New-York tribune., 1873-05-03

room suggestive of pleasant suppers the airy sleeping
rooms with ventilatng shaft an abundance OF closets,
and private bathroom at hand, all winning to a
hOusekeepers heart who loves convenience aud good
for supplies and ashshaft runs through each kitchen
10 dispose OF refuse The not noonveniently
on gong up aud down is lessened much 1t be.
The floor such houses rents for $40 month the
next for $50 and the third for $50. For sunlight
freedom TINS floor IN often the choice tenants
have a fancy for ROOMS where you have nobody over
Double houses are remodeled into very convenient
suites. IN which al the rooms get the hgnt Inc od
houses on seoondave. give rooms floor, four
large and three small ones. with kitchen suites IN the
basement These rent for 5000 year The Lexington
ave below FOrtetht principally old and very
deep houses. remodeed. They have the advantage OF
dining rooms ana HlSnen in the extension, anu are
nearly II not quite all light rooms OF good size In
point of nish they behind the sxthave Hats ana
suite which like all the rest, from street 20 sky
light, for 500 month There are not lew houses on
the streets between Lexington and Fourth ave within
half dozen blocks OF tine Park which are 20 let in
furnished Hats They have the advantage OF uDObsucted
views OF the vacant lots adjoining, and musketOes
act as eounter.rrtants to the dunn agne Whloh
haunts that region IA food ~ kept every nOOr, IN
cesEant s 20 keep vernln away. Indeed
the real estate agent Description II not lar wrong IN re-
gard 70 many of the brownstone fronts uptown You
can't the door bell but rat comes tO answer the
door aud CrOton Ous collect tle Watef rale however
ats cheap and not very bad IN other respec
floor renting for so month"; OF 50 for the half
suite OF three rooms In neatly Kept Dr0wnstOne mousse
where the attention OF janitress makes itself felt IN
dnor rnished In Brussels ana plain black walnut rent
as low as ~ a month, or s2s for the half suite
THE APARTMENT HOTELS.
This exnausts the list OF all but the rst-cass apart
ment houses, or hotels they should be called OF
these there are FIVE the stuyvesant buildings, the
Haight House. the Stevens and the Grosyenor; which
require brief description by themselves.
The 5tuyyesant building, on Eighteenth-s. was The
first apartment house built in this city IL was opened
in the Fan OF 1870, and similar establishment on Thir
teenth st.. belonging the estate went into oper-
aron the next Spring They both built the
IN
style, R NJ Hunt furnishing the plan The
EighteentEt house 92Xl40, i've stories hgh ana mas
hve suites floor The IDEA OF living on one hOOr IN
continental fashion pleased everybody at the e anu
rooms what seemed eXOrDlant prices 70 ChOce
tenants and cultivated people fond OF change
from the ordinary way OF living Iounu enainllnE ~
ht I'D dainty suites with sttlngrOOns ana library III
pale blue and bOudOir dningOons hat were Just large
enough 10 hOld friend or Two anu hOI lAIgo c1VuE
parties The want OF elevator IN these buulngs
is decidedly against their popularity with people
who fancy living on top floors for the sake
| Of cheapness There many dark rooms and the
servants bedrooms both small and dark But the
same faults are common enough in large houses. They
become ntoerabe beside the convenienees which pre-
handsome halls with tiled floors and tinted walls. deli
cately bOrdcred tine wide shallow starways, the pretty
real woods and soft-coorcd walls instead Of veneer and
scaling resco For thing the Stuyyesant building,
Is inenes tnck aud below the mansard, T. inches
suites TINS building rent from $50 year. Is
asked looking the cOuriYafd-tO sJOo TOT
the the first hOOr Whch contain from eigh1
/ to nIne . r,,,.,. 80 -
= 'r,.
