Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-05
LANDS AND HOUSES.
MORE TALK OF ACTIVITY IN THE OUT
LYING SECTIONS.


LYING SECTIONS.
Plans in the Suburbs Continue to Find
Favor With tho Peopie-A New Eight
Story Building for:First Avenue-Latest
Sales.
The realty market is pursuing the even
tenor Of its way, picking up little activ-
1ty and strength now and then and promis-
ing good things for the future Talking
about the outlook in the suburban districts
an agent said yesterday: "There has been
good deal done in the way of singing the
praises of the suburbs, but it is still being
done and not being overdone. All the va
rious plans that have been placed on the
market since the Introduction of rapid
transit have been successes. Lots in the
plans not yet filled are being more
plans now in embryo will doubt
less meet with an encouraging recep-
ton when they are ready for public inspec-
tlon." The Schenley Park plan is one of the
recent notable successes. In this plan alone
over 100 houses have been erected during
the past year. The sale of lots in the plan
going up. ''The schenIey Park plan," says
one SI Of its projectors. must be seen to be ap-
A Flattering Offer Refused.
Tho owners of the Logan property, on the
corner Of Negley and Hampton avenues,
comprising five acres, have refused an offer
OF $45, 900 for the same. They are now debat-
ing whether to sell in acreage or divide into
lots. This property is adjacent to that re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. John Fite. The
latter gentleman is asking 800 per foot front
ior MS holdings. Property is being steadily
improved in this section. and values are ex-
pected to enhance materially in the next
Two or three years.
Building Permits and Building.
Only one permit was issued yesterday, and
that was for two-story stone dwelling on
Center avenue, corner Of Negley avenue.
Mr.. J. H. Galley is the gentleman for whom
the house will be erected, ut an estimated
COST Of SIS, ,O00
1t will be remembered that one day last
week the eastern wall Of the building occu-
pied BY the Pennsylvania Tube Works on
apssd as the resnt Of y
some men at work on the next lot excavat-
ing cellar for the building George II. Ben
nett proposes to erect. Since the collapse
Mr. Joshua Rhodes, the owner OF the prop
erty, has decided to put up handsome
eight-story building on the site.
There is considerable activity in the build
ing line out Grafton way. In the West End
also, and along the south shore of the Ohio
river; down toward McKee's Rocks, a num-
ber of building schemes are in the first
stages. The work on the reconstruction of
having good effect.
Current Sales.
Captain Chamberlain sold two lots in the
Warmcastle plan of lots for 1900. The pur-
chaser intends improving the same at an
early date.
Reed B. Coyle reports the sale of another
lot in the Sunnyside plan of lots, at Belle
vue, Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne s. Chicago Rail-
way, being lot No. s, with frontage of so
feet on Bayne avenue by $50 in depth, for
5000.
John 4 Ewing Co. sold for Mrs Mary
W. D. Watson to a well-known Federal street
business man, five lots, 5Ox15O feet each, on
Cedar street, overlooking the Ohio river, in
the Watson plan of lots, in East Bellevue.
for "a, 900 cash.
Black & Baird sold to James Nesbit five
lots in ]. Walter Hays plan OF lots, Kenil-
W. a. Heron & Sons sold lot on Third
avenue, between Market and Liberty
streets, 401s4 feet for $4,000. The buildings
erected theron will, as soon as the present
leases expire, be improved by the
purchaser.
Charles somers & Co. sold for w H. Will
20, each 4Oxl0O feet. in the Williams plan Of
lots. situated in the Nineteenth ward, city,
for 81, 400 cash.
Joseph P. Rankin 8 Co. sold the farm of
ley. The farm ontains 27 acres, with good
improvements: price, SlO,250; also sold part
of the Mckown property at Osborn station
to the borough of Sewickley containing
about two acres; price. 1000; also sold the
stone house property, corner Academy ave-
nue. and Beaver street, belonging to the Way
253 feet; terms and price not given; also sold
house and lot, 50xl45 feet, on Frederick
avenue. Sewfekley. for Mr. Henry W.
25o cash; also sold the property Of james
street, East End, lot 47xaOO feet, for a price
approX1mating SO, ,00O.
The farm Of +. X; Woog. late proprietor of
the Hotel Eiffel, who failed a short time ago,
was sold by the Sheriff yesterday. It con-
tains 461 acres with a frontage of over 1000
the finest farms on the road. G. W. Schmidt,
OF Fifth avenue, was the purchaser; terms
private.
The Burrell and Kensington improvements
at Kensfngton, the new manufacturing city
on the Allegheny Valley Railway: Thomas
McCa6e, Pittsourg, lot 25, block 9, for $500
sington, lots 342 343. 344 and 345. block Is. for
s. lbs cash; Peter Leyens. Kensington, north
20 ieet of lot s5, block 8. for $780, Philip A.
feet of lot 25, block 5. for $1,45O: Mrs. Mar
garet A. Owens, Allegheny, north half of lot
8, block 8, for $3.50; Charles W. Shatfer, Shan
Elizabeth Riley, Allegheny, lot Y, block IL,
for $595: Mrs. Margaret Kelly, Sharpsburg,
lot Isl, block 26, for $64J; Miss Sophia Meyer,
Pittsburg, lots pa and 215, block 26, for
s., ,293 so.
Denniston. Elderkin & Co., Limited, re-
port the following sales: For William B.
Linhart to Alexander K. Stevenson, a double
brick dwelling OF ten rooms, situate on
Shakespeare street, being lots numbered l6
and IL, Orchard additional plan to East Lib
erty for $500; for W. H. Denniston to Abso-
lem Borrows, two lots in tho Twenty-flrst
ward, being lots Nos. and 8, Bauss plan,
having frontage of 40 feet on Frankstown
avenue, for 81 $780, for w. L. Paine to S. D.
Kerns house and lot on Murtland avenue,
being lot 80 in Melons Grazier plan, said
lot having frontage of 25 feet and extends
back preserving the same width 1875 feet,
having erected thereon a fve-room frame
house, price 81 900; for James McClutcheon
to Annie NJ. Willmen, house and lot on
Frankstown avenue, being lot No. 3S in Mel
Ions Station plan, the lot has a frontage of
20 feet on Frankstown avenue and extends
back 100 feet to an alley, price 81 300.