New-York tribune., 1902-01-11
A BIG DAY IN REAL ESTATE
SEVERAL TRANSACTIONS THAT AGGRE-
GATE 100000.
PRESENT HOME OF THE UNION
CLUB SOLD

PRESENT HOME OF THE UNION
CLUB SOLD.
The Union Club property, in Twenty-frst-st
,vss sold yesterday TO the Central Realty Bond
and Trust Company. q site at the northwest
corner OF Broad and Exchange Place was bought
bv the banking house Of Blair & Co. from Hall
garten & Co. brokers; the Singer Manufacturing
company bought a number of buildings in
louer Broadway, one church sold a large parcel
and another one bought a new site The value
of the property involved in these transactions
is more than S4.O00,O0O, and the deals will prob
ably mean outlay of 100000 more. for
each one of the parcels is TO be improved in the
near future These were the features of what
vii long be known an unusually active and
iutsresting day in the real estate market
The church property sold was the building oc-
cuped by the First Church OF Christ Scientist. in
Forty-eighth-st- The Lutheran Evangelical
Church OF the Holy Trinity was the purchaser
Of site al the northwest corner Of sixty-hfth-
r and Central Park West, on which IL Will build
a house OF worship The purchase by Blair &
Co means another skyscraper in the Wall Street
district
4 new home is being built for the Union Club
at FIfty-hrst-st- and Fffth-ave, and the club
vii move into that house when It leaves its old
club has g frontage of 145 feet IN Twenty-first-
ST. and 63.6 feet in Fifth-ave The club was
organized IN 1885. and IL is said that il was the
first club, IN the modern sense formed in the
city The first home of the club was at No
s4S Broadway, the second at No. 376 Broad
way q large house al one time owned by Will
IAN B. Astor; the third al No. 691 Broadway
and the fourth, the present one. The first meet
ing Of the founders of the club was heid at the
famous Atheneum Building. which was torn
down years ago.
ANOTHER MERCANTILE BUILDING.
Edward Cooper is president Of the club
Franklin Bartlett is secretary, and J. J. Towns
END. treasurer. At the other corners at the in
tersecJion OF Fifth-ave and Twenty-first-st. are
new mercantile buildings and It IS thought that
g similar building will be put up on the site
OF the Union Club building. The present home
Of the club is three stories high. and is made OF
brownstone. This house was dedicated in 1850
On December 21. 1889. the club bought plot
al the northeast corner of Fifty-flrst-st- and
Fifth-ave. for a new home. The plot was pur-
chased for 100000 from the Barney-sheldcn
syndicate. Il has frontage Of 70 feet in Fifth
ave and 150 feet in the street II IS said that
the cost Of the new clubhouse will be about
81 100000 The brokers IN the sale of the club
property in Twenty-hrst-st- were ". E. & F. B.
Taylor.
The size Of the site bought by Blair & Co. IS
IS By ~ feet It was bought for about $500
600 The proposed improvement Of the premises
will make marked change IN the architectural
appearance Of Broad-st.. for the skyscraper 10
be built viii be an imposing building and viii
be ten stories high. 4 five story building is
now OF the plot This is the second building Of
its kind Of which announcement has been made
os rHa-
plans are for a building TO be put up On the
block bounded by Broad. Beaver and South
William SITS which. it is said. Will be the largest
ofice building IN the world. That building.
cording 10 reports viii be built by the City Real
Property Investing Company.
THE SCIENTIST CHURCH BUILDING.
The building occupied by the First Church of
Christ Scientist, was once occupied by the
society OF All Souls Protestant Episcopal
Church, OF which the Rev Dr. r Heber New
ton is rector II scld by that society in
1880 10 the Methodist Episcopal Church Exten-
sion Society for $4,000 and in February. 1896,
II was bought by the First Church Of Christ,
Scientist for $4,000. a new house Of worship
IS being built for the church at Ninety-sixth-st.
and Central Park West The building and the
land there represent outlay Of more than
$4,000. Herbert L. May Is the buyer Of the
building now occupied BY the ehurchr OF Whlch
Mrs Augusta e StetsOn is first reader and
Edwin f. Hatfield is second reader. Mr.. Jerger
was the broker in the transaction.
The plot bought by the Lutheran Evangelical
Church Of the Holy Trinity IS 100 by 125 feet
The church recently sold its present house Of
worship, al No. II West Twenty-first-st-, to the
Sew-EOrk Realty Corporation. The new site
vas bought from Leopold Kahn & Co., through
Hail J How & Co, for S2OO000 which was the
sun the church received for the property in
TTenty-hrst-st.
The Singer Manufacturing Company. which
owns the Singer Building. at the northwest cor
ne- OF Broadway and Ltberty-st., yesterday
bought all the property between its building and
the Benedct Building, with the exception Of
10. 163 Broadway. This purchase includes the
Parmly Building, Nos. 165 and 167 Broadway.
i IS reported that the Singer company has
also obtained the Smith Building, No. IL 70
Il CoFIlsndL-st.
was reported yesterday that plot at the
northeast corner OF SiIty-hrst- and Broadway
had been sold. The plot has frontage Of 1l6
feet in Broadway. and the owner Of record is
John J. CampiCn-
The Tribune Almanac will tell you the new