance and Ionic col¬ umns at the. second and third stories crowned with a decorated pediment. It will have tall casement windows finished with ornamental railings at the different stories and courts around the entrance. The main floor will be divided by a large central hall opening on one side to the dining room and library and on the other into the drawing room and music room. The revised cost of the building is .$-365,- 000, J- T- Brady &. Co., 103 Park av, have the general contract. Contract for Big Apartment. PARK AV.—Wm. J. Taylor, 5-7 East 42d st, has received the general contract to erect the 12-sty fireproof elevator apart¬ ment house, 107x100 ft., which the Bight Hundred and Twenty-Nine Park Avenue Co,., Matthew K. Miller, president, and Contract for Fiat Auto Plant. POUGHKEEPSIE, N, Y,—The contract for the erection of the plant of the Fiat Automobile Co, of 1786 Broadway, Man¬ hattan, at Pouglikeepsie, has been given to the Torrington Building and Construc¬ tion Co,, of Torrington. Conn. The work must be completed by January 1 and the contract calls for everything but steani heating and the sprinkler. A number of changes have been made in the plans. Instead of a 2-sty structure, the buildings have been given more ground space. How¬ ever, the walls will be made of sufiicient strength to support two more stories when the volume of business demands the ex¬ pansion. As it is there will be nearly 3,000 square feet more of space than orig¬ inally planned for. Messrs. Hedman & Schoen, 25 West 42d st, Manhattan, are the architects. Foiu-th Avenue's Latest Skyscraper. 4TH AV,-—^The next commercial build¬ ing improvement to be added to Fourth av, will be put up at the northeast corner of 4th av and 20th st. The plot measures 69 ft on the avenue and 90 ft in the street, taking in Nos. 251 to 255 4th av. The new structure will contain sixteen stories, made up of stores, offices and lofts and will have side light on both street fronts, Chas- Erogan, (Inc..) No. 27 West 20th st, is the owner and he will erect the building from plans which are now in preparation by Architects Neville & Bagge, of 217 West 125th st. The cost is estimated in the neighborhood of ■ $400,000- The State Realty & Mortgage Company, has made a building loan of $281,500- Work is to be undertaken immediately. commodation of prospective buyers on the company's property, T'he entire operation will involve a cost of about $250,000, The Hudson-Fulton Construciion Co-, of 1493 Broadway, will erect the buildings. New Synagogue on Wasliing-ton Heights. 161ST ST.—The Washington Heights Hebrew Congregation has purchased a plot, 50x100 ft., al Nos. 508-510 West IGlst st, now covered with two dwellings. The buildings will be demolished and on the site will be erected a $50,000 syna¬ gogue, the flrst structure of this type to be built on the heights. Officers of the congregation are Israel Kuttle, president; Louis Maryash, vice-president; Joseph Gottlieb, treasurer, and J. Fein, secretary. William Weiss, Alexander Gruber and Rudolph Baum are trustees. Bighty-Two Bungalows for Greenport. GREENPORT, L. I.—Plans -will soon be completed by Louis Chas. Maurer, archi¬ tect. 1495 Broadway, Manhattan, for 82 concrete bungalows, of which ten will be erected at once. Each building will be 22 x50 ft., six rooms and bath, large veranda, wood porch columns with shingle roof. The location overlooks Gardiner's Bay and is opposite Shelter Island. A landing dock and pier will be erected for the ac- Big Apartment House on the Drive. RIVERSIDE DRIVE.—The Ferguson Brothers & Forshay Engineering and Con¬ struction Company, Broadway, ISOth st, will erect a 12-sty elevator apartment house at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and 93d st, on a plot measuring 114 xl52 ft. Tlie approximate cost will total about $1,000,000. So far as could be learned no architect has yet been selected. The same builders have put up a building at Broadway and ISOth st. New York Arcliitects Commissioned to Design New Foi-t William Henry Hotel. LAKE GEORGE, N. Y.-The flrms of H. J. Hardenburgli, of New York, and Ludlow & Peabody, of New Yorii, have been appointed in association, to design the new fireproof hotel to take the place of the old Ft. William Henry Hotel at Lake George, whicli was recently destroy¬ ed by fire. Apartments, Plats and Teuements. WILLIAMSBURG.—The Wechsler Con¬ struction Co. of Manhattan, has purchased a plot front of 200x100, on the west side of Lewis av, between Willoughby and Ver¬ non av, Williamsburg. Apartment houses will be ereeted- NEWARK, N. J-—Alfred Peter, archi¬ tect, 238 Washington st, Newark, has prepared plans for a 4-3ty-brick store and flat building, to be erected at Orange and Eagle sts, Newark, for the A. Leary Co., of 3 Orange place, Newark. Estimated cost, about $20,000, McCOMES DAM ROAD-—Plans will be ready by October 25, for a 4-sty flat, 25x 75 ft., brick and limestone, to be erected on McCombs Dam road, north of Ander¬ son av, by the Jerome Building & Im¬ provement Co., 28 Clark place, to cost $20,000. Moore & Landsiedel, 3d av and 148th st, are making plans- PROSPECT AV.—Moore & Landseidel, 3d av and 148th st, state that plans are ready for two 4-sty brick flats, 40x67.6, for the Frank A, Wahlig Co., 149th st and 3d av, to be erected at the southeast cor¬ ner of Prospect av and 179th st, costing $55,000; also two 4-sty flats, 37,6x6S ft.. for the same owners, in the south side of 179th st, 67.G ft. east of Prospect av, cost¬ ing $50,000. The owner builds, Churches. CLINTON, N. Y-—Mallison & Soucie, of Medina, have secured the contract to erect the Roman Catholic Church at Clinton, to cost $50,000. BUFFALO, N- Y.—It is reported that an ediflce is to be erected for the members of the St. Gerald's Church at Bailey and Delavan avs. Rev. Wm. H- Schreck is pastor. Estimated cost, $150,000. BUFFALO, N. Y,—The St- Stephen's Evangelical Church Society, of Buffalo, Rev. Gustave Reuckert, pastor, 308 Adams st, will build a church of stone