Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-25
TWO MORE BIG SALES

OF Acreage in the Squirrel Hill District
Four and One-Half Acres Bring $4,000
"A Number of Sales of Good-Sized Resi-
dence Properties-Gossip and Permits.
MONDAY, Oct. "a.
The sale of still another acreage tract in
the Squirrel Hill district has just been con-
summated. w. c. Stewart to-day sold for
Alexander Murdoch to Charles Schwan, the
East End real estate broker, tract of ~
acres, situated on Homewood avenue, for
$50, 900.
Another sale of property situated short
distance from the above mentioned ground
has also been closed. The particulars of
this latter deal, which is equally as import
ant as any of the sales which have occurred
in this district for some time, will be made
public in day or two.
Current Gossip.
The Woods heirs will erect 40 brick
dwellings on Main street, near Carson street,
West End. which they expect to have COM
pleted by next spring. Ten of the houses
are now in course of erection.
A meeting of the Allegheny faction of the
First M. P. Church will be held Tuesday
evening for the purpose of deciding upon
the style. etc., of the new church which will
be erected shortly on the site on Bidwell
Gently by the congregation from the Denny
estate, Tor $35 600.
Building Permits. -.
The following permits were issued to-day:
F. C. McGrew, two-story brick dwelling.
Homewood avenue near Penn avenue cost
$1,000 W. j. Sphar. two-story brick dwell
ing, corner OF Ellsworth and College ave-
nues; cost $1,000. John C. Sullivan. n two
story frame dwelling. Cohasset street, be-
$!,4OO. James A. Blankenship. a two-story
frame dwelling, Kelly street, between Mar
tell and Dallas avenues; cost $500. Maggie
j. Fulton, a two-story frame kitchen, Butler
street extension, corner Chislett Avenue;
cost s475.
Latest Sales Reported.
Winfield Lewis, Esq, the well-known at
torney, sold his residence situated on North
Canal street, Shsrpsburg, consisting of Il lot
50x14O feet and a brick dwelling, for $40, 900.
Black 4 Baird sold to Mrs. Mary B. Foster
a new Queen Anne frame residence on
Thomas boulevard, East End, between Fifth
and Lincoln avenues, with lot 55xl42 feet,
for $1,000.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. report the sale of lot
No. % in the Highland Place plan, fronting
80 feet on Pacific street by 1s7 feet deep to an
alley, for Sl6C0.
Baxter Thompson & Co. sold for John s.
Craig lots Nos 8, 3 and 10, in his plan, siru-
ate in the Twenty-third ward, fronting 50
feet on Monongahela street by 164 feet to
private way, for 81. 200
A. 2. Byers & Co. sold for the Fort Pitt
Land Company to John Howard Kerr, lot
No. 81 in their plan, West Bellevue borough,
Avalon station, size 401s5 feet, for $475
John X. Ewing & Co. sold 10 Thomas Lo-
gan lot No. s5 fronting on Howard avenue,
in the Frederick G. Rohrkaste plan, situate
in the Tenth ward, Allegheny, for $500 cash.
Messrs. Piper & Clark sold lot No. in the
Luella Place plan, size 52x104 feet; consider
alton, So 900.
scott 4 McAlillen sold for S. s. d. Thomp-
son, ESQ.,, to Charles Burt the property No.
10 Franklin street, Sixth ward, Allegheny,
consisting of a modern pressed brick dwell
ing OF ten rooms and q lot 48x120 feet. The
purchaser will occupy the residence. Con-
s., SEQ.