Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
GOOD REAL ESTATE RECORD

church site, a series Of deals bringing 1t |
finally into the possession Of the church |
cor Grafton foi a consideration Of $500
Several hospitals have acquired new |
building locations. the Clarkson hospital Sc |
lecting a tract Of about one and one-quarter |
acres on the north side of Howard street |
between Twenty-first and Twenty
bought from separate owners for Hs6Oo
The Wise Memorial hospital also secured
ownership Of three lots AZ the southwest
corner OF Twenty-fourth avenue and Har-
ney street from Mary L. Kellogg for $500.
The Ak-Sar-Ben organization bought the
old Coliseum. which it had been occupying
for years as its initiating den, paying
Graham and IRE $1,000 for the building
and land which is located at Twentieth and
Burdette streets the deed being made to
w s. Jardine. trustee.
The lot at the southwest corner OF Twen-
tieth and Douglas streets was sold by
c. NJ Hitchcock to the Masonic Temple
Craft, organized to erect upon ii a new
Masonic temple. The sale made for
$4,000
The construction of the new building
known as the Creighton institute occa-
stoned the purchase by John A. Creighton
of the lot facing east on Eighteenth be-
tween Douglas and Farnam from Harriet
G. Pritchett for $1,000.
The erection also of two handsome new
commercial college buildings explains the
purchase of lot at the southwest corner
of Eighteenth and Harvey by H. B. Boyles
from w. A. Paxton, jr for $780, and the
purchase by NJ. G. and c. A. Rohrbough
from Clinton Briggs of the northeast cor
ner of Nineteenth and Farnam for $4,000.
Hotel Property Changes.
Several hotel properties Of the lesser
magnitude have lately changed hands, the
most important being the Murray hotel,
acquired by Nat Brown and associates
just previous to his death for $4,000, an
interest in it going to r. S. Hall for s12.5OO
The Victoria hotel on Dodge street above
Thirteenth changed hands in May, 1905,
going from G. j. Won Eschen to Julia A
| Muldoon at $4,000.
The Shriner hotel at Twenty-sixth and
Harvey. formerly owned by T. H. Pratt,
became the property of Lee Herdman, who
put $4,000 of his savings as clerk of the
supreme court into the property.
Sir Horace Plunkett, the we'll known
Irish member of the British Parliament,
who personally owns much Omaha realty,
bought the lot adjoining his Chatham
apartment house on Thirteenth street from
the American Fire Insurance company,
paying $125O0 with view to building a
duplicate apartment house on 1t soon.
To secure a site for his new apartment
house on the north side, r. c. Strehow
bought the land on the west side of Sher-
man avenue near Yates from o. ]. Bau-
man, paying $17,5OO
AS an attractive site for a large, modern
apartment house building, r. p. Hamilton
! | Ill I'm hOrna q
the northwest corner of Twenty-fourth and
Farnam streets.
The Albion apartment house at Tenth
and Pacific was acquired for purely in
vestment purposes by Jesse F. Luse, the
price of $4,000 being paid to w. l.. Reed.
Activity in Residence Sites.
The activity in residence realty is repre-
scented by the purchase of great man!
: moderate priced properties and quite
number involving large considerations. 4
few typical transfers alone can be sited.
q The old Carter house at Thrty-seventl
and Jones, surrounded as il is by TIL
finest residences, has been bought by Johl
A. McShane for $25, 900, the purchase beini
made from Annette C. Hlmebaugh.
, The handsome residence on Thirty mint
. street south of Dodge, vacated by Horac
: G. Burt when he resigned the presidenc
, of the Union Pacific railroad went to L
. F. Crofoot for $4,000
The residence of the late w. c. Ives o.
v Thirty-ninth street north of Dodge wa
: picked up by C. B. Horton, superintendent
: of the Western Union, for $500.
The Olmstead home at Thirty fourth an
: Farnam streets was sold for $4,000 to
;, ]. Deright.
u The old Guiou residence at the northwes
y | Of
> has become the property of Carrie N
. Hackett who paid $4,000 for it to A. I
, Guiou.
j. M. Daugherty purchased from G. "
- Smith a fine residence site on Thirty
= eighth street near Farnam at a price {
y, ~ $4,000
~ An out-of-town investment in Oman
residence property was made in Oman
'o in February by Kate N. Pyle of Clinton
Mo, in the acquisition of two lots COY
y cred with houses at the northwest cornt
~ of Twenty-fifth and Davenport street
y consideration being SIS. 600
70 large deal in the less expensive res
&c dence lots is represented in the investmer
made by s. d. Bangs in 2O5 lots in SUNNI
:. Place addition west of Thirty-second stree
- and south of Hanscom park near the ne
L. boulevard. The consideration was s26 20
and many of the lots have already bee
sold to home builders.
- The brick residences known as Il
'" Sweeney corner, at Eighteenth and Dodt
streets. were transferred to Chariot
~ Keilner the price being given as So, 900.
:" The Paul block OF dwellings, too, at Il
northeast corner of Harvey and Invent
" fifth streets has been sold as an inves
:" ment to parties represented by Isado
a Zeigler at the consideration OF SCI, 900
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