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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 98, no. 2543: Articles]: December 9, 1916

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810 RECORD AND GUIDE December 9, 1916 physical work during all seasons, of the year. In addition there will be an in¬ door gymnasium and a large well-lighted swimming pool. It is intended that there should be two schools, a lower and an upper. The lower school will have three grades corresponding to the fifth, sixth and seventh grades of the public schools, with pupils averaging ten, eleven and twelve years of age. The upper school will have five grades corresponding to the eighth grammar grade and the four classes of the high schools, the pupils ranging from thirteen to nineteen years of age. The new building will provide twice as much space as the present home of the school, which has been located in Livingston street, near the old Municipal Building, for more than half a century. The Board of Trustees, who manage the afifairs of the institution, include Alex¬ ander M. White, Frank Bailey, Thorn¬ ton Gerrish, Walter Hammitt, Julius Liebmann, Josiah O. Low. William H. Nichols, Jr., James H. Post and Fred¬ erick B. Pratt. Building in Richmond. Weekly report of the operations of the Bureau of Buildings, Borough of Rich¬ mond, for the week ending December 2, 1916: Plans filed for new buildings (esti¬ mated cost $80,560)........^...... 16 Plans filed for alterations (estimated cost $2,335)...................... 8 Plans filed for plumbing (estimated cost, $1,471)..................... 9 New buildings estitnated........... 7 Construction inspections made......'344 Iron and steel inspections made.. 210 Plumbing and drainage inspections made ............................ 168 Permits granted for removal of buildings ........................ 2 Permits granted for demolition of buildings .............'........... '1 New Court House to Be Finished. On October 26, 1916, President Van Name obtained another additional ap¬ propriation, $130,000, which with the bal¬ ance remaining of the prior appropria¬ tions obtained by him will be sufficient for the completion of the interior of . the new court house at Richmond. This last appropriation brings the total of appropriations up to $860,000. There still remains to be authorized sufficient money to improve the grounds, the plans for which are elaborate. This amount will probably be authorized next spring. The architect's estimate of the cost of the building and including the cost of ac¬ quiring the site was $975,395.33. This amount was not appropriated, but was an estimate only. There has been an er¬ roneous .iinpression current that it was appropriated. Municipal Arts Bulletin. .The bulletin of the Municipal .Arts Society, for the fourth quarter of 1916, coi-itains several interesting features. Besides editorial comment concerning the "Save New York" movement, and the recent agitation regarding the bill¬ board nuisance, the bulletin discusses the activities of the society, and com¬ ments on various phases of city plan¬ ning and art and allied topics. Copies may be had upon application to the Sec¬ retary at 119 East 19th street. Brooklyn Moving Picture Activity. Shampan & Shampan, 772 Broadway, Brooklyn, have completed plans for a moving picture theatre to be built by the M. Z. Realty Company, on a plot 65x100 feet, on the south side of DeKalb avenue, 60 feet west of Sumner avenue. The structure will be of semi-fireproof type of construction with an exterior de¬ signed in Italian renaissance style of architecture of a cream white impervious background and a mat glazed polv- chrome terra cotta trimming. Above the entrance there will be decorative panels featuring music, folly and drama. A large glass marquise will protrude above these panels at the entrance, well illum¬ inated. The lobby will be finished in marble, the interior with ornamental plaster in a style of architecture repre¬ senting the .A.dam School, richly decor¬ ated. A stage has been planned with boxes at each side. The roof of the audi¬ torium is so arranged that it can be readily opened to the extent of 85 per cent, of its area, thereby affording a summer open air auditorium. Obtain Dwelling Contract. M. Reid & Company. 114 West 39th street, have been awarded the general contract for the five-story brick and stone residence, to measure 23x100 feet, at 12 East 96th street, to be occupied by Robert L. Livingston, of 44 Wall street. The house has been designed by Ogden Codman, 340 Madison avenue, Man¬ hattan, architect. The contract for the foundation has been awarded to tihe Underpinning & Foundation Co., 290 Broadway. Plan $10,000,000 Terminal. The Lehigh Valley Railroad took title on Wednesday, to a tract of land 3,600 feet along New York Bay on the Jersey side, with extensive rights to land under water just north of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Greenville freight yards. The property was acquired as a site for the huge freight terminal which the rail¬ road expects to build at this point, at a cost which has been estimated at $10,- 000,000. Brooklyn Apartment Building. The increased demand for additional bousing facilities in the East New York district is reflected in tlie proposed con- sliuction of eight four-story brick and limestone apartment houses, to measure 50x90 feet each, to occupy the block front on Howard avenue, from Sutter to Blake avenues. They will be built by Nathan Halperin, 822 Eastern Parkway, from plans by Cohn Brothers, 361 Stone avenue, who have placed their cost at S35,000 each. New West Side Congregation. The Congregation of Bnai Jeshurun, Herman Levy, 30 Broad street, presi¬ dent, will erect a synagogue, with a seat¬ ing capacity of 1,200, at 257-265 West SSth street, on a plot 89x100.8 feet, ac¬ quired last .