The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-28
BARNES & CURTIS.
An Important Real Estate Firm, in
TOledO---Its Establishment, Success
and Resources.


Atihe present season, when capitalists
are looking to Reul Estate Brokers for
the investment Of capital, and knowing
well the almost daily increasing demand
for Toledo property, we last week paid
a personal visit to the above popular
and responsible firm, by whom we were
most cordially received, and from them
CLEANED the following interesting facts.
Mr.. Barnes, opened an Office for the
sale of real estate on &C mmission, in the
Chamber of Commerce block, two years
ago. Although both he and Mr.. Curtia
had been operating successfully on their
own account some five years. and were
well posted in the relative values all
through the city, consequently they
were enabled to select locations for par
ties wishing to invest, IS well as if their
commission business had been of long
years standing. The first three months
of Mr.. Barnes business after opening,
showed sales aggregating $4,000. Soon
after the panic came on, when for few
succeeding months it was effected some,
as sother kinds of business land seemed
slow7nd quite discouraging to new be-
ginning as it were. However, the first of
January, 1874, brought back its renewed
yigor, perhaps not in the aggregate of
sales for the first few months, but equally
satisfactory, and finding his business
growing rapidly, and being obliged
more or less to be out of his office, he
formed partnership with Mr.. Curtis, a
gentleman eminently fit for any business.
Upon the organization OF the new
firm, Messrs. Barnes & Curtis opened
an Office in therooms of the Guardian and
Universal Life Insurance Companies,
which makes them one of the finest suit
of rooms for their business in the city.
To show something of the extent of their
business, we would say, that what isnow
called cottage Park" was purchased
last February, some 80 acres, plated
and put upon the market about June LIST,
and given TO Messrs. B. & @. as well as
parties other, to sell. They have already
sold some $50, 900 in this Addition alone,
being the entire frontage on Collingwood
avenue, except 140 feet, and some SCOTT
fronting on Cherry street; also, quite an
amount on rear streets; included in this
isone acre in the southwest corner, at &c. =
O00which was boughtsix yearsago, ,includ
ing a small house for SIG, 900; present
owner has been offered, through Barnes
& Curtiss, $1,000, 1--WE barely speak of
this transaction TO show the advance of
property in this part of the city,. We
do not know the total amount of their
sales for the year, but taking the above
as criterion, and knowing their popu-
larity among dealers and owners in all
parts of the city and surrounding coun-
try, we are confident that their business
has been eminently successful, notwith-
standing the financial distress Of the
country. The great secret of their busi-
ness has been judicious advertising, in
lomitable energy, and a conscientious
manner of recommending nothing but
what they felt was good to their patrons.
We can cheerfully recommend them to
our friends and readers wanting invest
ments in Toledo or elsewhere, as their
business extends wherever real estate is
for sale or exchange.