Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
NEARLY $500 PER ACRE

Paid for . Tract OF Four and one-Half
Acres ON Atlantic Avenue, Near Penn
Avenue-Improveme to Follow
Many Other Good Deals.
SATURDAY, Dec B
A very important sale of acreage prop
erty in the East End has just been closed.
J.,H. Coleman & Co. sold through Messrs
Kelly & Rogers, for Mrs. Susan Murdoch,
q tract of ground containing four and one
half acres, situated on Atlantic avenue,
near Penn avenue, Eighteenth ward, to
Mrs. Elizabeth Baird for price approxi-
mating $4,000. Mrs. Baird bought for specu-
lative purposes. and the ground will be Inn
proved at once. Z
That portion of the Hart property in the
Nineteenth ward, having frontage OF SO0
ieet on Sheridan, Heberton, Stewart and
price, purchaser, etc, could not be learned.
The property adjoins the residences or
samuel Warmcastle, Esq, and Mr.. Frederick
Magee, and is but short distance from
Highland Park extension.
Current Gossip. 5,.
Black & Baird to-day closed the sale OF a
piece or city realty, the price paid being
$4,000. The full particulars Of this trans
action are being withheld for the present..
A very important transaction in McKees-
port property was reported to-day as having
been closed. It is said that the Ament prop
erty, a tract of four acres, situated on Mar
ket street, has been purchased by Thomas
Moore Tor price approximating $4,000.
1t Is very probable that well-known gem
tleman not directly interested in the real
estate business will be made President Of
the Real Estate Exchange. The idea 10
very popular one among the brokers.
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued to day:
William Brain, a one-story frame dwellIng,'
Flowers avenue; cost $500 The Miller
Wagon Manufacturing Company, one-story
street; cost $50. David Evans, two-story
brick dwelling, Vickroy street, between
Chestnut and Cooper streets; cost $1,000.
Late Sales.
Black & Baird sold to Samuel W. Black,
Esq, lots Nos. Al and 40 in the Lloyd Circle
plan, fronting together 100 feet on the west
erly side OF Craig street by $50 in depth, for
$10,O00
John K Ewing & Co. sold, for price ap-
proximating $4,000. the property on the cor
mer of Sheridan avenue and Division street,
Bellevce, for Charles II. Baers to H. p.
Wylie Miller. being new Queen Anne
frame residence of eight rooms, hall bath,
attic and laundry, with q lot 75x130 feet.
The purchaser expects to take possession
about the first of January.
W. c. Stewart sold for Mrs. NJ. Eva Stewart
q lot 4s1100 ieet on Craft avenue. for s4, 500.
n f. Hipple & Co.. sold for Hudson Sam
son for 81 600, lot 50xl00 feet, situated on
the west side of Darrah street, being lot No.
9 in the Delmar Terrace plan, Fourteenth
ward.
W. M. Pollock sold for Martin Premier a
property on Garrison street, Second ward,
Allegheny, consisting of a double frame
dwelling house, with lot fronting 25 feet on
Garrison street, by depth OF 130 feet to
q n
cash.
]. C. Allies Co. sold to Henry Schmidt
four-room frame house. with a lot 25xl0S, on
Mary street, near Thirty-second street, for
s., 100.
Baxter Thompson & Co. sold lot No. Isl,
Bank OF Commerce addition plan, Brushton
station. fronting 81 feet on Bennett street
and 135 feet to 20Loot alley, for $500 cash:
also sold lot No. 5ll Villa Park plan, Brush
ton, fronting 90 feet on Bile eckadore avenue
and $50 feet to a 2O-foot alley, for $3.50 cash.
Bell to G: w. Bishop y frame house of seven
rooms with q lot 75X400 feet, corner of Flor
ence and Birmingham avenues in the bor-
ough of Avalon, for 81, 500.
The Burrel and Kensington Improve
ment Companies report the following sale
of lots Ut Kensington: Mrs. Mary Graf,
Pittsburg, lot 70, block q, for .$646 IS: Mrs.
Elizabeth Otto. Pittsbprg. lot As, pIock 5.
aud lot 81 block2s Tor s79S IS cash: Frank
Rohm. Pittsburg, south half of lot l5 block
g. Tor $3.50; Henry Grotefend, Jr., Pittsburg,
lot $40 block 24. $6I5 cash; Richard Higgins,
O.. lot 9OI. block %, $46s IS
cash; Mrs. Emma Girts, New Kensington,
Pa, lot 465, block 20, for S5l0.
E. T. Schaffner, the Hilltop real estate
agent, sold Tor Joseph Gaber. OF Blair a
frame house of four rooms and attic. with
tot 2ix147 feet, being No. 80 Industry street,
Thirty-frst ward, near Knoxville incline;
also sold for the Birmingham Land I'm.
provement Company lot No. 131, 75xl4o feet,
IN Linwood avenue. in their Southview
Place plan of lots. to Charles Hahne, Jr, Of
Mt. Oliver, for $500.