The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-03
REALTY ON SOUTH
ORANGE HEIGHTS
Tract Is Known as the Mountain
View Terrace.
HAS NATURAL ADVANTAGES
splendid View Is Had of the Country
Homes and Estates of Orange
valley, and 1t Is Bordered on the
south by Tuscan Road-Revolu-
t%ionary Battlefield Is Nearby.

One of the latest and one of the most
picturesque tracts In the suburbs of this
city, known as Mountain View Terrace. is
making a record that will, perhaps, place
1t in the van of all real estate propositions
of the year. Thu property. consisting of a
tract OF fifty or more acres, has manifold
natural advantages. OF which the owners,
the Newark Realty Company. have wisely
awaited themselves.
The property lies on the highland known
locally as South Orange Heights, which
looks directly toward the Orange Mountain
Park reservation, one of the most attrac-
tive natural parks In the country. Summit
Mountains lie to the west, and In the in
tervening distance the country homes and
estates Of Orange Valley and South Or
snge are to be seen. The tract centres in
81 region full of historical interest also.
Tuscan road bordering IT on the south. and
the Revolutionary battlefield OF the town
of Springfield Is within walking distance.
The site Of the old signal station used by
General George Washington during the
Revolutionary War to call the Minute Men
10 arms can be seen on the brow of Soutll
Orange Mountain. in every direction ola
historic roadways lead past homes built
prior to the Revolution,
These natural advantages and the fac-
that Mountain View Terrace. MS the tract
is aptly named, lies on a plateau overlook
ing the surrounding country has been de-
veloped by the officers of the company in
a remarkable degree. Streets have been
laid out along lines that give perspective
views to every individual plot into Which
the tract has been divided.
The tract is under the most rigid ~restfic-
tons, 80 that everything necessary in a
Residential section to be eliminated from
tne possibilities of the future have been
provided. No store, saloon, hall, factory OF
other Objectionable structure can be erect
ed on the tract. The rule OF the company
forbids the sale of less than fifty feet
frontage to a purchaser.
So attractive has the proposition been t
people in easy circumstances, the company
has already sold several properties i'm.
proved and unimproved. DIR. f. NJ. Crane
of this city. for instance. has just pur-
chased for $1,000 one of the first residences
erected on the tract. Charles r. Kennedy
of Brooklyn, chief engineer of the CLYDE
Line, has purchased a similar dwell.
Ing erected by the company. r. w. Vim
cent, of East Orange, has purchased prop
erty, and will erect a $4,000 house thereon
F.. F. Meyer. of the Ladies' Home Journal
is another purchaser, who plans the cree
ton of a house that will exceed the cost OF
$20,000
The company has an unusual plan for thu
accommodation of purchasers, whereby
homes may be obtained on first and sec
ond mortgage, drawing low rates of inter
est, after the lots have been paid for
This plan necessitates I e construction o
a number of well-planned residences, tn,
appointments and architecture of whicl
shall appeal to the critical taste of tn,
clientage the company enjoys.
One of the houses thus erected, costing Il
the neighborhood of $4,000, is occupied by
William H. Burnett. the president of tn,
company, and the original owner of tn,
tract. This residence adjoins the park
which has been set aside by the company
for the benefit OF all owners in the tract.
Beside the dedication of the park tract
the company has recently given a plot
1Nx200 feet to the Presbyterian Church
which will shortly erect a new edifice
khapaNN,