\ugust from various owners. Plans for the proposed structure are be¬ ing prepared by Henry B, Herts, 507 Fifth avenue. The congregat'on sold its present synagogue property on Madison avenue, near 66th street, some ir:onths ago to the Alliance Realty Compau',- which plans a store and bachelcr apart¬ ment building for the site. Plan Negro Model Tenements. Model tenements for negroes in Harlem are being considered by mem¬ ber's of the National League on Urban Conditions among the Negroes, mem¬ bers of the Advisoiy Council uf Real Estate interests, and the City & Sub¬ urban Homes Company. The move ha? been agitated for some time on account of the rapid e.xpansion of the negro colony in Harlem. A public meeting will be held shortly at which the plans cf these organizations will be discussed. Club-house for Musicians. Trowbridge & Livingston, 527 Fifth avenue, have preliminarv plans in prog¬ ress for a six-storv brick and stone fire proof club-house, iOOxlOO feet, at 209-215 East SSth street, to be occupied by the Musical Mutual Protective Lhtion, T. E. Porter, 210 East 86th street, president. The clubhouse will contain an auditorium with a seating capacity of 2,500. The buildings at present on the site will be razed by the Jacob Voght House Wreck¬ ing Co., 103 Park avenue. New Times Square Theatre. The J. & Lee Schuliert Construction Company, 225 West 44th street, repre- i,enting the Schubert theatrical inter¬ ests, plan to build another theatre in tlie south side of 45th street, west of Broad¬ way, in tlie rear of the present Schubert and Booth theatres. The new playhouse will be of brick and terra cotta con¬ struction, and will contain a balcony and twelve dressing rooms. The estimated cost has been placed at $50,000 by Her¬ bert J. Krapp, 114 East 16th street, who is preparing the plans. Will Build Memorial Hospital. Henry B. Herts, 507 Fifth avenue, has preliminary plans in progress for the Isaac L. Rice Memorial Hospital at North Tarrytown, N. Y., to be built from funds donated by Mrs. Isaac L. I'-ice. The building will be erected on a fourteen acre tract recently acquired from Cornell University, as a memorial to the late Mr. Rice, inventor and phi¬ lanthropist. MruJLQQiniiiiiuiiiQiiiUEainnrrmnmrmiiirtDinJtnmiini uiimuiiniiiuiirm PERSONAL AND TRADE j NOTES. j DninrDiimmiunniiimTTcnimniiMiimj nuini inmiiniirnDUlTiuuiuiirmiiiiui uHDmrniLn rjuniiitBEiMii rnumnnDiiMji iiniiiujimuunniTirLiimS E. B. Este & Sons, North Carolina pine, have leased for new quarters the ninth floor at 362-364 Fifth avenue. Arnold W. Brunner, architect, has been elected a vice-president of the Na¬ tional Institute of .^rt and Letters. Black & Yates (Inc.), of Paterson, N. J., specializer in Philippine mahogany, have opened a new York office at 341 Fifth avenue, charge of H. L. Black. Brooklyn Civic Club will tender a dinner and reception on Tuesday even¬ ing, December 12, to the Senators and .\ssemblymen of Kings County, at the clubliouse, 127 Reir.sen street. Clough, Bourne Corporation has opened offices in the .Architects' Build¬ ing, 101 Park avenue. Its business will be that of general building construction. Walter H. Clough, for many years vice- president of the George A. Fuller Com¬ pany, is the president of the corpora¬ tion, and Gait Bourne, a son of Commo¬ dore Frederick G. Bourne, is the treas¬ urer. At the meeting of the Membership Council of the Bronx Board of Trade held on Wednesday morning, December 6, this body, the nominating- committee of the Board, renominated Eugene H. Rosenquest for president, and Richard W. Lawrence for first vice-president. Tlie annual elections of the Board will taLc place at the meeting to be held on January 24, 1916. NO ARCHITECTS SELECTED. In this department is published advance in- tormation regarding building projects where architects have not ^s yet been s.-'lectcd. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—The Pilgrim Congregational Church. 6 Linden st, con¬ templates building a new church. No architect has been selected and details will be available later. HAMMONDSPORT, N. Y.—The Bank of Hammondsport, Leo Masson, president, contemplates erecting a bank building for which no architect has been selected. PE.4RL RIVER, N. Y.—D. Von Soosten, Jr.. and James B. Moore. Pearl River, con¬ template the erection of a 1-sty moving picture theatre, with a seating capacity of from 500 to 1.000, for which no archi¬ tect has been selected. ALBANY, N. Y.—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, c/o James M. Robinson and others, 24 South Main av, contem¬ plates the erection of a l».4-sty stone church at the cor of Madison av and Quail st, for which no architect has been se¬ lected. BAT.\VIA, N. Y.—The City cf Batavia, Board of Education, is receiving competi¬ tive sketches for a 3-sty brick high school, to contain a gymnasium and an auditorium to seat 1,000, to be built on Ross st and Washington av, Albany, N. Y. ALB.\NY, N. Y.—The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, c/o Rev. Father Joseph A. Delaney, 12 Madison pl, is re¬ ceiving competitive sketches for a paro¬ chial school to accommodate about 1,000 pupils. Details of construction are unde¬ cided. ITH.\CA, N. Y.—The University of Ithaca, c/o Professor Shepard Stephens and others, 3 Central av, contemplates building a clubhouse. Exact location and details will be available later. No archi¬ tect has been selected. BAYONNE, N. J.—The Board ot Educa¬ tion of the City of Bayonne, City Hall