Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-05


In comparing the building statistics
Of Manhattan for the first nine months
Of the present year with the same
period Of 1909 it is a significant and
interesting fact that the falling OF in
the number Of private residences does
not reveal SO large shrinkage pro-
porti0nately as in apartments and
commercial structures. The demand
for private houses has been maintained,
as the seaman would say. on a very
even keel throughout the year. In
deed. II the plans for some Of the pro-
jected dwellings are filed before the
close Of the year the private house
list win undoubtedly show an increase
over 1908. for among these contemplate
ed homes for which plans are being
prepared arc the residences Of Com
modore Arthur Curtiss James of the
New York Yacht Club and George
,Blumenthal. to be erected on the Park
avenue frontage Of the old Union The.
illogical Seminary grounds. between
6sth and 10th streets. Each Of these
houses, will, it is estimated, cost close
to $50O,000
James Spencer, statistician of the
building department., gives "a list OF
thirty-six plans for private houses
since January !, at an aggregate cost
Of $1,715,3O0. as against 1orty-two last
year, costing $2,28U,O00. In this years
list are six houses costing over $4,000
each, aggregating $4,000, and sixteen
averaging between $4,000 and $4,000.
= Activity on East Side.
The East Side, from 5th to Park ave-
nue., has naturally shown the chief ac-
tivity, in private house building. Among
the more notable residences for which
plans have been fled this year are the
three hundred and thirty-thousand dollar
house being built for Judge Il. H. Gary of
the Steel Corporation, at S56 5th ave-
nue.. the southeast corner OF 67th
street, from designs by Z. p. H. Gil
bert; a hundred-thousand-dOl house
for s. r. Bertrom, at 935 5th avenue.
by Warren & .Wetmore: hundred-and-
observation-disclosures house For
Oakleigh Thorn, on the northeast corner
OF Park avenue and 75d street, and an
eighty dollar house for Robert
A. = Cheesebpough, on the southwest
corner Of Madison avenue and 73d
street, both designed by Albert J. Bod
ker: sixty-thousand-doi house for
Edward w. Sparrow; at sc ~ East e snd
three houses costing $4,000 each, for
John W. Herbert, at S35 5th avenue,
by Harry A. Jacobs: Anna l. Poor at
35 East. 6sth street. by Walker Gil
lette. and a similar one for J. Harper
Poor, adjoining, at ss East Sixty
ninth street. by Howells & Stokes.
Besides these, Albert Blum is build
ing q forty thousand-dollar house, at
- East 73d street: G. w. Luyster Is
putting up two houses on the south
side Of fist street. on the Lenox
Library block, costing $4,000; the w.
W. & T. NJ Hall Company is erecting
three houses at II to Is West seth
street. costing $4,000. from plans by
Alexander M. WEIGH. and. Mrs. Speaker
is building a residence costing $4,000
nt IL East I'D street, from designs by
William A. Boring. The actual cost.
however, OF most of these houses will
he considerably greater than the
amount specified in the plans.
Notwithstanding the number Of high
priced apartments that have been erect
ed and the tendency among many resi-
dents who formerly occupied their own
houses to live in apartments. brokers
report a very satisfactory renting sea-
son, and the prices for good houses
on the East Side, between 9Th and Park
avenues, have been we'll sustained.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt recently rented