Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-25
POINTS IN REALTY.
Several Parcels of Suburban Prop
erty Change Ownership.
ACTIVITY IN PLEASANT VALLEY.
A Retired Business Man Acquires an Ele-
CANT Home In East Bellevue.
SALE OF 4 WILLIAMSBURG LANDMARK

residence which Mr. 7. c. Jenkins is build
ing on Union avenue, Allegheny, will .cos
$4,000. c. Bickel is the architect Bid
are being taken.
Boom In Pleasant Valley.
Max Schnider, the well-known ALE
gheny City hotel proprietor, is putting tn
finishing touches to IA medium-sized dwell
/ ings on Charles street, in the Pleasant Val
ley district of the Northside, and will 500
break ground for IA more in the sam
locality. Building is unusually active il
this quarter. Chester Hoag has just com
pleted eight apartment houses on Charlie
street, and near by Mr.. Froune Is fnishin,
four three-story brick dwellings. NJ.
Evans has just finished a large busines
block and apartment house on the corner o
Sarah and Taggart streets. A syndicate i
| negotiating for a block of the McCreer,
with view to the erection of 20 or 81
houses costing from $1,000 to $4,000, tt
augment the supply of homes in that par
OF the Northside.
A Deal in WiIkinsbarg.
One of the best business locations in Will
kinsburg changed ownership yesterday.
corner of Penn avenue and Wood street a,
a figure close to s11, 900. The lot is Ax1O8
The house, q commodious brick dwelling, i.
one of the oldest in the borough. 1t was
built so or 60 years ago by Mr.. Carothers.
Subsequently it passed into the possession
of j. W. Milligan, of Swissvale. The pur.
chaser will make no changes in the prop
erty before the expiration of the lease next
April. The present structure will, how.
ever, sooner or later, be removed to make
way for high-class business house of some
kind.
Leased for $4,000 a Year.
Black s. Baird yesterday closed one OF
the most important leases of the year.
Danziger & Co. released through the above
firm the property now occupied by them on
Sixth and Penn, for five years, at an annual
rental of S24, 600, or total of $120, 900. This
is a considerable advance on the former
price, showing that rents for central prop
erty are going up. The property is owned
by William E. Stanton, who resides in Pas
adena, Cal.
Summer Hotel at Belevur.
The old Watson homestead at East Belle
vue has been leased for q summer hotel,
and is being remodeled and enlarged for
that purpose. A number of cottages are
being built on the bluff on the hotel
grounds and overlook ing the Ohio river,
which will be utilized as sleeping apart
ments. This property is a landmark in
that quarter. 1t was occupied for many
years by the late A. NJ. Watson, Esq.
Sale Of a Suburban Residence.
An interesting deal in residential prop
erty was consummated yesterday by John
X. Ewing & Co They sold for Hugh M.
Bole, we'll known in manufacturing circles,
to John C. Elliott, retired Allegheny
City business man, large double frame
house and about an acre of ground on a
corner of Grant and Taylor avenues, East
Bellevue. The price was not stated, but it
is understood to be pretty we'll up. The
purchaser will improve the place and oc-
cupy it as residence,
Yesterdays Buiding Permits.
Ten permits were issued yesterday for 16
improvements, aggregating according to
estimates, SIG, 045 Those of most value are:
Charles Manning, six brick dwellings on
Washington street. Seventh ward, "a, 500;
James Nesbit, two frame dwellings on
Clarissa street, Thirteenth ward, 1000;
John Weygand, brick dwelling on Mary
street, Twenty fourth ward, $500; D. M.
Miller, frame dwelling on Fairmount
street, Nineteenth ward, s., 600.
Special Features OF Trade.
The weather was good yesterday and bus
mess picked up considerably.
The residence lately occupied by C. L.
Cole, Esq, No. 2l5 Allegheny avenue
Allegheny City, will be offered at public
sale this afternoon at O'Clock, by W.
A. Heron & Sons.
Chicago reports decided improvement in
the demand for money on call, due to &C.
tiytty in local stocks and bonds.
Lots on tile Southside are selling as low
s25, showing that cheap property is still in
the market.
There are good openings for summer ho-
tells in nearly all quarters of the suburbs. A
movement is on foot to erect one at Haw-
kins.
The Williamsburg NJ. E. Church is ap-
preaching completion. It will, it is ex-
pected, be ready for dedication the last
Sunday in June.
The demand for lots in the Oakland Place
& Aisbitt, the agents, have prevailed upon
Mr.. A. H ChiIds, who owns the adjoining
to subdivide it into lots, which
will be placed in the market at once.
Henry NJ. Long sold yesterday 100 shares of
Manchester Traction stock at 421s.
Additional Points in Realty.
vacant lot on South Negley avenue. near
Ellwood, was sold yesterday for G. W.
Knopf at the rate of nearly 500 n foot front.
The purchaser will begin the erection of a
stone-front residence as soon as plans can be
got ready.
Among transfers just recorded is the fol-
lowing: S. L. .Schoonmaker to George W.
Carl Amsler and j. E. Umbstaetter,
six lots on Hays, Mellon and st. Clair streets,
ward, 343 ieet front on Hays
street, 624 on ST. Clair street. Consideration
s63, ,s02.
Morris & Aisbitt sold lots 26 and q in the
Piermore plan, Grafton, to MIR. o. p. Robert
son. the well-known attorney, who contem-
plate erecting thereon, at once, a handsome
residence.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lot No in
Kings plan on Heron, near Wylie avenue
20 feet front, street severed and paved, for
$3.50. seller to pay for street improvements.
They also sold manufacturing site on the
West Penn Railroad ut Sumner Station. adj
Joining Sharpsburg, lot 19SxlSS feet, for s., 100
cash.
C. T. Beeckman sold for the Larimer Land
Company, in the Grand View
Place Plan, lots 42and 43 to Mrs. B. A. Berrin-
ger, and lot No.176 in the same plan to Walter
GRAY tor 5000
W. E. Hamnett & Co. sold lot No. "a, Miller
Place, Swissvale, for $50.
George Schmidt sold for John Deemer a
ot on Fra zier street, 25xl00 teet, being No.
In Arthur's Plan, for $780,.
Black & Baird sold through Burton
Sweeney to James Nesbit lot No. IL in the J.
Walter Hay plaa of Kenilworth Place, Her.
ron Hill, for $3.50.
J. L. Glass sold for J. C. Dick a six-roomed
house, with II lot "a feet front on Mononga-
lela street, Tor S., 500.