Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18
ACREAGE BOUGHT
FOR HOME SITES
LARGE TRACT NEAR IVY STA
TON IN SOUTHWEST
Big Purchase by Huntington Park I'M
provement Company-Acreage
at Glendale Near Casa
Verdugo

Individuals and syndicates continue
to purchase desirable acreage for de-
vclopment to meet the active demand
Of investors and those seeking pic
turesque home sites.
A. II. Bush has sold to j. w.
Vaughan and associates 1j2 acres fac
ing Washington street. near Ivy sta
tion, where the short line electric rail
way crosses the Playa del Rey line,
southwest of Los Angeles.
The consideration is stated to be
100000. The purchasers will subdiVide
the acreage and introduce high class
improvements The land is high and
especially desirable for a residence dis
triCt. with the best of transportation
facilities. The lots will be one-half
and one acre tracts.
Westminster place, comprising forty
acres at Western avenue and Wiltshire
boulevard, has been plated. The lots
have 60 and IS feet frontages, the
depth being uniform, $50 feet. The
highest class of improvements have
been outlined and as the Sixth street
car line will run through the tract the
promoters think the transportation
problem is solved. One feature of the
tract is the elevation that commands
a generous view of all surrounding
tracts and the country generally. The
tract faces Wiltshire boulevard, which
is 100 feet wide. The streets will each
be 70 feet wide and, with building re-
strctons from $4,000 to $4,000, the
promoters desire to cater to the best
class of homeseekers. Ellis & Church
and James V. Baldwin, who are the
agents for the tract, report demand
for the lots.
l.. l.. Bowen, w. C. Norman, L. II.
Mitchell and w. E. Brown have paid
g. E. Thorn 100000 for thirty acres at
Glendale for subdivision purposes. The
acreage lies near Casa Nerdugo and the
electric railway station.
Floyd f. Lewis of the II. w. He'll
man building and Frank X. Rule of the
Mason building report the sale of 100
acres atAOcean Park from Robert F.
Jones to a local syndicate comprising
Col. j. NJ. Green, E. j. Daniels and
associates. This property lies directly
east of Ocean Park on high mesa
land. being from fifty to sixty feet
higher than the adjoining property and
commands a sweeping view of the sur
rounding country. 1t is nineteen blocks
from the ocean, fronting the National
boulevard and adjoining the Burk-
hardt property and the ErCkenbrecher
Syndicate tract, and will be subdivided
and placed OH the market in acre and
half acre lots by the agents above
named. Consideration, 100000.
Robert Marsh & co. have purchased
from Leslie f. Gay twenty-five acres
situated between San Fernando street,
Idell avenue and Cypress avenue, lying
between the Cottage Home tract and
the Jeffries tract for the sum of $780,
000. The above firm is to extensively
improve and subdivide the tract at once
and will Immediately put it on the
market for sale. The tract is to be
subdivided into 200 lots and is to be one
of the finest medium priced lot tracts
in the city. The Cottage Home tract
Immediately adjoining the same on the
north was put on by the same firm and
holds the record for the largest num-
ber of houses being built in six months
of any tract that has been subdivided
during the real estate activity.
The keniIworth Tract
The Edwards & Winters company an
nounce the opening of their Kenil-
worth tract TO occur April 1. 1t is
situated in the most scenic portion of
Eagle Rock valley, six miles from the
city, and commands sweeping view of
the entire country. Having a frontage
feet wide, and running up to the hills,
every lot in the tract has an unob
structed view The tract is not a big
one, containing about 100 large lots,
averaging 6CX1S5 feet and facing on
either Kenilworth avenue or Highlands
avenue, which are both seventy feet
wide All street improvements are to
be first-class, flve-foot sidewalks. ce-
ment curbs and cutters, parkWays, etc.
Building restrictions viii be $25O0, with
an alignment clause of thirty-five feet
from front property line.
The tract is now being put into shape
and every effort is being made to save
as many as possible of the beautiful
trees which now cover it. Although the
car line to Eagle Rock will not he COM
pleted for at least sixty days, Edwards
& Winters are kept busy showing the
property, and number of reservations
have been made by intending pur-
Chasers. many Of whom will build at
tractive country bungalows in the
spring