, 1879-08-17
REAL ESTATE.
Large Houses Moving into the New
-.. Wholesale District,
Kew Concerns Removing from New
York to Chicago.

4t1k W CAlCa1os
Valuable improvement on West Madison
Street--Sales Of the Week.
Tie Vest Side and North Side Boulevard
Building Permits.
Several more large and important firms ar,
khout to remove into the
NEW WHOLESALE DISTRICT
building up around Fifth avenue and Mopro,
street. Cohn, Wampold & Co., Who are nos
doing business at the corner OF Wabash ayenu.
and Randolph street, have leased the William.
q King building, now in course OF construction
on Monroe street, west Of Fifth avenue The
Doegett. Bassett d Hills Company will leay.
their store at the corner Of Wabash and Lake
and occupy thr new building now being put ur
west Of the Williams & King store, on Monroe
street. Field, Benedict & Co., who nov deal in
cloths On Wabash avenue at the cor.
Der OF Madison street, under the
hotel Frankfurt, have leased one Of the
Tabernacle stores at the southwest corner Of
sranSiin and Monroe streets. These new ac-
cessicnB give great strength to the new busi-
movement Of the dry-goods trade and its
rela'ea branches In this direction. The i'm
pcrtance uf this new centre OF trade is further
shown BY the location there OF
TIE NEW YORK DR7-GooDs HOUSE
Of Bliss, Cooley & Co. This entcrprsing con-
cern has decided that 1t is no longer possible to
retain its Western trade without coming to
Chicago They have accordingly rented the
store Of ]. ". Williams, and the southwest
corner Of Fifth avenue and Monroe street, and
will take immediate possession. Another
valuable addition to the dry-gooos trade OF Chi
capo from New York is soou to be made Mr..
J. NJ Bates. Of New York, was here last week
to rent large store for the use OF the heavy
dry-goods firm at No. A51 Broadway, of which
he is member 4 runor was af1oat during the
week that 4. 7. Stewart d Co. were negotiat-
1n@ for the entire block on the north side of
Madison street, bet Eeen Fifth avenue and
franklin Street, running back to Calhoun place.
The report went so far as to place the amount to
be paid for the property at S650,0O0, but the
whole story iF authozatativelg denied by the par
tics in interest
The lara DOW occupied by the large coal-yard
o. uett O. montgomery, on
WEST MADISON STREET,
near Oakley, is to be replaced BIZ block of
handsome retail stores. The sale embraced
frontage Of go feet. The purchasers were New
ro!k o parties, and the price paid vas $5o,ooo.
This block is part Of the Fo>s estate.
tioodndee & Stokes sold for Theodore F,
Lawrence co:tage and lot No. 800 West Indiana
street for S5,00], also, Tor John 4heru building
and Lot 1876 Milwaukee, avenue for $1,000.
Thomas q Bragg report the following sales:
~ F,yntesnth s,raet 80 ~ <1o ~ avenue, sontn
1n. f.1cs ~ 1a3a r. ~ svo n5 snu one naH
ayenne, frame house aud lot 40x161 feet, at
1oTcs ot 1so - 500 - 9nsus pa1a,up leass and
enne east tront hefwrer Thie4.+h nnMo1In ,a mh ar
6rst stIrets sr %nd tapss f no iaFty
io0 fecrs south fronI On Twen1vnnth as stras x21
hervren Pr.;r;a u..H Ts,, " "eulslnIn stfes1 81
anI ,a-aa - ,S-a n@ ~"'uoae' a'cnaes' ~ e1sooo
In ;he o.ha+
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SALES OF TEE WEEK
we're: Lot 501125. on the northeast corner of
Van Bnren street aud Fourth avenue, for |
S1l,oo9: LOT 6e1l60, on Fiourncy, west OF Ro- !
east OF Market. ior s12S3S; lot 29xD on Clark
street, south of Lake, for $33, 800: lot S0rlO7 !
on Erie street east OF Dearborn avenue, for
s36. .ooo; lot 5oxlSo, on Prairie nverue, south OF
TweDtg-sixth street. for $40 00l. trianpn1ar 1ot |
s.,x7l, on the corner OF Milwaukee ayenne and
Huron street. for 1920; lot 40x120, on Van
Buren street, east OF Clark. for s9,Ooj: lot e5x
log: on Ontario street. west OF Cas-, for S5.125.
linQueut properly in Wort:, also in Lake. for
the seventh instalIment OF Sou1h Park tires
sni soecial assessments, and prooerry in Pm.
etso. Riverside, LeYden, Rich, Northleld. and
Maine. 40
There we're eighty
p1;1,nr,,c D,,,,.rs
zn.,,,. A., .o1, .r.', fIns
aut.ug . :, ~ ce "eek 1ne Value OF those costing
s. o.s1 91oov eaca age1eeaIes $lll,6V- The III
aaa4 @ o1es *eae TO s;eet 1~o-story and hase-
y, nsm1 m 4aetotV' 20. Is fulton street, to cost
eou~' ~, 70 ule Cnleaso Aalleable Iron Compa-
~. 10 etec. 1oree-story and cellar warehouse,
s1n n1a: stse9,. near Rockwell. to cost
eto.1o, 10 nar1o h1ssell TO erect two-story
at 40. 81 North Desp|a,nes !
'tIee1' 70 cost S2,so9: to J. W. Shepard, TO !
rel tRostory dwell ng on Jackson, near
-ea'ltt Street, 10 cost S5,5o; to r. K Clark, to
1ecL t"o-storf othce and dwelling, E1ston ] {
venue. r near Aususta street, to cost 81, 500; to
:. l.. W ~ eht, 10 erect three-slory dwell ng, | I
20 1880 Michigan avenue, to cost 5000: tc |
a'1'cs NJ; dllss, 10 erect three-story dwelling A
"a ~ M. MeatooFn avenue near SUPERIOR to cost t
o,oeV; 10 n; hono, 10 ereet iour-story faS- ] r
oF5. MaxHea; ~ 1 stree1, near Blue Island avenue t
:, eoss s',oN; 10 M' hoseooaun. TO erect il
ro,s.orv - ~. ~ o"e!nne, M'chle3n auenue, near
4 Eranec to aeoo3 t.,sa.*o. @ *-'.ooo. a1o ~ =.
81 Milwaukee avenue. to s,st 81 NJ, Nv 7
Amonr the hni1tfiros norc ha,,.r e~a,4.a l.. ~