New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-25
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
CHANGES IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE
CITY

STRUCTURE - CHICKERING'S MUSIC HALL ON
FIFTH-AvE.-A NEW WEST SIDE THEATER-orHER
IMPROVEMENTS.
Several owners of real estate in this city are
taking advantage Of the present ull in business To
unsighty and time buildings for which they
receive only comparatively small rental and are erect
ing upon the ground thus made vacant handsome and
substantial structures supplied with all the conyenences
and safeguards which tho result Of modern thought
and experiment. CIumbng walls are being demolished
and the ring Of the artisans rowe heard from the Bat
terry to the limits Of the CT y. This suggests the ex
isence among capitalists and business of confidence
in the reawakenng activity all the branches Of trade
large part Of the capital OF NewYork being put
into the Improvement OF real estate tour through
many sections OF the city was made yesterday by
TRIBUNE reporters, and many changes were noted.
A large number OF worknen busy demolishing the
buildings which for number OF years have stood al Nos
355 and 357 Broadway. The Old NewYork Garden was
situated this spot the master mason an old
who claims have visited the Garden many times
The land is owned by elderly gentleman named Con-
tOit who resides Prince and Crosbyts The lot Is 100
feet deep by 20 feet front The buildings are TO be
of Philadelphia pressed brick, trimmed with light stone
They will be five stories above the ground level and two
stories will DO under the sidewalk. The rebuilding has
yet begun. the old walls are not wholly re
moved Plenty OF time TO DO taken. as the new sruc-
ure is not TO ready tor occupancy until May OF next
| year
A short distance above and the eide Of the
street, three buildings have torn down and the
foundations for have been laid The buildings
just demolished dwelling houses, but had been
changed into They the property of widow
named Grossler. Tho frontage on Rr9adgay is
about SO feet To depth Is i5G Est The new buildings
viii be composed of iron and brick ana Will rice to
hight of five stories In addition 10 these there VIII be
two stories under the sidewalk The plan for the sTue-
the work OF master carpenter The numbers Of
the old buildings 395 3S7 and $50, that the two
buildings will have three numbers.
At Church and Lispenard-sts. Charles E. Appeby Is
having erected a brick and iron building five stories
high, be used a wholesale house The building does
a very large lot the dimensions being 10 feet
Church-st. and so feet Lspenard-st- The clear
hight OF the building when completed to be 65 feet
The architect is william Widemeyer Mr. Appeby is
officer of the Fremans Fund Insurance Company, and
a resident Of Glen Cove His building to be completed
by Aug l.
new brick building is nearly finished at No 1O3 West
Broadway. 1t is owned by Mr.. Aufenunger Of West
Thirty second. The structure is to be FIVE stories
high % feet breadth and IS feet deep. 1t will be used
for business purposes Tue formerly occupied by
dwelling houses. william Jose Is the architect and
Andrew Ewall the builder
On Wakcr-st., a few doors east OF West Broadway,
small building of brick, with sandstone trimmings. Is
nearly completed 1t the property of Mr. POrkart Of
No Frankfortst 1t is four stories high and has been
erected in a little than two months. Work was be-
gun March 5 and the tenants are to take possession on
the first day of next month The plot Of ground upon
which the building stands formerly the site Of IN
ancient tenement house. The builders are jackson d
Johnson.
The walls Of James II. shaw's new building on
Duane-st. are nearly completed This is the
building which the cause OF the recent IT.
Andrews disaster after it had been partially destroyed
by fire. structure six stories In hight and the
wOrlmen are now at work the walls of the upper
story The rers of wood and set very closely
together There are stories below the ground floor
The walls will be finished during the next two weeks,
and the building will be ready for the reception Of
within months. The front il Of iron and tie
walls are of rough brick The architect is j. B. Shook.
and the builder is A. NJ Titus.
NEW STRUCTURES UPTOWN.
The old stores adjoining the building of the Dr.
Dock Savings Bank, at the BOwery and sccond-st, be
longing the estate OF the late c. L. Wolfe have been
torn during the past week. and the trustees have
already begun the erection Of fvesory brick building
This will have a frontage on the Bowery OF AZ feet
inches and depth of 100 feet The estimated cost Is
10000 j. b. the architect and John Demarest
the builder The building will be completed in about
three months first floor is to be used for stores and
the upper ones for Offices and mats - 49, ,-,o
place belonging 10 John DuDcan 1Ons Is now being torn
down well the stables In the rear OF H. In It's stead
~ 10 ~ eIec.e ond ., dn Of 10 feet Il viii have an
iron front and the estimated cost "a 500 900. The build
Ing Will probably no, be completed before next spring
George Thomas is the architect and Amos WO0drJlfs
me st. Denis Hotel at No 100 Broadway undergoing
aSe af miami Taynr formerly Of the interatona
Hotel The changes VII! give large restaurant Oh the
one OF the most important of the new structures now
in of erection in this section OF the city Is me new
Music Hall Of Messrs. ChcieriLg q sons at FIth-aye
and Eighteenthst The building will have 'front.' Of -
feet on Ftthaye ana l32 feet on tS1n Two
od-fash0ncd private residences OF th5ee stories,
belonging u Mrs. Mason, now IN Paris, nave
Completion of the building by the 1st OF November
next The oId Dnii1!hss VEL eieI 6t goo 900 WIN
finished house and lot inside We're sold or SSOno
while the ground alone Is now valued at @320ooO
stone then by convict labor at the quarres
in Sing Sing The houses were OF very thorough con
truct much of the material 6Sng now az good a
be Of brick will show only two stories The
Fiftbave front will be handsomely decorated with
shed granite panels and columns. II will have hight
he used as a saIesroom and the basement for storage
In the hall Itself the auditorium VIII have hlght OK A.
feet and Will extend the entire depth OF the nndng IL
Will be arranged with all the requirements OF 1rsl-
Messrs Chickering Sons have lease for tweny-one
wears after which the whole property reyerts To the
owner of the ground 1t IN Lac 1S
August Belmont, Marshall o. Roberts and Gordon W |
nusbnd as RAPIDLY as possible George Post the
chtect, p Hermann the builder and j. L. Kaiegh Tie
Another large work, now well under way, is the new
building the NewYork Hospital on tIteenthst west
This was begun time ago, but owing 20 njunc,
lions obtained by persons in the nelghDorhooa, anu
the trouble gaining the requisite ground 1t was
Tor time suspended These troubles nave all been sur
r,ourted and the work is now going forward
sxiftly The private residences on fneenth-st,
Nos q TO u inclusive, being torn down,
excavations made below the water-line-on account
of the qulcksands-and strong concrete ana stoie i9u
cations are laid the work advances The bniidns
viii be OF Philadelphia brick, eight stories high ana the
Gosh Including the land is estimated al S1OOOOO IL
win have a frontage Fteenth-st OF lI7 feet, ana
depth OF 100 inches. George b. Post the aTcl-
feit and smith PrOdgers the builders. The great
cst opposition TO the proposed building was IRON tAe
Manhattan Club whose house Is very near.
William K Morgan is erecting new brcK building AT
Broadw ay and Twenty seventA-s III Will nave 'front.'
will he three $40