Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-07
REAL ESTATE MATTERS.
Improvement on Church Street-Tl WhitneyvIlIe Church Parsonage

Improvement on Church Street.-The
 WhitneyvilIe Church Parsonage -
 Real Estate Transfers-Other Matters.
 MT. Thomas G. Bennett, vice president of the Winchester Arms company, is making decided improvements and alteration at his new residence on Church street, corner of Grove, formerly the White residence. George M. Grant has force of masons at work at house. There will be additions made, and the interior attractions will be considerable in extent. A number of thousand dollars will be expended in the work. Builder Savage has four new houses on Edward street foot of Nash we'll advanced to ward completion. They are very creditable to the skill of this enterprising builder and to the owner, MT. George Hugo, and are a handsome improvement to the street. The cost is about $1 400.
 Builder Grant is putting the finishing touches on Yale's new elegant library build ing on High street.
 Baker Herman Trust of Grand avenue is erecting tasty brick building on the former Maltby property on Grand avenue. It is two stories and 8 half high. He will have 8 bakery in one of the storesand rent the other, and have four tenements overhead.
 The Smead system of heating and ventils- tion will be used in the new Lawrence street schoolhouse. The total cost of the new building will be in the neighborhood of $36, ,00O.
 s. Bretzfelder will have built a two-story brick addition in the rear of his store on Chapel strees.
 0. H. Stilson has made plans for two tenement frame house on Washington street for P. E. Rowen. It will be 2Sx4S feet and cost $4, 900.
 Rnilder Grant bas onifa a foroa of ,na, busy altering the Sheffield residence on Hill- house avenue into laboratories and lecture rooms for the use of the Sheffield Scientific school as mentioned yesterday. The work of erecting the new parsonage In Whitneyville is attended with some delay owing the extra work in excavsting the eel lar, considerable rock blasting having been involved. The building will be of tasty ap- pearance, roomy and well built, and 8 credit to the WhitneyvilIe Congregational church. Hubbell & Merwin of this city are the build- CTS. The new parsonage, which Rev. MT. of the residence of Mrs. Putnam, widow of Rev. Austin Putnam. The land for the new parsonage was donated by Mrs. Putnam.
 During the past week real estate eales have been recorded as follows:
 Webster street-Land fronting northerly 30 by 90 feet with buildings; Frederick L. Dlpble and Oliver ble, to William H: Kenyon.
 Lake place--I.and fronting westerly, 200 by 1Oe feet; Cornelius T. Driscoll to William s. Beecher.
 St. John street-Land fronting southerly, ss by i6a feet, with buildings; Sophia Krezer to Thomas
 Kimberly avenue-Land fronting west, a5 feet between Kimberly to Greenwich avenues, with buildings; Caroline shure to Mary A. Baldwin. feet with bunes st Moryss as6os coneTes @ 1y lso ton of New Haven to John E. Healy and Charles
 Washington street-Land fronting north s5 by 100 feet, Elizabeth Burwell to Peter E. Rowsn. 80 feet with buildings Edward and Abby Stanford to Ann McGure
 Beach street-Land fronting northerly, 30 by 97 feet, Michael and Mary E. Casey of Bridgeport to Robert s. Ensko.
 ssaSe ss50s dwellings aiz's owner John Matthews cost 4x3o. over M. Stars cost $500.
 West street, near Washington street, two story frame dwelling 1ax22, owner George M. Kuhn, cost
 Congress avenue. near Downes street, two tene- ment frame dwelling 2Ox3s, owner L. H. Beardsley,
 Admiral street, two tenement frame dwelling 24x
 Ferry street, corner Chapel, fwo-story frame building, two tenements and stores. S0x45; owner,
 Norton street, two-tepement frame dwelling Six 52; owner, Sarah M. Burritt; cost, $4, 800 ment frame dwelling, a6x46; owner, Wm E. CadweiI; builder, Mr. Mix; cost, $sOOo.
 Lawrence street, brick schoolhouse; owner, city of New Haven; cost, $36, 900.
 AN OLD MASTER BUnDER-soME OF HIS WORK
 Yesterdays Hartford Times says: Mir. Erastus Phelps, the well-known builder, will be 82 years old next Sunday. He still keeps at work. MT. Phelps was born in Marlboro, in 1906. He, unlike the modern workmen, served his full time an apprentice. He says he lost some $50, 900 or $40, GOO by one bad case, in which, while his bill was per fectly fair one, there was opposition and he failed to get his money. There is probably no fairer, more just and honest man in the business; and none that does better work. He says that when in 1849 he took the con- tract for building the State bank building, workmen were paid $1.50 a day for ten hours; and that now, although they get s3 50 instead of $1. 50, they do only half as much work as workmen did forty years ago. Mir. Phelps, who has just finished a fine room in cherry for Mrs. Munsell, on Wethersfield avenue, is now going to erect at her order, for her daughter, in New Haven, where the daughters husband lives, ,000 house.