St. Paul daily globe., 1891-07-19
ELEGANT RESID DENCE PROP
ERTY.
Sale at Auction, Tuesday, July Fl, E,
of Property on Summit and Port
land Avenues

Sale at Auction, Tuesday, July 21, {,
of Property on Summit and Port
land Avenues.
The announcement that five lots in
block 4. Bryant's addition, will be sold
at public auction, at O'Clock p. H.,
Tuesday, July q, would not, probably.
excite more than passing comment
among any but the men whose business
it is to be posted as to metes and
bounds. When. however, the state
ment is supplemented by the in
formation that the lots include
frontages of 313 feet on Summit avenue
and 313 feet OH Portland avenue,
that the western boundary is Avon
street, only two blocks west of Dale, and
that the entire property is the very
handSOmeSt on the avenue-level and
well dotted with young shade trees
the bare preliminary statement gains
universal interest. Summit avenue is
wOrld-famouS already, with its far
reaching and widespread boulevard but
such are its advantages of location, sur
rOundings, popular estimation and pro-
jected improvement, that no one can set
bounds to what the great avenue will
become within the next decade. To be
more specific concerning the location
and division of the lots TO be sold Oh
Tuesday, the 21st inst, by P. L. Kava-
nagh, the well-knOwn realty auctiOneer:
The five lots which, as plated, ran
clear through from Summit to Portland
avenues, a distance of 256 feet, Will be
divided so that ten will be Offered-five
on Summit, with depth of 1876 feet. and
five on Portland, with a depth of 120
feet each. The corner lots, on botn
Summit and Portland, have frontage
of 603l feet. and each inside lot has
frontage of 63 feet. making lineal
frontage on each of the two avenues Of
313 feet. The Summit avenue frontage
will be disposed of first, and the terms
of sale will be made known later.
By any one familiar with st. Paul the
fact will be at once recognized that this
magnificent prOperty-no city in the
United States can show its superior tor
reSidenceS-iS not in the suburbs, but,
on the contrary, in the very choicest
location in st. Paul. The Grand avenue
electric line-tO be made an inteTurban
line in the near future-iS but one block
away, and the Selby avenue cable but
five blocks north. The site for the new
Roman Catholic cathedral is one block
further west on Summit than this prop
erty under consideration. The perma-
nent improvements in and about the
lots have been made and paid for. The
lots are of the sort which challenges at
tention and demands admiration from
even a cursOry observer; and the more
the man who is blessed with even mOdi-
cum of provision looks them over.
studies their situation and their sur
roundings and graspS their position in
the certainties of the near future, the
more he is impressed with their value,
either as a permanent lnYeStment-a
place on which to build a handsome
home-Or as a realty which is bound, by
the very nature of things, to appre-
0iate in value as the years come and go.
As residents well remember, it was
Summit avenue property which first,
and as long ago as 1881, commanded
metropolitan prices. No other property
in the Northwest has appreciated, rel
ativelY, so fast and SO much i'll value.
The time is coming and is not far away
when it will be next to impossible to
secure lots in this most favored district,
and when Mr.kavanagh opens the forth
coming sale he will surely have for
auditors men who appreciate at once
the truth of this statement and the
value of the opportunity offered them.