Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-18

about $780, or g. 1888 an acre, about high
| water mark in that locality. Sales on this
| thoroughfare are increasing. One plan OF
| lo:s has been sold out and another is not far
| behind. There is talk of considerable build.
| ing in the fall.
East Liberty brokers are making no com.
! plants. They are doing more business than
year ago. For example. Denniston, Elder
kin & Co. g sales for q month foot up $6S. 600
They closed two deals, aggre2ating $3l, 900
yesterday: One of these involved a piece of
acreage. The other was that of resfden CO
site in the shadyside district. 8. A. Dickey
& Co, Baker & Co., Van Gorder Lloyd.
Kelly & Rodgers and j. H. Coleman & Co.,
all-around inquiry and more sales than usual
at this season.
Mrs. John Harper has had plans prepared
by Architect Pickel for or 10 story ware
house on Liberty street to take the place of
the one destroyed by fire last April. Work
will begin as soon as possible. 1t will be
one of the finest structures in the city. The
first and second stories will be of stone and
the rest Pompean brick. Mrs. Harper is
also building nine handsome modern dwell
ings on Bedford street, Eighth ward.
Kline's Hotel, formerly known as the St.
John, changed hands during the week. It
was sold by Larkin & Kennedy to L. W.
Ebert for sl2. 500. It is one of the landmarks
in that quarter of the city.
The w. P. Martsolf Company, Limited, has
leased through the Black & Baird agency,
ner OF Penn avenue and Sixth street. now
occupied by 1t, at rental considerably
higher than previously paid: The building
will be remodeled. The main entrance will
be changed from Sixth street to the corner.
and the Penn avenue side will be ornament
ed with large plate glass show windows and
an artistic entrance. The interior will also
be reconstructed. These improvements will
cost $40 0C0 or more
A part of the old Slataper homestead, on
Winebiddle avenue, Twentieth ward, was
sold yesterday BY NJ H. apgs Ha Co. to D.
close to $1l, 900. The lot is 105xl50 feet, max
ing the price nearly sos foot front. The
purchaser will improve at once. with hand
Yesterday was record-breaker in the
building line. Only seven permits were is
sued, but they represent 81 houses-the larg-
other feature worthy of note is that they all
belong to William Finn except one. They
are all to go up in the Twenty-third ward on
different streets. The estimated cost of the
lot is Sl06, 200 For the week permits num-
ber IS. representing 1856 buildings, all esti-
mated to cost $4,000 This is high water
mark for the year.
j; G: Dick has bought piece Of property
on Fifth avenue, below Soho, for $4,000.
Denniston, Elderkin & Co. have just fin
ished four houses in the Enterprise plan,
The same firm contemplates the erection of
q number of brick dwellings on Filbert
street, Shadyside
Williamsburg Baptists are looking for a site
upon which to build church.
1t is the Enwer, not Enmer. property on
Murray avenue which w. G. Stewart is about
to put in the market. 1t consists of Il acres.
The opening OF streets in various parts of
the city and suburbs is bringing into the
market large supply of building sites. This
will have a tendency to keep prices within
Sloane & Co. disposed of a farm in West
moreland county yesterday. They would
not give the price.
]. E. Emerson. the saw manufa cturer of
building a railroad through his property
near that place.
LarkIn & Kennedy sold lot No. 1ss Blair
for 800; Nos. in and lis to Mrs. Mccarthy
for ss25. and No. 355 to H. A. Rhorkaste for
$780,
A. J. Pentecost sold lots Nos. 8, l. s, 6and7 7,
Marshall avenue, Tenth ward, Allegheny,
for $3.50 each.
George Schmidt sold for John E. ob1tz
new ten-roomed dwelling, with lot 20xI20
feet: to an alley. on Graham street near "a.
cash: also four lots on Lookout avenue,
Eureka Place plan, Oakland, for s., 900 on easy
monthly payments.
A. Y. Byers & Co. sold for the RIdgewood
Sand Company to prominent contractor of
Allegheny City, lots Nos. 81 and 3S in the
Grande Pointe plan, Eleventh ward, Ale
gneny, fronting 100 feet on California
avenue and extending through l4O feet to
Claude alley, for 81, ,400
Baxter. Thompson & Co. sold lot No. H.
Bank of Commerce addition plan, Brushton
Station. fronting 43 feet on Frankstown
avenue by 140 feet to q 20-foot alley, for
81 200; also lot No. liz, Ruch Place plan,
Thirteenth ward. fronting 20 ieet on Ruch
avenue and extending back to q 20-foot
alley, l20 feet. The purchaser has already
completed new two.story frame house on
Black & Baird sold for e. F. Daume to Mrs.
Maria L. Lowrey two-story and attic frame
dwelling, situated on the northside of Alder
street. Twentieth ward, with lot 40xl00 feet,
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold lots Nos. l2l, 12s,
Haysville, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Cnica-
go Railway, 30xll0 feet each, fronting on
Merwyn avenue, for $500.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold to NJ. A. Ripper
ger two lots, AXl54 each on Ellis avenue,
Tenth ward, Allegheny. Mayfield plan, for
ST, I25 cash.
Allies Bros. & Co. sold for Elizabeth A.
Young No. 81 Gum street, brick dwelling.
lour rooms, hall and finished attic, for So 600;
also placed a mortgage for $4,000 at per cent
on a manufacturing property in Allegheny.
Charles eomers 4 Co. sold f1ve-roomed
brick house, with corner lot, situated in the |
Sixth ward, city, for s. 500 cash: also two lots,
each 3Qxll0 ieet. situated in CHARTERS town
ship, near the city, ior 81, 500 cash.
PIG, being 30x90 feet, located on Nantasket |
street. in W illiam Shinns Greenfield avenue |
plan, Twenty-tnird ward city, Tor $780,
After the close of the market there W ere |
sales of Pleasant Valley at 25N and Phila- |
telphia Company at ls54. |