Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-15
BUILDING LOTS
IN NEW TRACTS
ACREAGE BOUGHT NEAR CITY
FOR SUBDIVISION
Last of the PelIissier Rancho Secured
by Syndicate for Development.
Rimpau Tract Changes
Ownership

The Germain-Pellissier tract OF 80
ranch lying between Wiltshire boulevard
and Marion street, has been sold to a
local syndicate of investors at $27O0 an
acre or $216OOO for the eighty acres.
The purchase was made for the pur-
pose of subdivision, and high class i'm
provements are planned. 1t is prob
able that the lots will be held at COM
paratively high figures, but the locality
is one of the finest in the western Sec
tion and is popular with homeseekers
who can afford to erect fine residences
and keep the premises in elegant con-
dtion.
An old landmark of Los Angeles is
to be made into fine residence lots.
The old Rimpau ranch, located less
than a mile west of the city on the
Sixteenth street seashore line of the Los
Angeles-Pacific railroad, and bound
ed on the north by Pico street and the
south by Washington street The tract,
127 acres in extent, has been purchased
by a local syndicate FIR the price Of
S101 800. Agents who negotiated the deal
for the Rimpau estate and the syndi-
cate are Harbert & Butterworth and
D. A. Potter. The tract is the last of
the old Spanish grants in this section
remaining intact down to this time.
The purchasers will subdivide the ranch
into 600 lots, 50x150 feet each, and will
eXpend more than 100000 in landscap-
ing the tract. building graded streets,
sidewalks and making other improve
ments A fine park near the center of
the tract and a boulevard running
1o,,rr nH ricn oh 1n will II
features. The ranch lies just west
of the Nadeau vineyard, Crenshaw
Heights and West Arlington Heights
properties.
Stringent building restrictions will be
enforced.
H. H. Cotton has acquired a tract Of
twenty-one acres lying between Arling
ton and Sixth avenues, fronting on
Twenty-eighth street, which will be
subdivided in 45x140-foot lots.
Louis Evans has purchased from Me-
lissa F. Durgan, through Mines & Far
ish and Caldwell Sc Co., twenty acres
unimproved, on the south side of Mel
rose avenue, between Vermont and
Western avenues; consideration named
$4,000. The property is in the belt in
which numerous purchases for subdi-
vision have been made within the last
few weeks.
Harbert & Butterworth report that
business continues good at both their
southeast tracts, Willowbrook and the
Huntington Park annex, contracts for
seven new houses at Willowbrook and
five at the Huntington Park annex
having been let last week.
S. J. White & Co. have sold the Nc
Gee Bros ranch. comprising 100 acres
on the southeast corner of Vermont and
Vernon avenues, a short distance out
side the city limits; price reported, $210,-
600. The property was bought by an
association of local buyers, who will
subdivide.
q. G. Smith has sold to Agnes Helm
gartres, through F. Fl. Brooks & Co,
four acres, unimproved, on the north
east corner of Third street and West
ern avenue, consideration stated $4,000.
The buyer will subdivide.
C. D. Potter has sold to Warren Will
son 160 acres in the San Gabriel can
Angeles, with 100 inches of water rights
in the San Gabriel river; consideration
named $10,500.
]. A Althouse, J. T. Morgan and Ed
win Throop to Albert Beach, twenty
five acres, unimproved, adjoining Ascot
park. fronting on South Park avenue;
$37, 500 The tract will be subdivided
and improved.
r. G. Doyle has sold to Charles M.
Stimson six and one-half acres crossed
by the Glendale electric line near the
city limits; consideration $3500: bought
for subdivision and improvement.
Ross & Lindsay report an active week
at La Park tract, having almost closed
out the tract during the past few days.
Fourteen lots were sold for an aggre-
gate sum of $5625.
The N. A. Ross Realty Co. have just
purchased from C. B. Campbell and
others twenty-five acres of nice level
land in West Hollywood. situated just
south of Sunset boulevard on Plummer
street, and extending from Fountain
avenue to the Santa Monica car line.
This deal was made by the agency of
Ross & Lindsay, and 1t is the intention
of the purchasers to put the tract on
the market at once after putting in the
best of street work in the way of ce-
ment work, etc.