New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-18
ORANGES IN FIFTH-AVE.
r.c1o,cuuESrs UPON THE DOMAIN VI
WEALTH AND FASHION

nths ago one of the shre"ueo' ~
Few nioN man never known to let any
o. %, ,or less than it's value SOU oos,rnc
thins ~ not far from Fifteth-s''' me"o non
OK foot . inches across the lrohV' ~ w., rho adj
90 w. am the purchaser tried TO puS W. :.
ieh U"' =. ord was told that he mighV H1' Id
!oiN. 80 non His offer of $9o,OOo was &c.,
lor S.,oA 10 real estate in Fifth-ave.
,r,r;, Lord Director-Gcneral oil 'ne ,.l,on bc
N.,,,- Netherlands, never dreamed Vi ' ,,a..oos
houcbt the Island Of Manhattan oil 'i1 ~, =: Dr,cb
and Wickouaskeeks for the sum Oh ro.o NJ
coin That historic purchase was az o, oarts of
81 ~ Pi 80, oorld not be bought to-day AT
o,e ,,o.o ;rcb The present market Vaue u
" A.. col estate IL more that S2,ooo'ooo'o'O.
"' ' .n;. i not a. rcal-estate article III - ap
90 ho = cu1sory glance up and down r,'v
,,or Washington Square TO Oeh'r"i -
,,rnoso of noting the numerous o
i - oarne ovcr il within the last lew S
TIis most fashionable boulevard Is rai ono
irc IN a new front, in fact l"o III" 49, LID N
ihe o .;ao At its foot, which may oe salu ~
oN Jy,sb;ngton Square, is the slle vi ','
se-d Whites beautiful Memorial Arcn oVp 80
se.or;rt;ons Of which have been puonS" =;
ten since the Washington Gentleman on'. oaou,
unnecessary to do more than menuoh 10 lie
condition All that can be seen are Wv" w. ,on tho
I.rI, enclosures in which the foundations ior ny
paiA a.oI' ORC securely shielded from puohc
-'o,,o,;on and the weather. When comple'e"
49, ,,omor,a, will be in plain view OF MuiI 60.
Hill and from the eleVa'lon U"
patrick's Cathedral. ,. .ho two
Vv,io,.erhocker atmosphere surrounds tie WV
,,d-fashioned brick houses between WIZ WIZ. oro
.voruc breaks into the square, puV us ~ H.
extremely narrow and the spectator, as IN ain
coward the north. soon breathes ui' D,oo
Tho six-storiel Brcvoort House, AT Cii"' loa
:, .ho 6rst excessively modern oulldihS io'0''
md nearly opposite are the BerheieS "p" 80
,hout which there is nothing th"' Sn' ~
uolIand The fine old bro"hstoue i'e ,nxod
the right hand, at feminist. IS oeihS cros.
;m.o an anartment house to be called the "ioo-
ih'o ." ,nnor story has been added. ana a
,o,,h,. cornice extraordinarily wide ana oe'p'
80. .he building a much changed appearance
rror, this point TO Fourteenth-st the a>e"u'
o,der and less modernized than elsewnei',
IT, ,his locality are found the homes oil uenei"
Dariel F. Sickles, James NJ Waterbury, hop.I'
p Roosevelt. o. w. Bird. Mrs. Charies y, 49, 49,
hot Louis di Zerega and othels'
crent in between some OF the FAMOUS oi' ,.
dences. and the day is not far distant "nen 'ii''
will all be gone ~, rp,nr
A NATURAL CHANNEL OF TRADE
North of Fourteenth-st. the WORK vi oiio N7
,s visible everywhere, The avenue is the h"'uiSi
channel of trade between this street anu ma
.,,;rd-st and il is but natural that trade shoulu
.uod Il The most noticeable Of recent
.horces is seen in the former home OF the Mali
L,,an Climb at Fifteenth-st., which W. JENNINGS
Dores. &c converting into stores, olnces al"
a.,aios Tho nlain brick residence on the OPP
noste side of the avennc has grown i'i'o G.o
Stirling apartment house. The imposing ei'hi''
.rd nale.vellow brick building at SiAeeh'h-S"'
tho MAGNIFICENT home of Judge ana all Nie'
Frank Iesie's publications, sheds q gio" Vi '"'
ness over the surrounding houses Compared WIZ"
il Chickering Hall, at Eighteenth-st, once ~
y;a,ban among minnows,' looks low and squat ana
;ts anpearance is not helped by the towering walls
of the Methodist Book Concerns new nome aO
Twentictbst. This great building, eight stories
b;ot is onc-thrd granite and two-thlrds req DrIcN
and seems to Re as firmly founded as the MethouisU
religion itself The other changes IN this secuoh
-Fourteenth-st. TO Notwithstanding li'nu'n
CRADLE. and perhaps also consequential, ouV CHI
brace no noteworthy structures. Here IS the 40
main of the piano. 1t is piano here, piano therc'
- ovorvNvberc Every style of instrument
made in the wide world seems to have found an
office and salesroom one side of the avenue
or the other Trade of every description-eXcept
croceres-has invaded these precincts, oEce sacred
IN fashion and fine clothes, and most OF the dwell
ers in the now transmogriied brownstone fronts
have moved up on the Hill" Among those VINO
lincer, but may join the ncrthward march ere
long. are Mrs Marshall o. ROBERTS the Bclmonts,
Arthur Leary, Charles Leary, Mrs Frederick
Nelson, Robert Winthrop. j. NJ. Woodbury. Mrs
Moses TAYLOR Mrs. Hayward Cutting Mrs. Robert
L. Cutting and Clarence A. Seward
In the shadow of the immense buildings going
I'D on all sides of Madison Square, the six stories
hau In
than they were. Greatness in houses, as in men,
&c only compalative The Knickerbockcr flats lift
themselves far up ten stores above the curb, at
Twentyeighth.st, and scowl OIL Sypher d Co.'S
new building opposite, neat little structure OF
brownstone and brick.
THE NEW HOLLAND HOUSE.
At Thirtieth-st., on the left sldc the spectator
comes TO the Holland House. Mrs. Wanderers
palace hotel of $50 rooms. The coat-of-arms of
Henry Rich, first Earl OF Holland in the British
Peerage is not yet embazoned on the door, but
will be there in due time, and on the interior
walls and tapestries as well when the place is
opened in September. Perhaps Charles James
Fox and Macaulay and Princess Licchtensten
would like TO see this American adaptation OF the
celebrated Kensington mansion of Lord and Lady
Holland. the common meeting place of European
statesmen artists and of letters, the home
Of Addison and other tenants of various kinds OF
Distinctions building having many interesting
historical associations and stored with much that
WAS rare and beautiful in art and literature for
nearly fifty years the resort of eminent pcrsonages
and the scene of elegant hospitality. Mrs. Van
doren's Holland House is of Indiana limestone,
favorite with builders, says Superintendent Fred
erick L. Matthes, on account of its light color and
fine quality, and rises nine stories above the curb
It's front may be described fiat, and 1t is almost
barren of ornament yet il is TO ordinary structure
On the north side Of 1hirteth-st. is the new
business house of Gilman Collamore X Co.. eight
stories high, with ornamental front OF brownstone
and brick
,rd- the site of the familiar