81 eet on the avenue, VIII frontage OF 100 rect on rl
teenth-st 10 opened IN the Fan ot Io'l anu nas
ulea-auf Of ana three rooms On the
top door rent for 900 year IAere are very Ie"'
II any dark ia the house, and t mas every con
yeueuce restaurant elevator anuuncaJOl' ana voice
Ps @ if ~. nav Eiien- rcned but families can send
their orders to the steward, ana nave tner marKeuhs
done a. they wIsu the food cooked 10 the hItcAcu duu
served m their own rooms precisely II in their own
establishment. Nearly AL Ae families IN Jne AOtel are
uruuc who resided abroad, auu prefer lh' toht
epf,I fasBon of living 10 any other The best
r I4f ffIH
taken leases OF several years. 81,
model hous- 80 TAR Ncw-York enterprise ha- gone Il
tus direction. II opened as October win every room
sI',- ..flre.aud for two years TO come,
vlUus for people who want choice suites at the end
OF ihr uur H. s home and MOTEL at the same time
Pe0uIC lease and furnish their suites Dut Ilrlr
r,Js and attencauce are furnished by house. They
have tt option uI dining at The tlue dhute- OF ID 1AeI
own duiu GROOM precisely II Ia their own house On
6-rl- I'M grfucut maid t0 take oG their rooms s
u.,ntd them, aud waiter Tor telr special al tehddAoe
Igr ,r,uts though drilled engaged ny tine motel,
arc AZ the exclusive dspO- OF the people lu that suite
and no OIucr. tIus throwing the mana&ellelt on
Iders ar ro fi pose OF IT, AID doing away with that
dread aud tral OF American Ife-thc care or servants
m. auuse built On two sides ot square Ot gtIn Z.
court 40 square opening ON the inner SIDES ana dis
prusu with rooms entirely Inc ventilation Is as
near perfection ds uytAiug ever yel ,ee Al ll-ut W
tine envy OF many tine private mouse on lhe avenue'
Te sunny e pUsurc or al the suites 10 llc soAA ana
west aud The use of elevators render li lne tooIs ue
sraDic OF the suites are tAAmpies Oh Ine Iios'
lu.urlus furnishing IN NtW-4 orb anu the hdppy po'
SCISSORS md themselves 90 r.e from the ordihai5 cars
OF domestic lie a. the most visionary eouiu "is. IN
sTortIou nf the Kitchen and laundres showed every
he
sutEe cUmuelcuL rent liuh soJJ
- sOo wear aud OF the wealtllest families IA tAe
cIrv nave taK.u refuge this manner trOn the uncer
rIiufy OF American housekeeping ia Us present cAdoLC
Tie stevens House opened last August is the shoWest
and MI hest priced OF apartment houses M Town iI
furs uu twenty gtl--t running through rom bload-
way To Ftntle RESTAURANT and shops occupying lht
ruuud hoor IN genuine fore gn fashion large entrance
nail handsome with engraved glass, marble STAIR case
illcd ualusirade columns, pUrJers 4ouSt On
one hand eud Tiny reception room on ihc oIAeif are
rue only auartmeuts belonging 10 the hotel below Al is
seven stories high. finished n the same manner l4o Top
10 bottom with wide staircase ana "aIuscut- pI H'c
ana tled hUors supported Dy illuminated iron pillars
The suites uu inst JOr of nine anu ten rooms tdeA
rented lor 5000. Is round advisable 10 turn Je
urae kitchens INTO small inside apartments Tor DaCu-
fIors. making the rent ui the same rooms sl,oOJ
The nrungs arr very handsome, Win Waluscots ana
c.Ing- carved ana walnut with low uduJelr TO
match anu nre-places brilliant with polished steel ana
ornamental The house Is s0Ady built the Walls
TWO feet mick OF the the DIVISIONS nrc proof
with excellent fire arrangements Oh each nOOr IL ls .
Oily tuat such handsome mousse should nave tle UrtcL
m dark rooms which viii be unhealthy, spite OF dll the
gndIug aud that Dee used 10 brighten lht
uousr on the plan the GrOsyenOT was projected 10
occupy the lot al Niuth-st and Fitnave. but the plan
ls ia 4Uey anCC.