Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-23
Real Estate.


 A Few Fine Houses Being Erected--A Few sales-Some Changes ns the City
 Grows.
 MT. George D. Blakeman, the steam heating man. who bought the Cooper place on Pearl street, which was sold at auction recently, sold it the same day he bought it to Mr.H.P. Hubbard, the advertising agent at an advance of $50. Mir. Hubbard will enlarge and oth- erwise improve the place.
 Real estate owners on Bishop street are in- terested over the talk of having sewer built in that street.
 The houses moved from Trnmbull to Lin coin street are in position and fast being inn proved and made ready for use.
 The new houses erected by the Messrs Matthews on Orange street, out beyond Law renee street, are handsome addition to that street, which has so many attractive resi- dences. These two stand by themselves, being the last on Orange street, but at no distant day undoubtedly there will be many more new residences erected on the street in that hitherto unoccupied section of it. The houses in design tend somewhat to the gothic style and are very attractive in appearance.
 Nearly opposite the above houses are va cant lots where fifteen or more years ago few of the leading young men of the city, mostly merchants, Wooed health and recrea- tion in base ball playing. That was years be- | fore the days of the great rage in base ball playing, long before the days of Nichols and Cassidy and Pabor and Keenan and Jewett l and Lake and others of the New Haven nine, | but there was some fine playing done and plenty of sport of 8 very satisfactory kind. Just east of this section many houses costing from $500, to $2,000 have been built in the last few years, the sett le ment reaching to Miller's Garden, where it | first began to branch out toward Orange 1 street. This leaves Orange street un- touched, the price of land being too high, but the city has now extended by way of l NicoI street and Nash street to MilIer's Gar l den on the north about as far as it can go, l and the land is well taken up with houses in those streets.
 The elegant new residences of Messrs l Charles H.. Farnam and E. s. Wheeler, side by side on HiIlhouse avenue, are well nigh half erected. They will rank with the best residences among the many fine dwellings on 1 that avenue of select and elegant residences. 1 Real estate is quiet just now the dealers anticipate something of boom, however, by next spring. There are sales, being made all the while, but nothing particularly notice able is going on in the way of sales which is l usually the case during the '!heated term"
 The real estate transfers recorded since July IF are Ruth, George L., Jennie B. and Jessie D. Fitch to May E. and Deborah Bartlett, fifty feet on Division street; Hobart B. Bigelow and Harry Elson to George F. and Harry s. Holcomb and H. B. Bigelow, l forty-seven feet on River street.
 1 Prince street between Lafayette and Hill | streets is making rapid progress. MT. Ken. nedy's large new house on the corner of Lafayette and Prince streets will be one of the best houses in that section when com pleted and the frame is up and the roof on. ! The new house built by the late Joseph Pal mer about midway between Lafayette and Hill was quite a nice addition to the street. It is occupied by Mir. Wooster, bookkeeper for Lee $ Hoyt. Another new house is well advanced toward completion. It is being erected by MT. Hine, of the Church street rubber store, and is also of 8 good class ot houses and 8 credit to the locality.
 | Three new small cottages are being erect ed on Gofe street, near the cornar of Or chard street, in front of Munson's Park. The frames are up. Two other cottages of about the same sort are close by, which were erect ed number of years ago. The dirt taken from the cellars wss used to fill up Munson's Pond, which is in the rear, and which is being rapidly filled up and will ere long be among the ponds that were.
 Mir. NJ s. Num- residing at 173 WhalleJ avenue, has moved his barn to the east of his lot and is converting 1t into dwelling.
 The new residences of Messrs. Catlin and BeckIey, on Howard avenue, are decidedly handsome additions to that fine thoroughfare which is rapidly improving.
 MT. Perkins, who was one of the jurors iI the Chip Smith trial is erecting nice house on the corner of Elm and Orchard streets. Il is nearly completed.
 The Edwards street school presents fint appearance, the work of raising it having been completed and new story of pressel brick having been added underneath. Int interior work now remains to be done. Int alteration and enlargement of the building has been very successfully done and the arch itect, MT. Robinson, succeeded admirably 1T the plan of the work, the general effect pre- scented being very harmonious and pleasing