, 1880-08-15
REAL ESTATE.
Lease of the New Store at Frank"
lin and Adams Streets.
Moderate Demand for Property,
Especially for Residence
Uses.
The Gardner House Site 6old-Other
Transactions Of the Week.
Eight Thousand New Buildings to BE
Erected in Chicago This Year.

Eight Thousand New Buildings to be
Erected in Chicago This Year.
Street Lmprovements-Board OF Trade
miscellaneous
Real estate was not entirely neglected during
the past week. Few sales Of special importance
were reported. but there Was for the Season q
moderate demand for property, especially
for residence purposes Agents STATE taat tae
applications for houses are far ahead OF me
supply The class OF capitalists that' invest III
business property are most Of them out OF Town.
and thia kind of property is not In active re-
ouest One Of the most interesting transacdons
of the week WIS lease
Mr. George 81. Bogue has
!: RENTED TIE SoCTH STORE
of Mr.. George A5mour's new building, on
Frankliu street, corner OF Adams, to Clement,
uaue t. Co., wholesale clothiers, for five years
from Jan. !, 1881, at $4,000 year. The store
fronts ninety two feet on Franklin street, and
is 150 feet deep. There is not a partition in It
This removal will strengthen the new business
quarter, and seems to point to the retail trade
Its future growth.
SALES or THE WEEK
comprised 5ox44A feet, improved. On Dearborn
street, southwest corner OF South Water, $50,-
90; 5Ox153 on Fifth avenue south Of Jackson
street, *1b0oo; 54xl6s, improved. on Wabnsh
avenue, north Of Twentieth street, Su. 600; 2ox
losh, improved, on woodbine place,
near Oakley avenue, $500; 4"1loo. On
Oak street, eAst OF North Wells, S2,6N;
100000, On Woodlawn avenue. northwest
corner Of Fprty-scycntb street, S15.0N;
cf
eighth street, und l471150o on Forty eighth street,
$3.50; :a6xl83 On Indiana avenue; north Of Thir-
tleth street. 81 500; S.x60 on West Lake street,
east OF Canal. $3.50; 25x144, improved. on Mil
waukee avenue, west OF Clenyer, $500; 50x115
on Fulton street. west Of Onion Park place.
$4,5s5; 40lx.s2 On Wright street. northwest cor
ner Of Pierson, with buildings and machinery,
$4,000; 25xle5, improved, On Sedgwick street,
north Of Sigel, $500; 50xl18 On Prairie avenue,
north of Twenty-ntnth street. $6,5o0; 25x141 on
Milwaukee avenue, north Of Sangamon, s., 80;
Nos. 3ss and 800 South Oakley street, 5000; 431
lG0, improved. On Thirty-f1fth street, west of
South Park avenue, <17.300; s4xl15, improved.
Webster avenue, M.45o; No. ess West Luke
street, $500; 70 acres On Thtrty-scyc1th street,
northwest corner of Ashland avenue, $4,000.
The Paper-Bo1 Manufacturing Company Of
AS. ct. r. Randall has paid *15,ooo, or $50 pc
foot, for fifty feet on Fifth avenue, south OF
ana soon TO "f fha7 TIE
business.
President. Goodrich, Of the Goodrich Trans
por1ation Company, has bought tho site Of
THE GARDNER HOUSE.
IN Michigan avenue, southwest corner Of jack
son street. for 81, 5,00,~2$@l4a 30 foot
Ar. ". Il Nixon has stt[d for $4,000. Just the
price he paid sx years sso, the four.story brick
building on the southwest corner Of Dearborn
and South Water streets. This building is now
rented for s., ,sov q year:
scu to Cnaries Gantgcn Lot n. Block 10, Ogden's
Ira brown sold house and three lots at In
sumo place to Otto EerKhun for $50; fwo lots Ut
same place to Joseph Ganglois for 500; and
rous lots at Park Ridge to John Elston for
$l,:.Ho.
