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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 85, no. 2181: January 1, 1910

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xij^v-'v^xfcx^ jn.j.^j^ VJI l_/AJL^JLJ architects, L. A. Goldstone and Wm, L. Rouse, 12 W. 32d st. Plan No. 590. Benjamin Mordecai, president; J. M. Stoddard, secretary and treasurer. 108lh st, n s, 125 e Broadway, 8-sty apartments 75x84.11 to cost $200,000; owner, Chas. E. McManus, 45 East 42d st; architects, Neville & Bagge, 217 West 125th st. Plan No. 614. West End av, n w cor 99th st, 12-Bty brick and stone apartment house, 100.11x115. to cost $700,000; owner. Guide Realty Co., 2875 Broadway; architects, Neville & Bagge, 217 West 125th st. Plan No. 624. Arlington C. Hall, president; H. M. Hall, secretary. The owner builds, 102d st, Nos. 178-lSO West. 2-sty brick and stone post office building, 60x43,8; to cost $25,000; owner, Eugene Higgins, 1 Madi¬ son av; architect, M. Zipkos, 103 Park av. Plan No, GOD, Branch Realty Co., 149 Broadway, lessee. Amsterdam av, s w cor lOOlh st, 6-sty apartment house, lOO.llx 90, tin roof, to cost $175,000; owner, Lloyd Construction Co.. 215 West 125th st; architects, Bernstein & Bernstein, 24 East 23d st. Plan No. 733. Broadway, n e cor lOSth st, 12-sty apartment house, 100,11x115, slag roof, to cost $800,000; owner. Chas. E. McManus, 45 East 42d st; architects, Neville & Baggc. 217 West 125th st. Plan No. 729. Cathedral Parlnvay, s s, 100 w Amsterdam av, two 12-sty apart¬ ment houses, 100x51.11. slag roof; total cost, $400,000; owner, Carlyle Realty Co., IDS Broadway; architects, Schwartz & Gross, 347 5th av. Plan No. 761. Jacob Stein, president; Edgar A. Levy, treasurer; Leo S, Bing, vice-president, 100th Bt, s w cor West End av, 12-sty apartment bouse. 100.llx 100.11 and 115. to cost $800,000; owner, Guide Realty Co., Broad¬ way, s w cor 112th st; architects, Neville & Bagge, 217 West 125th St. Plan No. 772. Riverside Drive, n e cor 9Sth st, 10-sty brick and stone apart¬ ment house, 106.5x113.10, lo cost, $600,000; owner; Barkin Con- :St ^.-i-^ THE ALLENDALE APARTMENTS. West End Avenue, northeast corner 99th Street. Rouse & Goldstone. Architects, struction Co., 459 West 141st st; architects, Wm. L. Rouse and L. A. Goldstone, 12 West 32d st. Plan No. 588. Riverside Drive, s e cor 103d st, 12-sty brick and stone apart¬ ment house, 125.0x106.0x100.11, to cost, $800,000; owner, Brook- field Construction Co. (James C. McGuire & Co.,) 50 Church st; architects, Lawlor & Haase, 69 Wall st. Plan No. 784. This Is the site of the Deering house. 107th St. n s, 225 e Amsterdam av, 3-sty brick factory. 25x25x 92,11, tin roof; cost, $20,000; owner. A, Frederick, 95th st and Broadway; architects, Sommerfeld & Steckler, 19 Union sq. Plan No. 779. 100th st, s s. 2S0 w West End av. S-sty brick and stone tene¬ ment, plastic slate roof, fireproof, galvanized iron skylights and cornices, metal lath, bluestone coping, steam heat, steel frame, iron and marble st.Tirs, marble base; cost, $160,0{Xt; owner. West Side Const. Co., 321 West 92d st; architect, Geo. Fred. Pelham, 507 5th av. Plan No. S36. 99th aud 100th sts. Messrs. Schwartz £ Gross, architects. 347 5th av, are drawing plans for two apartment houses to be erected on the former Furniss estate, recently subdivided. They received the commission from Polstein fc Backer, of 220 Broadway. The houses will have eight stories, on ground dimensions of 75x100 each, and are estimated to cost .f2OO,00O each. One will be on the north side of 99th st and the other on the south side of 100th st. lOOth st, s s, 200 w West End av. S-sty brick and limestone apartment house. S0-f84.9; cost, $200,000; owner. W. Axelrod Realty Co., 321 West 92d st; architect, Geo Fred Pelham. Plan No. S43. 108th st—Plans have also been filed for a 6-sty apartment house, 100x90 feet, to be erected at the northwest corner of Ams¬ terdam av and 108th st, for the I. Judis Building & Construction Company. B. W. Levitan, the architect, places the cost at $100,000. The busiest place in the district at this date is on and ad- iJacent to the former Furniss property, between 99th and 100th sts, West End av and the Drive, where the Hall, Mordecal, Axelrod and other interests are at work. Three 12-sty apart¬ ment houses are being erected on West End av and several of eight stories in the lateral streets. Eight stories represent the maximum allowed by law for the sixty-foot streets. HOW MONET WAS MADE. To show the increase in land values in this section, it is re¬ lated that about the year 1885, or about twenty-five years ago, half a block front on Riverside Drive sold for $50,000. For the Deering property, 100 ft. on the Drive and 125 ft. on 103d st, $300,000 M'as the asking