The sun., 1894-01-29
BUILDING WILL BE BRISK.
ARCHITECTS RUSHED WITH WORK FOR
IBE COMING SEISOA.

Up Town nud Down Towr, Enst side s-s
wss;, New Work ~ Either Ordered or
Undsr w-y-The American Tr g, society
TO Pat Up au EIeh'eeu-.tory Sti uciur~.
large number OF costly buildings in the
city are under way for this year. either in the
architects brains or in the CONTRACTOR hands.
The architects especially. are rushed with
work. Among others ia the million dollar
structure for tho United Presbyterian Socis-
ties at Fifth avenue and Twentieth street
Rowe 4 Baker Of S74 Broadway arc tho archl-
tccts. A big addition to the Hotel Savoy nt
Flity-nInth street and Fifth avenue will add
itself to the towering hotels about the entrance
to the Park and Just below the Savoy. ht the
corner Of Fifty eighth street. will rise =
sixteen story apartment .house. There IL room
for very few more tall buildings on that par
ticular section OF Manhattan Island.
Then. n short distance down the avenue.
midway between Forty-ninth and Fiitieth
streets. n large addition is building to the
buckingham Hotel. A popularity about this
addition Is that 1t is built around tho Demo-
cratic Club house. There was time when the
hotel people could have bought the property
occupied by the club house at n reasonable
figure. but they hesitated. and since then the
reluctance OF the owners to sell. save at very
high prices. has increased with the desire OF
the hotel people TO buy.
over on the wost side. at Seventy y-second
street and the boulevard a large apartment
house is to DO built. Further up town, on the
Cathedral Heights. st. Luke's Hospital build
ings will continue to increase In slzc. and the
now Columbia College buildings will be start
ed. Work will be continued III preparing the
way for the Cathedral OF ST John the Divine.
Down on West fifty-fourth street new Court
House Is to he built.
Something may be done this year toward
erecting a suitable building in Bryant Park
for the Tilden Library. The new Scrlbner
building on the site Of the Hotel Glenham IN
Filth avenue will further accentuate the sub
version Of that Part oi the avenue to business hes
some Office building is to take the place OF the
University building, and not far from that
place Of the famous New York Hotel at Broad
way and Waverley place.
over on the east side. at Fourth avenue and
Nineteenth street. the Cyclorama building is
coon to he torn down. and it Is reported that
W. L. Edbrooke. the architect, 10 preparing
Tho American surety Company is preparing to
build at Pine street and broadway. on the site
now occuuied by the offices OF the Continental
building Is to Ge $50 feet high !. which would
oyer look the, mammoth new structure OF the
way by i50 feet and would be 10 feet higher
than tho top OF Trinity spire. The Clearing
House .po people are also nrebaring b, 70 sGend
for which are being made, In addition 1t is
stated that three new cable houses are to be
started for tho Columbus avenue cable road
and for the Lexington avenue line. Then there
is also the new home which is to bel built for
The American Tract Society building at the
corner OF Nassau and Spruce streets. is to DO
torn down Immediately after May ] next. and
90 up in its stead The committee in charge
Ot building came to this conclusion on satur-
day. and notified all the society's tenants to
its headquarters ND town. but will keep dis
tributing store at 100 Nassau street.