Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-24
A HOMEWOOD PLAN


To Be Placed on the Market This wsek-It
Il Located Near the Driving Park
westerners Here Borrowing Money ON
Far Western Rezlty-Reports From the
Inspector and Agents.
The Columbian Land and Improvement
Company, which purchased the 20 acres of
land adjoining the Homewood Driving
Park, at Homewood, from j. E. Glass
short time ago for 1000, have laid the
wood Park plan. This new plot will contain
in all 275 lots. and will be on the market
the latter part Of this week. Mr.. j. e. Glass
will be the sales agent. and the lots are to be
sold on the monthly payment system.
Property in this locality has taken an up
ward turn in a very short while, as the sale
of this tract at 81, 500 an acre shows quite an
increase in values within the past year.
The Columbian Land and improvement
Company is a new organization. having just
been Incorporated and the charter granted
the company last week. The officers are:
President, j. W. Prescott; Secretary, j. E.
Glass; Treasurer, John f. Steele. The OBJ
ject of the corporation is to improve. buy,
ard sell real estate, and 1t Is very evident
very familiar in real estate circles in a short
time.
Items of Gossip.
There is said to be an unusually active de-
mand for property along the great boule-
ward that is to connect Schenley Park with
Highland Park. Prices have advanced
enormously.
and Sons, noted in this column, was at ~
per cent net, and is about as low a rate as
ever secured in this vicinity on q mortgage.
The details OF sale of piece OF property,
located near the junction Of Fifth and Old
The old buildings will be RACED and six
story business and residence block erected
in their stead.
Present and prospective building was
never on so large q scale as now. The num-
Der of small and medium-sized dwelling
houses will be materially increased before
snow flies.
A number of Western men arc in the city
for the purpose Of negotiating loans on
Western real estate. A first mortgage of
sl6 600 was recently placed here on Butte
City property at per cent. 1t Is claimed
that far Western lenders demands and 10
per cent.
Building Permits.
The following building permits were IS
sued yesterday: William Printy, four-story
brick warehouse, Fourth avenue, corner
Redoubt alley. The building will front
20 feet on Fourth avenue and will be 81 feet
6inches in depth, and the walls are to be %
inches thick; cost 81, $50. DR.. NJ. R. Hamilton,
a.three-story brick office and dwelling, Ninth
street, between Pusey alley and Penn ave-
nue.; cost. se.5 500 A: Churchill, a brick two
story dwelling, kirkpatrick street, be-
tween Webster and Bedford avenues, cost,
lS00. William Loeffier, two frame twostory
dwellings. Stanton avenue, near Highland
two frame two-story dwellings,, Bigelow
street, near Kaercher street; cost, s., 900 for
both. c. II. Meningitis Son, a frame addt-
fG9 Ffab to css9 @
frame two-story dwelling, Craig street; cost,
$1,000 Joseph Kloman, a frame two-story
dwelling, rear Ridge street., above West
frame one-story dwelling, Kirkpatrick street,
Ruch's Hill; cost, $50
Reports From the Agencies.
Peter Shields sold lot No. 8 inthe Schenley
Park Land Company's plan, 25x125, to a 90
foot alley located on Gertrude street, for
$3.50.
Kelly & Rogers sold ten lots in William
Baird's Latrobe plan of lots-Nos. 225 to 234
inclusive-25xlOO feet each to q 20-foot alley,
for $l75 each.
John & Ewing s. Co. sold for A. P. Long
don, of DeLand, Fla, to J. F. Cary two
story frame Queen Anne house containing
with all conveniences, with lot s61llt on
the corner OF Euclid and Taylor avenues,
East Bellevue, for "a 900 cash.
John F. sweeny sold house and lot on
Clarissa street, Thirteenth ward, belonging
to James Nesbtt. being new four-room
frame. on q lot fronting % feet on Clarfssa
street and extending back distance of 100
feet to 20-foot alley; price of 81 $50, on easy
terms.
c. H. Love sold three more lots in the
Hunter plan at Williamsburg, being 73. "a and
IS: Peter Trenhusser was the purchaser;
price for 73 was $3.50. n, $400 and u.s. $780,
James w. Drape & Co. sold a small house
and lot on Katherine street, BIushton, for
$l,250. q
d. Behen & Son sold for r. B. Ivory to
Robert Mendle a lot 251l46 feet, running
from stanton avenue to q bO-foot street, for
$225; also, lot No. 81, in the plan adjoining
the above for the same price, both on the
easy payments plan.