New-York tribune., 1901-12-24
REAL ESTATE.
THE ROSE COTTAGE, A FAMOUS HAR-
LEM LANDMARK. SOLD.

A famous landmark OF Harlem was sold yestef-
day. It the property at the northwest corner
of Seventh-ave and ne-hundred-and-twenty-nft
ST. on which The Rose Cottage" stands 1t was
sold for the Henry Schubart estate BY Samuel
Go1dsticker to the Central Realty Bond and Trust
Company. sixteen story apartment hotel VIII
probably be built the site. Adjoining the parcel
on the west is the Harlem Opera House
The parcel has frontage of 125 feet in one-hun-
d-twenty-fth-st and 200 feet in the avenue
It extends from One-hundred-and-twenty-f -fffth-st
TO One-hundred-a nd-twenty-sixth-st. Henry Scnu-
bart, a well known wholesale cigar MANUFACTURED
and one of the leading directors OF the Harlem
Navigation Company bought the property when
there were few houses above Fifty-ninth-st. ana
when Harlem almost resembled vast waste tract
of land About the quickest way to get to Harlem
in those days was by the steamboats, OF the Harien
Navigation Company. the best known ard most
popular boats OF the line being the Sylvan Den ana
the Sylvan Grove. The boats made daily trips
between Peck Slip and the Harlem River
When there was talk Of the Worlds Fair being
held in this city realty boom swept over Har-
lem and parcels that could have been bought for
$4,000 each before the boom sold for $1,000 and IN
some instances for 100000 The Schubart estate,
1t is said then offered 100000 for the property
which it sold yesterday. This offer was refused
The price at which the property sold yesterday Is
said to have been about s5Oo.OOo
The Rose Cottage" the property Is frame
building which stands only small part OF the
land. Every summer for many years 1t was COW
cred by a network of rose vines wnfcn oiooHeo
from early in the until the beginning OF the
fall These rose vines were kept In good condition
up to a few years ago. Thus the building came
10 be called Tine Rose Cottage On part OF the
lot Camp Low situated. in which many Dig
political meetings were held in the recent cam
paign.
Lowenfeld & Prayer have bought, through Hiram
Merritt Nos 314 and 316 East Elevenfh-st. two nve
story tenement houses plot SSxsi feet rom
Carlo Covasa The same firm has also sold Nos
11s and 121 Clnton-st.. two FIVE story double 'front.'
Hharjes are n Easton & Co have sold for George
Malone client four story TataoaSe' M w. il
West st5 gsnSen Morris fled plans yesterday for
I'VE story brick dEeng to s,ana 81 aeg the gon are the
architects The estimated cost is SsOgo Ss as.araav
fled nlaUs for alterations TO Nos Is West Ore
hundred-and twenty to cost 500" ba'r'iS-
]. Clarence Davies Co have sold for Amelia Amelia
park PaInf East n north Of Prospectav known as No
1416 Crotona-av for IS 20 a-o.dv,av was trans
ferred yesterday by virginia Stuart Mscksysmh Ma S
and others E 70 Ma Tona took G title yestersy aa to
eel 3Ox125 feet the east side OF tiTth-aVe' -o'
feet srb 5Sqfh Of shefnan has sold Tor Douglas
estate No $50 rsrgTs and thirty
Ts parcel is II in the the Ie
hgos 5on is4 j. sehaartz IS the buyer of No ~ West
provement row 81 Company ,,. ~
lanes " TAYLOR reported 10 nave oouSH. ~
42S Seventh-ave.. a four-story brownstone 'front.'
BUILDING lot 19. 2xl0 feet .. -.
W Albert Pease. jr, has bought No 81 East
Sxtv-seconi-st, on a lot 126x1c0.5 feet from Jonn
Vincent. The property is four-story d"eifhs
house. w., O.
Reuter- has sold Id throush saI Hal al Adv
I75 feet north of EmersoD-st-
T, n ScrIIv has sold for Louis Lenbusher. to
Janpole & Werner No IS West One-hundre
thirtyfrst.st an old two-story frame building on
a plot 50x9911. -
William A White Son have sold for the estate
of Edwin NJ. Harrison. No. 325 Greenwich-st. i've
story building.
DR. G. R. lockwood has sold No ~ West Forty
nnth-st a four-story brownstone dwelling house,
on a lot 16x10o feet Columbia College leasehoid)
Philip Braender will improve plot 1Ooox1I feet.
at the south corner OF Central Park West and
One-h -hundred-and and-second-st- with an apartment
house.