The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-27
TWO MORE BIG DEALS
Sales of Valuable Business and
Residence Property.
A MARKET HOUSE TO BE Bu,l
Third Street Lots to Be Covered With
Fine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Fine
Stone Row Sold,

Two large real estate transactions have lust
been closed, involving an aggregate of sl3o 90
One OF the properties sold is already improved
and the purchaser of the other il preparing to
erect handsome building Ga IL, so that both
ssles are legitimate business transactions and
not a. all in the nature OF speeulations
Henry D. Lcngaker, of Kent, Ms executor of
Mary A. Longaker. sold to Amos Brown and ].
D. Lowmgn. through Crawford 4 Conovsr, lots
] and in Boren & Denny's plat, being I'D feet
square on the southwest corner of Third and
Cherry streets. The price was s7o,oO0, or at the
rate Of $50 front foot, more than was ever
paid for property on Third street
! These lots are now occupied bv old frame
buildings, the one at the corner having had
acnecksrcd career as lodging house, while the
one below on Cherry has been used In turn as
church, lodging house, Offices, saloon and
gambling rooms The quarter of the same
block fronting 40 feet On Cherry and 10 feet
on Second street Is owned by Mr.. Brown and il
now occupied by some old frame build ings and
the uewellyn-D Dodge block. q two-story brick
completed just after the fire. II IL understood
that Messrs Brown and Lowman intend TO cree,
on the half block turning up Cherry from -ec-
ond to Third street, handsome brick building
Of four or i've stories, OF which the basement
and ground door will be specially arranged for
spublic market and the upper floors perfectly
6tssd for Offices. The stvle will be similar to
shst OF the theater building, diagonally across
Third street from the proposed site, ana the
Horton building on Washington street The
market hal. will have entrances On all three
streets and driveway through the alley which
It is proposed to arch over.
The other transaction 10 the sale by John
Parkinson, the architect, to Capt Charles Hop
kins OF the two lots, 40 feet Quare at the cor.
ner OF Marion aud Twelfth streets, with the
row Of stone houses occupying them which Mr..
~ H.. I..~k
son. Ralph g. Hopkins, having arranged the
deal The price paid for this property was
10000
This Is without question the finest block OF
residences built for renting in this state If not
on the Coast II is built of Washington stone,
and consists OF six houses fronting on Marion
and one on Twelfth street, all three stories
high. An artificial stone sidewalk extends
around the whole front, and each house il
reached by tiled walk leading to the porch
The exterior stone is polished after the fashion
Of New York and Chicago. and the glass in the
front is French plate Each house has twelve
rooms On the ground floor there are q recep-
ton hail, drawing room, sitting room, dining
room, pantries and kitchen, with tasteful man
tels In the drawing and sitting rooms. Both
! front and back stairways lead to the upper
hoors. each OF which has three chAmbers be-
SIDES bathrooms on the second. The front
rooms on this floor have open fire places, with
neatly tiled besrths and oak manteia The
bathrooms are probably the handsomest in
tae city, having tiled walls, beautifully
tinted Opaque glass windows and fres-
coed ceiling The bath tubs are porcelain
lined aud have nickel-plated trimmings, the
wash basins are Of Italian marble, and the other
futures Of the most modern type. The third IL
approached by n wide and easy staircase, and
the chambers are large and have abundant clos
sts and other convenience All tho rooms and
halls are frescoed in delicate colors and are pro-
vded with gas and electric light and heated
with hot air from furnace in the basement.
All the principal rooms aud halls have electric
bells connecting with the kitchen. The base
ment contains. besides tho furnace. laundry
tubs and fuel room. and each house has its sep
arafc back yard. All the rooms are well venti-
lated aud perfectly light. Altogether these are
the bestbuit and bestappointed residences in
In the city.