The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-22
REAL ESTATE NEWS.
Henry Lembeek Erecting a Fine
Building Frank Stevens
Building a New Resi-
denee.

Mr.. Henry Lembeck who has frequent
ly demonstrated his confidence in Green
vile real estate as a paying investment,
and who has dotted that section with
many pretty houses, has begun an i'm
provement which has created quite q
stir among the real estate men of the
Celery district. On the southwest cor
ner Of Winfield and Ocean avenues, Mr..
Lembeck has broker ground for a build
ing which, when completed, will be a de-
cidedf ornament to that already pretty
section of Greenville. The plans of the
building are now being prepared by
Architect G. Fred Long and will be
ready in a few days. The building will
be used for office purposes. Mr.. Lem
beck believing that the time has come
when such accommodations are needed
in Greenville. The excavation for the
cellar has already been made and the
work on the foundations will begin in a
few days. The building will cover a plot
measuring fifty-two feet on Ocean ave-
nue. and ffty-four feet on Winfield ave-
nue. and will be three stories in height.
The walls of the first story will be of
the new building material known as
Pennsylvania greensboro. This stone
is remarkably pretty and surpasses all
other building. stone in point of beauty.
There is very little of this material in
Jersey City, there being but one building
at present that is adorned with it. There
will be granite n terra Gotta trimmings
on the first story. The walls of the sec
ond and third sorry will be built of old
gold brick which will be set off hand
somely by polished red granite columns
which will be set between the windows.
The lower floor of the building will be
converted into two large meeting rooms
with a private Office at the rear. There
will be an angular entrance at the corner
of the building.
ROOMS ALREADY RENTED.
One of the large meeting rooms has
already been leased to the Greenville
Building and Loan Association No. 2.
1t is the intention of MIR. Lembeck to
convert the second and third floors into
offices, but for the present they will be
fitted up as flats. To these floors there
will be two entrances one for each floor
on Winfield avenue. The building will
be heated throughout by steam, and
none blu the best materials will be used
in the construction. The estimated cost
is between $4,000 and $685. 0O.
The floor lots on Girard avenue oppo-
site the Bavarian Brewery, which were
placed at auction last week by Auc-
tioneer Vreeland, but which were with
drawn because of the low bids, have
been sold at private sale to Philip
Mackey for $3.50.
MIR. STEVENS, NEW HOME.
President Frank Stevens of the Real
Estate Trusts Company is going to nave
a mA2n1tlcPnf p nome on Giff0T6 nlonn
which runs through Bergen avenue to
the Boulevard. Lots there cost $500
each, and they are sold with the pro-
vision thai the purchaser shall within
a specified time build thereon a house
not to cost less than about 5000. The
object in doing this was to have only
handsome buildings on the new
outshine any built there yet. His home
is to be two stories in height and is
to cost $10,500. More attention is to be
paid to the interior than to the exterior.
At Irving. street and the Boulevard,
David Mitchell is to invest $500 in a
two and a half story dwelling.
1t is beginning to look as though the
dwellings. On Church street near Gray,
three two-story houses are in course of
erection. Mrs. E. Collide is the builder.
She is investing 81, 200.
AT No. Sal Grand street, a brick build
ing to cost S. 500 is being built for Will
lam Bumstead.
Bright street is becoming a centre for
first class flats. At Jersey avenue and
Bergen street, Counsellor Charles Black
Is building a high priced fiat. AT No.
III Bright street, Jacob j. APPEL has con
tracted for the erection of a three-story
fiat. 1t is to cost $5,749.
James Mclaughlin is investing $4,000
in a three-story frame on Johnson ave
nue..
Two two-story frames are being
erected on Pavonia avenue for John
Proah. They are to cost 50, 400. Marcus
Bollhardt, the Lafayette Spectator, is
investing $500 in a new building at No.
1876 Monitor street.
Lawrence Cronin is building a frame
house on Grand street near Summit ave-
nue.. 1t is to cost $4,000.