Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-15
POINTS IN REALTY.
Several Good Sized Transactions Show
How the Wind Blows.
ANOTHER DEAL At SHADYSIDE.
Two Lots Of Williamsburg Property Change
Hands, One at Tall Figures
FEATURES OF MONEY AND SPECULATION


purchaser is W. j. Lawrence, . well-know
Allegheny City business man.
James W. Drape 8 Co. say: ga
an evidence Of the confidence of tn
English people in American inst
tutions and business prosperity, yer
important deal has been closed for the re
moval Of an extensive manufacturing plan
from that country to this locality. The sit
has been secured and the papers are al
signed. The investment represents an out
lay of over 81 ,000, ,O00."
Two villinsburT Deals Closed.
An important transaction in wilkins
burg realty was concluded yesterday b,
passing the deeds, by which w. c. Lyn
bought from John W. Milligan, of Swiss
vale, all the remaining lots, nine in mum
ber, of the Carothers estate, corner of Peni
avenue and Wood street, the consideration
being $50, 500 1t was the intention of Mr.
| Lyme to erect a business block on the cor
| ner OF Penn and Wood, fronting on botf
streets, but receiving Al offer Of about $3, 50(
profit upon that portion of the property ht
sold it to Samuel W. Black. This sale o.
66x108 feet for S17 900 to Mr.. Black is equal
| to about $3.50 a foot front, the highest price
ever reached for Williamsburg realty. The
sale to Mr. Lyme was made through Hotf
man & Baldridge
In addition to this transaction the same
firm sold to Nh. Lyme the Fuhrer property,
corner of Wallace and Water streets, four
brick houses and two adjoining lots, upon
which the purchaser will erect two brick
residences on Wallace street, and upon the
completion Of these he will put up two
others on Water street.
These purchases are regarded as bargains,
the Milligan property being we'll adapted
to business purposes and the Fuhrer having
strong attractions for home-seekera
Improvement In Architecture.
Boulevard place is being built up very
fast Eleven brick and stone dwellings are
above the foundations, and some Of them
are under roof Among those who have
purchased lots and will build Immediately
are w. w. Reed, Edward wilkins, r. p.
Crawford, and several others Mr. Craw-
ford will put up house costing not less
than BID, 900 on lot 114x142
The character of the houses in this quar-
ter Is . good illustration of the advance
'ment in Pittsburg architecture within the
past few years
Yesterdays Building Permita
Five permits were issued Yesterday for
the same number of improvements-all
small-aggregating sb,725, among them the
following: Lorenz Wittmyer, frame dwell
ing on Carver street, Twenty-frst ward,
1925; George Harley, brick store and
dwelling on Penn avenue, Nineteenth ward,
$, 800: Feller & Kupper. frame dwelling
on Lenora street, Twenty-frst ward. $3.50.
Special Features Of Trade.
Foundations are being laid for two hand
some dwellings on Wallace street, wilkins
burg.
Pittsburs architects arc fairly busy on
three have anything Of special Importance
pipe line is being laid from the worley
gas well, Warrington county, to Waynes-
Major Pentecost will do the knocking
down" At the auction sale Of lots in che Nav.
Held plan, Perrysville avenue, on Monday
,Ha;s nedt Everything viii be free and all are
A site has been secured for the proposed
academy In the town OF Hickory, Washing
ton county: Nearly All the funds for the
scribed; and it Is expected that IT will be
completed by the middle Of September
The estimated value Of buildings for which
.ss wsss ss Issued d%rsS the month Of
On call yesterday 20 was bid for Pittsbury
and Mexican Tin Mining Company stock.
The Central Traction Company will double
branch. The receipts Of the latter are above
expectations and the traffic shows a daily
increase.
On Change yesterday $4,000 Pleasant Val
ley lateral 5s were offered at 10l fiat, and Mo
Keesport ~ per cent school bonds were
offered at par and interest.
Additional Points in Realty.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lot 81 in wilkins,
third plan, Edgewood. Pennsylvania Rail-
road, 52x120 feet on Savannah street. for $3.50.
also in the John l. Williams plan Bennett
station (Millvale). three lots, Nos s., ss and
81, each e4xll5 feet, on Irwin street. Ior $500
for ALL
port the following aales or lots at Kensing-
ton: Frederick W. Keplfn. Pittsburg, lots 29s
and 29S, block 26 for 81 .7s6; Catherine Lang
Pittsburg: lot e2s. block "a. and lot 7oo. block
81 and 6s. block "a, for 81, Ss7 so.
Hoffman Baldridge sold for W. e. Lyon
to Rev. James Gray lot 5oxlso feet to an
alley, corner Ross and Pitt streets, wilkins
burg. for 81. 5Oo on which tile purchaser is
erecting handsome brick and frame resi-
dence. They also sold lot No. l9s. in Swiss
vale place plan, swissvale, AoxI2o, for s275
Jams to Theodore Schoos. lot No. Is in Eliza
beth Herron's pla n, in the Thirteenth ward.
being "a leet on Madison avenue by 100 feet,
IOr YOU c6sn, tne purchaser TO assume the
street assessments.
John K. Ewing Co. sold for Ernest
Schulz to Wilbert F. Mcmillan lot 22x94 ON
New Brighton road, near Woodland avenue.
ward, Allegheny, for $40 cash.
Sloan & Co. sold a farm in the vicinity of
Salem, O.. to H. Laferty, of this city, the
price being $4,000.
Henry A. Breed sold to George B. Gordon.
Esq, portion of Miss Beelef's property. 200
by about 400 feet on Wilkins avenue, Shady
side.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for Messrs,
HRberman & Schaub to William j. Davidson
lot No. in the Grace Park plan, CHARTERS
township, Allegheny county, fronting % IS
feet on Lorenz avenue and extending 80 feet
In even width to an alley, for $500.
Peter Shields reports the sale Of lot No.
200, S6x10O feet to a 40-foot alley, located on
avenue and Hoosac street. in the |
Greenfield avenue plan, Twenty-rhird ward,
for q, 500 cash.
W. A. Heron 4 Sons sold lot, soxaa0 feet.
for sl2, 900, on Morewood avenue, between
Fifth and Ellsworth avenues, Shadyside, to |
q prominent attorney. who contemplates |
early Improvement of same.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold the property, No.
,440 Penn avenue, Twentv-first ward city
of q brick dwelling of ten rooms |
md modern conveniences, with lot 85x125 |
feet: also lot, 6ox7a feet: in the rear, with |
/ frame dwelling, Tor $4,000
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