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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 11, no. 268: May 3, 1873

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AND BUILDERS^ GUIDE. Vol. XI. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1873. No. 268. Published WeeHu by TîIE REAL ESriTE RECORD ASSOCIATION. TERMS. One year, in advance......................§6 00 Ali coiniauiiications should he addressed to Whiting Building. 343 A.vr) 347 Broadway, Spécial Noticp:s. The firm of Stew.art & Co., the senior member of which has been concerned in Drain-Pipe manufacturing in this city for more than 23 years, have found their incroasing bu.-iness reqnire more ample room for the display of goods. With this view, they have just fitted up and now occupy a store at No. 2(i9 Poarl, two doors from Fui ton. .\t their Works, running throngh from ISth to IUth sts., near llth avenue, they have for several years been prosecuting exper- iments, .at great expense. in tho. manufacture of Terra Cotta Goods, and can now prodiics-'this kind of article free from defects hitherto exporionoed. They now confidently assert that for m;iny useful and ornamental purposes their Terra Cotta goods aro far better adapted than those made from any other material. Attention is called to the large amount of property of¬ fered for .sale in Montréal. This property, as represented to us. has many attractive features, and its assumed early very great prospective increase seems to be based u])oh numerous co-operating cau.ses, The section of the city, the f.ashionablo streets loading to and through it, the proximi¬ ty of horse-cars, the boulevards and the new park givo it many attraotion.s, while the geiitly sloping character of the ground and its freedom from rock and swamii ronder its improvement easy and cheap. Ground around it has vastly increased in v.alue in the last few year.s, .and thore are said to have beon bnilt in its vieinity within the samo time about five hundrod fine résidences. Mr. Pelham statos that the reason for oiïoring this property in Now York as well as Montréal is that the greator monoyed resources of tho metropolis of^the continent may be appealed to in en¬ deavoring to dispose of so large aniï valuable a property. THE MANUFACTUREES' AND BUILDEES BANK. Among the many improvements whicli have so rapidly developed themselves La the upper portion of the City, one of the most conspicu- ous is the building recently completed at the north-east corner of Fifty-seventh street and Third Avenue, known as the Manufacturers' and Builders' Bank. Although going under that name, the Bank really forms but a por¬ tion of the édifice, which was erected by Mr. John Davidson, the Président of the Bank, for a variety of useful purposes, and it is sel¬ dom that a lot of giound of the same size is to be found so ingeniously economized, and a buUding, by skillful arrangement of plan, made to answer so completely the purposes for which it was intended. The entire space on whieh it is btûlt is only 50 feet by 95 feet, and yet the building has the appearance of being consider¬ ably larger. In width it is divided into two parts, the portion towards Fifty-seventh street being devoted to the Bank, offices, &o., while the northern portion is occupied by résidences for familles, but so completely walled off from the rest as really to form a separate édifice in- temally. There are two entrances; one on Third Avenue, leading to the Bank and adjoin¬ ing dweUing-houses ; another at the eastern end on Fifty-seventh street. through which the rooms over the Btxnk portion are approached by means- of broad and handsome newel stair¬ cases. The basement floor, but a step or two below the side-walk, is occupied in its whole length by real estate and other business ofiices. The Bank, over thèse, which. is approached frora Third Avenue by a bold flight of steps, runs back the whole distance with the exception of the end stair-case, and having two whole sides completely lighted, is probably one of the most agreeable business places of the kind to be found in the City. It is provided with saf es, accommodations for officers and clerks, burg- lar and fire-proof réceptacles, and ail the other arrangements of modem first-class banks. In décoration it makes no pretension whatever to grandeur, but aU its fittiugs are of that solid, substantial and élégant character, which one appréciâtes in superior business houses ; while the abundance of light makes it peculiarly cheerfui. The spacious stairway on Fifty-sev¬ enth street leads to a large and handsome s'ùite of rooms on the second lloor, immediately over the Bank, and occupied by the Sparta Cliib, a