New-York tribune., 1909-11-19
SALES ON HEIGHTS
APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED FOR PLOT IN
AUDUBON 1IVENUE.
Mden Britannia Company Leases 10Th Street SHe-1ie to
the Hotel Hermitage Transferred

fair volume % realty business was
Transacted Yesterday. Buying IN the upper
West Side was feature. one OF the prin-
cipal transactions was the sale Of large
plot fronting on Aadubon avenue 10 Robert
son A. GsFnulie as site for n five story
apartment house Buyers We're also found
yesterday for some well located properties
IN The Bronx.
N was learned yesterday thai tho Meri-
DER Britannia Company subsidiary 10 th.
International silver Company. is tho sesseo
~ the i've story building az Nos. $ and s
Past asth street on ploi aaSNleas feet on
posite the Windsor Arcade. The company's
present uptown store Is at No. elS FIfth
svenue. corner of esth street No do
cision has Vet heen reached as 20 how
rho ssth street property VIII be ufil-
ised. whether tho present building will 10
altered or now structure erected. The
huilding VAS formerly occupied by -;
MsrT's School and Was bought by Amos
u p Pinchot last Iulv Tho leasing of
ihe property by Mr.. Pinchot for rwenty-one
years was recently reported. The McNicl-
sr-Gaillard Realty Company were ;hs
brokers IN the transaction.
Titlc io tho Hotel Hermitage. a. seventh
avenue and s2d street was transferred
vestorday bv Charles CoNen. the builder
e. Thomas Carroll The purchase price
was, S5Oo.oeo.
Mr. Carroll. Who Tor tho last five wears
hss been connected with tho Hotel Han
ders. No. i25 West 45th street organized
tho Hotel Hermitage Company for the pur-
Jose u buying the hotel lie IS president
~ Tho company
The Forty-four West 18th Company.
corporation. which holds title To the new
cooperative apartment house. No. ~ 20 -
West 77th street. viii In a few days trans
fer the title 20 the Manhattan Square
Apartment Association.
This transfer viii be rho carrying out
OF sn agreement under which the building
was erected 10y the corporation now hold
ing a. and the new owners IL called tor
construction by the former OF building
along prescribed lines, 10 be taken over
~ the Manhattan Square Apartment Asso-
cation al q price also arranged IN the con-
tract
The structure - one of the most elab-
oratc - the many new apartment houses
erected on tho cooperative plan within the
last two or three wears n occupies plot
lexlne-2 feet between Central Park West
and Columbus avenue, facing the Museum
~ Natural History and overlooking Man
haitian Square.
Tho plans Tor the building Were filed IN
March. 1877. Harde & Short. the architects.
estimating tho cost Al ys50eo. The build
iug. however. cost considerably more than
th.s.
Ernest FlaEG. architect. for the now
Model Fireproof Tenement Company has
filed plans for the second Of the hreproof
type of model fenements 10 Toe erected FOR
the company on tho plot al No. SO 10 5ls
West s7th street. replacing a row Of six
Old fashioned frame buildings. II is TO
have frontage 0f 100 feet and a depth OF
SN.5 feet. II viii he Of modern design. with
marble trimmed windows II Will contain
stores and eighteen suites 81 rooms on the
lirst floor and twenty-four suites on the i've
vpTer stories. with several bathrooms 10
each floor. II Is 10 cost So. go and will be
one block east of the compauy's first tene-
meut. the plans FOR which were filed last
month.
Plans have also been fled for making
over the three story furnished room house
~ No. 2e3 Fest 3rh street into a two
Sanity dwelling hathouse the change Of
occupancy being made for James r. Mar
rin from designs by James ]. Delany. and
for remodel'inE the old fashioned four story
sId basement house No lSs East Gath street
into studio building. with stores. the
change being made Tor the Terminal
Realty Company from designs by u. J.
ComHne
Plans have also oeen fled for installing
stores in the three story and basement
dwelling at the southeast.corner Of Broad
Hav end 1928 street. the improvements
icing made ~ a cost Of $1,000 from de-
Signs by Henri FouchauN. for Thomas
Ward. 90 owner. and for remodelling the
ON" sfors garage and store al No 9G West
18Th street into moving picture han for
Henry Follak, from designs by Arthur
Ncne