The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
REAL ESTATE;
BUILDING Ne VS..
More Ground Room Would Make
Houses More Easily Rented.
or Sold.
THE MISTAKES OF BUILDERS
lfLand Agents Want Real Estate
Exchange They Can
Have Il
THE MISTAKES OF BUILDERS

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This week will be noted by the Offering
at public auction OF unusually valuable
and attractive property, whichis not con-
fined to any particular section or class
Of property, but consists Of stores, dwell
ings and West End lots.
It starts out with an attractive sale
/ an Monday at t 2. M. by H. Seldom Tay-
lor and Company and ]. Yrhompson
Brown and Company, of}a large number
Of West Franklin, Grace and Broad
Street lots. 1t being the nrstl bdivision
Of the splendid Allison and Addison es-
tate and lying, as 1t does. near the Ice
and Davis monuments, Is considered ex-
cellent property.
Messrs. ]. Thompson Brown and Com
pany will also, sell at auction on Thurs
day, 18th, at 6 P. NJ, the large and
commodious dwelling No. 26o5 East Frank
z lin Street, formerly occupied by the Vir-
gnia Club. This is a fine old mansion
Of ante. bellum type, some Of it's interior
decorations having been import ed from
the Continent, and is said to have been
Z one Of the most costly houses erected
on the Hill. y;
Owing to the scarcity of desirable husi-F
ness property the sale Friday. June 16,
b at i o. clock, Of the warehouse and de-
sirable lot at Ninth and Cary Streets
will doubtless be we'll attended by solid
Investors. Messrs. j. Thompson Brown
and Company Will conduct#this sale, as
well as one later in the day of tho
two-story. brick dwelling No. 131 West
Cary Street, corner of Jefferson Street
Tuesday, by N. w. Bowe and Son, two
E tracts of land in Henrico county.
Wednesday,, by NV. Bowe and Son,
the residence No, 113 North Third Street.
Same day. by Pollard and Ragby. frame
house No. 514 North Twenty seventh
Il Street. @
3. The real estate market continues quite
active and a number of sales of more or
b less Importance We're contaminated during
the week The building boom continues
without any apparent abatement. and
every builder and architect In the city Is
as busy as hen with thirteen chickens.
Speaking about the much building yes
terday. a prominent real estate man said:
IT think the people who are building
houses to sell or for rent arepin the main
4 making n mistake In the character Of the
houses they are building, especially in.
the West End. Too many flats and cons
densed blocks are going up, the idea
seeming to be to get all the house possi-
BILE on the smallest amount OF ground
This is In my judgment all wrong. De-
tached houses with some ground room
surrounding, would pay much better,
{ whether the house be for sale or for
rent am sure If the lots We're larger
and the houses even smaller the. real
estate agents could get better profits
on the investment for their Gus tomers
either from purchasers or renters And
then think of the appearance of tho city
and that part Of 1t which is being SO rap
idly built up. Tank also of the health
question, II reall,s. makes mo sick to- see
how beautiful and roomy lots are being
cut up into little thirty-footcrs. when with,
a little more money in the lot and little
less In the house that Is put on 1t would
be so much better from any standpoint
from which you may choose to view the
matter
There is some talk among tho land
agents about organizing real estate OK
change In the city. TT is q matter" said
one agent to Times, dispatch man,
men. If they want an exchange, they can
men. If .htey want an exchange, they can
very easily get together and organize
one"
Property Transfers.
Richmond: W. A. Huddlestun and wife
to NJ. C. Ruffn. % 2-S feet on the cast
limo of Thirteenth Street, III l-3 feet from
the southeast corner of NJ Street, $500
James p. Johnston's trustee TO w. S.
Peyton, 20 feet on the cast limo of Third
Street, between Jackson and Duval
Streets.
Truman A. Parker. Jr.. and wife and
Elvisa, g. +. and j. w. Caldwell. Jr.,
TO Mary e, Rudder. IL feet on tho north
Inc Of Byrd Street, 1l2 1912 feet east OF
Fourth Street, $500.
Mary D. Rudder to Bessie a. Spence, 10
feet on the north side OF BYRD Street, 1l2
S&-R feet castof Fourth Street, loo
Oliver j. Sands and wife To Mamie c.
Thlerman, - feet on tho south side of
Monument Avenue, 10 feet west of Mead
oW street fh's deed was enormously re-
ported in yesterdays issue. S.
henrico: r. Stterding and wife to Rich
nond Locomotive Works, $50 feet on the
north line of Magnolia Street, lGo feet east
OF Firth Avenue, plan of Chestnut Iiill,