St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
ST. PAUT REAL ESTATE.
Summit Avenue One of the Most Beauti-
ful Thoroughfares to Be Found
Anywhere.
The Paving Increases the Value o
Real Estate On Both Sides
of It.
Midway Property Still Takes the Lead
Tor Safe, Permanent, Profitable
Investment.
Activity at Famine and st. Anthony
Park -Improvements West of
Rice Street.

Activity at HamI1ne and st. Anthony
rk--Improvements West of
Rice Street.
There has been. during the past week, a
continued. general strengthening up of all
kinds of real estate. No special advance
has been made in any direction yet not
wlthstanding the large and numerous addi-
tons that have been made to the city. and
those that are about to be made, prices are
somewhat more than firm, while sales are
quick and numerous at the top prices. The
demand is not confined to anv particular
line or direction, to the exclusion of others,
but seems to be extended all over the city
about equally. The call for Summit ave-
nue. property has been somewhat marked
during the week. The tendency in this
direction commenced when the city began
to lay the asphalt pavement, and has in
creased as this improvement has
progressed. This magnificent driveway
and delightful residence part of the
city has advanced in the estimation OF peo-
pie who know anything of the value of
property, not less than 100 per cent. since
the city commenced to lay the pavement
No one before. not even the most enthuSi-
astic. appreciated the possibilities of this
avenue. All can now see that it Is capable
of being made one of the most magnificent
driveways in the world. Daily people vino
desire to obtain residence property upon it
are now compelled to go out further
Pretty much all that used to be known as
Summit avenue year or two ago, has
been bought up, till now comparatively
little property is to be had east of Dale
street. and what little there is left is very
high. Recently a number of sales were
made of property some distance out on this
avenue, which may serve to give some idea
as to prices in that remote part OF
the city Col. Fl. p. Rugg has just
bought 100 feet front, $50 feet
deep. for $1,000. upon which he
will soon build. One hundred feet on the
corner of Summit avenue and ChatswOrth
street were recently sold for 800 per front
foot. Some distance west of this point it is
selling for $50. At the corner of the avenue
and Dunlap street 100 feet sold few days
ago for S. 400. The activity in this drec
ton has increased in marked degree since
the city began to lay this pavement. This
improvement will so greatly increase all
the property on the avenue that those who
have heretofore manifested an opposition
to it will have occasion to see their mistake.
There seems to be the best reason to believe
that the general improvement and increase
in values in real estate all along this avenue
will be enhanced by this improvement
more than was the value of property on
Daytons bluff by the Seventh street fill.
Before that fill was made all thought it
ought to be made and all thought it would
cost very large sum of money,
but though everybody knew that the
vale of property would be largely increased
no one set the increase high enough. 1t
will he with the same Summit avenue. There
have been a select few who for years have
been sEeered at for the high opinion they
held of Summit avenue property. Their
declarations, made years ago. when the
best of it could have been bought for $50
or $40 per front foot. are now coming true.
AT OTHER POINTS. g.
While Summit avenue property is &C tive,
the other parts of the city are not neglected.
For steady, active and secure investment
there is no property in the city that is held
in higher estimation than what is Familiarity
known as the Midway district. There are
other points in the city where, if person
has the means and the time to watch fol
chances he could secure as good a return fol
his money as he could from an invest
ment in the Midway property. The latter
property, however, possesses the peculiar
ity of not needing to be watched. 1t will
take care of itself, and increase in value
very rapidly without any special care. The
natural tendencies of pretty much every
thing in the city are such that the value of
property all through that part of town is
forced upward continually. The advance
is irresistible. and this is what renders it SC
desirable for investment. Sales in this
district are being made all the while, but in
a quiet way. Five or six blocks have beer
disposed of during the present week Out
near Hamline. This part of the Midway
district is rapidly filing up, and consider
able building has been done out there this
season. The board of education is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting
school building in the Hamline or Como
district and many Improvements are con.
templated out there which will necessarily
draw population. Much money is being
expended in st. Anthony Park and NUN.
Der of handsome and expensive houses are
being erected there The men engaged il
building up st. Anthony Park have takeI
hold of it with a view of making it, when
completed one of the handsomest and mos
convenient suburban residence spots in the
world. 1t has good deal Of natural seen
ery and the laying out and arranging OF
the avenues has been done in very artistic
manner, we'll calculated to render the
suburb very attractractive. The west di-
vision Of College place. ON the west side o.
| Iii is IXIn IunC IN q
deal of activity. Considerable building i.
being done and houses are being erected il
every direction. Immediately
AROUND HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
in the east division of College place, {
large force of men have been engaged il
grading for some weeks. The indication.
are that they will not complete the worl
| before next spring. Considerable building
is being done here, and much more is pro
jected for next season. In the Como dis
trict, little northwest of Hamline, con
siderable activity has prevailed all the
season, and a good deal of building has
been done. Within the stretch of country
east from Como to Rice street. along
Como and University avenues through
the John Martin Lumber company location
around Prince street and Western avenue
activity in building and population, till now
elevator B, which few years ago was il
| the very outskirts of the city, is the center
Of busy hive of industry. There are
thousands of people that have lived in ST.
Paul for years who remember this part Of
the city as barren waste, a desolate and
most abandoned spot. A few years ago,
when this elevator was first erected out
there, there was scarcely house north Oh
west of it. Now the same section has q
population running into the thousands, anG
is becoming the center of good business.
One of the most neglected parts of the
city is that which lies ON the north,
between Rice and Mississippi streets. This
region is now beginning to attract attention.
and good many public Improvements are
being made. That part of the city, how.
ever, will never be what it should be until
Jackson street is opened through as it ought
to be, OF its junction with Valley street
All over Dayton's bluff there is grea
activity. from Posts Siding to the river
and public improvements are being carried
on upon very extensive scale that is moi