New-York tribune., 1910-01-12

new Rainey Pier at Long Beach was signed
yesterday by John l.. de Saulles. president
OF the Paul J. Rainey Pier Company, and
work will begin at once. Associated with
the engineers viii be f. Nj. Andrews. who
built the Sinton Hotel at Cincinnati. the
Ciaypocle Hotel at Indianapolis, and who
was the architect and superintendent of
construction of all the buildings of the
National Cash Register Company.
The new pier, which viii be constructed
Of steel and concrete, was designed by
John Russell Pope. architect. II will form
a fine point on the westerly end of the
boardwalk and extend over the beach and
over the ocean for 500 feet. Half Of the
structure will be devoted to a convention
hall and amusement pavilion.
The convention hall viii be one OF the
largest auditoriums of its kind III the world,
snd Will be available for great gatherings
of all kinds and for annual and political
conventions as we'll as for eXpositions. The
arrangement of the pavilion will make 1t
suitable for every variety of amusement.
even including horse show, as its floor
space viii be readily convertible into hip
podrone track and exhibition and perform
ance rings. This portion of the pier VIII
be completed by June ], il is said, and
opened TO the public.
Superintendent Miller for the new twelve
story freproof hotel to be built for art
students exclusively, opposite the new
Union Theological Seminary. at the
northwest corner of Claremont avenue
and 10th street. II is TO be named Art
Students Inn. 1t is TO be in the style of
the Modern French Renaissance with
roof garden with a large open loggia-
There will be a gymnasium in the base
ment next to the big kitchen, and
dining hall on the main floor The upper
floors will be fitted as living and sleeping
suites with elevator service. The building
is to cost S25A.OOo. and the architectural de-
sign is by Eu1ery Roth, architect for the
Art Students Inn, Incorporated. as owner.
Plans have been fled for a two story
Office building with ground floor stores to
he erected for John B. Scharsmith, as ar
chitect and owner, on 146th street $50 feet
west of Amsterdam avenue. with a front
age of 50 feet and depth of II feet, TO
cost 10000, and for a six story apart
nent house. with forty-nine suites. to be
built for Morris Levin from designs by
Emery Roth, at the southwest corner of
Broadway and 153d street. at a cost of
slso0D
Consolidation of the Fourteenth and the
Thirteenth street churches has been
agreed upon by the Presbytery of New
York Tt was stipulated that when the
church property at 14th street and Second
avenue, which is held at S175,000, is sold,
from $4,000 to $4,000 shall be used to
build parish house in 18th street, and
the balance go 10 endowment. No bids
have been received as yet. The Rev.
George Ernest Merriam will become asso-
ciated with the Rev. DR. Hoadley.
An addition 4. to be built to Reisen-
webers Hotel. at Broadway and 5Sth
street The plans for the new structure
are beiEg drawn by Henry Erkins, archi-
tect- The proposed building will be nine
stories high and will occupy two lots on
hsth street, adjoining the present struct-
ure. The owners of record OF No. 304
West 5sth street are Louis Fischer, and
of No. 306 Harriet p. MacQuentin. No
further details of the proposed plan to
enlarge the building could be obtained yes
terday
Plans were filed yesterday for the new
postofice for Washington Heights, TO be
erected on West 14eth street 1t is to be
two stories high, and is estimated to cost
$4,000. 1t will be located on the south
side of the street, $50 feet west of Am
sterdam avenue It will occupy a plot
5OxJoo feet and is TO be built from plans
by John B. Scharsmith, who also owns the
land.
Plans have been filed for making over
the four story and basement residence at
No. 13 TO II West SSth street, with a 75
foot frontage, into office and store build
Ing for Mary L. Barley as owner, en-
larging it for the purpose with front and
rear extensions. and erecting an ornamental
bayed facade finished in stucco from de-
signs by Delano & Aldrich, as architects.
at cost Of $4,000.
Plans have been filed for Transforming
the two story dwelling at No. $40 West 161st
street into a church for the Washington
Heights congregation, the change of occu-
pancy being made from designs by Maxi
milan Zipkes
Charles VolZ as architect for the Rob-
ert Burns Realty Company, has filed plans
for the new twelve story loft and store
building TO be built for the company on the
plot, IS feet front, at Nos. 81 and 69 Irving
Place, diagonally opposite Huyler's choco-
late works. 1t is to be of brick, with trim
mings of limestone and terra Gotta and
will have a depth of 81 feet, with an ex-
tension. 1t is to cost $4,000
Plans have been filed for six story
apartment houre, with forty-nne suites. to
ne built for Morris Levin from designs
by Emery Roth, at the southwest corner
Of Broadway and 153d street, at a cost of
;lsO,Ooo.
$4,000 school is to be erected on the
block front on the north side of ls6th street.
between Bainbridge and Briggs avenues,
The Bronx. Plans for the structure were
filed yesterday by c. B. ]. Snyder, archi-
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