The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-22
Notes of the Building Trades.

Plans have beer completed, and the
architect, Henry Baechlin. of IS Clinton
street, is ready for estimates for the erec-
ton of a large apartment house on the
northeast corner of, Main and Baldwin
streets, East Orange. The building will
be of brick construction. four stories and
have a frontage of 100 feet on Main street
and extend along Baldwin street 81 feet.
Accommodations for twenty-eight families
will be provided, there being seven apart
ments of five rooms and bath on each
floor. The front and one side of the struc-
ture will be faced with pressed brick and
terra Gotta trimmings. The specifications
call for a galvanized iron cornice and sky
lights, fire escapes. Stag roof, dumb waiter,
steam heat, tile baths. gas ranges, cabi-
net mantels and other modern improve
ments. including combination gas and
electric lighting. The building will be
owned by David Goldsmith. of L. Gold
smith & Son. 2 Cherry street. and cost
SIS, 900. The architect will superintend the
construction and award all contracts.
Work has progressed to the first tier Of
beams on the construction of two brick
apartment houses on the corner of Clifton
and Peshine avenues for Mayer Krassner.
of 23S Washington street. TIL buildings,
which will be attached, will be four stories
and measure 81 by 100 feet. The fronts
will be of pressed brick with limestone
trimmings. -Four stores will be arranged
on the ground floors and twenty-eight five
room apartments on the floors above. Hy-
man Rosensohn, of 747 Broad street, pre-
pared the plans and specifications, which
call for hot and cold water, tile baths,
fire escapes, galvanized iron cornices and
skylights, Stag roofs, slate tubs, ranges,
mantels and gas and electric lighting. The
stores will nave metal ceilings and plate
glass fronts. Contracts have been awarded
to Samuel Deutsch, of II Monmouth
street, and Bernard Brady, of 1856 Broome
street, for the mason and carpenter work
respectively. The owner does the carpen.
ter work by days labor. The estimated
cost is $50, 900.
Sixty-eight thousand dollars Is the esti-
mated cost of eight double flats in course
of construction at 15 to ISL North Thir-
teenth street by the Sharff Construction
and Realty Company. of 50 Market street.
The plans for the structures were drawn
by Romolo Bottelli, of 1879 Market street,
and show eight buildings of frame con-
struction, three stories, four of which
measure % by CO feet and the balance "a
by 81 feet. The specifications, which cover
all the buildings, call for Stag roofs, hot
and cold water, tile baths, ranges and
other modern improvements. Each build
ing will contain six apartments of five
rooms and bath. The owners will do all
the work by days labor except the ma
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Girolamo & Co, of 1888 Parker street.
Zapeikow & Amsterdam, of 526 Eight
eenth avenue, have awarded the mason
and plumbing work required in the cree
ton of a three-story frame fiat to Maccia
& 'Buongiorno, of 33 Norfolk street, and
Mersfelder Brothers, of 259 Halsey street,
respectively. The building will be located
on the corner of Eleventh street and
Eighteenth avenue, and measure al by S5
feet. According TO the plans, which were
prepared by Charles Knopf, of 444 Spring
field avenue, the building will contain
twelve apartments, consisting of five rooms
and bath each. All modern improvements
except heat are called for, including ranges,
baths, mantels, etc. The owners will do
the carpenter work and superlntend the
construction, which will cost $4,000.
Foundations have been completed on the
corner of Washington and Sylvan avenues
for the erection of a three-story brick
building containing two stores and five
apartments, which will be owned by Nico-
las N. Rash, of 1870 Washington avenue. The
plans were prepared by E.. E. Grant, of 1877
Washington avenue, and show a building
measuring as by 20 feet. The specifications
call for a Stag roof, pressed brick front,
galvanized iron cornice, steam heat, tile
baths and other Improvements, including
metal ceilings and plate glass fronts in
the stores. Contracts have been awarded
for the mason and carpenter work to Rob-
ert w. Patrick, of 50 Halleck street, and
Louis Miekens. of 100 Sylvan avenue. re-
spectively. The cost is SIS 600.
Foundations have been completed for the
erection of a three-story brick building at
S4 Orange street. according to plans by
Thomas Cressey, Of 800 Broad street. The
building will measure % by 70 feet, and
cost 5000. and be owned by Mrs. Cath
crime English. The ground floor will con-
tain a store while those nhONp will ha a -
ranged with two apartments of six rooms
and bath each. The specifications call for
all modern improvements, including gas
and electric lighting and steam heat. f..
3. Welt, of 40 Lafayette street, and the
Lewis Parker Building Company, of Is
Clinton street, have been awarded the
and mason contracts, respective
ly. The architect superintends and awards
all contracts.