Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections: The Real Estate Record

Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 98, no. 2520: Articles]: July 1, 1916

Text version:

July 1, 1916 RECORD AND GUIDE 25 ley & Co. and the Riter-Conley Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. New Brick Association.—With the object of bettering manufacturing and market conditions, brick and other clay products manufacturers in the Raritan River section of New Jersey have re¬ cently organized the Monmouth Manu¬ facturing Association. The president of the newly-formed organization is J. A. Fitzinger, of the National Fireproofing Company, Lorillard. G. J. Craigen, of the Craigen Brick Company, Cliffwood, is first vice-president; B. K. Eskesen, of the Matawan Tile Company, second vice- president; C. E. Watrous, of the Mun- ning-Loeb Company, Matawan, secre¬ tary, and W. A. Gill, of the Renwreck Company, Keyport, is treasurer. Thompson-Starrett Co. Obtains Contract. The general contract for the construc¬ tion of the office building and commer¬ cial hotel to be erected in West 42d street has been awarded to the Thomp¬ son-Starrett Co., 49 Wall street. This operation has been planned by Helmie & Corbett, architects, 190 Montague street, Brooklyn, for the Bush Terminal Co., Irving T. Bush, president, 100 Broad street. The plans for this project call for a structure twenty-nine stories in height, on a plot 50x99 feet. The building will occupy Nos. 132-134 West 42d street. Details of this operation were announced in a recent issue of the Record and Guide. Contract for Country Residence. W. H. Nye, 286 Fifth avenue, Manhat¬ tan, has obtained the general contract for the construction of a country resi¬ dence group near Greenwich, Conn., for Harry VV. Croft, president of the Harbi¬ son-Walker Refractories, Pittsburgh, Pa. The plans and specifications for this project have been prepared by Jans¬ sen & Abbott, architects, Pittsburgh, Pa., and call for a group of buildings which includes a residence, garage and stable, summer house, swimming pool and a considerable ainount of grading and landscape work. The total cost of this operation is estimated to be in the neigh¬ borhood of $200,000. Another Fifth Avenue Hotel. Plans are under way for the erection of a fifteen-story hotel to be built on the plot at the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and S6th street. The property, which has a frontage of 115 feet on the avenue and 175 feet in S6th street, has been acquired on a long term lease by a syndicate composed of clients of the Thompson-Starrett Co. and Herbert Lucas from Baron William Waldorf Astor. The plans for the projected building are being prepared by McKim, Mead & White and Herbert Lucas, asso¬ ciated architects. The cost of the pro¬ posed building is said to be approxi¬ mately $3,000,000, and with the ground rental the operation will represent the investment of about $5,000,000. Plans for Large Harlem Apartment. Schwartz & Gross and E. N. Marcus, architects, 347 Fifth avenue, have been retained to prepare the plans for the fourteen-story multi-family structure to be erected at the junction of Edgecombe and St. Nicholas avenues. The building will occupy a plot 175x81 feet and will be of fireproof construction throughout! The owner of this operation is the Loyal Building Co., Jacob Frankel, president, 391 East 149th street. The details of this project have not been determined at this writing and will be announced in a later issue of the Record and Guide. ■uiiijmiiiiuiiuiuLiiimuiiuuiiiifniniiiiiuiiiJui>iiiiuimuiimj[iiuiuiLiiJuii^iMiwnuu i NO ARCHITECTS SELECTED. In this department is published advance in¬ formation regarding building projects where architects have not as yet been selected. DUNKIRK, N. Y.—The Merrill Silk Co., W. R. Garey, Hornell, N. Y., manager, in charge, contemplates the erection of a brick and stone factory building, details for which have not been decided. Archi¬ tect not selected. CANISTEO, N. T.—The Huguet Silk Co., E. J. Grittinger, Hornell, N. T., manager, contemplates the erection of a 2-sty brick factory, 30x80 ft, for which no architect has been selected, and no details decided. AMSTERDAM, N. T.—St. Casimir'e R. C. Church, Rev. Father Joseph Zydamovicz, pastor, 260 East Main st, Amsterdam, con¬ templates the erection of'a 3-sty brick hall and parish building, 40x85 ft, includ¬ ing stores, in Main st. Cost, $30,000. No .trchitect selected. I PLANS FIGURING. BANKS. BATSIDE, L. I.—W. W. Knowles, 35 West 39th st, Manhattan, is taking esti¬ mates on general contract to close July 6 for a 2-sty brick and limestone bank building, 30x60 ft, at the southeast cor of Lawrence blvd and Bell av for the Bay- side National Bank, Fredk. Storm, presi¬ dent. Cost, about $20,000. DWELLINGS. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Kurt Z. Gizycki, architect, 70 South Broadway, White Plains, N. Y., ia taking estimates on gen¬ eral contract to close July 10, for a 2^- sty hollow tile and stucco residence and garage at White Plains, N. Y., for John G. MoIIath, 15 Whitehall st, Manhattan, own¬ er. Cost, about $10,000. BELLPORT, L. I.—E. G. Ecob, 299 Madi¬ son av, Manhattan, architect, is taking estimates on general contract to close about July llth, for the 21/2-sty frame dwelling, 42x26, with wing 13x27 ft, at Bellport, L. I., for Miss Caroline Ten Eyck, owner, c/o architect. NEWBURGH, N. Y.—Delano & Aldrich, 4 East 39th st, Manhattan, architects, are taking estimates on general contract to close 10 a. m., July 10, for a 2-sty bricK and stucco residence, 87x100 ft, for Fred¬ erick S. Delano, owner, c/o architect. FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. WARNERS, N. J.—The Ammo-Phos Corpn., K. F. Cooper, vice-president, 200 Sth av, Manhattan, is taking estimates on general contract to close July 5 for a chemical plant, consisting of a group of buildings of various sizes and construc¬ tion. Private plans. - C ~r.-/% ^ 5. 5 t »i»a -=»«W^35,;j5jW^ 907 Fifth Avenue At the corner of Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street there is being built an apartment house, unusually luxurious even in this city of handsome residences The twelfth floor is considered one of the finest apartments that has ever been constructed Edison Service will, of course, be used to provide for the varied light and power requirements of the structure The New York Edison Company At Your Service General Offices Irving Place and 15th Street Telephone: Stuyvesant 5600