Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-02
CHURCH 4 VI. HILL |. B00MS
BUILDING MOVEMENT ATTRACTS
MANY INVESTORS.
ONLY SECTION AT ALL ACTIVE.
removal of c. & o. Round Houses
to Fulton Believed to Have stImu-
intcd the Demand Sales Of the
Week Real Estate Gossip.

The building movement started last
summer on Church Hill. is attracting
he eyes of real estate investors. Real
state men claim that nearly every house
N that locality is rented and that pro-
@yerty in that vicinity has proved one OF
he best paying real estate investments
N the city of Richmond There are, no
lctiticus values, it is said. and the houses
are generally occupied by substantial
people who pay their rents promptly all
II which augers we'll for the future OF
that section.
Recently the Chesapeake and Ohio NOV
cd their roundhouses to Fulton and this
accounts partly for the stimulus given the
luilding movement. which is now well
under way, as many of the houses are
caring completion Some time ago it
vas reported in this sheet that people all
over the eastern section of the city were
experiencing some trouble in locating,
owing to the scarcity of houses, often
moving into new dwellings, before the
builders left; conditions still justify this
statement, it is said and in addition to
houses being erected for renting purposes.
here are a number Of private homes in
The course Of construction.
MANY HOUSES GOING UP.
At the corner of Broad and Thirtieth
streets. II. w. White. the Franklin street
ish and oyster man. is erecting a home;
Ills plOIjSltN Is ilic uIlCotiplSI.
ID home of John Satterfield. a member
of the Board of Aldermen. Charles Ar
mitage is erecting a dwelling just across
the street; Charles E. Richards of the
firm of e. W. Evans & Co., is putting up
a house on the same square; next to Mr..
Richards, w. A. Wilroy is putting up
home. All OF these houses are substhn-
tia modern. and comfortable, and cost
in the neighborhood of S2,40O and $1,000
r. a. Thrcgmorton is erecting a comfort
able home near the corner Of Marshall
and Thirty-third streets. Luther Farm
holt, at Clay and Thrty-fourth streets.
has just completed two houses. costing.
it is said. from $1,000 to $500 piece.
In the other sections of the city real
Bagby sold recently the Holtworth pro-
perty. consisting of four houses at the
corner OF Nenable and Twenty-slxth
streets, to E. a. Owen, for $3.50.
Pollard & Bagby also sold lot in the
Lee district on Grace street. between
Lombardy and Allen avenues to the Rev.
B. II. Melton. new pastor of the Mar
shall-Street Christian church. for S1,GS0
This lot was twenty-eight feet front
which would figure the cost at $50 a front
foot. 1t is understood that DR.. Melton
will build at once $4,000 residence. and
the contract for its erection will be let
within the next ten days.
SALES THIS WEEK.
. Sales to-day-Frame dwelling south side
n between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
streets, by Pollard & Bagby. at o'clock
Sales Observation-Disclosures brick
dwelling 100 east Leigh street, by Pol
lard & Bagby, at o'clock.
Sales Thursday-Two dwellings, 1103
and li05 Chaffin street, by ]. D. Carneal
& Son. at o'clock.
Dwelling in Fairmount, corner Twenty
first and r Streets by j. Thompson
Brown & CO. at $50