New-York tribune., 1909-11-13
FIFTH AVENUE SALES
INVESTOR PAYS ABOUT s3SOO0O FOR BUILD
ING NE4R WINDSOR ARCADE
To Bald apartment House for Artists the Heights Big
Office Structure for Clarendon Hotel Site.

A sale involving about s53O.0o0 in the
central Fifth avenue retail shopping centre
was one OF the leading features OF the
real estate market yesterday. This Is the
thiro big transaction in this section OF the
avenue in the last two weeks.
The property which changed hands is
No. 5e2. five story building on a lot cox
leo feet. adjoining the southwest corner
Of sSth street IL was sold by Corbitt &
stern. attorneys. fer Mrs. Charlotte
Weatherley 10 client as an investment.
The adjoining parcels. No. SEA Fifth ave-
nue. and No West 4sth street. were re-
Gently bought by the big jewelry house
81 Black. Starr a Frost
TIE site is about a block north OF the
old home Of the Lotos Club. Nos. $50 and
65s Fifth avenue sOxlOo feet. bought
early this week by a syndicate composed
of tho Alliance Realty Company. Heilner
4 Wolf and Daniel h. Freedman for $3.50
GO and ciagonslly opposite the northerly
haf or the Windsor Arcade property,
which was recently leased by w e. J.
Sloane as site for an eight story build
Ing exclusively for their use.
Another big transaction yesterday in
Tho central Fifth avenue zone was the
sale by NJ. a. l. Hess for Edward s At
water. president OF the Farmers and Man
ufscturers' National Bank OF Poughkeep-
sis. OF the two four story and basement
buildings Nos. and West 3Oth street. on
plot beNss.9 feet. The parcel is I75 feet
west OF Fifth avenue and diagonaIly oppo-
site the Holland House. IL was purchased
nE me Realty Holding Company. This is
the nrst sale In this block I'm a long time
Pians have been filed for the new twenty
story Office skyscraper 20 he erected for
IIenrE Corn a
old Clarendon Hotel. al the southeast cor
ner Of Fourth avenue and 18th street. II
j. 10 he 1855 feet high. OF a modern Re
nsissance type, from designs by Mavnicke
A FRANKIE, with mezzanine hsys al the
lowest three stories and ornamental cor
nioes ~ the third and nineteenth stories
snd al the roof tier. The building will
'front.' 7siz feet on the avenue and I75s
1eet on the street the facades being OF
brick finished with trimmings OF limestone
and terra Gotta
The cost is estimated st $4,000 II viii
lie two stories higher than the proposed
American NoOlen Company's building. at
tie northeast corner Of Fourth avenue and
18th street on the old Hotel Florence site.
Plans have been fled by Carrere ana
Hastings, for installing a large rnarouise
canopy entrance 10 the apartment hotel
at the sout heast corner Of Park avenue and
bsth street, the Improvement being made
for the al Park Avenue Company, In
corporated. as owner. Plans have also
been fled FOR remodelling the moving
picture theatre on Amsterdam avenue.
north OF l65th street. known as the stand
ard Theatre. by building new stage and
ICoseenium, the improvements being made
Tor the Century Construction Company
from designs by IT. A. Brann.
Plans have also been filed for enlarging
the thnee-stOry electric testing laboratories
OF the Edison Company at East End av-
enue and soth street, by adding new mez-
canine story. the improvement being made
from designs by W. Weissenberger. jr, as
architect. and for modeTnizing the four
story tenement and store az Eighth avenue
and 2sth street. increasing the size OF the
windows and improving the ventilation In
compliance with Tenement Department re-
quinements. the improvements being made
f0T the estate Of Robert Barl1ley from de-
signs by +. r. BrOgan.
Gross and Kleinberger filed plans for
remodelling and modernizing the five-story
ronement and store Al the northwest cor
ner OF Trinity place and Cedar street, the
improvements being made for W. Goelet
ns owner Al a cost Of $3.50.