price previous to the sale a few months ago. The Deering house was the pioneer residence on the Drive in that quarter. Lots on Broadway in 1887 were worth but $7,900. The north¬ east corner of 104th st and Broadway, a parcel consisting of less than four lots, and now occupied by a church, brought $48,000. A plot of three lots on the southeast corner of Amster¬ dam av and lOoth st. once sold for $20,000. Walter Lawrence and Robert E. Dowling bought the southwest corner of 110th st, 132x100 ft., for $70,000, in November, 1S89. A year and a half previous the same plot brought but $50,000. TIME RIPE FOR REBUILDING. Mr. George A, Hampton, of George A. Hampton & Bro., who have their real estate ofHce in the first 6-sty apartment house erected in this section, at the northwest corner of Amsterdam av and 104th st, considers that the time is ripe for rebuilding in the section on and adjacent to Amsterdam av. He is already getting inquiries from builders for plots. In his opinion 6-sty houses, with or without elevators, would very successfully re¬ place some of the small cold-water fiat houses. He notes less objection to top floors than formerly. Recently having an entire house to fill, the top floor was the first one he rented. A COMPLETED THOROUGHFARE. Of Amsterdam av, between 96th and 110th sts. it can be said that as a speculative building field it is "finished." On the last three corners to remain open builders are now at work. The Irving Judis Building and Construction Company is completing a 6-sty elevator building for stores and apartments on the northwest corner of 105th st, opposite the West End Presbyterian Church. On the site of the new house there formerly stood a row of five 2-sty and basement dwellings, survivors of a previous era. The same firm of builders is improving the northwest corner of lOSth st in the same way, with a 6-sty elevator apart¬ ment house with stores on the avenue frontage. It takes in the south half of the block, and the north half is being improved by the Lloyd Construction Company with a building of the same height as the other. There are left a few low buildings which might be classified as "taxpayers," but with these exceptions Amsterdam av, be¬ tween 96th st and llOth, is a completed modern thoroughfare. For some years it was under a cloud in consequence of the attempt of the traction system to make it "a railroad avenue." Rev. Dr. Peters, of St. Michael's, and the local property owners' associations fought the usurpation desperately, and two years ago they had the satisfaction of seeing two of the four tracks taken away. Recently the city has resurfaced the roadway with asphalt, so that Amsterdam av, as it runs through this part of the city at least, may he regarded as in all respects a finished work. Some time in the future the avenue will be rebuilt, but it is likely to hold its present general status for a long period. The 6-sty house with a frontage of 100 feet, Such as Messrs. Judis and Lloyd are now building, is looked upon by some as the pattern for the first operations in re¬ building, when it is time for tbe smaller houses to go. THE FIRST MODERNIZATION MOVEMENT. Before the Subway was opened the principal traffic door for this section was the Elevated Railroad station at 104th st and Columbus av. For years after the opening of this station all tbe civic interests radiated from here. We talk of the rise and growth of particular neighborhoods in New York City, and it is well not to be loo sweeping in making comparisons, but we doubt If any section of old Manhattan south of Morningside Heights grew up more rapidly than the city squares that were served by this station. These squares might be considered as those lying between lOOth and 110th st. Central Paria West and Rive-'slde Drive. The great change came mostly within five years. "Walter Lawrence is remembered as one of the first brokers in the field, and it was in the year 1884 that he built his 1-sty affice building in 104th st. just west of Columbus av. Up to th'..t time the build¬ ing operations of the West Side were being pushed forward in the neighborhood of the 72d and Slst st Elevated stations, but very soon the movement struck this center. About the earliest pioneers among the builders were Messrs, Gille, Walker & Lawson, and their first transaction was the purchase of some lots in 104th st, between Amsterdam av and the "Boulevard." On these they built three single fiats, the first floors of which they took for their own occupancy, and the remainder they rented. THE EARLY BUILDERS. These men built up a good part of 104th st and also West End av, near 104th st, for the most part with private houses. Next (Continued on page 9.) The " MODERN METHOD " is to be awake to all that is going on.