The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
REAL estate AND
BUILDING NEWS
Increased Activity-More Inquiry
for Iligh-Prieed and Well
Located Realty.
HOUSES WANTED BY MANY.
Several Large Deals Made That
Seem to Mean Great Indus
trial Development.

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The real estate men have not been
especially busy during the past week,
but they have not been idle. a number
OF small sales have been consummated
and considerable effort has been made sA
to move some Of the larger deals that
arc said to DO ION tho string UP to q NJ
point nearer to contamination. It may be a
that some Of these latter efforts have
been successful, very likely they have
been, but the men who are in charge Of
tho deals are very reticent and will not III
allow their left hands to know just what 8
the right limb Is doing. If they are that
particular as regards the information that
goes from one side Of the body to the
other, 1t Is not hard for the reader %
realize how hard it is for newspaper "
man. whose business 1t Is to tell the 5$
public all he knows, to get any definite Il
informations direct from the men who a4
are In charge of real estate deals. rhe y,
simply will not tell about them until
the deals are entirely closed and the 5s
papers have gone to record.
Very few papers have gone to recordFls
during the past week, and none that
tell the tale OF heavy transactions.Il$
This shows that all of tho sales for
q week past have been on the small 8s
order, but that is not necessarily evils
denco that there has been nothing
doing. Great transactions may pos-24i
sibly have reached tho finishing
touches. practically, but yet not not
reached the deed-recording point.
In fact, there is abundant evidence
evidence, however, that, cannot now 3
be recorded in this column-thnt sew.
eral large deals have been made wit
| in tho past week or ten days. These
| deals are said to involve Il good deal Is
| OF property in the Lee District and
| In the West End. Some Of 1t Is to be VI
utilized rs manufacturing sites and Il
! much Of it for residences ssEss
| There Is something going on behind 4
| the closed doors of several real estate
| agencies that involves large deals in
West End property, but the real estate
agents who know about these things
/ will not tell all they know. and the
\ principals In the deals will not even
admit that they know anything to tell
New Horse Show Building
Take, for ms tance, the sale of 81 5, COZ
i worth of vacant property on Broad
Street near the old fair grounds u
\ Mr.. o. FL. Berry. Last Sunday This
4 Times ispatch printed the available
"details of this sale, and aall that 81
j could tell was that Mr.. Berry was tina
! purchaser All sorts OF rumors have
/ been rife for the past week concern-s
i ing the proba BILE destiny OF this prop-s
j erty. There is a well-grounded rumorA
4 that Mr.. Berry has associates who are
very muCn glnLeTeSle III Inc 5AOEs7e SLY va
j business, and that the property was
4 bought for horse show purposes. lIs
4 The Dispatch man had a tai Is
Il with CONFIDENTIAL friend yesterdays
= who generally knows what is going on.s
4 or, at least, he thinks he does. This
u friend said this rumors in regard to the
4 horse show business had much init
In fact, lie felt assured that MIR. Ander-s
son, the president Of the Horse Show
Association. Is associated with Mr..
Berry in the deal, and that the pur-i
chase Of the Broad Street property
neartthe old fair grounds simply means
that the largest and best-equlppeds
1 horse show building In the United
States, outside of New York. is to go
up in Richmond in ample time for next
= falls horse show. This friend further
/ said that he was almost willing to
. swear that architects are already at
, work on the plans and specifications.
! for the big horse show building.
! Mr. Berry who bought the property
and paid nearly $4,000 cash for IT.,
! and in whose name It now stands.i
. was again very retlcent, and refused
). to dlvulgo e. single thing. He only
+ gave smile when asked for a direct,
: answer to the horse show interrogaS
, ton point. The smile may have meant;
: yes or no. but there was n kind OF
H wrinkle to it that seemed to say tn
h the news man who was doing tho
: questioning that tho horse show guess
$ was pretty good. Anyhow, Mr.. Berry
y did not positively deny tho rumor.
i; Another Unfathomed Deal.
Among the larger deals of the past
week was the purchase by Mr.. f. r..
. ID. Myers, Jr., or Il tract OF land lying
!, on the Boulevard A deed that was
:, recorded only yesterday revealed this
= transaction. The decd conveys from
: !; John r. Branch to u. II, d, Myers, .Ir..
= four and one-ifth acres OF land, and
!, :, the consideration named is s7.327.
- The property lies near the intersection
! OF the Boulevard with Broad Street Road.
2 not far from the Richmond, Ere ericks-
burg and Potomac tracks. y
9 The property borders the Broad Street
. Road for n distance of 800 feet skirts
It the Boulevard for gu feet, and constitutes
g the central body of the triangle formed
e by the intersection Of the Boulevard, tho
3, Broad Street Road and the Richmond.
o fredericksburg and Potomac tracks.
d Air, Myers declines to say for what
q purpose the property has been acquired.
= but the general impression is that an
o Industrial enterprise is wrapped up in
J. the deal. RIA, y;
: Costly Clubhouse.
70 The fact that the Jefferson Club has
. practically bought Il splendid property nj
: the southwest corner OF Allison Ave.
nue. and Grace street has already been
published In this paper, and tbs actiye
members Of that club have been inl-
a portuned all the week to tell what they
y are going to do with t. or course they
Is are going tp build clubhouse on IT, and
70 1t Is said the plans have already been
81 drawn. The house Will be an up-to7date,
4 modern structure. and the present calcu-
4. laton IL that 1t will cost something .lks
l. $4,000, possibly as much as $500. Thia
IS. magnificent building is to 80 up on the
err corner diagonaly opposite the handsoms
ne residence OF Mr.. ]. b, Mosby.
The building operations IN tho Wesl
b. End and along the streets and ayenusl
ia bf the Leo District seem to know nc
ear end A welI-known real estate InaH
w is The Time Dispatch man'a authority
be for the statement that with the Open ''ll
nf ling. OF spri.ig fortyrodh houses Wal