The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS [ Y
With Spring Weather There Is
Increased Home
Making.
MONEY FOR INVESTMENT e:
! FOR INVESTMENT
But Nobody Comes Into Mar Mar.
lSet at Like Fancy
Figures.

llet at Like Fancy
Figures.
Is The further spring advances the grea A
the activity in the building line.
"Not IN the past fifty years, said
nrominent real estate agent YESTERDAY IA
.has the activity in building been SO
,reat. There are actually In number 70
day unser construction and con tl'a 'S' 1'o'
houses than for some years past pas + s' anu
cvcry builder IN the city Is offered P, ,i!,
- Of work Good real estate rs cor'si ', " !,
the best OF Investments and AT .,s.Na.,,2
81 and fair prices 1t is always easllS so! "
Investors will not pay fancy prices Sior
roal estate, and it is not good thlhs
for the city that they should.
Ground was broken last week 1orAtnree
I houses on Monument Avenue, Just west
n Of Lee Circle. They will all be handsome
and costly houses. One of&them VIII Cost
"a about $4,000. These persons who starred
work last week are Mr.. II. n. George, DR.,
railroad contractor: Nj. WA. Chester.
man and Mr.. Isaac Thalhtmer. a bout a
dozen houses are now under construction
on Grace Street near the monument.
In that part of tho city; on various
! streets, not less than seventy-fiv We houses
are being built or being; contracted FOR.
The building activity is not confined 70
the locality named above. but IT. lis all
over the city, out iii the suburbs, over in
/ Manchester and out into the reachable
roints in3 Chesterfield county.
sSs a large number OF private sales of build
K ing sites were made by the rea estate
4 dealers last week, and the good work
goes right along. Real estate men e. say
Il they have no dIhic1,lty III selling Richmond
property >heE holders arc willing to sell
for reasonable tigures-that t Is to say.
real value, and not fancy valuation.
Railroad at Public Auction.
A$railroad at public auction in front Of
i a public, building is q sight not commonly
seen. This will occur in this city on We'd
nesday. May Sd, at noon, when Mcssrs.
Green and Rcdd, one OF the youngest and
most energetic real estate firms in this
city, will offer the 1Tarmville and Powha-
tan Railway al auction2in front of the
Z City Hall.
The sale: will attract large number
OF prominent railroad men from all parts
4 of the country
N1essrs. Green and Redd will offer for
sale next Saturday afternoon a we'll built
two story dwelling in Barton Heights at
the mort Invest corner of North Avenue.
and Home Streets
lSi Auction Sales This Week.
On Tuesday at i P. MI. Thompson Brown
* Il Co. will have an important and lin
teresting auction sale. TheY will offer
{ the large brick store and warehouse, No.
Z 416 Brook Avenue; also five frame stores,
b Nos. All to All Brook Avenue. Ala p. M .
on the same day they will sell a vacant.
lot at the corner Of Goddin and Griffith
4 Streets, and at s 7. NJ. they will sell
~ 4 FIntl r ito
Street.
Z On Wednesday at 5 p. NJ. the a. ].
Chewing Company will sell the house
and lot No. ali Leigh Street
Messrs. ]. 3. clam and Company. real,
estate agents. will on Thursday next at
5 o'clock sell Tor the court, No. 25l South,
Pine Street. and Immediately thereafter
they will sell No ts5 South Linden Street.
& 1t IL seldom that suct well located prop
erty as thfs Is put Upon tie market
Sales Last Week.
Messrs. j 'sTiioH1pson Brown and Com
pany sold al Auction las, week the frame
dwelling No. IL North Fourth Street near
jackson. 10 Mr. G. C. Isbe!l. OF Hanover.
AFR Isbell buys for an investment. Messrs.
Brown and Company will sell at auction
Tuesday, March 18th, beginning at 1
o'clock, all the real estate of the Lena
i Rose estate, the sale comprising five
frame stores or shops. Nos. 413, AIS, All
and 4ls Brook Avenue; brick stable, No.
40 Brook Avenue: at a r, NJ, lot corner
Goddin and Griffith Streets, and at s
p. NJ. lot near Reservoir Boulevard. OH
Granite Street
Property Transfers.
Richmond: w. NJ. Burch substituted
trustee, and Susan +. Windell to II. A.
Smith. 20 feet on north line Of Ncnablc
Street. No. 2i24 $3.50
Arthur 3. Cosby and wifeto Is. a. I1ord
4 81 1-2 feet on north line OF Broad Street,
4 northeast corner of Twcnty-third Street
subject to deed Of trust for 5000, 500
Eleanor II. Fisher to Eleanor Byrd
Bishop, = feet on west line OF Twelfth
Street, JIG feet south of Marshall Street
s4.fOO
Olivia Hazclgrove to a. Il, Philips and
+ II. NJ. Airport, % feet on west line OF Oak
Street 115 feet north Of Moore Street
500.
John b. Minor, trustee, to A. l.. Phil
lips and II. NJ Airport, SO feet on north
line OF Catherine Street, 50 feet cast OF
Harrison Street, in consideration of the
grantees filling and grading n lot be-
longing TO the grantor and fronting 100
feet on Leigh Street, between Hancock
i and Harrison Streets.
Fannie RObinson'E trustee TO John IT.
Duffy las IL feet on south line OF Louisi-
ana Street, southeast corner of Second
Street, Sl.s.5.
IIenrico: Chesley NJ. Jones to Mamie T..
Oeters. 30 feet on north line OF Beverly
Street, 60 feet cast Of Strawberry Street,
$500
REAL EsTATE-Ror Sale.
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