The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-10
A cHARMING PRIVATE PARK.
Great Opportunity TO Home-seekers
Offered at Beacon Place.

Great Opportunity TO Home-Seekers
offered at Beacon Place.
Among the many charming places of resi-
dence which have recently been made easily
accessible from the business section of the city
by the construction of street railways none can
claim superiority to Beacon Hill 1t is the
summit of high bluff which oyerlooks the
southern part of the city, South Twelfth street
running along its western edge while on Us
eastern side South Fourteenth street runs, the
ground descending abruptly from It TO the
hollow In which Hills brickyard in located.
On the northern slope of this hill Mr.. Fred Z.
Sander has laid out beautiful little park,
which he has named Beacon Place. The ground
has been graded so that il has simply gentle
slope northward towards Lane street, with the
South school and its spacious playground on
the opposite side of that thoroughfare. From
this elevation an extended view of the higher
part of the city can be obtained to the north
ward. To the cast the city spreads out Ike
panorama with the peaks of the Cascade noun
tains showing above the Intervening hills 10
the west splendid bird s-eye view OF the water
front, the bay, the open Sound and kifsap
county can be obtained, with the Olympic
mountains rising like mighty wall in the
distance
This beautiful place has been tastefully laid
out by Ar Sander in much the same style as the
old London squares, in which the occupants OF
all abutting property have the use ia common OF
large, well laid out garden as q breathing spot
The tract 10 altogether $50 feet long by JOG feet
wide. It is surrounded on all sides by neat
picket fence and viii have main entrance on
Lane street, for which Mr. II. Steinmsnn, the
architect, is designing handsome gateway,
sixty feet wide. From this main entrance
road spreads out on the two sides of the garden.
which extends nearly the whole length OF the
park, 300 feet long and 90 feet wide. II has
been tastefully arranged by skilled landscape
y A~aG
india rubber trees, palms and other tropicai
plants, besides such favorite flowers as roses OF
the choicest varieties, gersniums, heliotropes,
etc, in great profusion. At the upper enc OF
the garden is q pretty greenhouse where the
more delicate plants will be sheltered from the
seventies of winter
On each side of the garden and on the South
Twelfth and South Fourteenth street fronts the
ground has been laid out for building. The
lots. OF which there are thirty four, are 5oxl0O
feet. size which will give each purchaser
plenty of room for a private garden as well as
for q detached house. A number of exotics and
rose bushes have been planted along the front
of the lots as well as in the central garden, and
this will make good beginning of private flow
er gardens for the residents. Walks viii be
built beside the roads through the park and
leading to each house. Water has been laid on
in each lot
These lots have been put on sale by Mr.. San
der on such terms that it viii be as easy and as
cheap to buy q house and lot in Bea-
con Place as 70 pay rent in other
and much less desirable parts OF
the city. Mr.. Sander agrees to erect house ac-
cording to the plans of the purchaser, provided
that those plans conform to his wishes as to
the style of residences to be erected. The pur-
chase price of a house and lot will range from
g. 900 10 $780, of which $500 is to be paid at the
time when the contract of sale is made, and
minimum amount of $50 month is to be paid
thereafter, until the total amount is made up.
By this arrangement q man that has accumu-
lated only $500 can secure q handsome, comfort
able home in one of the most beautiful and
easily accessible parts of the city, and pays
less monthly than he would pay in
rent for an equally good house in other locs-
tons. An idea of what the purchaser gets for
his money can be formed by visiting Beacon
Place and seeing the house which Mr.. Sander ia
building for Mr.. II. F. Rising. It is a very neat
residence of nine rooms and bathroom, with
an artistic verandah on each floor and entrance
both at the front and side. A similar residence
is to be erected for Mr.. W. H. Taylor, the county
commissioner.
While it has the advantage OF being out of the
business district, Beacon Place can be reached
in ten minutes from Pioneer place. Beacon
Hill cars leave every twelve minutes from
O'Clock in the morning till midnight Thus 1t
viii not take long TO 60 and see for ones self
what 1t is that Mr.. Sander offers.