The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-18
new STORE
WILL OPEN SOON
JeweIry Firms Place Is Being
Elegantly Fitted Up.
FINE OPTICAL DEPARTMENT
In Equipment and Furnishings the
Place In Broad street VIII Com
pare FavorabIy With New York
neutrality-suspicious. for Occu-
pancy the First Week in August.

Establishments-Ready for Occu-
pancy the First Week in August.
The new home in Broad street OF Frank
Holt & Co., to be opened the first week
in August, is being entirely remodeled and
decorated for the effective display and
sale of jewelry, silverware and cut glass,
the last two being new departments which
the old jewelry house adds on taking the
new premises.
The plans for the store at Broad and
Academy streets provide for a special
diamond room and an optical department
and dark room. The entire store will be
finished in selected h~and-polished mahog-
any, with wall cases of the same wood
built In the side walls. The display cases
will be arranged after the usual fashion of
better-class New York establishments.
The optical room will nave a complete
equipment of scientific apparatus and will
be in charge of a first-class graduate opti-
clan whose competency In the examina-
ton of eyes and the selection OF glasses
will be guaranteed.
The diamond room will be a special
feature of the store. as the firm will
greatly enlarge its present well-known
standards in this branch of the business.
The special cases that will be used for
ttt diCpia1 vi A4t previous GlpntS Mil
contain one of the best exhibits of cut and
uncut. mounted and unmounted stones in
the city. Mr.. Holt, as heretofore. will
pay special attention to this branch of
the business. and will have every facility
for the mounting of diamonds and other
precious stones In accordance with the
taste of his customers.
The cut glass and silverware depart
ment will be we'll stocked with the best
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ware will be equal to and better than the
stock Mr.. Holt has yet shown, and the
plated ware department will contain the
best manufactured by well-known houses.
Notes of the Building Trades
Plans have been completed and the archi-
tect. Edward V. Warren. of % Clinton
street. is ready for estimates on the cree
ton of a private residence for R. c. Dean,
which will be built at 1877 North Seventh
street. The structure viii be two and one
half stories high, Of frame construction,
% by 81 feet. Specifications call for steam
heat. tile baths, slate roof. hard wood
trimmings and floors, cabinet mantels and
all modern improvements, including gas
and electric fixtures. The structure will
contain ten rooms and bath and cost about
SO. 900.
About So. 800 will be spent by Joseph M.
| Virgins, of 175 William street, on the
erection of a two and one-half story build
ing at 47 Avon avenue. The plans were
prepared by Peter f. Michigan, of 500
Broad street. and call for-frame construc-
ton. % by "a feet. Specifications call for
all modern improvements except steam
heat. The building will contain eleven
rooms.
Ground has been broken on Market
street, near Plane, for the erection Of a
loft building with two stores on the ground
floor and four lofts on the floors above.
The structure was designed by Edward
E. Wurth, of 70 Market street, and will
be of brick, five stories, 30 by rs feet.
The building will be owned by Roth &
Co, who will occupy the stores. The es.
timated cost of construction is 5000 A
general contract has been awarded to the
Lewis Parker Building end Construction
Company, 10 Clinton street.
About $40, 200 will be spent by Peter
German for the erection of a double fiat
at 232 Chadwick avenue. from plans as
designed by William Moll. Of SO Park ave-
nue., Irvington. The building will be of
frame construction, three stories, 81 by
81 feet. All modern Improvements will
be installed, including steam heat, tile
baths, ranges. slate tubs and sinks, cab
met mantels. and gas and electric fixtures
The building will contain six apartments
of five rooms and bath ach
Plans have been completed and the
architect, Charles Knopf. of 44 SPRING
field avenue, is ready for estimates on
the erection of n five-family dwelling on
the corner of Bigelow and Peshine ave-
nues for Levy Brothers, of 15 Hillside
avenue. The building will be of frame
construction, three stories. Is by 81 feet.
Specifications calffor a Stag roof, hot and
cold water, ranges, tiled baths, mantels
and gas fixtures. The owners build and
are ready for estimates on all material.
The cost is placed at about $4,000.
Estimates are being taken by the archi-
tect, r. d. Weeks, of AGO Bloomfield ave-
nue., Montclair, for the erection of a private
residence on Park street, Montclair, for
Stephen Powell, of New York. The build
ing will be two and a half stories, of
frame construction, 80 by 30 feet. Specifca-
lions call for a slate roof, steam heat. tile
bath, hardwood floors and trim, cabinet
mantels and combination gas and electric
fixtures. The structure will contain
thirteen rooms and cost about ST., 900.
Louis QUEEN, of PSI Elizabeth avenue,
Elizabeth, is rendy for estimates, as
architect, for the construction of two at
tached fats at 649-651 Montgomery street.
The buildings will be owned by August
Wolpert, of GAS Montgomery street, Eliza
beth. and Will contain three apartments
of six rooms and bath each. Each build
ing will be 20 by Sc feet. of frame con-
struction. and three stories high. All
modern improvements will be installed.
The estimated cost 10 about l 1000.