T. B. Boyd sold for Ira Smith TO E. ". Tabor
two-story-and- basement brick dwelling and lot,
NO. 28s3 Michigan avenue, Tor $!.ooo. fnr Judge
Rhodes avenue, for $500; for S. Richardson, lot
lU1xl6Q On Michigan avenue, between Forty
eighth and Forty ninth streets. for $3.50; for
". b. Sharrstnd> cottage aud lot, 1l99 West Lake
street. for s, 100; also 1G0~acre farm in Wood
bury County, Iowa. for 81, sn
HIGH-pMCEp HEAL ESTATE
There was recently sold ut auction ia London
piece Ut freehold property in Park Lane, May
tair, covering 100 square feet, for SG2r 500: This
Is Ut the rate OF 81 100 per acre, and shows the
value Of Iand in London The Dresel purchase
York City, few years ago, was $23j0, ,0D gold for
s.5 square feet. or at tho rate Of $2lO0,UO0 per
tcre- Gold was then at L per cent premium,
md the price paid % Tas the hlsnest ever given In
The fate OF the Chamber Of Commerce is still
THE BOARD OF TRADE
md Chamber Of Commerce Committees have
held meetings and cautasscd the question of ac-
rommodat1on. but without result The plan for
obtaining larger hall by taking in the Cole
hour Building appears to be imPracticable, the
Ioehour Building being in litigation. The Com
mittee appointed by the President Of the Board
months. The property Of the Connecticut Mu-
tual on the southeast corner Of Monroe and
Dearborn Is ono Of the sites under considesa-
tnn.
NKw BUILDINGS.
Warren Springers machtnc-sbop On Canal
street,> near Van Dnren. running through to
pf iron year into boilers. machinery, etc, and
will employ 40 men,
The tine freight depots Of the Wabash Rail-
ny Idle because that road cannot get access to
them. Ono Of them is 570xUu and the other 346x
T. The Office Is 6ox4. The entire cost is
The Western Toy Company is building on North
Wells street, corner Of Schiller, four-story
!ns52E 9?9 9xe,e te fGst oo Mr. cans IS
aannfactory 2@x15o. costing s65,uJo. with the
machinery.
THE LEASE OF HAvERIF's THEATRE
s1pires tn July. Mayor Harrison proposes that
Public Library. 3fr. Keith. OF the Board Of Ed
tcauon> to which tho building belongs, thinks
hat the experience OF Boston, whose library
u twenty years 1as grown to need q building
Tour times as large as HuyeEys, proves
that Lis hitter would be only temporary accom-
tcers Of prominent bank III this city want to
ret Haverly's for their quarters when the lease |
Expires.
It is estimated that 5000 new houses. stores,
factories, etc. will be erected this year in this
uty. Sir thousand new buildings hare already
seen put up.
BUILDING PERMITS FOR THE WEEK
ncluded among them those to jacob Lauer, to !
srect a thrce-story store and dwelling, corner !
q North avenue and Sedgwick street, to cost
tG,u0D; one TO j.. H. Krouse, to erccr three- |
story store and dwelling, No. 03l milwaukee, |
ltenuc, to cnst 5000; one to John Mauzir, to |
trect three-storr store and dwelling, No. |
- Taylor street. TO cost S24W; one
.o - Huu, to erect two~story dwelling, No.
~ West Ohio street, to cost $3.50; one to G.
Iatln. u erect tsFo-story dwelling. Beldcu av-
enue. near Hurtbut street, to cost $auO0: ouf. tn
I. APPEL. to eFect tTo-story dwelling, corner
II Sophia and Hurlbut streets, to cost LOO:
,ne to II: J. Howlaud, toerecr tHo-story dwell
ng> No SO Webster avenue to cost S5iSo0: one
bf Leayitt and Oakley streets, to cost s.(kO: one
% ". Hahne, to erect three-story store and |
tweling, No 2JS Sedgwick street, to cost 81 0oD:
sue to J. r Smith, to erect three-story dwell |
10: l5G3 Michigan avenue. to cost Ei5, ,Oa; one to |
j. H Hode, to erect tSo-storr dwelling, No. l9Q [
% erect three story dwelling, conner Pe:.rsou |
md Pine streets, to cost $5,0uU: ono to q. Wet |
erer, TO erect q three-stotv dwelling, No, |
II North Clark Street, to cost S5,NN: !
osept; ;Nnwalzky, 10 erect two-story store and t
yelling. No. S4o North Carpenter street, to cost