new c'ub recently formed, and of which Mr. Jajies M. Miller is président. Over thèse rooms, on the third floor, the adjoining build¬ ing encroaches for the purpose of obtaining living room, but having no communication whatever with the staircase, which is surround¬ ed by solid walls, The fourth story over the Bank and Sparta Club-room is occupied by a commo¬ dious and elegantJy furnished lodge-room, which is at présent used by the Aima, the Star of Cuba (composed mainly of Cubans), the King Solomon and King Solomon's Chapter— principally Germans, The view to be obtained of the City, from this Lodge room and the Sparta Club-room below is very beautiful, as it commands. the whole western and southern portions as far as the eye can reach ; and the inmates moreover can never complain of a lack of fresh air and ventilation, The building is throughout most substantially erected, and the basement walls are of unusual thickness and strength. The cellar is very peculiar, having been built expressly for the rétention of Ger¬ man wines, which are aiready to be seen fiUing the whole surface in clean, well-arranged pipes, It is claimed for those vaults that they are the first of the kind erected in iS'ew York, if not in the United States. ,-■ The style adopted by the architects, Messrs. Schulze and Schoen, in what is called gener¬ aUy—for want of a better name— the Benais- sance ; that is a mingling of ItaUan forms with the Neo-Greek flourishes, or engraving in stone, which has of late been so largely introduced among us. The architects have in this case, however, and with considérable taste, made this very superficial mode of décoration subser- vient to their projections and architectural forms, instead of allowing it to become the prime feature and to supersede moldings, as is now a prevaUing hideous fashion. The buUd¬ ing was originally intended to be crowned with a mansard roof, but the fire of Boston having brought that unfortunate buUding fea¬ ture into such disrepute, the design had to be changed at the last moment, aud the same cor¬ nice was consequently planted a story higher than its first destination. Though taken at this serions disadvantagc, the élévation is stiU bold and striking, and exhibits everywhere, like the interior, the hand of taste and skillful de¬ sign. It is of Ohio freestone, with the excep¬ tion of the basement and first floor, which are of iron pUasters, judiciously filled with a brick core, the only way indeed in which cast-iron supports for walls should be permitted to be erected in the city, The entire cost of the buildings was $110,000, and from the judicious way in which this sum has been laid out, and the manner in which the édifice and aU its sur¬ roundings have been completed, there can be no doubt that it will largely improve the value of ijroperty in its immédiate neighborhood, MECHANICS' LIENS. NEIRT YORK. April. 26 Eighth av., s. w. cor, 12.oth st. James E. Poole agt, A. Raymond. $797 97 26 Flli-TY-NINTH ST., N. S., 90 E. MaDI- Bon av., 67.2x—. John Moran agt. Fernando Wood.................. 2,000 00 30 Fifty-ninth st., n. s., 157 e. Madi- son av., IG.Sx—. John Moran agt. , Fernando Wood.................. 1,452 00 30 Fifty-ninth st., n, s,, 224 e. Madi- son av., 16.Sx—, Joim Moran agb. Fernando Wood.................. 1,4.52 00 30 Houston st. (Nos. 204 and 206 W.), n. s:, bet, Macdougal and Varick sts, Patrick Toner agt. John Mc¬ Crum and —, Brooks............. 186 00 25 Madison av,, n, w. cok. 73d st., 10 houses on st. Andrew KeUy agt. James E. Coburn................. 4,469 00 25 Madison av., n. w, cok, 73d st., 5 houses on st. Heman Clark agt. Jno. Doe......................... 40 00 26 Madison av., n, w,.cor. 78d st., 8 houses on st. Allen GaUagher agt. James E, Coburn................. 2,259 00 Mulberry st., n. w. s., 150 s. 1 go Grand st., 25x—................| ■"^ Baxter st. (No. 149), B. s., 150 s. [ Grand st., 25x—...............; j D. E. Hawldns and P. KeUbach agt. George VV. Ferguson......... 1,330 24 25 One Hundked and Twenty-first 1 st., s. s., 7 houses com. about 235 j e. lst av........................1 One Hundred and Twenty- j SECOND st., s. s., 3 houses cora. ', about 235 e. lst av..............J (Continuation of lien filed AprU 29, 1872.) John McTeague agt. Deck¬ er & Smith....................... 89183 26 Tenth av., s. e. cor. 154th st. Noah Wheaton agt. Nelson Newton 115 00 24 Tenth av., e. s., com. about 25 s. 1.54th st., extending s. 25. James McKenna agt. Mrs. Kirkland...... 16 00 25 One Hundked and Twenty-third st., s. s., 140 w. 6th av. G. S. Wood and Jno. Keenan agt, Rob't Mporeg, 3,433 75 25 Same pkopekty. John Preuser a^. P. Freeman...........•:•••,••. 4"^ ^