Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04
BIG DEMAND IN
COLLEGE TRACT
SECTION PROMISES BRIGHT
FUTURE
HOUSE AND LOT SALES MAKE A
HANDSOME TOTAL
Tract Has Its Own Sewer System.
oramercy Place Work is Finished
and Street Almost Built Up
and Occupied

The Los Angeles Investment COM
pany reports an excellent demand for
the new homes in it's College tract; also
for the lots in its Western Avenue
Square tract, Immediately adjoining.
Home seekers declare that one visit
to that section of the city, which is
reached by the West Forty-eighth
street branch of the Grand avenue car
line to Gramercy and Wilton place and
Arlington avenue will convince the
most pessimistic and most slSeptical
person of the bright future for that
section of the city as an ideal home
section. In no section of the city will
there be found more novel and attract
i've features in tract improvements
than are found In this College tract.
No feature known to modern subdi-
vision is being omitted by this coop
erative building company in its devel-
opment of this section. The company
has completed O. sewer system for the
whole tract which is connected with
the Los Angeles outfall sewer. Work
has started on like system on the
Western Avenue Square tract.
All Improvement work, including
lawns, palms. trees, etc, has long been
completed on Gramercy place. This
street, with its beautiful green lawns
from end to end, Is built up with the
most modern homes, nearly all of which
are sold and occupied. Similar work is
being done on Wilton place.
Like Gramercy Place
1t is the intention of the company
to make each street of the tract
duplicate of Gramercy place as regards
improvements, but the homes as they
are built will be of varied styles of
architecture. The class of improve
ments and the character of the build
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excellent terms offered by the company
act as the magnet to attract the real
home seeker. Here a person may pur-
chase a home or can select a lot and
the company will build to suit and will
be given an option to purchase the
adjoining vacant lot any time within
two years from date of home pur-
chase. as the company Is now building
upon alternate lots only, giving to cache
property double frontage. The fol-
lowing recent sales in this home tract
are reported:
To c. r. Simms, six-room, story and
a half bungalow, 4912 Gramercy place.
price $4,000.
To Mrs. Minnie NJ. Wilson, fve-room
bungalow. 5000 Gramercy place.. price
$4,000.
To Miss Charlotte Forsythe. five-
room bungalow. 1902 Gramercy place.
price $4,000.
The following have selected lots in
the tract and the compaRy is complet-
ing homes for them:
l.. Otis Ivey, five-room bungalow,
1888 Gramercy place; cost $4,000.
w. j. Dooley, flve-room bungalow.
1927 Gramercy place, cost $2600.
Frank w. Springer, five-room bum
galow. 4512 Gramercy place; cost $2700
Albert A. Armstrong, five-room bum
galow, 4420 Gramercy place; cost $260O.
A4-~1.A H.
Wilton place; cost $500.
Fred E. Grewell, five-room bunga-
low, 5o16 Gramercy place; cost $2600.
p. B. Gunckel, five-room cottage, 4515
Wilton place; cost $2400.
Store and Apartments
Plans and specifications have been
completed by the company's architects
for another large store block contain
ing six store rooms with apartments
above. This block will be located on
the northeast corner of Forty-eighth
street and Wilton place.
In it's Western Avenue Square tract
the company is building the following
homes:
For Miss Clara Brandon, five-room
bungalow, 1922 West Forty-fifth street;
cost $4,000.
For ]. Clifton Bryant. five-room bum
galow, Forty-fifth and st. Andrews
place; cost $2500.
M. e. Brandon. five-room bungalow,
1918 West Forty-fifth street; cost $4,000.
The following lots have been report
ed sold by the company in this West
ern Avenue Square tract the last week:
70 Mrs. Olga Williamson, lots 20 and
21, block 5, $1,000.
To Mrs. Sarah e. Maltby, lot IL, block
z, $500.
To Frank Greene, lot 9. block 2, $500.
10 Miss Clara Brandon. lots II and
s, block 5, $1200.
$780,
To Miss Viola Robbins. lots 12, 13, IA
and is, block 5. $25O0.
To NJ. e. Brandon, lot 10, block 5,
5000.
The company has also under con-
struction on it's College tract eight cot
tages and bungalows from five to eight
rooms each.