The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-26

with few exceptions, are each day lending add
Mr.. p. Lcrlard has erected two magnificent
stores ON the lots Nos. SGT, $40 and S3l. They
eight feet high, thirty-eight wide and ninety-four
deep, and will cost their enterprsing. proprietor
upwards OF $500 600. IL Ii Q magnificent struc-
ture and great addition to the beauty OF that
block, which is further enhanced by the building
next door, which contains five stories and mea.
s9res thirty-fve wide by nnety-two deep; and
also No. 655, which is the same style of building,
but OF much larger dimensions and il the property
the splendid new building Of Messrs. Solomons Il
Sons, which has only been finished within the last
six months. This is very handsome five story
building; 1t has seven floors, is fortyfve by
and twenty feet. The wholesale rooms are splen-
did compartments, and its white stone front pre-
sents At once striking appearance. The cost
was $3.50 600, and the place is furnished with two
ing to Crosby street, Mr.. s. Nichols has completed
some very fine storehouses. There have been
many others put up in this thoroughfare, and
othe $ have just been commenced, the total value
OF which, it is estimated, reaches very close on
"a 900 900.
has been very prolific in the erection Of ware
houses within the past year, the value of which
the lots %, "a and Is John NJ. Slade has spent
$2G0 600 in erecting two magnificent sto ehouses,
and at Nos AZ and 49 B. Y. Peppey & Co. have
expended 1000 in erecting another large store
house. The building on the lots Nos. Ii and 10,
the property of Messrs. Slade Il Colby, is one of
the finest in the street, and has cost over 800 000
The same firm are the owners OF Nos. IL and 10,
which is being turned to the same use, will cost
Ike amount aud ID the same style OF architecture.
These gentlemen are the proprietors of another
equally valuable store near the southwest corner
OF the street. Nos. 81 and % five story build
ings and cost the same firm $4,000 each. Nos.
md In nna lor Guo oto rohn
eighty feet high forty-seven wide and one hundred
deep, and is said to have cost the proprietors,
Messrs. s. 81. Zabriskie, 100000 NJ 4 S. Stern
berger are the prroprietors Of No. 81, worth
$50 ,0O0 No. l25 belongs to Peter Burkhardt; it
is large brick storehouse and cost about s35 900.
These are the most conspicuous OF the buildings
erected in this street within the past year; there
are others also, splendid structures, but of less
pretentious character. In fact, 1t may be said
that this whole neighb0rhOOd is making as great
progress in the beauty and magnihcence OF its
warehouses as any other portion OF the city.
Each street is adding new and valuable buildings.
And in
GREENWICH STREET
several very fine structures have made their APP
pearance, and others are rapidly going up. Last
year Mr.. Herman Leipzger erected very fine
five story building, measuring thirty seven feet
wide by one hundred deep, and cost $40, 900. Nos.
1886 and 1877 have been hui on, and $50 900 ex-
pended in the erection Of four story warehouse
forty-seven feet wide and one hundred deep. Three
very substantial stores have been erected by Mr..
William Kahn on the lots known as Nos. 1863, 365
and 367. No. $50, the property OF Mr.. Stephen
Haight, is a five story first class storehouse; it
measures ffty-two feet in height, forty eight feet
in depth and fifteen in width. Another new build
ing, belonging to Mr.. Henry j. Meyer, has been
put up at No. 293, ut a cost OF $4,000 1t is es.
timated that not less than three hundred thousand
dollars has been expended by the merchants in
the erection of new warehouses in this street
within the past year.
FRANKLIN STREET
has been vastly improved since January of 1867,
during which period about five hundred thousand
dollars have been laid out in embellishng il with
magnificent warehouses. Mr.. e. s. Higgins has
expended two hundred thousand dollars in the
known as Nos. 50, 81, SO and 65. Nos. 76 and 7s
have been built on by Mr.. Samuel A. Warren; and
the two stores are five stories in height, twenty
five feet wide and one hundred deep. Mr.. ID.
Dodge has laid out another fifty thousand dollars
building at No. SO; it con aims tive sio les,
and is twenty-six feet wide ny eighty-seyen deep
The amount expended in the erection Of new
buildings in this st eet in the year 1866 was very
close five hundred thousand dollars, and i bout
half that amount may be put down for
CHURCH STREET,
where many splendid buildings have been erected,
among them that OF Messrs. George Hughes 4 Co.,
q five story structure, costing fifty thousand dol
lars, and measuring forty-four feet in width by
fifty in depth A. j. Dittephofer has built u new
store at No. 2lS, containing five stories and mea-
surfing sixty-eght feet in height, twenty in width
aud 22I Mr.. Kingsand has built large store.
house, and another Of the style, the property
Of Mr.. Poznanski, has been erected on the lot
known as No. 1856.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is almost impossible to go into details and to
enumerate in each street separately the number
Of rich buildings erected within the twelve months
past, for almost every street in the commercial
part of this city bear testimony to the energy,
tine enterprise and the liberality OF our merchants
in the erection of the finest mercantile, buildings
in the world. For instance, in Walker street, Mr..
JOHN Il. Ford has built splendid warehouse on
the lots Nos. 80 and Al, at an outlay OF $4,000
1t is five stories high torty-eight feet wide aud
ninety feet deep. Mr.. ID. c. A. Kingsley has ex-
pended $4,000 IN the construction Of a building
&C No. 40 Lispenard street. Then there IS in
West Eighteenth street, near Eighth avenue, q
brewery Quilt up with the last year which is
thirteen stories high, with front Of six lots on
Eighteenth street, the same on Seventeenth street.
1t covers Nos. l54 to l66 Eighteenth street, and
the whole ground occupies one-half an acre.
The pr0prletors are Mcpherson Il Donald Smith,
aud their business Us brewers completes with any
others in the trade in the United States. The
building cost over 500 900.
The New York Insurance Company are erecting
building on the ruins of the late Messrs. Chtten
deals warehouse. Ii will cover the whole lot on
that part OF Broadway except small space re-
served for yard. The building will consist Of four
stories with cellar eight feet high, the subbase
ment twelve feet and The basement thirteen feet
SIX inches. The house is intended to be very inn
posing, having white marble front with q grand
entrance on Broadway decorated with ornamented
pill airs and releUos OF statuafy. The second story
will be devoted to the use OF the Offices Of the com
pany. The building will be tirc-proof aud when
completed will cost about million of dollars.
Mr.. A. I. Stewart is beaut flying Third avenue
and enIarging his place in Tenth street and Broad.
way, and he has built another addition TO his
wholesale store on Duane street, and in this
street, Fulton, Wooster-in fact, in every place
that one may travel through--the same signs of
improvement are visible, and should the present
style of building continue New York can boast of
whole streets OF the most magnificent structures
that have ever been erected for the purposes OF
trade and commerce.