Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-14
POINTS IN REALTY.
Reported Sale of the Price Property
Confirmed by Court Records.
FREE WILL BAPTISTS BUY A LOT.
Interesting "reminiscences Of Old Yellow
Tavern Just Torn Down.
FEATURES OF MONEY AND SPECULATION

The sale of the rear portion of the Price
property. facing on Colwell and Price
streets, Eighth ward, was rumored month
or more ago and given publicly at the time.
Court records show the rumor was correct.
The consideration was $4,000. The ground
fronts 95 feet on Price street and 1S0 on Col
well, running back to Our alley. The build
ings are a brick machine shop and an iron
clad foundry. Mr. c. F. Ahlers, the
purchaser, presumably represents a church
corporation. If so, the outcome will be
another house of worship. The purchaser
of the Fifth avenue end of this property
will soon begin the erection of four commo-
dious stores.
The Free Will Baptists, worshiping in
the Fifth Avenue Market House, have pur-
chased lot 40xSO on Rose street, Nine
teenth ward, where they will build a church
during the summer.
An Interesting Event.
Landmarks are commercially important
in Pittsburg, but not otherwise. They are
disappearing at rate which will soon wipe
them out altogether. The old Yellow
Tavern, so-called for more than century,
on, Penn near Braddock avenue, Twenty
second ward, was built by William Elliott
about 1773 1t was occupied by him many
years as place OF Entertainment for man
beast" The house stood on an old Indian
trail before roads were made, in the midst
of broad stretch of land comprising 1000
acres, direct grant from the Penns The
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the substantial manner peculiar to those
days when every settler had to provide
against attacks from the savages by making
his home literally his castle. 1t was un-
doubtedly, at the time of its erection, the
finest and most substantial private structure
between the Alleghenies and the Missis-
sippi. and held under its roof many illus
trious persons 1t was the Oldest building
in Pittsburg, barring the Block House
Old Hickory, General Taylor, Webster,
Clay, Lafayette, Benton, Mad Anthony
Wayne, and many others hailed its appear
ance as indicative of good cheer and hearty
welcome.
This interesting relic of early times in
Pittsburg was torn down few DAYS ago.
In the course of this work number of old
Spanish and Colonial coins were found.
The block, about three acres. on Penn
the market by Colonel E j. Allen, the
present owner. Thus vanishes a remnant
of the past, standing here, known and ap-
preciated, when the great West, from
Chicago to the Pacific Coast, was an un-
known land.
Yesterdays Building Permits.
Twelve permits were issued yesterday for
II improvements, costing, according to es-
p1oto IF mr. INN ,nrfoy
are: Otto F. Felix, two brick dwellings on
Murray Hill avenue, $1,000; e. j. Baxter,
frame dwelling on Homewood avenue,
81, 800; Isaac Gelder, brick store and dwell
ing on Wylie avenue, Fifth ward 81, 800;
G. n. Hoffstob, brick sixth-story addition
to business house on Liberty street, Fourth
ward, 81, 100; VIM. Caldallar, three brick
dwellings on Thirty-eighth street, Fifteenth
ward, 1900.
Special Features OF Trade.
There is disposition to hold protracted
bad weather responsible for the sluggish
condition of business No other sufficient
reason can be Thoughts of.
Mr.. John Messer has just finished n four
story glass front candy factory on Forbes
street, near Van Braam. 1t is the only four
story building in that neighborhood.
Mayor Rose, of Johnstown, and MI. Fisher,
of the same place, will soon begin the erec-
tion of three fine dwellings, models for
which were obtained in Pittsburg.
James W. Drape & Co. sold bond of the
Homewood Driving Park Association at par.
An insider says Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg stocks are likely hereafter to show
much more strength and activity. The COM
mon is now near dividend and will sell
materially higher.
Since the demolition of the Old Yellow
Tavern the Block House is about the only
landmark of Importance remaining in Pitts
burg. ..a
ing good results to follow the agitation of
the rapid transit question. Success will
open up another outlet for Allegheny.
Building schemes on the Southside are
materializing rapidly. New houses are
The First National Bank, Williamsburg, is
doing much better than the most sanguine
eyDected. Its success is assured.
Four houses will soon be started on the
Gusky subdivision, Perrysville avenue.
Additional Points in Realty.
Property in the neighborhood of Penn
and Braddock avenues is looking up under
the stimulus of the Berger, wilkins, Sterrett
and Myers sales and large holdings.
Morris & Aisbitt sold a lot on Emily street,
Grafton, to Andrew j. Peake, upon which
he will build a nice residence.
James w. Drape & Co. sold two lots on
street, southside, for s.. 100; also a house and
lot on Emerson streer, East End, for S., $50
also a collateral interest in three properties
and farm near the city for $ll, zoo cash; also
nine lots in Munhall Terrace plan. near
for S3 loo.
NJ F. Hipplc & Co. sold to Clara S. Stein
meyer lot 50xl50 feet on the south side of
street, Twentieth ward, for
81 500. The purchaser will erect q handsome
residence thereon at once.
Black s Baird sold to Isaiah Stevens lots
Nos. 379 and $50 in the Alta Land Company's |
plan on Duquesne Heights, Thirty-tifth |
ward, for Sl0S cash.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for the William |
Ward estate piece of ground comprising |
two lots fronting 40 feet on Center avenue, |
near Fulton street. and extending so feet in |
lepth for S., 900. Louis P. Guenther was the |
purchaser.
George Schmidt sold two lots on Lookout |
avenue on his Eureka Place plan. Oakland, |
TO John Hampton for 81, lG0 He is having |
plans made for two mod ern dwellings.
w. E. Hamnett Co.,. of Williamsburg, sold |
house and lot on Beechwood street, Brush |
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