New-York tribune., 1901-01-06

owners OF fine houses The plot Is the south
side OF seventy-ninth-st with frontage Of 55
feet. and IS 24e feet east OF Eifth-ave.
Mr.. Cook originally owned the whole block
bounded by Fifth-ave Seventy-eighth-st Madi-
son-ave and Seventy-ninth-st He has his own
house the north OF Fifth-ave. and Sew
enty-eighth-st- He has divided the remaining land
and sold IL parcel by parcel TO desirable purchasers
who would erect uniformly handsome houses. The
members Of the colony which has settled here
T. c. Converse. Percival Kuhne. Thomas E. Still
man, Bryan Stevens. j. Nidaugh MAN, Stuyvesant
5ae- + Sioh0s ana FPeH Fistehaf eOnard
No. s1 FftaV e story eicn se baaene0f la1 of
dwelling house, which was sold by Terence Farey's
was another case OF a block being divided and dis
posed Of for uniform mfg Improvement
private houses Of too costly type since per-
This theory has been proved faliacy. RoweVer By
pT a 9p w SIDE bn6n erecFed Ss
builders. and sold TO persons Of wealth for their
A sale along the same lines and affecting the de-
yelopnent OF the old Orphan Asylum plot was that
st. soxlo0, $50 feet east OF Fifth-ave.: which
high Class dwelling houses "'-O VIM e'e'' Two
sale Of considerable e, interest in Bfftf;ave. was
purchased by Anson r. Flower OF Emma K.
ana basement brownstone dwelling houses. The
houses adjoining belong 70 his slster-in-law Mrs.
houses into one for his own use. Other noteworthy
Broadway and Eighty-eighth-st.. southwest cor
ner i.asxicO a seven story freproof apartment
e2s eqsss fsT GNS ss the Metropolitan by Peter H.
No 5s East FIfty-seventh-st. 2isxloo5. four
Gilman for the De Lima estate. ,,-
estate.
TWO MORE BIG APARTMENT HOUSES
Mccaul & soles have fled plans OF a seven story
brick and limestone apartment house, cost
.2socco. which VIII be erected from plans by G. A
Scheilenger. the northeast corner OF One-hun-
dred-and-seventeenth-st and Manhattan-ave. The
building when completed will contain quarters for
forty-seven families and seven bachelor apart
A seven story brick and stone elevator. apart
ment house. 65xe3.4. VIII be erected on the north
frst-st.. for Smith & Rofier Neville & Bagge the
architects have estimated the cost at 100000
sKYsCRAPER FOR NEW-YORK CENTRAL.
The New-York Central has decided. according
70 report 10 larger office building the
property at the corner OF Depew Place and Forty
seoona-st.. now occupied by the annex to the
coming trains II is understood that the structure
viii be skyscraper. and that; although most of
IS cramped for space. others viii be rented out 10
tenants.
BROADWAY CORNER SOLD FOR $4,000
peter r. Cram has sold at $4,000 the seven story
nreproof apartment house known the Metropoli-
tan on a plot IOasxlOo at the southwest corner OF
Broadway and Eighty-eighth-st
Ranald II. Macdonald has sold for Charles 8.
Bryan 10 Caroline Ruilman No. 80 East Thirty
eighth-st. four story brownstone dwelling house.
22xosa. az private terms.
Psrson & Singer have sold for the estate Of John
II. Dinkei the 1--WE story tenement houses No. 2D6
East Housfon-st. and No. 80 East First-st. 10 an
investor
Max Marx has bought from Nyer NJ. Hodge,
through Clarence N. Fowler. the six story and
loft building No Z3 Blescker-st. 2s1IxT5 giving I'm
exchange the country seat known as ''Hollmans"
with eighty acres g land. on the Easton Turn
pike Rsrltan, n. j.
Charles Griffth Moses g. Bro, in conjunction with
J Ronlaine Brown & CO.. have sold for Richard G.
Msslen 90 Marie BOsfwick the lot. 25xloo the
eouth side Of na-hfty-seyenthst, 100
feet west Of Arnsfcroam-aye.
The estate OF Herman Fleitmann has sold