New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-18


remarkably new about the Union League Clubs
peculiar donicile at Thirty-ninth-st.
All along here the avenue has not changed
much Trade has crept in at various places, tailor
shops and millinery parlors Astounding by the
score, but most of tie residences are still the
homes of fine people. Here live Mrs. Paran
Stevens, Nj and Mrs G. Carnochan, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Aston, Mr. and Mrs. j. Coleman
Drayton, Mrs. S. S. Whiting Nh and Mrs. j. r
Kcrnochan, Colonel and Mrs. Il. q. ingcrsoll. Mr..
and Mrs w. II. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs Ormc Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Landon, General Cnllmun,
Mrs. Robert X. Livingston. Mr. and Mrs. Ii.
Winthrop, Mrs. Lewis 4. Sayre. LcGrand b.
Cannon, J. y. \. Griswold, Rlchard y EN'
S. S. Sands, Colonel George Bliss, Lawrence
TurnuTe, Judge Andrews. Austin Corbn, Law
renee Kipp Russell Sage Philip Van NalkenbuIs
and many others whose names are FAMILIAR Ill
business, politics and society.
HOMES OF THE CENTURY AND RACQUET
CLUBS.
1t is scarcely possible TO pass Forty-thlrd-st.
without noticing the startling change that has
occurred in the block TO the westward or the
avenue. On tie south side is the white granite
and yellow brick apartment house OF DaVid A.
King seven stories above the sidewalk, and on the
north are the New-York Academy of Medicine and
the buildings of the Century and Racquet ciuos'
four structures that place this street far in advance
of it's neghbors. The home of the Century CluD,
which bears the trademark Of stanford Whlte,
possesses all the delicate beauty and elegance OF
the Italian Renaissance. and is accounted by many
persons of fine taste the handsomcst building III
the city. 1t is to be opened In a few weeks
The Academy of Medicine is peculiar structure
heavy" being the proper adjective 10 uSc III
describing it. The dominant feature IN the lacade
lis the swclled column. The material is light
no
house of dark, notified brick, built in style dc-
cidedly FlOTentiEc its masslvencss CONVEYING IaInI
the notion of fortress than OF pcacciHl me-.
ing-place for clubmcn. 1t is perhaps the most
formidable clubhouse i'll Newly ork.
THREE HOUSES IN A BLOCK
Passing on up the avenue, the next change
noticed is in what is known as the Bonner DOCK
between Ffty-sfxth and Fifty-sevcnth SIS, on the
right hand. In time this will be the most adj
lnircd block in the avenue. 1t has been so ar
ranged that there shall he but three houses,
which shall he detached and finished on all SIDES
with sdc-light windows and air-SpaccS CONS
p HuntingtOn's new house. the exterior walls oil
which are nearly completed, stands on the upper
corner, lot 10 by ! - feet Inc lower cor
ncr, recently sold, is little smaller, being oV.'
feet front by 80 deep. These two lots cut re-
hind the middle lot. leaving ii about 90 icet ny
100, and the owners of the corrcrs have consented
TO entertain negotiations with WhohlSoeNeI nay
buy this pocket which viii result TO the common
advantage. Mr.. Huntington's house possesses
many new features. chief of which are caifIlBc
drive in the basement and an elevator come tn-
the upper rooms with il. so That there need ne
no crossing of sidewalks and no exposure III en-
tcring and leaving the family blouehaih. he
material used in the construction Is gray hnlc'
stone. The kitchen and laundry are at the 'oP
of the house
The stroller when he reaches this point has
passed the homes of many People OF we4i' IA, anu
fashion. After leaving Russell Sagcs, at Forty
thirds he had on one side of tie avenue or the
other DR.. and Mrs. Egbert Guernsey Mr. AMI
Mrs. J. W Harper. Mr.. and Mrs. David Walllcei
Mr. and Mrs. II. +. Plant. Ogden Goclet. General
and Mrs Buttcrfield, Mr.: and Mrs: Walter > our
nee Mr. and Mrs X. 7. Wilson, General and Mrs.
Thomas T. Ec'ert' Jay G H% V mr. aIR NI P
Flower Flower Mr. and u, MEs Wood@ga[y 6. M J@pff-
S. D. Bahcock. Mrs w. H. vandcrhilt; w
At Fifty-ninth-st, facing the plaza, is the big
Plaza Hotel, but recently oIched DlTectN
Duero and Frederick Wagner, president Of the
Union Square Bank. are building hotel that is
to be eleven stories above the sidewalk, tAe
ground occupied embracing five lots wmcn meas
ure 1873 feet on the avenue and 100 feet on
Fifty-ninth-st., with an elbow at the rear eN-
tending back 100 feet The house is TO he OF
steel construction throughout, and VIII not be
behind its numerous rivals in equipment and APP
pontment The front will be built If Indiana
limestone in the style of the Italian Renaissance
and the number of rooms Will be 80, exclusive 81
l2j bathrooms. Three OTIS elevators will bear
the guests s<yward and-thc other way Tie
house has not yet been named Tx on the
foundation is now going on ana WI! pc con
tinued during the winter. no matter how vile the
weather may become. as the emit re space covering
the masonry is tightly wc1ther-hoaried and kept
as warm summer by twenty plaSercrs PIT
stoves. judge Dugro says that the house must
be opened in January. 1892. consequently no
time can be thrown away.
REMINISCENCE OF THE TWEED RING.
The block on which this house Is building is
tht site of the great Knickcrbockcr Hotel on the
foundations of which Tweed wasted $250,o00.
Two stories had been completed when the ring
went 10 pieces and some Of the walls are standing
yet Six or seven years ago the property was
sold under foreclosure, and different people be-
came the owners of the ten lots Levi 7. Morton
bought one and OWLS it yet Another, that on
the corner Of Fifty-eirhth-st is held by Robert
Livingston Judge DugrO succeeded in getting
together five OF them at cost OF $4,000.
On the north side of Fify-ninth-st., opposite
Judge Dugro's mouse, the Ncw-Nethcrand Hotel,
which Mr.. Aston is building for +. i. Earle Will
rear its chmncys in the Sky. \ description OF
this enormous building, which Is 10 be seventeen
stories high or 225 feet above the curb, was pub
lishcd in The Tribune in December and II Is not
necessary t. repeat it, Like Judge Dugro's it
occupies five lots, the cost Of which was $50 1000.
Ii has been leased for twenty years 10 General
Earle. and is - be opened III September, lH9?.
As vet not store has been laid in the foundation.
in addition TO these many improvements in the
avenue residents in the ncIglltorhood Of Central
Park Filth-aVc. and FiitY-nlnth-St are 10 have
theatre al their very doors. Plans OF the build
ing have not yet been pericctc0, nut il is under
stood that the new structure Is intended to sur
pass in elegance. beauty of design and cost all
places Of am semcnt in the city. The men who
conceived the project have had the conviction
forced upon them that theatre somewhere he
tween Fifth and Madison aves. and Fifty-ffth
and SiXty-third SIS. wOald he paying property.
The character Of the ncighyOrnood has changed
greatly within the last five years. Within five
minutes of tftv-ninth-st. and Ffth-avc. thcr" are
no less that ten Wclknown and popular clubs,
nearly as many hotels buil' or in course Of con-
struction. aud scores Of fashionable apartment
houses, from which the theatre would receive
patronage, 10 say nothing Of the wealthy resident
population in the vicinity.
Among the cub, may be mentioned the
Progress the Frcundschaft the Arion the Lcder-
kIanz the 9TH Regiment. the Catholic. the